The St. Louis Recorder Society

Here are links to some useful and fun web pages:

Sheet Music (mostly free)

• Alain Naigeon. Nicely engraved Renaissance scores for consort. The text is in French.
• Arenaï ensemble vocal. Renaissance vocal music that fits a recorder consort nicely. The text is in French.
• The Choral Public Domain Library. Free choral music, some of which can be adapted for recorder.
• Coppini Edition. A nicely engraved and annotated edition of Italian madrigals of Monteverdi and others. It's vocal music, but adapts well for recorders.
• Del's Dance Book. This site has not only nicely engraved editions of early dance music, but instructions and videos (!) for doing the dances.
• Dolmetsch online-sheet music. A number of pieces of recorder music ranging from methods to some challenging consort transcriptions. It requires the scorch plug-in.
• Dr. Dr. Bill's Music Page. The doctor doctor is in! Free sheet music and other things, mostly recorder related.
• Frescores: free sheet music. A site with all sorts of music, nicely engraved. The Spanish text is not difficult for an English speaker to navigate.
• Kantorei Archiv. A number of nice consort arrangements of baroque music. The text is in German. Just remember, "Blockflote"="recorder".
• legallic.yann. I can't figure out who the creator of this French web page is, but there are a number of useful consort arrangements on it.
• The Music of Thomas Ravenscroft. OK, it is a bit specialized, but Ravenscroft did write wonderful vocal music that works well on instruments.
• Pascal Premier. Go to the partitions link and at the bottom of the page you'll find some outrageous consort arrangements of movie themes.
• Recorder Music, maintained by Christian and Annette Mondrup. Excellently engraved free music
• Recorder Music arranged by LoveSchubert. Good recorder consort arrangements of music from a variety of sources, some quite suprising.
• Sibelius Music. Sibelius is the other music notation software and this site has a lot of music, much of it free, created with that software. You have to download the free scorch plug-in to see the music. Hint: use the advanced search capability of the site to find recorder music.
• Society for Creative Anachronism 30 Year Celebration. Lots and lots of early dance music.
• Steve Hendrick's Music Collection. Lots of nifty Renaissance dances for your next SCA gathering.
• Werner Icking Music Archive. Lots of free music, including many things for recorder.

Instruments

• Baroque Timpani. In short video, Ben Harms does a dazzling display of drumming techniques on historical kettledrums.
• Crumhorn Home Page. Lots of information about the crumhorn, everyone's favorite buzzy.
• A Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Instruments. Pictures and sounds of early instruments from some nice folks at Iowa State.
• Pete Rose's web site. Information about modern recorder music from one of the great advocates of that sort of thing.
• The Recorder Home Page. An Australian site with a lot of interesting recorder stuff.
• Sarrusophones. Another instrument of bygone times.
• The Serpent Website. Nothing here for Animal Planet fans, this site has information and sound samples from historical serpents and ophicleides, bass instruments gone, but apparently not forgotten.
• The Treble Violin. This site has a great video of a Vivaldi flute concerto played on a teensy weensy fiddle, along with helpful hints for other musicians who want to make a video.

Organizations

• The American Recorder Society
• Early Music America

Other

• Music History and Theory Online. The Dolmetsch folks bring you these useful pages that have lots of useful information about a range of musical topics including harmony, history, even fingering the recorder and other instruments. You can even listen to the musical examples if you install the free Scorch plug-in.
• Printable staff papers. If you'd prefer to write out your music the old-fashioned way, this site gives you downloadable staff paper.
• Recorder-Radio. A German site that plays all recorder music all the time.