Episode 31: Renaissance recorder sizes according to Cardano

Episode 31: Renaissance recorder sizes according to Cardano

Consort Counsellors
Episode 31

The Consort Counsellors tell you about an excellent scientist who also played the recorder: Girolamo Cardano (1501–1576).

With Cardano’s help, we tell you about the usual set-up of recorder consorts in the Renaissance, with instruments tuned a fifth apart.

LITERATURE
Hyeronimus Cardanus. Writings on music. Translated and edited by Clement A. Miller. Rome: American Institute of Musicology, 1973.

Clement A. Miller “Jerome Cardan on the Recorder.” American Recorder 12-4 (November 1971): 123–125.
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MUSIC EXAMPLE
Orazio Vecchi (1550–1605), “Fa una canzona senza note nere”
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30-SECONDS TIP
Adrian Brown & David Lasocki. “Renaissance Recorders and their Makers”. American Recorder, January 2006.
http://music.instantharmony.net/AR-01-2006.pdf

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