But he was also an accomplished composer, publishing several songs and instrumental works during his lifetime. King Henry VIII is better known for his notorious marriages than his musical talents. One possible explanation for its name is that it was a good instrument for practicing, or “recording.” In languages other than English, the name doesn’t translate neatly and is usually referred to as a different type of flute. Its name used to make more sense.īefore the age of voicemail and tape recorders, the verb “to record” meant “to memorize by heart.” To this end, the simple recorder flute came in handy. Back then-unlike the mass-produced, plastic items today’s grade-schoolers are familiar with-recorders were carved from wood or ivory. The oldest surviving example of the instrument dates back to 14th-century Europe. The recorder dates back to the Middle Ages.Ĭenturies before the clarinet, the harmonica, and the tuba were invented, early musicians were playing recorders. Here are 12 facts worth knowing about this historic instrument. But that doesn’t mean it deserves to get a bad rap-a long list of artistic geniuses from William Shakespeare to Paul McCartney have turned to the recorder for inspiration. More closely resembling a toy than something a rock star would carry, it doesn’t have a reputation for being the coolest instrument in the world. 23-28 (comm.1745).Many of us know the recorder as the plastic pipe that gets handed out in elementary school music class. (2001), Oriental Colour and Atmosphere: Why Exotic Colour became Prominent in 19th- and early 20th-Century Orchestration. Indeed, musical Orientalism can be said to have played a major role in revitalizing a variety of musical parameters - formal, harmonic and metrical - but especially instrumental "colour". was as a direct consequence of the nineteenth-century penchant for exotic and "Oriental" art that "programmatic" or descriptive forms of expression rose to new heights. If colour and attention to detail do indeed "abound in all aspects of Oriental life", then these are precisely the qualities that one must look for in art which is inspired by the Orient (Freeman et al.
It was almost entirely due to the taste for the "exotic" that the art of the nineteenth century came to display a focus on colour and technique unknown before. Ultimately, this research enabled sonic exploration of new alto recorder extended techniques and is anticipated to become a reference framework for the future artistic development of alternative alto recorder music compositions. This research employed narrowband short-time Fourier Transform (STFT) spectrogram analysis, absolute scale non-linear decibel loudness seismograph analysis and music composition analysis based on selected score excerpts of contemporary recorder music composition and its controlled audio recording environment of alto recorder sound production sampling. The musical ideas of the piece were associated with bone whistle or flute, Fibonacci series, Schumann Resonance and spectral music techniques. The musical composition of Nadi Bumi is a derivation of applied research based on empirical studies of the earlier and new extended techniques sound production of the instrument.
This research aims to: 1) study the scientific and artistic profiles of the alto recorder’s extended techniques found in contemporary classical recorder music compositions and 2) discuss newly discovered extended techniques derived from the earlier alto recorder extended techniques. Nonetheless, the exploration of musical acoustic properties from extended techniques of the recorder, especially for alto recorder, is not distinctly defined, scientifically and artistically.
Musical acoustic research has defined acoustic properties of fundamental recorder techniques for sound production that provide valuable insights into the process and techniques of contemporary classical music composition.
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