Recorder Music Center

News from the RMC

Read the latest RMC Update (November 2008) courtesy of our friends at American Recorder.

See previous articles of note from American Recorder, the official publication of the American Recorder Society. All articles are reproduced with their kind permission.

The Recorder Music Center (RMC) is operated and maintained jointly by the Department of Fine and Performing Arts and the Dayton Memorial Library at Regis University. Its purpose is to provide an international repository of recorder music and a friendly, full-service research center for recorder music. The RMC will also support academic programs and performance ensembles offered through the Department of Fine and Performing Arts Music Program at Regis. The RMC is quickly gaining international attention as a center for early music activities.

The Center, housed in Dayton Memorial Library, contains the RMC archival collections (non-circulating) as well as scores and other publications that are available for public use and are shelved in a special area on the library's third floor. The RMC holds a number of important music collections, many received through individual donations. In addition to recorder music (and significant sets of music for other early instruments and voice), the collections also include books, recordings, personal papers, instruments, art work, and musical manuscripts. Currently, the RMC houses the Erich Katz Collection, the David Goldstein Collection, the Gordon T. Sandford Collection, the Martha Bixler Collection, and is the official repository for the papers and documents of the American Recorder Society (the Katz Collection and ARS papers were recently acquired from the American Music Research Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder). Most of these materials are housed in the library's archives and special collections and are available for scholarly research, but do not circulate. For more information on accessing these materials, visit the library's website.

The archival materials of the Recorder Music Center were first made available to the public in July 2005. A limited but growing number of circulating materials (mostly scores) are also available to patrons. Currently, students have access to much of the published music holdings that are already being utilized by University ensembles, including the Collegium Musicum, the University and Concert Choirs, and Chamber Ensembles.

Contact Us!

For more information on the RMC, please contact the Center's director:

Dr. Mark Davenport | Office Phone: (303) 964-3609 | Email: recorder@regis.edu

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