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ANOTHER HIGH-SELLING EDITION FROM INSTANT HARMONYJames Paisible, Collected Duets from Manuscripts and Printed Collection...
12/07/2024

ANOTHER HIGH-SELLING EDITION FROM INSTANT HARMONY

James Paisible, Collected Duets from Manuscripts and Printed Collections for Two Alto Recorders. Edited by David Lasocki

Available as a pdf from www.instantharmony.net and in print from Edition Walhall, Germany.

James Paisible (ca. 1656–1721) was born in France as the son of a Court woodwind player, played briefly under Jean-Baptiste Lully, then moved to England, where he spent the rest of his life, except for briefly following the exiled James II to France. Paisible worked at Court, served as house composer for Princess (later Queen) Anne and her husband, and played the bass violin and recorder in the London theatre bands. According to witnesses, he was the greatest recorder player they had ever heard. David Lasocki has published the remaining recorder music of Paisible’s that had not appeared in modern editions.

“David Lasocki has compiled an extraordinary resource.... All of these pieces would be accessible for an intermediate player, while also providing a variety of musical challenges for advanced players. Many of the sonata movements could be useful for teaching students when and how to shape phrases, ornamentation and sensitivity in playing a tightly composed duet. Both parts are equally important, with the voices often crossing and imitating each other.... This is a great collection! Keep them coming!”
From a review by Bruce Calvin in American Recorder.

NOW AVAILABLE AGAIN AFTER SEVERAL YEARS. A CLASSIC BOOK OF ARTICLES ABOUT THE RECORDER. INCLUDES AN ESSENTIAL ARTICLE FO...
06/07/2024

NOW AVAILABLE AGAIN AFTER SEVERAL YEARS.
A CLASSIC BOOK OF ARTICLES ABOUT THE RECORDER.
INCLUDES AN ESSENTIAL ARTICLE FOR RECORDER AND TRAVERSO PLAYERS ABOUT HOTTETERRE’S TONGUING SYLLABLES.

The Recorder in the Seventeenth Century: Proceedings of the International Recorder Symposium Utrecht 1993 (Utrecht: STIMU, 1993), edited by David Lasocki. 2nd edition with corrections and an appendix. Published by Instant Harmony.
Available in print from amazon.com and other amazons around the world. Also available as a pdf from www.instantharmony.net

The STIMU Symposium of 1993 produced a pathbreaking collection of articles by well-known performers, makers, and scholars about the history of the recorder in the seventeenth century, which had previously been neglected territory. The articles remain stimulating reading today.

Jan Bouterse on early Dutch duct flutes
Ruth van Baak Griffioen on the tunes in Jacob van Eyck’s Der Fluyten-lusthof
Peter Van Heyghen on the recorder in Italian music, 1600–70
Beryl Kenyon de Pascual on the recorder revival in late seventeenth-century Spain
Martin Kirnbauer on Nuremberg recorder making in the seventeenth century
Barthold Kuijken on what the recorder should play today from the seventeenth-century repertoire (followed by a lively debate on this topic with David Lasocki)
David Lasocki on gaps in our knowledge and how they could be filled
Eva Legêne on the early Baroque recorder
Toon Moonen on research about the measuring of woodwind instruments
Laurence Pottier on the iconography of the recorder in France during the second half of the seventeenth century
Patricia M. Ranum on Jacques Hotteterre’s tonguing syllables and their simulation of French declamation
Thiemo Wind on Der Fluyten-lusthof as composition or improvisation
This new reprinting corrects some errors in the original text and includes a short appendix on more recent research about the subject by these authors. 300 pages. Well illustrated.

THREE UNIQUE RECORDER WORKS BY THE NEAPOLITAN OPERA COMPOSER LEONARDO VINCI (NOT DA VINCI!)Leonardo Vinci, Sonata in A m...
03/07/2024

THREE UNIQUE RECORDER WORKS BY THE NEAPOLITAN OPERA COMPOSER LEONARDO VINCI (NOT DA VINCI!)

Leonardo Vinci, Sonata in A minor for Alto Recorder and Basso Continuo.
Leonardo Vinci, Sonata in C minor for Alto Recorder and Basso Continuo.
Leonardo Vinci, Concerto in A minor for Alto Recorder, Unison Violins, and Basso Continuo.

Edited by David Lasocki. Basso continuo realization by Bernard Gordillo.

