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Repertoire
Compiled by Nicholas S. Lander
Historic Repertoire
- Repertoire, brief overview from The Recorder: Instrument of Torture or Instrument of Music? by Nicholas Lander (Australia)
- The Stichting
Blokfluit (Netherlands) – The Recorder Foundation, from Walter
van Hauwe and Paul Leenhouts, maintains an on-line catalogue of
contemporary music for recorder, to which access is now free
- 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.
- Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music, portal to worldwide collections of medieval polyphonic music manuscripts . The music and the manuscripts date from approx 800 to 1500, and the original documents are kept in libraries and archives around the globe. Requires registration
- Répertoire français de
l'époque baroque, comprehensive listing, with the
original title and references to modern editions, from Laurence
Pottier (in French)
- Catalogue of Historical Recorder Repertoire, online database from Stichting Blokfluit (Netherlands)
- Gardane, a repository of music sites, from Andrea Bornstein (Italy). Includes a vast collection of original music and arrangments for recorder, together with information on their composers, titles, sources, sound files, printable scores (in English and Italian). Highly recommended!
- A Noble Noyse of Musicke: Die Anmut und Würde englischer Instrumentalmusik von 1540-1620, by Paul Leenhouts (Netherlands)
- Teil 1, from Windkanal 2 (1999)
- Teil 2, from Windkanal 3 (1999)
- Jacob van Eyck, biographical notes, Thiemo Wind (Netherlands)
- Der Fluyten Lust-hof, introduction and background
- Chain Variations in van Eyck's Der Fluyten Lust-hof, by Thiemo Wind (Netherlands), from American Recorder, 28(4): 141-144 (1987).
- Jacob van Eyck's Der Fluyten Lust-hof: Composition, Improvisation, or … ? Consequences for Performance Practice, by Thiemo Wind (Netherlands), from Lasocki (ed.), The Recorder in the Seventeenth Century - Proceedings of the International Recorder Symposium, Utrecht 1993 (Utrecht, 1995). Pp. 177-195.
- Jacob van Eyck and his Euterpe oft Speel-goddinne, Thiemo Wind (Netherlands), from American Recorder, 27(1): 9-15 (1986).
- 'Je ne puis eviter': 17de-eeuwse blokfluitvariaties van een Nederlandse 'groupe des trois', Thiemo Wind (Netherlands), from Musica Antiqua 10 (3): 104-111.
- Die Psalm-Variationen Jacob van Eycks: Geschichte, Analyse, Interpretation, Thiemo Wind (Netherlands), from Tibia, 1/90 (1990), 22-32.
- 'Some Mistakes or Errors', Thiemo Wind (Netherlands), from Recorder Magazine 11 ( 3): 82-86 (1991).
- 'Stemme nova' – eine neuentdeckte Komposition Jacob van Eycks, Thiemo Wind (Netherlands), from Tibia, 2/1993: 466-469.
- Why the duets from Der Fluyten Lust-hof are not by Jacob van Eyck, Thiemo Wind (Netherlands), from Recorder Magazine, 16(2): 44-48 (1996).
- A Van Eyck discovery in Antwerp, Belgium, Thiemo Wind (Netherlands), from Jacob van Eyck Quarterly 2007, 3.
- The titles of Jacob van Eyck's collections, Thiemo Wind (Netherlands), from Jacob van Eyck Quarterly 2006, 4.
- The 'Fantasia & Echo' and recorder dynamics, Thiemo Wind (Netherlands), from Jacob van Eyck Quarterly 2006, 2.
- 'Rosemont' : Pulling down, building up, Thiemo Wind (Netherlands), from Jacob van Eyck Quarterly 2005, 4.
- Composition or improvisation: what 'Van Goosen' reveals, Thiemo Wind (Netherlands), from Jacob van Eyck Quarterly 2005, 3.
- Plea for a monophonic Van Eyck, Thiemo Wind (Netherlands), from Jacob van Eyck Quarterly 2005, 2.
