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Research Materials

Compiled by Nicholas S. Lander

Research Materials

General

• Recorder Music Center, Regis University in Denver (USA) – this recently established center will be a very large resource for recorder music, both as an archive and also as a fully catalogued lending library. To date, they have about 5,000 recorder pieces. As they continue to get duplicate copies of materials, their lending catalogue will increase. They have also started a recorder instrument collection. The Center will also house the personal collections of American recorder players, composers, and historians (such as Erich Katz and David Goldstein). The Center is also the official repository for the American Recorder Society materials.

Iconography

• Recorder Iconography, comprehensive catalogue of almost 4,000 artworks depicting the recorder, includes many images, from Nicholas Lander (Australia)
• Joconde Website, database of artworks featuring musical instruments in French galleries

Etymology

• woodwindwords, dictionnaire sur les instruments à vent en bois et leur fabrication, from Mona Lemmel (France). This online dictionary for woodwind terms in German, English, & French will be of great interest to recorder players
• When is a "flute" not a flute? A table of English and French names for the recorder and transverse flute from 1390-1800, from David Lasocki (USA)

Literary Quotations

• Literary & Theatrical Quotes Concerning the Recorder, a compendium of quotations both implicit & explicit from English literature concerning the recorder, from Nicholas Lander (Australia)

Historical Methods (Tutors)

• Historical Methods (Tutors) and Treatises: A Bibliogaphy, from Nicholas Lander (Australia)
• Historical Recorder Fingering Charts. From Philippe Bolton (France)

National Music Centres

National Music Centres invariably include published recorder music in their holdings as well as items in manuscript which are often available for purchase or hire. The emphasis is very much on contemporary music and many important works and educational materials are only available from these sources.

• International Association of Music Centres, contact details of all members of IAMC, the Secretary of which is Eve Kelly author of The Recorder Today.

The following National Music Centres are on-line. Extracts listing their relevant holdings are available more conveniently at the Recorder Home Page site under Repertoire.

• American Music Centre
• Australian Music Centre, trading as Sounds Australian
• Musik Informations Zentrum Österreich (Austrian Music Information Centre)
• Centre Belge de Documentation Musicale (Belgian Documentation Centre for Serious Contemporary Music)
• Centro de Documentação de Música Contemporânea Brasil
• British Music Information Centre
• Canadian Music Centre
• Hudební Informacní Stredisko (Czech Music Information Centre)
• Eesti Muusika Infokeskus (Estonian Music Information Centre)
• Muziekcentrum Vlaanderen (Flemish Music Centre)
• Musica: Flemish Service Centre for Music, Alamire, Mallemuze & Muziekactief.
• Deutsches Musikinformationszentrum (German Music Information Centre)
• Centre de Documentation de la Musique Contemporaine (France)
• Magyar Zenei Tanács Zenei Információs Központ (Hungarian Music Information Centre)
• Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt, International Music Institute, Darmstadt (Germany)
• Music Library of Greece, comprehensive catalogue of music by Greek composers, includes several items for recorders
• Íslensk Tónverkamidstöd (Iceland Music Information Centre)
• Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland
• Israel Music Institute: Israel Music Information Centre
• AMIC – Archivi della Musica Italiana Contemporanea / CIDIM – Comitato Nazionale Italiano Musica, (Italian Contemporary Music Archive/National Committee for Italian Music)
• Lithuanian Music Information and Publishing Centre
• Muziek Groep Nederland, vestiging Amsterdam – Donemus (Netherlands)
• Gaudeamus Foundation (Netherlands)
• Centre For New Zealand Music, trading as SOUNZ
• Norsk Musikkinformasjon
• Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Gulbenkian Foundation, Portugal)
• Scottish Music Information Centre
• Svensk Music
• Ty Cerdd (Welsh Music Information Centre)
• Yugoslav Music Information Centre (SOKOJ)

Original Instruments

• Original Instruments, Makers & Collections, from Nicholas Lander (Australia); includes three interactive databases supported by a comprehensive bibliography:
  • Original Recorders, database of more than a 1,000 original instruments held in museums and private collections around the world
  • Original Recorder Makers, database of makers whose work is represented in museums and private collections around the world
  • Collections of Musical Instruments, database of public and private collections around the world whose holdings include recorders
• Renaissance Recorders Database, a comprehensive documentation with critical measurements, from Adrian Brown (Netherlands)
• Early Wind Instruments, from C.J. Sax (France). Includes photographic images of 100s of historic recorders. Sadly, this site has vanished.
• Woodwind Instrument Makers Marks, photographic index, from C.J. Sax (France). Sadly, this site has vanished.
• Les facteurs français anciens, article on French recorder makers of the 16th to 18th centuries, from Jean-Luc Manguin (in French)
• Wind instruments in Dutch sale catalogues between 1623-1850 extracted by Jan Bouterse from the the publications Het muziekinstrument op de boekenveiling, 1623-1775, 1776-1810; 1811-1850, by Gerard Verloop. Accessed 20 June 2006. From Jan Bouterse, Gerard Verloop (2006).

References

• Recorder References, a selected bibliography concerning the recorder, from Nicholas Lander (Australia)
• Web-Dokumente zur Vorlesung Instrumentenkunde, from Hans Maria Kneihs (Germany), bibliography of articles concerning the recorder published in Tibia
• Literaturliste aus der IWK Datenbank, selected bibliography concerning the recorder
• Publications: David Lasocki, comprehensive bibliography of this noted scholar/librarian and authority on the recorder (USA)
• Publications: Alec Loretto, comprehensive bibliography of this noted maker and authority on the recorder (New Zealand)
• Publications: Thiemo Wind, comprehensive bibliography of musicologist and authority on Jacob van Eyck (Netherlands)
• Recorder Construction & Design, references for recorder makers, from Nicholas Lander (Australia)
• Books & Journals on the Web of Interest to Recorder Players, from Nicholas Lander (Australia)
• Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM), inventory of musical sources
• • RISM Series A/II: Music MSS After 1600, online database of music manuscripts written after ca. 1600 and, in most cases, before ca. 1850.
  • RISM Libraries Directory, names, addresses, and other information about more than 5,500 libraries holding music materials relevant to RISM series.

Repertoire

• Répertoire français de l'époque baroque, comprehensive listing, with the original title and references to modern editions, from Laurence Pottier (in French)
• Stichtung Blokfluit, online databases of Historical and Contemporary Repertoire, from Stichting Blokfluit (Netherlands)

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