Available as pdfs from www.instantharmony.net and in print from Edition Walhall, Germany,

“It is a delight to have access to these three works by Vinci! The sonatas are very much rooted in the Neapolitan Baroque tradition, full of the harmonic and rhythmical patters that make it so interesting. The concerto points in the direction of the style to come, the galant, with many long appoggiaturas, as in the works of other Neapolitan works of, for example, Fiorenza. The edition is clear and detailed in the critical commentary, inviting performance. Let there be many more!”
Inês de Avena Braga, Brazilian recorder player and expert on Baroque recorder music from Naples

“The technical demands are rather modest.... the well-lying recorder sonatas in A minor and C minor sound very charming and absolutely idiomatic. We clearly observe the opera composer at work. Above all, the slow movements are replete with rhetorical fermatas. The short A-minor Concerto has its own style.... Result: absolutely original works, which enrich our knowledge of the original recorder repertoire. The editions are extremely well provided with critical reports....”
[“Die beiden Blockflötensonaten in a-Moll und c-Moll.... Die spieltechnischen Anforderungen sind eher bescheiden. U.a. wegen der gut liegenden Blockflötensonaten a-Moll und c-Moll klingen sie aber sehr reizvoll und absolut idiomatisch. Man merkt ihnen deutlich den Opernkomponisten als Autor an. Vor allem die langsamen Sätze sind wiederholt von rhetorischen Pausen durchsetzt. Das kurze a-Moll-Concerto pflegt einen ganz eigenen Stil... Fazit: absolut originelle Werke, die unsere Kenntnis des originalen Blockflötenrepertoires bereichern. Die Ausgaben sind mit kritischem Bericht inhaltlich bestens ausgestättet....”]
From a review by Michael Schneider in Tibia.

“In line with Vinci’s innovative character, all three pieces have unexpected features.... Each piece, including the concerto, would be approachable by an upper intermediate player. A good rhythmic sense is needed ... but Vinci\s style generally avoids virtuosic passagework, and his true metier as an opera composer comes through in a consistent singing quality, even in the faster movements. Although rather unassuming, these pieces are a welcome addition to the repertoire.... Players at all levels will enjoy exploring the somewhat unusual style of this well-crafted music.”
From a review by Scott Paterson in American Recorder

INSTANT HARMONY'S THIRD-HIGHEST SELLER IN BOOKS:Marc-Antoine Charpentier and the flûte: Recorder or Traverso? By David L...
30/06/2024

INSTANT HARMONY'S THIRD-HIGHEST SELLER IN BOOKS:

Marc-Antoine Charpentier and the flûte: Recorder or Traverso? By David Lasocki.

Available as a pdf from www.instantharmony.net and in print from amazon.com and other amazons around the world.

Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643–1702) is now recognized as the greatest French composer of the 17th century. He wrote over 120 works, mostly vocal, in which he called for flûtes, mostly in pairs, as well as about 80 further works in which he might have intended the unmarked treble parts to be played on flûtes. But which instruments did he have in mind? Recorders (and of what sizes)? Renaissance flutes or Baroque traversos (and of what sizes)? Drawing on the latest research by Charpentier scholars, David Lasocki has surveyed the entire corpus of the composer’s works written, or possibly written, for flûtes, looking at the characteristics of the parts as well as the ensembles and occasions for which the works were written—the Guise Music, the Dauphin’s Music, the Jesuits, and the Sainte-Chapelle. He has therefore been able to reach more reliable, and more surprising, conclusions about the flûtes than earlier scholars. If you love Charpentier, if you play Charpentier, if you want to get to know this wonderful composer’s works better, or if you are interested in the history of the recorder and flute, this book is a must-have for you. The text is accompanied by no fewer than 48 musical examples, most of them of playable length.

“Lasocki ... gives the reader confidence in his close scrutiny of Charpentier’s flûte parts: there is not only detailed information here relating to the ranges of lines and the use of keys, but the author engages with the instrumental writing from the perspective of a player who is able to assess the ‘fit’ to one instrument type or another. He makes the point early on ... that it is necessary to become steeped in ‘the totality of a subject,’ and there is a real sense of that here.... Lasocki incorporates an impressive amount of contextual detail.... the provision of two indexes—one allowing a search by work title, and the other by personal names—should assist anyone who wishes only to dip in.... for anyone intending to perform Charpentier’s music, engaging with the whole of Lasocki’s study should prove worth the effort, bringing as it does to existing scholarship the unique perspective of a woodwind specialist.”
From a review by Shirley Thompson in Newsletter of the American Musical Instrument Society.

