Not Just the Alto

Not Just the Alto

Author: David Lasocki

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2020-12-24

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 9781655627361

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According to myth (or received opinion), the wealth of sizes of recorder present in the Renaissance petered out in the Baroque period, until only the alto (British: treble) was left, except for a few smaller sizes in concertos and vocal music. In this book David Lasocki examines all the surviving writings between about 1600 and 1800 (treatises, tutors, inventories, advertisements, purchases and sales) as well as indications of instrumentation in the repertoire. He concludes that sizes of recorder besides the alto were far more common and far more diverse than we have imagined. Imagine!


Capturing Music

Capturing Music

Author: Thomas Forrest Kelly

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0393064964

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An accessible history of how musicians learned to record music discusses the work of five centuries of religious scholars while demonstrating how people developed methods for measuring rhythm, melody and precise pitch, leading to the technological systems of notation in today's world.