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Index for this guide:
Encyclopedias
Finding Books Using Subject Headings
Indexes to Articles
Recorder Periodicals
Special Resources
Finding Music in the UO Library's Catalog
Finding Recorder Recordings
Recorder Web Sites
Other Library Resources

Research Guides


The Recorder Player's Guide to the Knight Library's Music Services Department

Encyclopedias for Information on Instruments and Musicians:

General:

    The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.
    London: Macmillan Publishers; Washington, D.C.: Grove's Dictionaries of Music, 1980. 20 v.
    [Has good signed articles by noted authorities-with excellent bibliographies.]
    [MUSIC REF. ML 100 .N 48]

Instrument-specific:

 

    Baines, Anthony. The Oxford companion to musical instruments.
    Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.
    [MUSIC REF. ML102. I5 B34 1992]

    Bowers, Q. David. Encyclopedia of Automatic Musical Instruments. Incl. a Dictionary of Automatic Musical Instrument Terms.
    Vestal, NY: Vestal Press, 1972.
    [MUSIC ML 1050 .B6]

    Diagram Group. Musical Instruments of the World: an Illustrated Encyclopedia.
    NY: Sterling Pub. Co., 1997.
    [MUSIC REF. ML102.I5 M88 1997]

    Marcuse, Sibyl. A Survey of Musical Instruments.
    NY: Harper & Row, 1975.
    [MUSIC ML 460.M365 S94]

    The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments.
    London: Macmillan;NY: Grove's Dictionaries of Music, 1984. 2 v.
    [MUSIC REF. ML 102 .I5 N48 1984]

    Young, Phillip T. The Look of Music: Rare Musical Instruments, 1500- 1900.
    Vancouver: Vancouver Museums & Planetarium Association, 1980.
    [MUSIC ML 462 .Y68]

Finding Books about the instrument by using the
SUBJECT HEADINGS TO SEARCH IN THE UO LIBRARY'S CATALOG:

The following subject headings are a useful way to search the UO Library's Catalog.

    Recorder (Musical Instrument) (for books about the instrument itself)

      - Bibliography (For lists of books about the Recorder)
      - Catalogs And Collections (an obvious heading)
      - Instruction and Study (For resources to teach or learn recorder)
      - Methods (To learn or teach how to play the recorder)
      - Methods- Early Works -To 1800 (Historical resources to teach you how to play the recorder)

    Recorder Music (For list of music and information about the music)

      Interpretation Phrasing Dynamics Etc (For instruction on the fine points of recorder playing)

      Note: See also Flageolet

Indexes to Articles about Recorders, Recorder Music & Recorder Players:

    Music Index
    The source for articles on music, musicians, and society.
    Print index covers 1949-2001 [MUSIC REF ML118.M84]
    Online index covers 1973-present.

    RILM
    More esoteric, and multilingual.
    Print index covers 1967-1995 [MUSIC REF. ML118.R4]
    Online index begins coverage in 1967; updated monthly

    Music Article Guide
    This source indexes the local music organizations' publications, as well as regional sources (1966-1996). [MUSIC REF. ML118.M842]

    To find more indexes specifically for Music, see the Articles, Databases & Indexes section of the UO's web catalog, on the left-hand side of the page.  Connect to Music on the Search for Subject section, then scroll down to Music Performance for a list of appropriate indexes.

Periodicals Especially Useful for the Recorder Player:

    The American recorder.
    v. 1 MUSIC ML 1 .A4 (1961)- present
    [MUSIC ML 1 .A4 ]

    Early music.
    v. 1(1973)-
    Print, 1973-2006 [MUSIC ML 5 .E3]
    Also online to current issue.

    The Instrumentalist.
    v.1(1946)-present
    [MUSIC ML 5 .I55]

    Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society.
    v. 8(1982)-present
    [MUSIC ML 1 .A527]

    Performance practice review.
    v. 1(1988)-v. 10 (1997)
    [MUSIC ML 1 .P10876] and online

    Woodwind/brass & percussion.
    Official publication of: the Association of Concert Bands of America (ACBA)
    [ML1.W6 v.1(19 --78 ]

Special Resources

    The Cambridge companion to the recorder.
    Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1995.
    [MUSIC ML990.R4 C35 1995]

    Griscom, Richard.
    The recorder : a guide to writings about the instrument for players and researchers.
    New York : Garland, 1994.
    [MUSIC ML128.R31 G75 1994]

    Musical instruments [interactive multimedia]
    [ CD-ROM Disk contains four interactive sections designed to help teach about musical instruments. Families of instruments shows brass, string, woodwind, keyboard, and percussion families.
    [Doug Circ CD-ROM ML460 .M95 1993]

