Dr. David Lasocki


Dr. David Lasocki is Head of Reference Services in the Music Library and Professor (part-time) in the School of Music at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA. He holds a Ph.D. in musicology from The University of Iowa (1983), and his dissertation, Professional Recorder Players in England, 1540-1740, won the Distinguished Dissertation Award of the Council of Graduate Schools in the United States (1984). As a researcher, he has specialized in woodwind instruments, their repertoire, performance practice, social history, and bibliography. He has written or edited 11 books; written 90 scholarly articles, 40 bibliographies and bibliographic essays, and 30 other articles; and published 100 editions of eighteenth-century woodwind music with such publishers as Faber Music, Musica Rara, Nova Music, and Zen-On. His life path includes collaborating with other authors and editors, including Walter Bergmann†, Robert Paul Block†, Eva Legêne, and Betty Bang Mather. He has recently published a second edition of The Recorder: A Research and Information Guide (with Richard Griscom) and is working on a Web-based catalogue of early recorder music. Four interviews with him have been published, focusing on his research. Having been born in England, he has lived in the United States for 28 years and is now an American citizen.