Dulcians

Books

• Barbara Stanley and Graham Lyndon-Jones. The Curtal. Published by Barbara Stanley and Graham Lyndon-Jones. 1983.
• Herbert Heyde. Musikintrumentenbau 15. - 19. Jahrhundert, pp181-192. Leipzig, 1986. German.
• David Lasocki. A Time of Questioning, Proceedings of the International Earl Double-Reed Symposium Utrecht 1994. ISBN 90-72786-08-4.
• Beryl Kenyon de Pascual, The Dulcians (Bajón and Bajoncillo) in Spain: An Updated Review.
• Paul J. White, The Bass Hautboy in the Seventeenth Century.
• Maggie Kilbey. Curtal, Dulcian, Bajon: A History of the Precursor to the Bassoon, 2002. See www.curtalbook.com
  

Catalogs

• V.C. Mahillon, Catalogue Descriptive et Analytique du Musée Instrumental du Conservatoire Royal de Musique de Brussels, 1880-1922,. Reprint 1978. French.
• Martin Kirnbauer, Verzeichnis der Europäischen Musikinstrumente im Germanischen Nationalmuseum Nürnberg
  Band 2, Flöten- und Rohrblattinstrumente bis 1750. Florian Noetzel Verlag, 1994. ISBN 3-7959-0587-7. German.
• Phillip T. Young, Woodwind Instruments of the Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum, 1997. ISBN 3-85474-013-1. German and English.

Double Reed News

• Double Reed News, Summer 1998. Keith McGowan, Dulcians and curtals.

Early Music

• Early Music August 1988, pp 407-410. William Waterhouse, A newly discovered 17th-century bassoon by Haka.
• Early Music August 1997, pp 412-426. Beryl Kenyon de Pascual, Two contributions to dulcian iconography.

FoMRHI Quarterly

• FoMRHI Quarterly 64, July 1991, Comm 1048. Graham Lyndon-Jones & Peter Harris, Reconstructing Mersenne's BASSON and FAGOT.
• FoMRHI Quarterly 74, January 1994, p 27, Comm 1220. Graham Lyndon-Jones, Praetorius' Keyless Curtals.
• FoMRHI Quarterly 74, January 1994, p 39, Comm 1224. Graham Lyndon-Jones, Augsburg revisited.
• FoMRHI Quarterly 75, April 1994, p 46, Comm 1257. Erich Tremmel, The Curtals of the Maximilianmuseum Augsburg.
• FoMRHI Quarterly 76, July 1994, p 44, Comm 1280. William Waterhouse, A 'bajon' for London.
• FoMRHI Quarterly 76, July 1994, p 47, Comm 1282. Paul White, Early Sound Generation: Bassoon Reeds.
• FoMRHI Quarterly 77, October 1994, p 45, Comm 1305. Graham Lyndon-Jones, Four Great Curtals.

Galpin Society Journal

• Galpin Society Journal 1971, pp 96-101. Otto Oromszegi, Bassoons at the Narodni Museum, Prague.
• Galpin Society Journal 1979, pp 10-23. Wilhelm Roos, The Musical Instrument Collection at Meran.
• Galpin Society Journal 1984, pp 72-79. B. Kenyon de Pascual, A Brief Survey of the Late Spanish Bajón.
• Galpin Society Journal 1986, pp 29-34. B. Kenyon de Pascual, A provisional checklist of Spanish 16th- and 17th-century curtals.
• Galpin Society Journal 1987, pp 24-36. Herbert Heyde, Contrabassoons in the 17th and early 18th century.
• Galpin Society Journal 1990, pp 68-111. Paul J. White, Early Bassoon Fingering Charts.
• Galpin Society Journal 1990, pp 150-153. Beryl Kenyon de Pascual, A late sixteenth-century portrayal of the jointed dulcian.
• Galpin Society Journal 2000, pp 87-1a6. Beryl Kenyon de Pascual, A further updated review of the Dulcians (Bajón and Bajocillo) and their music in Spain.

Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society

• Volume X, 1984.The Bassoons in Marin Mersenne's Harmonie universelle (1636), Richard Semmens, The University of Western Ontario, Canada

Reeds and Reed making

Books

• Keith Loraine, A Handbook on making Double Reeds for Early Winds. 1982.
• David Hogan Smith, Reed design for Early Woodwinds. Indiana University Press, 1992. ISBN 0-253-20727-4
• Rembert Weijers, Rieten ontwerpen en maken. Muziekuitgeverij van Teeseling, Nijmegen, NL, 1978. Dutch.
• Paul J. White, The Early Bassoon Reed in Relation to the Development of the Bassoon from 1636. University of Oxford 1993. British Library, Thesis D181087.
• David Lasocki, A Time of Questioning, Proceedings of the International Earl Double-Reed Symposium Utrecht 1994. ISBN 90-72786-08-4.
• Paul J. White, Early Bassoon Reed Design.

FoMRHI Quarterly

• FoMRHI Quarterly 76, July 1994, p 47, Comm 1282. Paul White, Early Sound Generation: Bassoon Reeds.
• FoMRHI Quarterly 93, October 1998, p 15, Comm 1600. David Rachor, ... Implications on the historical bassoon reed gouge.
• FoMRHI Quarterly 94, January 1999, p 24, Comm 1616. Jacques Leguy, Comments on Comm 1600.

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