History of The Recorder
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The sweet flute, or peaked flute, is a very ancient wind instrument. Popular
from the Middle Ages until the end of the Baroque, its use was relegated to
to develop the classical orchestra, populated with more resonant instruments. Starting from
of the 20th century returns from the museums, initially due to the interest in interpreting the
Renaissance and Baroque music with its original instruments, but its dissemination
the world is based on pedagogical possibilities as a tool for
musical initiation.
The flute seems to be the oldest and most widespread instrument. The Romans
they were given the name of tibia, fistula, and calamus because it was usually made from bone
called tibia or made of vegetable or metallic cane. It was also made of ivory, glass,
porcelain, wood of different types and currently generally in plastics
and resins.
Currently, despite being made of metal or wood, the flute is
included within the wood wind family because it maintains its sound quality and
because in its initial construction it was wood.
The types of flute often vary in their uses, some were only used as
whistles and others at parties, meetings, and celebrations.
Among the types of ancient flutes are the transverse flute, pan flute (flute
of the god Pan who was a series of tubes of different sizes that were played
together), the quena or indigenous flute, piccolo, ocarina, bagpipes among others.
Family of the recorder:
For the Renaissance, the recorders were
they build forming families that resemble the
tonal distribution of human voices such as
it is also common in string instruments
frothed like the violin, the viola, the cello and the
double bass
That's why it was common to find flutes of less than
15 centimeters in length or more than two meters
and a half. However, the most widespread are the
sweet soprano recorders and alto recorders,
two commonly used in musical initiation in the
schools being even more known the soprano.
The current family of recorders is known
like this:
Brief history of the recorder
The sweet flauta, also called flauta of
Picoes is a wind instrument. It is very old.
and it became very popular from the Middle Ages until
ends of theBaroqueThe Baroque was their time of
greater splendor, composers of the category
ofJ. S. Bachthey wrote concerts where they
required such an instrument, an example is the
Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 by Bach, in the
What is the protagonist. After the Baroque period, it had to make way for the flute.
crossbeam because this instrument had more sound power and was more suited to
style of the new classical orchestra.
The recorder was reborn in the early 20th century, due to the interest of the
interpreters of Renaissance and Baroque music, who wanted to use the instruments
originals from those times. One of the main promoters of its use was
Arnold Dolmetsch in the United Kingdom, who along with other scholars and performers
In Germany, he helped spread the instrument.
But its global dissemination is based on the pedagogical possibilities such as
tool for musical initiation.