Bergen County Chapter American Recorder Society October 2019

Chapter News Date Coach Next Meeting: The Bergen County chapter other summer festivals Festi- 10/16/19 Deborah Booth of the American Recorder val. Wednesday Society will hold it October 11/13/19 Ruth Cunningham Membership Dues: Mem- October 16, 2019 meeting on the 16th at our bership Dues this year are 12/11/19 Pat Neely at 7:30PM usual meeting place: Con- $90.00 per person. Please be gregation Adas Emuno. This sure to give or send you dues 1/08/20 Susan Hellauer Meetings are held at: month’s meeting will be con- to Gayle. Jason Priset or ducted by our long time 2/12/20 Congregation Adas Emuno Wen Chen 254 Broad Avenue friend Deborah. We look Recorder Lessons forward to a wonderful eve- Leonia, NJ 07605 3/11/20 Jason Priset or ning of recorder playing! Recorder classes are now available for beginner/novice Wen Chen There is a $10.00 suggested This Month’s Conductor recorder players. The class 4/18/20 Workshop will meet from 6:15 to donation for non-members. Deborah Booth is an active 7:15pm. The cost is $10.00 5/13/20 Gonzalo X. Ruiz recorder and performer per session. Contact Reita if of historical and modern 6/10/20 Larry Lipnik For Information contact: you or a friend are interested. Reita Powell, President instruments, and the co- 201-944-2027 founder and director of En- National Membership opportunities on the national [email protected] semble BREVE. Deborah level. teaches in New York City, In addition to joining our

Greenwich, CT, and has local chapter we encourage Refreshments Carl Peter, Editor taught and played each sum- you to join the American 201-837-1071 Recorder Society which pro- October’s meeting volunteers mer at the Amherst Early for refreshments are food: [email protected] vides many resources and Music Festival and numerous Anne and drinks:David.

October Recorder Workshop Guest Amherst Conductor A Gala NYC Weekend October 26-27, 2019 Registration now open! The Ella Baker School, New York City Deborah A workshop designed exclusively for recorder players! Classes in Medieval, , Baroque, Modern, and Traditional music, Booth Consorts, master classes, orchestra! Visit the “Amherst Early Music” website for more information and to register.

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The recorder in the Renaissance Most Renaissance recorders family of recorders was (Syntagma musicum, 1614– recorder consort, as well as were constructed from a sin- needed for playing the no- 20) and Marin Mersenne by Henry himself. The Mu- gle piece of undecorated tated polyphonic repertory of (Harmonie universelle, seum’s in C’, wood with a predominantly the period—motets, secular 1636–37), might comprise an while possibly constructed in cylindrical bore. The instru- songs, fantasias, canzonas, alto in G’, two tenors in C’, the seventeenth century, is a ment had a relatively narrow and arrangements of and a basset in F recorder typical Renaissance-style range of an and a dances—music made com- consort from Praetorius. recorder, made from a single sixth, with a rich timbre, monly available in the six- King Henry VIII (r. 1509– piece of maple, simple in perfect for blending in an teenth century by the inven- 47), an avid amateur musi- appearance, with twin finger- ensemble. Makers would tion of music printing in cian, by the end of his life holes on the bottom, allow- construct matched consorts 1501. A typical recorder en- owned seventy-six recorders, ing the player the option of of various sizes of recorders, semble, as described by mu- undoubtedly organized in playing left- or right-handed from the smallest—only a sic theorists Sebastian Vir- several matched choirs. They after plugging the unused few inches long—to the larg- dung (1511) and Martin Ag- were likely played by the hole. est, which might measure ricola (1532) and illustrated five members of the Bassano www.metmuseum.org more than six feet. A full by family, the royal professional