- Van Eyck's outdoor performance as a reference: mind the pitfalls, Thiemo Wind (Netherlands), from Jacob van Eyck Quarterly 2005, 1.
- Coridon and Amarillis: recorder echoes in a Dutch play of 1634, Thiemo Wind (Netherlands), from Jacob van Eyck Quarterly 2004, 4.
- 'Amarilli mia bella' : Jacob van Eyck's melodic model, Thiemo Wind (Netherlands), from Jacob van Eyck Quarterly 2004, 3.
- Jacob van Eyck's variations on 'Comagain': AABB or ABB? Thiemo Wind (Netherlands), from Jacob van Eyck Quarterly 2004, 2.
- Music for the Janskerkhof (2): 'Wat zalmen op den Avond doen', Thiemo Wind (Netherlands), from Jacob van Eyck Quarterly 2004, 1.
- Music for the Janskerkhof (1): 'De lustelycke Mey', Thiemo Wind (Netherlands), from Jacob van Eyck Quarterly 2003, 4
- 'Courante, of Ach treurt myn bedroefde': Jacob van Eyck leaving the beaten track, Thiemo Wind (Netherlands), from Jacob van Eyck Quarterly 2003, 2
- An 18th-century source of the Batali, from Thiemo Wind (Netherlands), Jacob van Eyck Quarterly 2002, 4
- Pavaen Lachrymae / Pavane Lacryme; or How an Editor tried to help Van Eyck (and finally did), Thiemo Wind (Netherlands), from Jacob van Eyck Quarterly 2002, 3
- Courante Mars: variations (re?)united, Thiemo Wind (Netherlands), from Jacob van Eyck Quarterly 2002, 2
- Stil, stil een reys: A New Reconstruction, Thiemo Wind (Netherlands), from Jacob van Eyck Quarterly 2001, 4
- On the origin of Beginnende door reden ons gegeven (NVE 142), Thiemo Wind (Netherlands), from Jacob van Eyck Quarterly 2001, 2
- Vivaldis 4. Flautinokonzert., by Nik Tarasov (Switzerland), Windkanal 4: 6-9 (1999).
- Neus von Beethoven: Csakan-Recherchen beim großen großen Wiener Klassiker, by Nik Tarasov (Switerzerland)
- Teil 1, from Windkanal 3 (2000)
- Teil 2, from Windkanal 4 (2000)
- Bach and the Recorder, by Nik Tarasov (Switzerland)
- Recorder Repertoire of the Classic and Romantic Periods (2009), by Nick Tarasov (Switzerland) – in German
- Die Blockflöte in Kantate, Oratorium und Oper, by Ulrich Thieme (Germany), Tibia 2/81 (1986)
- International Music Score Library Project / Petrucci Music Library (Canada), 24,000 printable scores in PDF format. Scores featuring the recorder are listed here
- Sheet Music Consortium (USA), searches the digital sheet music collections of UCLA, Indiana University, Johns Hopkins University, and Duke University
- Music Treasures Consortium, from The Library of Congress (USA), provides online access to some of the world's most valued music manuscripts and print materials
- Sibley Music Library Digital Scores Online, from the Eastman School of Music (USA); scores and books in the public domain, many unique to the Sibley Music Library collection
Modern Repertoire
- Repertoire, brief overview from The Recorder: Instrument of Torture or Instrument of Music? by Nicholas Lander (Australia)
- The Stichting
Blokfluit (Netherlands) – The Recorder Foundation, from Walter
van Hauwe and Paul Leenhouts, maintains an on-line catalogue of
contemporary music for recorder, to which access is now free
- 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.
- International Association of
Music Centres, contact details of all members of IAMC. 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.
- The Dolmetsch Legacy: The Recorder Music Composed for Carl Dolmetsch, 1939-1989, based on a talk given by Ross Winters at the ERTA-UK Conference in May 1997.
