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The Recorder in the Seventeenth Century: Proceedings of the International Recorder Symposium Utrecht 1993 (Utrecht: STIMU, 1993), edited by David Lasocki. 2nd edition with corrections and an appendix. Published by Instant Harmony, 2024. Also available in print from amazon.com and other amazons around the world.
The STIMU Symposium of 1993 produced a pathbreaking collection of articles by well-known performers, makers, and scholars about the history of the recorder in the seventeenth century, which had previously been neglected territory. The articles remain stimulating reading today.
Jan Bouterse on early Dutch duct flutes
Ruth van Baak Griffioen on the tunes in Jacob van Eyck’s Der Fluyten-lusthof
Peter Van Heyghen on the recorder in Italian music, 1600–70
Beryl Kenyon de Pascual on the recorder revival in late seventeenth-century Spain
Martin Kirnbauer on Nuremberg recorder making in the seventeenth century
Barthold Kuijken on what the recorder should play today from the seventeenth-century repertoire (followed by a lively debate on this topic with David Lasocki)
David Lasocki on gaps in our knowledge and how they could be filled
Eva Legêne on the early Baroque recorder
Toon Moonen on research about the measuring of woodwind instruments
Laurence Pottier on the iconography of the recorder in France during the second half of the seventeenth century
Patricia M. Ranum on Jacques Hotteterre’s tonguing syllables and their simulation of French declamation
Thiemo Wind on Der Fluyten-lusthof as composition or improvisation
This new reprinting corrects some errors in the original text and includes a short appendix on more recent research about the subject by these authors. 300 pages. Well illustrated.