INSTANT HARMONY’S PRIZE-WINNING BOOK!Jean-Baptiste Lully and the Flûte: Recorder, Voice Flute, and Traverso. French Baro...
28/06/2024

INSTANT HARMONY’S PRIZE-WINNING BOOK!

Jean-Baptiste Lully and the Flûte: Recorder, Voice Flute, and Traverso.
French Baroque Flûte Series, no. 2. 2019.

by David Lasocki

Available as a pdf from www.instantharmony.net and in print from amazon.com and other amazons around the world

Winner of the 2021 Bessaraboff Prize from the American Musical Instrument Society (for the best English-language book on musical instruments published in 2019).

Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632–1687) looms large in any study of woodwind repertoire in the seventeenth century. Nevertheless, his music for flûtes is still little known today, despite comprehensive studies over the last fifty years. One of the purposes of David Lasocki’s book is to bring the music to wider attention, so it includes a large number of full-length musical examples. The book begins by taking a detailed look at the woodwind musicians who played Lully’s music and also considers the music of his predecessors. Drawing on this evidence, the book then discusses his flûtes to determine as far as possible whether they were recorders (and of what sizes) and/or traversos. The book also ties in Lasocki’s new theory about the voice flute (alto recorder in d1), the origins of which have been mysterious until now. The flûte music of Lully’s student Pascal Collasse is also considered, for good measure. And there are passing looks at the development of the oboe, cromorne, and bassoon. A must-read for all lovers of the recorder and traverso as well as anyone interested in Baroque woodwind instruments and their music.

Praise for the book:
“What a gift this is! It settles so many questions and, like all good research, asks many more.... I have never been comfortable with the received wisdom about the name, function and repertoire of the voice flute.” Recorder teacher and researcher, Australia.
“Bravo for your book on Lully, which I devoured yesterday. You mention a lot of interesting points.” Woodwind player, Belgium.
“I was thrilled to receive your Lully book and spent happy hours highlighting information new to me. Much good will come of your seminal work.” Woodwind player and writer, United States.
“I have just received a copy of your book today. It looks amazing and I can’t wait to settle down and read it. The examples at the back are so clear and well- presented. Congratulations!” Traverso player, England.
“Great work! I am reading it right now. Thanks for your precious researches, David.” Woodwind player, France.

RECENT ESSAY (a short book)!Thiemo Wind, Andreas Parcham and his Recorder Sonata(s). Instant Harmony Essay series, no. 7...
26/06/2024

RECENT ESSAY (a short book)!
Thiemo Wind, Andreas Parcham and his Recorder Sonata(s). Instant Harmony Essay series, no. 7.

The capricious Sonata, or “Solo,” in G major by Andreas Parcham (1643–1712) has been a favorite work among recorder players since the 1960s. In modern editions and recordings, the composer’s first name has been anglicized to Andrew, owing to the mistaken notion that he was English. He certainly was not. Having been born in the Hanseatic city of Danzig, nowadays Gdańsk in Poland, Parcham spent all his working life in Amsterdam. In this Essay, the Dutch musicologist Thiemo Wind scrutinizes his life and works (of which the others have apparently not survived). The sonata’s original part books are reproduced in facsimile as an Appendix.
A double-part edition (without basso continuo realization) by David Lasocki is offered as a free bonus to buyers of the Essay in pdf form (only). This edition is also available separately (for a price).

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NEW EDITION AVAILABLE FREE WITH THE PDF OF THIEMO WIND’S NEW ESSAY!
Andreas Parcham, Sonata (Caprice) for Alto Recorder (or Violin) and Basso Continuo. Double-Part Version (no basso continuo realiation). Edited by David Lasocki.

Free with the Essay from
www.instantharmony.net

Or else available for $5.99 from www.instantharmony.net

INSTANT HARMONY'S SURPRISE SECOND-HIGHEST SELLING EDITIONEdward Finch, Cuckoo Sonata in C major for Alto Recorder and Ba...
25/06/2024

INSTANT HARMONY'S SURPRISE SECOND-HIGHEST SELLING EDITION

Edward Finch, Cuckoo Sonata in C major for Alto Recorder and Basso Continuo. Edited by David Lasocki. Basso continuo realization by Bernard Gordillo.

