Editing Recorder (musical instrument) (section)

==== Repertoire ====
Nearly twice as many pieces have been written for the recorder since its modern revival as were written in all previous epochs.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Catalogue of Recorder Repertoire: Home|url = http://www.blokfluit.org/|website = www.blokfluit.org|access-date = 12 February 2016}}</ref> Many of these were composed by avant-garde composers of the latter half of the twentieth century who used the recorder for the variety of extended techniques which are possible using its open holes and its sensitivity to articulation.

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|filename    = Colin Ross - Etherea.ogg
|title       = Etherea (Colin Ross, 1995)
|description = [[New-age music]] performed on the recorder. 03:08 minutes}}
Modern composers of great stature have written for the recorder, including [[Paul Hindemith]], [[Luciano Berio]], [[Jürg Baur]], [[Markus Zahnhausen]], [[Josef Tal]], [[John Tavener]], [[Michael Tippett]], [[Benjamin Britten]], [[Leonard Bernstein]], [[Gordon Jacob]], [[Malcolm Arnold]], [[Steven Stucky]], [[Sean Hickey]], and [[Edmund Rubbra]].

Owing to its ubiquity as a teaching instrument and the relative ease of sound production, the recorder has occasionally been used in popular music by groups such as [[The Beatles]];<ref>For example, in "[[The Fool on the Hill]]", according to [http://www.recorderhomepage.net/torture5.html The Recorder Home Page maintained by Nicholas S. Lander] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070818095832/http://www.recorderhomepage.net/torture5.html |date=18 August 2007 }}</ref> [[the Rolling Stones]] (see, for example, "[[Ruby Tuesday (song)|Ruby Tuesday]]"); [[Yes (band)|Yes]], for example, in the song "[[I've Seen All Good People]]"; [[Jefferson Airplane]] with [[Grace Slick]] on ''[[Surrealistic Pillow]]'';<ref>[https://observer.com/2017/02/jefferson-airplane-birthed-psychedelic-rock-surrealistic-pillow/ "The Enduring Mystery of Jefferson Airplane's ''Surrealistic Pillow''"] by [[John Kruth]], ''[[The New York Observer]]'', 1 February 2017</ref> [[Led Zeppelin]] ("[[Stairway to Heaven]]"); [[Jimi Hendrix]];<ref>For example, in the song "[[If 6 Was 9]]", according to [http://www.recorderhomepage.net/torture5.html The Recorder Home Page maintained by Nicholas S. Lander] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070818095832/http://www.recorderhomepage.net/torture5.html |date=18 August 2007 }}</ref> [[Siouxsie and the Banshees]];<ref>For example in the song "Green Fingers", according to [http://www.discogs.com/release/386971 Discogs.com's page] on the album ''[[A Kiss in the Dreamhouse]]''</ref> [[Judy Dyble]] of [[Fairport Convention]]; [[Dido (singer)|Dido]] (e.g. "Grafton Street" on ''[[Safe Trip Home]]'').<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/dido-queen-of-the-road-20081115-gdt2pt.html|access-date=21 March 2025|title=Dido: Queen of the road|author=Sheryl Garrat|date=15 November 2008|newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]}}</ref>