Finding the Music on the UO Library's Catalog:

    I. Use the following resources for lists of published Recorder music:

      Alker, Hugo. Blockfloten-Bibliographie. [2. Aufl.]
      Wilhelmshaven, Heinrichshofen's Verlag [1966]
      [MUSIC ML128.R31A4 1966]

      Hosoda, Tsutomu. A descriptive catalogue of recorder music.
      Tokyo: Academia Myujikku, 1987.
      [MUSIC ML128.R31 H68 1987]

      Hoffer-von Winterfeld, Linde. Handbuch der Blockfloten-Literatur.
      Berlin, Bote & Bock, 1959.
      [MUSIC ML128.R31W6]

      McGowan, Richard A.
      Italian baroque solo sonatas for the recorder and the flute.
      Detroit: Information Coordinators, c1978.
      [MUSIC REF. ML128.F7 M2]

    II. Use the following subject headings in the UO Library's Catalog to find listings of music we own:

      Recorder Music (for the actual scores & recordings)

        See also

      • MINUETS (RECORDER)
      • SUITES (RECORDER)
      • VARIATIONS (RECORDER) Recorder (Musical instrument)- Methods Recorder (Musical instrument) - Studies and exercises

For multiple recorders, see:

    Recorder music (Recorders (2))
    Woodwind trios (Recorders (3)) [4, 5, etc.]
    Recorder Ensembles

To find music for Recorder and another instrument, use:

    Recorder and ______ music (fill in the name of the instrument)
    Sonatas (Recorder And Harpsichord)
    Trio Sonatas ___ 
    Trio sonatas (Recorder, violin, continuo)
    Trio sonatas (Recorders (2), continuo)
    Trio sonatas (Flute, recorder, continuo)
    Trio sonatas (Bassoon, recorder, continuo)
    etc.

III. Search the UO Library's Catalog by the composer's last name.

IV. Browse the following Call Numbers on the music shelves:

    M 61 & M110 - Music for solo recorder
    M 240 - Music for recorder and piano
    MT 340 & 342 = Methods books for recorder

V. Search the UO Library's Catalog for the following collections of Recorder Music:

    Hortus Musicus [M 2 .H67]
    Zeitschrift fur Spielmusik [M1 .Z4]

To find recordings of recorder music in our library, use the UO Local Catalog

  • Search the performer's name as an Author (e.g. Clemencic, Rene or Bruggen, Frans)
  • Search the composer's name as an Author (e.g. Praetorius, Michael)
  • Search the subject headings (listed above)
  • Search with keywords (if you aren't sure of what order to enter instruments, e.g., quartets recorder violin)

To all of these, you can limit the list to just recordings (or scores):

To search for just the compact discs:

  • Start with the Call# tab on the UO Local Catalog.
  • Scroll down to the Non-LC Call #:
    You will receive a list of the 16000+ compact discs we own- you can then limit by author (composer) or title or subject heading.
  • If you want to browse our compact disc collection by genre (which doesn't include entries by instrument, see our genre web page at http://libweb.uoregon.edu/music/musgenres.html

  • Browse our CIRCULATING CD COLLECTION.
    The covers are available for browsing as you walk in to the Douglass Room. For recordings by specific performers, come browse our Performers section under their last names. These will be compilation albums of many different composers.

  • Check out our Audio Resources Online, at http://libweb.uoregon.edu/music/aso.html
    These databases provide streaming audio listening from 5 subscriptions, including the Database of Recorded American Music (DRAM) and Classical Music Library.
    Searches can be by instrument, composer, genre, performers, etc.
    (If you're having problems connecting off campus, see our Access to Electronic Resources site, at http://libweb.uoregon.edu/systems/proxy/

Web Sites of Interest to Recorder Players:

Listservs of interest to Recorder Players:

    RECORDER-L is a discussion and information e-mail forum operated as a public service by the American Recorder Society. All those with an interest in the recorder - professionals or amateurs (players, performers, makers, teachers, dealers, music editors etc.) - are welcome to subscribe.
    Only subscribers may post to RECORDER-L. The list is not moderated.
    To subscribe to RECORDER-L send e-mail through your on-line service to:
    Majordomo@world.std.com
    Leave the subject line blank and type subscribe recorder-l in the body of the message.
    For more specific information about RECORDER-L or electronic discussion lists in general, please send your inquiries to:
    owner-recorder-l@world.std.com

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Last Modified: 09/30/2009