Edward Finch (1663–1738) was an English lawyer, member of parliament, and clergyman, as well as a keen performer on the recorder, flute, oboe, and violin as well as a composer. His Cuckoo Sonata dates from as early as 1685–88, and is therefore one of the first solo works to have been written for the Baroque recorder.

“The Cuckoo Sonata is in five short movements, the first of which begins with the cuckoo motive, followed by fast fluttering passage work and arpeggios in the second movement. The third movement is a beautifully simple and song-like Largo with long, sustained suspensions and trills. The fourth movement starts with a jig feel and then melts into a short bridge of a Largo, leading into the final galloping movement which ends the sonata in an exciting, jovial mood.... The preface is well-researched and any notes amended are well-documented.... The basso continuo [realization] by Bernard Gordillo is also excellent.... a superb critical edition of a very cheerful, quirky and fun English work for performance.” From a review by Oliver Smith in The Recorder Magazine.

Available as an e-edition (pdf) from www.instantharmony.net and in print from Edition Walhall, Germany.

INSTANT HARMONY'S SECOND-HIGHEST SELLERThe Recorder and Other Members of the Flute Family in Writings from 1100 to 1500,...
23/06/2024

INSTANT HARMONY'S SECOND-HIGHEST SELLER

The Recorder and Other Members of the Flute Family in Writings from 1100 to 1500, Second Edition. By David Lasocki. 2012.

Available in print from amazon.com and other amazons around the world, and as an e-book (pdf) from
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Surprisingly little systematic research has been done until now on the recorder and other members of the flute family in the writings of the Middle Ages and Early Renaissance (approximately 1100 to 1500). This study, by an internationally renowned scholar of woodwind instruments, surveys the surviving writings (literature, dictionaries, treatises, inventories, and purchases) in eleven languages: Latin, Greek, French, Occitan (Provençal), German, Dutch, Catalan, Spanish, Old English, Anglo-French, and Middle English. In contrast with earlier studies, which extrapolated backwards from much later usage, the study begins with the earliest names linked to a description or depiction and traces them forwards from their first occurrences in history. The resulting evidence shows to what extent the recorder, tabor pipe, other duct flutes, transverse flute, and panpipes had clearly differentiated names in the various languages. It also suggests the musical and social contexts in which the instruments were used. Finally, the study supplies an answer to the commonly asked question: Why does the recorder have a special name in English that does not include the word “flute,” as in other European languages?

“The volume is both scholarly and accessible, organizing 400 years of writing about the recorder and its relatives in [eleven] languages into a fascinating and illuminating account.... this compact volume contains a wealth of information about the early history of our instrument and its relatives, the people who played them, and how they talked about them. Lasocki’s clear prose is liberally interwoven with historical texts, providing both evidence and context. As is often the case when I read this author’s writings, I was fascinated not only by the subject matter itself but also by the thought process that went into formulating the right questions to ask, asking them, and organizing the results. It’s a brilliant work.”
From a review by Gwyn Roberts in American Recorder.

Another view of the tree.
20/06/2024

Another view of the tree.

TODAY is a big day of celebration for me! This morning, after living in Brazil for 2 1/2 years, I became a permanent res...
20/06/2024

TODAY is a big day of celebration for me!

This morning, after living in Brazil for 2 1/2 years, I became a permanent resident of the country, equivalent to a "green card" in the United States.

Let me celebrate by sharing with you a photo of the beautiful Ipé rosa (Pink trumpet) tree, now in spectacular bloom all over the metropolis of São Paulo. One of the things I enjoy the most about Brazil is its "exotic" (to me) flowers and trees, so different from the ones I have known in the northern hemisphere.

I also greatly enjoy the warmth of the Brazilian people. I would like to thank deeply the many Brazilians who have helped and supported me in Brazil during these 2 1/2 years, above all:

My loving wife Giulia and my lively stepson Guilherme.

Our supportive friends and neighbors, including Fernanda, Mauricio, Isabel, Thiago, Ingrid, Álvaro, Thayza, Daniel, Marie, and Elton.

I also appreciate that the Brazilian government makes it easier to become a permanent resident here than it is in the US....

