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Additional Resources:

• S. Virdung: Musica getutscht (Basle, 1511 /r1931)
• M. Agricola: Musica instrumentalis deudsch (Wittenberg, 1529 /r1969)
• S. Ganassi: Opera intitulata fontegara (Venice, 1535 /r1970)
• T. Morley: The First Booke of Consort Lessons (London, 1599)
• M. Praetorius: Syntagma musicum (Wolfenbuttel, 1618, /r1958)
• M. Mersenne: Harmonie universelle (Paris, 1636 /r1963)
• T. Greeting: The Pleasant Companion, or New Lessons and Instructions for the Flageolet (London, 1661)
• J. Banister: The Most Pleasant Companion (London, 1681)
• H. Salter: The Genteel Companion: being Exact Directions for the Recorder (London, 1683)
• F. W. Galpin: Old English Instruments of Music (London, 1910)
• H. A. Martens: Die Blockflote in heutiger Zeit, ZfM, (1931)
• C. F. Dolmetsch: The Recorder or English Flute, ML (1941)
• E. Halfpenny: The Bass Recorders of Bressan, GSJ, (1955)
• D. S. Higbee: A Plea for the Tenor Recorder by Thomas Stanesby, GSJ (1962)
• F. Morgan: Making Recorders Based on Historical Models, Early Music, (1982)
• J. M. Thomson and A. Rowland-Jones, eds. The Cambridge Companion to the Recorder. Cambridge University Press, (1995).