Agenda

The aim of the recorder player: Be it known that all musical instruments, in comparison to the human voice, are inferior to it. For this reason, we should endeavour to learn from it and imitate it. Just as a gifted painter can reproduce all the creations of nature by varying his colours, you can imitate the expression of the human voice on a wind or a stringed instrument and you can express emotions in your own instrumental language. It is possible with some players to perceive, as it were, words to their music…
(Sylvestro Ganassi, 1535)