- Rawsthorne's Recorder Suite: A Mystery Solved, by John Turner (UK)
- Argentinian Music for
Recorder, a comprehensive catalogue, from Gonzalo Ariel Juan
(in Spanish)
- Australian Music for Recorder, a comprehensive catalogue
including scores held by the Australian Music Centre, from Nicholas
Lander (Australia)
- Franco, D.C. & Landim, B.F. (2006). Música Brasileira Erudita Para Flauta Doce e Piano: Ampliação do Repertório e Organização de Catálogo de Obras. [Brasilian Concert Music for Recorder and Piano: the Broadening of the Repertoire and Organisation of a Catalogue of Works.] Müsica Hodie 6(2): 10 pages.
- Contemporary Czech Music for Recorders, includes MIDI files
- Israeli Recorder Music, from Zamir
- An Almost Complete Catalogue of Israeli Recorder Music, from Drora Bruck (Israel)
- Japanese Music for Recorder, from Minoru Yoshizawa
- Hedendaagse Japanse Blokfluitmuziek [About contemporary
Japanese recorder music] (in Dutch), by Hein Zegers
(Netherlands)
- South African Music for Recorders, by Karin Maritz
- Listado
de obras para flauta dulce de compositores Españoles,
catalogue of music for recorder by Spanish composers, from
Bárbara Sela Andrés (Spain)
Music in limited range
- Pentatonic Music Collection, collection of pentatonic and other tunes of limited range for voices and instruments, including the recorder, maintained by Thomas Robertson
(UK)
Original Prints and Manuscripts Online
- Der Fluyten Lust-Hof by Jacob van Eyck, in PDF format
- Brandenburg Concerto 4 in G major BWV 1049 by Johann Sebastian Bach. Facsimile of original manuscript
- XII Suonate a Flauto Solo … by Bendedetto Marcello, Op. 2.
- Six Sonatas or Solos for the Flute … by Johann Christoph Pepusch. Original printed score & parts.
- A Second Set of Solos for the Flute … by Johann Christoph Pepusch. Original printed score & parts.
- III Trios a 3 Flauti Traversien Dell Sigr Scherre [sic.] …. A manuscript from the Giedde Collection, Kongelige Bibliotek, Denmark – PDF file. These sonatas were printed in Amsterdam in 1760 under the title 2 sonate à 3 flauti ò 3 Violini da Scherer and in the same year in London as Op. 5 of Rozelli, possibly a pseudonum used by Johann Scherer since Italian composers were popular in London at that time.
- Harmonischer Gottes-Dient … (1725). Church cantatas for voice and recorder by Georg Philippe Telemann. From the Giede Collection, Kongelige Bibliotek, Denmark – PDF files
- Sonates sans Basse à deux Flûtes traverses, ou à deux Violons, ou à deux Flûtes à bec … par Georg Philippe Telemann (1727). Telemann's Canonic Sonatas, from the Giedde Collection – PDF file
- Sonate di Flauto a Solo …, 12 sonatas by Robert Valentine. Printed score.
- Munich Digitization Centre (Germany), handles the digitization and online publication of the cultural heritage preserved by the Bavarian State Library and by other institutions. It provides one of the largest and fastest growing digital collections in Germany, now comprising 415,954 titles available online
Scores on-line
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, The Complete Works
- Sonata in F Major for Bass Recorder, Viola, & Bass, Wq 163
- Sonata in F Major for Bass Recorder, Viola, & Bass, Wq 163 (alternate version)
- Zwo abwechselnde Menuetten for three trumpets, timpani, two recorders, two bassoons, two violins, & bass, Wq 192 – not yet available
- JustSheetMusic, search engine to some 600,000 titles of commercial & free sheet music available on the Internet, from Hugo Peters (Netherlands) & Christopher Faille (USA)
- Baroque Personal Trainer, scores & play-along MP3 accompaniment tracks of baroque works for recorder, from Guido Piperno (Italy). Some tracks are at A=415 Hz, others at A=440 Hz
- Scores of original compositions for recorder by Winfried Michel (Germany), in PDF format.
