sopranino recorder
The sopranino recorder is the second smallest recorder of the modern recorder family, and was the smallest before the 17th century. This modern instrument has F 5 as its lowest note, and its length is 20 cm. It is almost always made from soft European or tropical hardwoods, though sometimes it is also made of plastic. • Illustration — A Baroque style sopranino recorder Historically there were several sizes of recorder in this register, named differently in different periods and in different languages.
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The sopranino recorder is the second smallest recorder of the modern recorder family, and was the smallest before the 17th century. This modern instrument has F 5 as its lowest note, and its length is 20 cm. It is almost always made from soft European or tropical hardwoods, though sometimes it is also made of plastic. • Illustration — A Baroque style sopranino recorder Historically there were several sizes of recorder in this register, named differently in different periods and in different languages.
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In his Syntagma Musicum (1619), Michael Praetorius describes this size of recorder, only a whole tone higher, with G 5 as its lowest pitch. He calls it exilent (highest) in Latin, and kleine Flöte (small flute), klein Flötlein (small little flute), or gar klein (really small) in German. According to Praetorius, it is the smallest of eight sizes of recorder in a complete "Accort oder Stimmwerk" (set of all voices), and sounds a quintadecima (a fifteenth—that is, two octaves) higher than a cornett. Such a complete set includes a total of twenty-one instruments, including a pair of exilents, and two each of the two next larger sizes, Discantflöten in D 5 and C 5. However, Praetorius recommends restricting recorder ensembles to the five deepest sizes, because "die kleinen gar zu starck und laut schreien"—"the small ones scream so". The sopranino in G is most probably the instrument Claudio Monteverdi calls for in L'Orfeo (1607), by the name flautino alla vigesima seconda (little flute at the third octave). In 18th-century England, the sizes of recorder smaller than the treble in F (which was called simply "flute") were named according to their interval above it, and often were notated as transposing instruments. The descant (or soprano) on C was called a "fifth flute", the instrument a whole tone higher still was the "sixth flute" (on D), and what is known today as sopranino was the "octave flute".
Sopranino recorder is a recorder or type of musical instrument.
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- 1.Praetorius, Michael. Syntagmatis Musici Michaelis Praetorii C. Tomus Secundus De Organographia. Elias Holwein. 13, 21, 34. 1619a.
- 2.Praetorius, Michael. 1619b. Syntagmatis Musici Michaelis Praetorii C. Tomus Tertius. Wolfenbüttel: Elias Holwein. p. 158.
- 3.Baines, Anthony C. Woodwind Instruments and Their History. Faber and Faber. 248 Reprinted with corrections, 1977. This edition reissued, Mineola, New York City: Dover Publications, 1991, and reprinted again in 2012. ISBN. 1967.
- 4.New Grove Dict. M&M, 2001, "Flautino (i)" by David Lasocki .
- 5.New Grove Dict. M&M, 2001, "Recorder" by David Lasocki .
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- Griscom, Richard W., and David Lasocki. 2013. The Recorder: A Research and Information Guide, third edition. Routledge Music Bibliographies. Routledge. .
- Hunt, Edgar. 1988. "Syntagma Musicum II, Parts 1 and 2 of De Organographia by Michael Praetorius; David Z. Crookes" (review). The Galpin Society Journal 41 (October): 142–44.
- Sachs, Curt. 1913. Real-Lexikon der Musikinstrumente, zugleich ein Polyglossar für das gesamtr Instrumentengebiet. Berlin: Julius Bard.
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