New Mexico: Dale Taylor, Music Instruction & So much more!! Great Resource

Hi Tabitha,

Here, as promised, is the text from my brochure, so you can post it on your web site.



Thanks for all your help.



Best,

Dale





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Dale Taylor



Offerings for Homeschoolers





Private Lessons & Group Lessons

Recorders, other historical winds, modern trumpet and trombone



Ensembles

Coached chamber ensembles of many different combinations: recorders, brasses, winds, strings, etc.



Music academic subjects

Private or group instruction in music history, music theory, analysis, etc.



Lectures and demonstrations

Special event classes and demonstrations on:



Musical Instruments of the Renaissance and Baroque

I’ll bring over 80 different instruments, and discuss and demonstrate how they changed over time, why, as well as how musicians reconcile issues in the history of music so they can perform it.



The Iconography of Music History

I’ll bring copies of period art, and we’ll examine how we can learn from it about instruments, playing techniques, and social contexts.



The Science of Music

Using a mix of hands on, lecture and demo components, we’ll examine why music was a science in the Medieval University curriculum, some of its basic mathematics and physics principals, and applications of these principals in the modern world.



The Craft of Music

We’ll examine the way music as a craft has changed over the years, from apprenticeships to universities, the various skills needed to perform music, and the way instruments are built and the techniques of the workshop.



Prices vary with distance traveled and the type of program. Please enquire for specifics.



Dale Taylor

(505) 553-3458

ddt@rgem.biz

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Dale Taylor Biography



Dale Taylor studied early performance practice at the University of Miami, where he worked under Arnold Grayson in the Collegium Musicum. He then studied recorder privately with Phil Levin and Bernard Krainis, attended the Oberlin College Baroque Performance Institute twice, and worked as Supervisor of Levin Historical Instruments for five years, building quality hand made reproductions of renaissance and baroque woodwinds including recorders, traversi, cornetti, bassoons, shawms, rankets and clarinets. He restored early woodwinds for New York’s Center for Musical Antiquities. Subsequently he has been in demand to repair instruments on his own. In the late 70s he ran the national office of the American Recorder Society. He is now in the Albuquerque area, and is active in the local chapter of the ARS and as a teacher.

He has also spent considerable time working in living history museums, where he acquired a broad-based knowledge of the social history of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, which he uses to inform his understanding of early musical thought. He has studied the way in which period acoustics influenced musical performance style. He was the featured woodwind turner at Southstreet Seaport Museum’s musical district tours.

Dale wrote Writer’s Digest Books’ Writer’s Guide to Everyday Life in Colonial America, 1607-1783, and Putting Recorders and their Players to the Test which appeared in the November 2000 American Recorder. He read Occurrences of European Double Reed Instruments in the New World to 1815: A Survey at the 1986 annual meeting of the American Musical Instrument Society, and he wrote A Bird Fancier’s Delight which appeared in Early American Life in February of 1986. He recently began to self-publish a variety of music for recorders and early double reeds.

Dale has performed in the Victoria Bach Festival, Mercury Baroque, I Solisti da Camera, Capriole, the Cooke-Taylor Duo, the Governor’s Music, the Locrian Consort, Musick’s Monument, Texas Early Music Project, Passing Measures / Passing Fancies, the Virginia Pro Musica and in ad hoc chamber ensembles with personnel from the NY Philharmonic, NJ Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Smithsonian Chamber Players, Vienna Boy’s Choir and the NY City Opera. His solo performances include numerous sonata performances, Bach’s Fourth Brandenburg Concerto, the solo part in Britten’s Noye’s Fludde and parts in several Bach cantatas. He has appeared on Public Television, recorded a L’Oreal commercial, appeared at the Houston Revels and Texas Renaissance Festival and been Music Director for the Virginia Shakespeare Festival.

He has taught at the “Texas Toot”, Rio Grande, NM, Denver CO “Rocky”, Little Rock, AR, Birmingham, AL, Gainesville, FL and Providence, RI, Chapter’s American Recorder Society workshops, led meetings of the Austin, TX, Phoenix, AZ, New Orleans, LA, West Suburban, IL, Albuquerque, Rio Grande and Santa Fe, NM, Denver, CO, Bergen County, Navesink, North Jersey, Princeton and Somerset Hills, NJ, the Virginia Beach and Williamsburg. VA, Greater New York, NY and Philadelphia, PA Chapters of the American Recorder Society, privately and through Young Audiences. He is an ARS certified teacher and has guest lectured at Texas A&M University.