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NOVEMBER 2001 PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN RECORDER SOCIETY, VOL. XLII, NO. 5 PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN RECORDER SOCIETY, VOL. Baroque Chamber Music Play-Along CDs! with Music and Performance Guides for Recorder Players Hours of playing Pre#DiscContinuo and enjoyment Early Intermediate with early music Handel, Lully, Purcell, Corelli, specialists Consort Music of Lassus, Dowland, Arcadelt & more “Seldom will any of us get to be accompanied by such fine players!” The DiscContinuo “This is how practice should be!” Intermediate Telemann, Marais, Handel, Fresco- “...Best of all, they pick the most baldi & even more EXCELLENT music! DiscContinuo II Advanced Intermediate Bach, Philidor, Mancini, Handel Cantata with soprano Susan Rode Morris & even still more! TM To order postpaid, send checks for $ per item plus S & H charges ($ for fi rst item; $. each additional item) to KATastroPHE Records, Florio Street, Oakland, CA , or call () -. Visit our website at www.katastrophemusic.com. Adding Percussion to Medieval and Renaissance Music by Peggy Monroe Just as you wouldn’t use saxophones to play Medieval music, there are appropriate percussion instruments to use for added color in early music, especially in music for dancing. Monroe suggests how to choose instruments and provides ideas for playing them, caring for them, and using them creatively on your own. Order this information booklet and others in the series: ARS Information Booklets: Recorder Care, by Scott Paterson American Recorder Music, by Constance Primus Music for Mixed Ensembles, by Jennifer W. Lehmann Improve Your Consort Skills, by Susan (Prior) Carduelis Playing Music for the Dance, by Louise Austin The Burgundian Court and Its Music, coordinated by Judith Whaley Adding Percussion to Medieval and Renaissance Music, by Peggy Monroe Members: 1-$13, 2-$23, 3-$28, 4-$35, 5-$41, 6-$47, 7-$52 Non-members: 1-$18, 2-$33, 3-$44, 4-$55, 5-$66, 6-$76, 7-$86 U.S. Postage and handling included. Canadian and foreign, Add $1 per item. AMERICAN RECORDER SOCIETY bOX 631, lITTLETON, cO 80160 • 303-347-1120 EDITOR’S ______NOTE ______ ______ ______ ______ Volume XLII, Number 5 November 2001 Sometimes as the urgencies of past ARS FEATURES board meetings were winding down and Play-Along Discs for Recorder Students: there was time to be a little more philo- An Overview. 9 sophical about things, the attendees Recorder instruction has been greatly enriched by the development would agree that the underlying mission of of play-along materials designed especially for students, the Society would be perfectly achieved by Susan Groskreutz when everyone—everyone—played the re- 6 corder. Realizing that this was an imperfect Arranging String Music for Recorders . 16 world, of course, we couldn’t really expect The third in a series of articles by composers and arrangers that to happen. But if it could, if through discussing how they write and arrange music for recorder, the recorder everyone could come to love music, we would say, the world would be by Annette Mondrup free of the “stratagems and spoils” that DEPARTMENTS continually plague our human existence. Unfortunately, history is full of charla- Advertiser Index . 36 9 tans, reprobates, demagogues, murderers Book Reviews . 29 and worse who were actively and creative- Chapters & Consorts . 26 ly involved in making music. Although the Classified . 36 Taliban teach that those who listen to mu- sic will have molten lead poured into their Music Reviews . 19 ears on Judgment Day, the group of fanat- On the Cutting Edge. 31 ics engaged in the current terrorism against Opening Measures . 33 the United States (as well as others who have used terrorist tactics in pursuit of all 20 President’s Message . 3 kinds of causes) may still include some Tidings . 4 who love music. ON THE COVER: EMA’s Star-Spangled Season, New York Recorder Orchestra Music has been used as an expression Illustration Bamboo Pipers Go to Belgium, ARS Business Members of intolerance as well as a means for over- by coming it. (Imagine the chilling, self-reve- Adam Niklewicz latory experience of singing “Onward © 2001 Christian Soldiers” during a Sunday ser- vice on September 16.) Like anything else, music can be misused, twisted, politicized, even hijacked for narrow purposes. Even the Taliban allow the performance of cer- BENJAMIN S. DUNHAM, Editor tain patriotic and religious songs. Al- Contributing Editors though it is difficult to find any unpleas- FRANCES BLAKER, Beginners; SCOTT PATERSON, Book Reviews antness in the comforting voice of the re- CAROLYN PESKIN, Q & A; CONSTANCE M. PRIMUS, Music Reviews corder, perhaps the real danger for us is to EUGENE REICHENTHAL, Education; PETE ROSE, 20th-Century Performance withdraw into our own world of gentle GILLIAN KAHN, Design Consultant beauty without making the utmost effort to recognize and understand the harsh re- Advisory Board Martha Bixler • Valerie Horst • David Lasocki alities of other cultures and musics, or of Bob Marvin • Howard Schott • Thomas Prescott • Catherine Turocy even the immediate world around us. Kenneth Wollitz If we could drop sweet flutes from air- planes instead of live ordnance, would this Copyright © 2001 American Recorder Society, Inc. create more harmony on earth? Could we Visit AR On-Line at: www.recorderonline.org American Recorder (ISSN: 0003-0724), 5554 S. 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