INSTANT HARMONY'S BESTSELLING EDITION49 Preludes, Fantaisies, and Caprices for Solo Alto Recorder Collected by Charles B...
16/06/2024

INSTANT HARMONY'S BESTSELLING EDITION

49 Preludes, Fantaisies, and Caprices for Solo Alto Recorder Collected by Charles Babel (ca. 1700). Edited by David Lasocki

The woodwind player and copyist Charles Babel compiled a collection of music for alto recorder around 1700. The surviving part book was presumably originally accompanied by a basso continuo book, but at least some of the pieces seem to have been written for recorder alone. This Instant Harmony edition contains all the preludes, fantaisies, and caprices for alto recorder from the collection. They make make fine practice material for the solo instrument, and the better ones could be used as models for writing or improvising our own such pieces. With a long historical preface.

Available as an e-edition (pdf) from
https://instantharmony.net/product/charles-babel-collector-49-preludes-fantaisies-and-caprices-for-solo-alto-recorder-ca-1700-pdf/; or in print from Edition Walhall, Germany.

Some initial comments from people who bought the edition:
“I think it is great study material also for the young generation of recorder players. That’s why I like your table which shows what might be hidden in a piece that only has the simple title prelude.”
“Thanks a lot for the amazing edition!”
“I love it and persuaded a few of my students to buy it.”
“You have done a fine job of putting it all together with the research.”
“I found it very interesting! Thank for your work.”
“It's a very nice collection and a really interesting introduction.”
“I deeply respect the research behind your edition and the pieces look excellent! Thanks for this wonderful contribution to our literature.”
“Oh David, this is wonderful stuff! I love how you give notes and background. That is always so helpful.”

“David Lasocki, profunder Kenner historischer Blockflötenliteratur, stellt nun mit seiner Ausgabe eine Sammlung vor, die sich als wunderbares historisches Beispiel der Verbindung von (Spiel-)Lust und Didaktik erweist.... Lasocki stellt dem Neudruck ein ausführliches Vorwort (19 Seiten!) voran.... Unbedingt lesen!” [David Lasocki, a great connoisseur of historical recorder literature, now presents a collection that proves to be a wonderful historical example of the connection between (playing) fun and learning.... Lasocki includes a detailed preface in the new edition (19 pages!).... A must-read!]
From a review by Nikolaus Delius in TIBIA.

INSTANT HARMONY’S BESTSELLING ESSAYThe Great German Recorder Epidemic: Reinventing the Recorder, 1925–1950by Robert Ehrl...
14/06/2024

INSTANT HARMONY’S BESTSELLING ESSAY

The Great German Recorder Epidemic: Reinventing the Recorder, 1925–1950
by Robert Ehrlich

What is an Essay? A piece of writing that’s too long for a normal article these days, but too short for a book.

In this Essay, Robert Ehrlich examines the origins, spread, and consequences of the “recorder epidemic” in 1930s Germany. In the final years of the Weimar Republic, the recorder was reinvented as a simplified, “organic” instrument suitable for mass-production, then marketed as a Volksblockflöte, or “people’s recorder,” after the Nazis’ rise to power in 1933. By the end of the decade, inexpensive school recorders had emerged “triumphal” as a familiar symbol of the indoctrination of children in the Hi**er Youth. Several passionate advocates of the recorder, forced into exile as Jewish refugees, brought their dedication to the instrument with them. Thus redeemed from association with the horrors of the “Third Reich,” the school soprano recorder came to be adopted internationally after the War in elementary music education.

Available in print from amazon.com and other amazons around the world; and as a pdf from
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INSTANT HARMONY'S BESTSELLER!NOT JUST THE ALTO:SIZES AND TYPES OF RECORDER IN THE BAROQUE AND CLASSICAL PERIODSby DAVID ...
12/06/2024

INSTANT HARMONY'S BESTSELLER!

NOT JUST THE ALTO:
SIZES AND TYPES OF RECORDER IN THE BAROQUE AND CLASSICAL PERIODS

by DAVID LASOCKI

According to the standard history of the recorder, the consort went out of fashion in the early seventeenth century, the alto (British: treble) became the almost exclusive size of the Baroque period, with the solo sonata as its main vehicle (apart from a handful of concertos for smaller sizes), and the instrument virtually disappeared around 1740.
In the last twenty years, however, copious evidence has been uncovered, by David Lasocki and other researchers, that creates a new view of recorder history, which recognizes that between 1600 and 1800 many sizes of recorder were employed in a rich and broad repertoire of instrumental and vocal music. This is the territory that David explores in the present book, drawing on written evidence (inventories, advertisements, sales, purchases, and employment records) and the surviving repertoire. The book aims to raise consciousness about what Hans Oskar Koch called “special forms” of the recorder by demonstrating that they were not as special as both he and we have supposed.
A must-read for all lovers of the recorder as well as anyone interested in early woodwind instruments and their music.