- Scores in PDF and MIDI format, arranged by Joe Angert (USA)
- Flute & Recorder PDF Sheet Music, Inexpensive scores which you can print yourself
- International Music Score Library Project / Petrucci Music Library (Canada), 24,000 printable scores in PDF format, amongst them works of interest to recorder players by Bach, Corelli, Lully, Marcello, Monteverdi, Quantz, Sammartini, Telemann, Vivaldi.
- Eine Sammlung von Musik des Mittelalters, Spielleut Musikarchiv, online scores of Medieval music, in PDF format
- Steve Hendricks Music Collection, online scores of renaissance madrigals, dances and instrumental music, in PDF format.
- Pièces renaissance, online scores from Alain Naigeon (France), in PDF and Encore formats
- Peter Billam's Arrangements, in PDF format
- Recorder Music arranged by LoveSchubert (Japan)
- FreeScores.com (France), includes many works suitable for recorders, in PDF format
- Bass[et] Recorder Solos, from Phillip Perry (UK), in PDF format
- Copy-us (Germany), online scores in PDF format
- Basse Dance Project, online scores from Russell Almond (USA) – PDF file
- Music Viva: Free Sheet Music Archive, online scores in PDF & GIF formats
- Online scores from Víctor Carbajo (Spain), in PDF format
- Online scores from Gene Casti (USA), in PDF format
- Online scores (most to purchase) from John Hawkes (UK), in Sibelius Scorch format
- Recorder Music, online scores in PDF format from Christian Mondrup (Denmark), with MIDI files to listen to.
- Obres i arranjaments per a flautes de bec, online scores in PDF format, from Joan Vives (Spain)
- The Kitchen Musician, online scores in GIF format suitable for many instruments, including recorder
- Serpent Publications, scores in abc, pdf, and MIDI formats from Laura Conrad (USA)
- Music, online scores with audible accompaniment scores from Daniel Laberge (Canada), including some for recorder
- Stefan Karpiniec (Australia), free online scores, including some for recorder
- Archiv der kreuznacher-diakonie-kantorei, online scores (including arrangements for recorder) from Helmut Kickton (Germany)
- Online Scores from mfiles.com (UK), in Scorch format. Includes a number of items for recorders, including original compositions by Jim Paterson
- Stephen Malinowski (USA)
- Recorder Music arranged by Yoshitaka Fuii (Japan), online scores in PDF format and MIDi tunes. In English and Japanese.
- 8notes.com, free downloadable sheet music from David Bruce in Sibelius, GIF and PDF formats, also MIDI files
- Free Scores (France), directory of free sheet music, from Victor Reny (in French and English)
- The Choral Public Domain Library, from Rafael Ormes. Contains more than 1000 choral works in PDF, MIDI, ABC, Encore, Finale, MusicXTex, Noteworthy Composer, Score formats, etc. Many of these are suitable for recorders
- Mutopia, archive of scores typset using GNU Lilypond by a team of volunteers. All the music is downloadable for free as Postscript (.ps) and PDF (.pdf) files (both A4 and Letter paper sizes), as well as Lilypond's own LY (.ly) file format. Audio previews of the music are available as MIDI files. A few of these are suitable for recorders.
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The Werner Icking Musical Archive Printable scores in PDF format. Includes recorder music by Heinz Irsen, Christian Mondrup & Johan Helmich Roman.
- Electronic scores for recorder consorts, from
Dolmetsch. These files are in Sibelius format, for which you will need Scorch,
the free Sibelius plug-in. The plug-in allows you to listen to the
files, too!
- SibeliusMusic, electronic scores in Sibelius format, for which you will need Scorch,
the free Sibelius plug-in. The plug-in allows you to listen to the files, too! Amongst the many composers and arrangers represented are:
- Score Exchange, the successor to SibeliusMusic.com, currently in a state of transition. Amongst the many Composers and arrangers represented are:
- Online Music Scores, index from Gordon J. Callon
(USA)
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