| LC control no. | sh 85111889 |
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| LC classification | ML990.R4 History MT350 MT353 Instruction |
| Topical heading | Recorder (Musical instrument) |
| Variant(s) | Alto recorder Bass recorder Basset recorder Beak flute Common flute Contrabass recorder Descant recorder Great bass recorder Song flute Sopranino recorder Soprano recorder Subcontrabass recorder Tenor recorder Treble recorder |
| See also | Flute Flageolet |
| Subject example tracing | Example under reference from Melody instruments |
| Found in | New Grove dict. of mus. inst. (recorder: common flute, English flute, flûte à bec, flûte à neuf trous, flûte d'Angleterre, flûte douce, Blockflöte, Langsflöte, Schnabelflöte, flauto diretto, flauto dolce) Maute, M. Drei Canzonen für Sopranblockflöte (Violine, Zink) und Basso continuo, 1997. New Grove, 2nd ed. WWW site, Aug. 17, 2001 (Recorder: a woodwind instrument with a thumb-hole and (generally) seven finger-holes. It is the chief Western member of the class of duct flutes, being distinguished from most other members particularly by its thumb-hole. The neologism "blockflute," derived from the German Blockflöte, goes back at least to F.J. Giesbert's recorder tutor (Mainz, 1936). There are four main instruments in use today: the descant (known in the USA as the "soprano"); treble (in the USA "alto"); tenor, and bass. Sopranino and great bass instruments are also fairly common. In recent years the recorder with lowest note f has sometimes been termed the basset, because larger sizes have become more widespread: great bass (c), contrabass (F) and even subcontrabass (C) also called bass, great bass, and contrabass, respectively) Llorca, Ricardo. Concierto italiano, 2004: insert (beak flute) Google web site, Dec. 5, 2006 (Recorder, also flûte à bec or beak flute) |
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