Over 400 pages, including an introductory summary chapter. Index of terms. 15 long musical examples.

Available as a pdf from the Instant Harmony website:
https://instantharmony.net/product/lasocki-not-just-the-alto-sizes-and-types-of-recorder-in-the-baroque-and-classical-periods-pdf/

Also available in print from most of the amazons of the world

EDITORIAL SERVICESInstant Harmony offers EDITING and PROOFREADING of English texts: theses, dissertations, books, papers...
02/05/2024

EDITORIAL SERVICES

Instant Harmony offers EDITING and PROOFREADING of English texts:

theses, dissertations, books, papers, articles, lectures and Power Point slides, reports, websites, résumés and CVs, job application letters, abstracts and summaries, etc.

If it’s in English, we can edit it....

We work with you closely, to ensure that your intentions are presented accurately and attractively.

We specialize in helping foreigners who need to submit writings in English, particularly but not only for publication.

We have an intimate knowledge of both United States and British English as well as several different citation styles.

We have the most experience of working with writings about music, but we have also edited writings about communications, history, language and literature, law, science, and social science.

David Lasocki, the owner of Instant Harmony, has been editing professionally for more than 30 years in addition to publishing his own writing for more than 50 years. When he worked as an academic librarian at Indiana University, he directed or supervised no fewer than 60 doctoral dissertations and taught classes in English and writing. He has worked most frequently with students from China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, so he understands well their particular challenges in writing English.

Instant Harmony also offers TRANSLATING of texts in French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish into English.

The translating can also be combined with editing, for the finest results.

Please write to us at [email protected] with details of your writing project, to obtain an estimate of the cost for Instant Harmony to edit, proofreading, and/or translate it.

ANNOUNCING NEW WEBSITES!The website www.davidlasocki.com is in the process of changing. As from today, INSTANT HARMONY m...
17/04/2024

ANNOUNCING NEW WEBSITES!

The website www.davidlasocki.com is in the process of changing.

As from today, INSTANT HARMONY music publications (books, Essays, and editions) will be available as pdfs through a new website devoted to the company, www.instantharmony.net

As before, printed versions of the books and Essays are available from amazon.com and other amazons around the world; and printed versions of many of the editions are available from Edition Walhall in Germany.

David Lasocki’s healing work—including Instant Harmony’s healing books and mp3s—will shortly be covered by a new website, www.vibrationalhugs.com

www.davidlasocki.com will shortly become a landing website to introduce David and his work as well as to link to the two other websites. For the moment, if you try to purchase music publications there, you will be transferred to www.instantharmony.net

We hope you like these new websites and find them easier to use. Please let us know, including any problems you encounter.

NEW COVERS FOR INSTANT HARMONYThanks to our designer, Alfredo Zaine, we have been giving some of our covers a makeover. ...
14/04/2024

NEW COVERS FOR INSTANT HARMONY

Thanks to our designer, Alfredo Zaine, we have been giving some of our covers a makeover. He has started with the series of books on woodwind performance practice by David Lasocki and Betty Bang Mather – classics in the field. Same inspiring quality. New beautiful covers.
Actually, this one just had the Instant Harmony logo added, but it’s new!

A TRIBUTE TO BETTY BANG MATHER:
David Lasocki, ed., Fluting and Dancing: Articles and Reminiscences for Betty Bang Mather on her 65th Birthday. New York: McGinnis & Marx, 1992. Copyright now held by the editor.
Available as a pdf from https://www.davidlasocki.com/store/Lasocki-ed-Fluting-and-Dancing-Articles-and-Reminiscences-for-Betty-Bang-Mather-on-her-65th-Birthday-pdf-p143940991

