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november 2002 Published by the American Recorder Society, Vol. XLIII, No. 5 Vol. American Recorder Society, by the Published sheet music www.moeck-music.de recorders early music flauto penta modern music flauto 1 folk&pop flauto 1 plus methods/tutors worls school recorders books flauto rondo rottenburgh modern music steenbergen music cartoons stanesby periodicals hotteterre tibia. magazin für holzbläser kynseker zfs recorders music series renaissance-consort cds breukink walter van hauwe renaissance jeremias schwarzer krummhorn trio diritto cornamuse dulcian shawm shalmei flute cornetti baroque flute oboe rackett chalumeau sopran clarinet Sole agent for the USA: Tel: 1-860-364-5431 Magnamusic Distributors Inc., Fax: 1-860-364-5168 P.O. Box 338, [email protected] Sharon, CT 06069 www.magnamusic.com EDITOR’S ______NOTE ______ ______ ______ ______ Volume XLIII, Number 5 November 2002 “This piece is harder than it looks.” FEATURES The comment came as our quartet was A Modern Recorder Player in Four Worlds . 6 assembling a short program, based loosely Pamela Thorby Interviewed on one that we had done for Play-the- by David Lasocki Recorder Month. We had come back to a It’s Not All Greek to Me. 10 piece that had been cut early in the prepa- A recorder player’s diary of her musical journey rations for that too-lengthy program. The 4 by Racheal Cogan piece seemed like it might be an easy one Arranging Traditional Melodies for Recorders. 14 to add back in, but it had turned out to The eighth in a series of articles by composers and arrangers have some surprises we hadn’t found in discussing how they write and arrange music for recorder, our initial readings. What appeared to be by Frederic Palmer several verses of the same traditional Nor- wegian tune contained nuances and subtle cadential changes with each repetition. It DEPARTMENTS wasn’t that it was technically hard, but it 10 wasn’t as easy as it looked on the page. Advertiser Index . 32 In the eighth installment in the Com- Book Reviews . 17 posers/Arrangers series, Fred Palmer fills Chapters & Consorts . 18 you in on how he arranges traditional melodies for recorders, using just some of Classified . 32 the subtle changes and devices we found in Compact Disc Reviews . 30 practicing that Norwegian piece. Focus on ARS Business Members. 5 Two articles in this issue give us the per- 19 sonal perspectives of two professional Music Reviews. 20 recorder players—each with an interest in Opening Measures . 28 music where the recorder can make an un- ON THE COVER: Illustration by President’s Message . 3 expected but musically-valid appearance. Jeff Gold Graphics Each one seems to have first followed a tra- 2181 Walden Hill Road Q&A . 22 ditional path of playing Renaissance and Danville, VT 05828 Tidings . 4 Baroque music on recorder, but then asked 802-684-9728 the question, “Is that all there is?” www.jeffgoldgraphics.com Bay Area Recorder Series for 2003, ARS & AMICI © 1987, 2002 If knowing more about playing recorder news from Seattle, new groups give debut performances in non-classical ensembles or styles inter- ests you, this is certainly not the first issue of AR where the topic has come up. A brief GAIL NICKLESS, Editor perusal of topics covered in recent issues Contributing Editors yielded several writings that would be FRANCES BLAKER, Beginners; SCOTT PATERSON, Book Reviews good resources. Carolyn Peskin covers two CAROLYN PESKIN, Q & A; CONSTANCE M. PRIMUS, Music Reviews topics in different forums: how to arrange EUGENE REICHENTHAL, Education; THOMAS CIRTIN, Compact Disc Reviews an original piece in Broadway style, with LISA SCHMIDT, Design Consultant ideas useful in arranging other pop tunes Advisory Board (May 2001), and a Q&A response recom- Martha Bixler • Valerie Horst • David Lasocki mending sources for editions of indige- Bob Marvin • Howard Schott • Thomas Prescott • Catherine Turocy nous music of the Americas (November Kenneth Wollitz 2000). Two writers have related personal Copyright © 2002 American Recorder Society, Inc. experiences playing recorder in religious AR On-Line settings: Peter Ramsey (September 2000) Visit at <www.recorderonline.org> American Recorder (ISSN: 0003-0724), 5554 S. 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