The Recorder (Yale Musical Instrument Series)

by: David Lasocki (Author),Robert Ehrlich(Author),Nikolaj Tarasov(Author),and Michala Petri(Author)&1more

Publisher: Yale University Press

Publication Date: 22 Nov. 2022

Language: English

Print Length: 384 pages

ISBN-10: 0300118708

ISBN-13: 9780300118704

Book Description

The recorder is perhaps best known today for its educational role. Although it is frequently regarded as a stepping-stone on the path toward higher musical pursuits, this role is just one recent facet of the recorder’s fascinating history―which spans professional and amateur music-making since the Middle Ages.   In this new addition to the Yale Musical Instrument Series, David Lasocki and Robert Ehrlich trace the evolution of the recorder. Emerging from a variety of flutes played by fourteenth-century soldiers, shepherds, and watchmen, the recorder swiftly became an artistic instrument for courtly and city minstrels. Featured in music by the greatest Baroque composers, including Bach and Handel, in the twentieth century it played a vital role in the Early Music Revival and achieved inteational popularity and notoriety in mass education. Overall, Lasocki and Ehrlich make a case for the recorder being surprisingly present, and significant, throughout Weste music history.

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