{"id":407,"date":"2015-04-06T14:45:18","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T18:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/medren\/?page_id=407"},"modified":"2017-10-30T10:04:36","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T14:04:36","slug":"recorder-renaissance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/medren\/renaissance-instruments\/recorder-renaissance\/","title":{"rendered":"Recorder (Renaissance)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The best known consort instruments of the Renaissance are the recorders. They differ from the transverse flutes by being blown at one end, having a whistle-like mechanism to produce the sound. Praetorius lists eight common sizes of recorder, ranging from what we would call “sopranino” down to a contrabass about seven feet long.<\/p>\n

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Recorders. Plate IX from Syntagma Musicum II, De Organographia, by Michael Praetorius (1618-19).<\/p><\/div>\n

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Tenor Recorder. Bassano family? (early 17th century). Brussels, Mus\u201ae Instrumental, 1025.<\/p>\n

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Recorder quartet at 8′ pitch. Italian recorder music. Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet. Editions de l’Oiseau-Lyre 430 246-2 (1991). Trk 3 Canzon la Bastina (excerpt).<\/p>\n

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Praetorius’s complete range of recorders would not all have been played together, however; a large (or 8′) consort would typically have used a tenor in C (about two feet long) on the top line down to a great bass in F (about six feet long) on the bass, while a small (or 4′) consort would have used a soprano in C or D (about a foot long) or an alto in G (about sixteen inches long) on top down to a bass or basset in F (about three feet long). The two groups would thus have sounded an octave apart.<\/p>\n

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Basset (small bass) Recorder. German? (early 17th century). Brussels, Mus\u00e9e Instrumental, no. 1031.<\/p>\n

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Basset recorder fontanelle (detail). German? (early 17th century). Brussels, Mus\u00e9e Instrumental, no. 1031.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Renaissance recorders do not have as large a range and are not so clear-toned as Baroque recorders, but they blend extremely well together. The instruments also show less decoration than Baroque recorders, using a simple, symmetrical shape. Like the shawms, larger recorders feature a fontanelle \u2014 a “pepper shaker” cover for the key mechanism that served both to protect the key and hide its asymmetry. The key itself is often referred to as a “swallow-tail,” and its shape allowed the instrument to be played with the left or the right hand down, there being no standard method as there is today. <\/span>
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The best known consort instruments of the Renaissance are the recorders. They differ from the transverse flutes by being blown at one end, having a whistle-like mechanism to produce the sound. Praetorius lists eight common sizes of recorder, ranging from what we would call “sopranino” down to a contrabass about seven feet long.<\/p>\n

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Recorder quartet at 8′ pitch. Italian recorder music. Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet. Editions de l’Oiseau-Lyre 430 246-2 (1991). Trk 3 Canzon la Bastina (excerpt).<\/p>\n

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Praetorius’s complete range of recorders would not all have been played together, however;<\/p>\n

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