Contains the following articles:
Janice Dockendorff Boland, A Guide to the Best Eighteenth-Century Tutors for the One-Keyed Flute
Sven H. Hansell, Italian Prosody as a Guide to Musical Structure: Accent, Articulation, and Accompaniment in the Flute Sonatas of Giovanni Platti (1743)
John Solum, J. S. Bach’s Trio Sonata from The Musical Offering: A Study in Trills?
Anita Breckbill, The Flute Duets of W. F. Bach: Sources and Dating
Claudia Anderson, The Flute in Pre-Revolutionary American Concert Life
Julianna Moore, Women and the Flute in the Nineteenth Century
Susan Nelson, A History of the Flute on Record to 1940
Mark Dannenbring, Edgard Varese’s Density 21.5: Symmetrical Relations and Negation of Expectations
Roger Mather, Dictionary of Flute Tone Colors and Related Terms
Patricia M. Ranum, Do French Dance Songs Obey the Rules of Rhetoric?
Helen Chadima, Dancing the Minuet: Did National Differences Exist?
David Fuerstenau, Body-Centered Learning
Leopold La Fosse, An Introduction to Sports Psychology, Mental Training, and Musical Performance
Kristin Taavola, You Can Get There From Here: A Philosophy of Whole-Brained Flute-Playing

Reminiscences by: Read R. Bang (Betty’s father), Roger Williams (Betty’s cousin), Charles Eble, Abigail Benton Sivan, David Lasocki, Roger Mather, D. Martin Jenni, Katharina Muller, Dean M. Karns, Kristin Taavola, and Himie Voxman

NEW COVERS FOR INSTANT HARMONYThanks to our designer, Alfredo Zaine, we have been giving some of our covers a makeover. ...
12/04/2024

NEW COVERS FOR INSTANT HARMONY

Thanks to our designer, Alfredo Zaine, we have been giving some of our covers a makeover. He has started with the series of books on woodwind performance practice by David Lasocki and Betty Bang Mather – classics in the field. Same inspiring quality. New beautiful covers.

Here’s the fourth cover, for Betty Bang Mather. Interpretation of French Music from 1675 to 1775; Additional Comments on German and Italian Music. New York: McGinnis & Marx, 1973. Copyright now held by the author.
Available as a pdf from
https://www.davidlasocki.com/store/Mather-Interpretation-of-French-Music-from-1675-to-1775-for-Woodwind-and-Other-Performers-Additional-Comments-on-German-and-Italian-Music-pdf-p143948560

NEW COVERS FOR INSTANT HARMONYThanks to our designer, Alfredo Zaine, we have been giving some of our covers a makeover. ...
11/04/2024

NEW COVERS FOR INSTANT HARMONY

Thanks to our designer, Alfredo Zaine, we have been giving some of our covers a makeover. He has started with the series of books on woodwind performance practice by David Lasocki and Betty Bang Mather – classics in the field. Same inspiring quality. New beautiful covers.

Here’s the third cover, for Betty Bang Mather and David Lasocki. The Art of Preluding, 1700–1830, for Flutists, Oboists, Clarinettists and Other Performers. New York: McGinnis & Marx, 1984. Copyright now held by the authors.

According to Hotteterre (1719) and Bordet (ca. 1755), two different kinds of piece are called prelude. The first is the formal composed piece that serves as the first movement of a suite or sonata or introduces an opera or cantata. The second, which is the subject of this book, is what Hotteterre calls the “prelude of caprice”—a playful, fanciful, informal piece that was often improvised. Our book includes: background information on preludes and preluding; musical style in the surviving preludes; examples of preludes for various woodwind instruments from Freillon-Poncein (1700) to Drouet (1820); and learning to improvise preludes.

Available as a pdf from
https://www.davidlasocki.com/store/Mather-and-Lasocki-The-Art-of-Preluding-1700-1830-for-Flutists-Oboists-Clarinettists-and-Other-Performers-pdf-p143948553

NEW COVERS FOR INSTANT HARMONYThanks to our designer, Alfredo Zaine, we have been giving some of our covers a makeover. ...
11/04/2024

NEW COVERS FOR INSTANT HARMONY

Thanks to our designer, Alfredo Zaine, we have been giving some of our covers a makeover. He has started with the series of books on woodwind performance practice by David Lasocki and Betty Bang Mather – classics in the field. Same inspiring quality. New beautiful covers.

Here’s the second cover, for David Lasocki and Betty Bang Mather. The Classical Woodwind Cadenza: A Workbook. New York: McGinnis & Marx, 1978. Copyright now held by the authors. Available as a pdf from
https://www.davidlasocki.com/store/Lasocki-and-Mather-The-Classical-Woodwind-Cadenza-A-Workbook-pdf-p143948029

Teaches how to compose and improvise cadenzas in eightenth-century style. Based on David’s master’s thesis, which covers contemporaneous writings about woodwind cadenzas as well as numerous surviving written-out examples of them.

Do let us know how you like this cover – and the rest, which you will see over the next several days.

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