Recorder Improvisation and Technique, Book 2

Recorder Improvisation and Technique Book 2

Intermediate for Alto and Soprano Recorder

By Isabel McNeill Carley
Book
Like Book One, Book Two is designed to parallel and supplement the basic material in the Orff Schulwerk publications, and to spell out in detail how the sequence can best be applied to learning and teaching the recorder.Book Two concentrates on the alto recorder, with improvisations, exercises, and appropriate repertoire. Part I begins with lessons transferring pentatonic fingering patterns to the alto instrument until the notation is thoroughly familiar. Then the major scales in F, C, G and Bb are elucidated by "filling in the holes" in the familiar pentatonic scales, through improvisation, exercises and repertoire in hexatonic and diatonic versions. Part II introduces the other diatonic modes in a similar fashion, concluding with shifting chord techniques and examples of paraphony - parallel melodic progressions using fourths and fifths - treated in historical and improvisatory contexts.

Contents:

Introduction to Second Edition
PART I:  PENTATONIC SCALES AND MODES

• Lesson 1:  Set I Pentatonic Fingerings (F Pentatonic on AR)   
• Titles:  Down in the Meadow, Jig, Block Island Tune, Old Betty Larkin
• Lesson 2:  Set II Pentatonic Fingerings (C Pentatonic on AR)   
• Titles:  Hop Up My Ladies, Mary Mack, Come Up Horsey, Hush My Babe, Jack of Diamonds
• Lesson 3:  Set III Pentatonic Fingerings (Bb Pentatonic on AR)   
• Tiltes:  Chippewa Flute Melody, Colorado Trail

PART II:  HEXATONIC SCALES

• Lesson 4:  F Hexatonic, F Major, Hand signs for Fa and Ti, High and Low Bb on AR   
• Titles:  The Flora Dance, The Seagull, The Souling Song, Piping Tim of Galway
• Lesson 5:  C Hexatonic, C Major, High and Low B on AR   
• Titles:  Three Little Pigs, By'm Bye
• Lesson 6:  G Major, High and Low F# on AR and SR, Set IV Fingerings, Variations   
• Titles:  Cherubini's Canon, Injun John, Fiddle Tune, Hot Cross Bun Variations
• Lesson 7:  Eb on AR and SR, Pentatonic Modes, Introduction to the Diatonic Modes   
• Titles:  The British Grenadiers, Dick's Maggot, Come and Join Our Dancing, Haste Thee Nymph

PART III:  DIATONIC MODES

• Lesson 8:  Aeloian Mode, G# on AR and SR   
• Titles:  Childgrove, Consolation, Searching for Lambs, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Provencal Dance, Picardy, Woodicock
• Lesson 9:  Dorian Mode   
• Titles:  Como Poden, Basse Danse "Jouissance Vous Donnerai," Noel Nouvelet, The Outlandish Knight, Dorian Rondo
• Lesson 10:  Phrygian Mode   
• Titles:  Phrygian Dance
• Lesson 11:  Mixolydian Mode   
• Titles:  Mixolydian Rondo, Hungarian Dance, Old Joe Clarke, Whoopee-Ti-Yi-Yo

PART IV:  SHIFTING CHORDS & PARAPHONY 

• Lesson 12:  Shifting Chords
• Titles:  Goddesses, Lord Carnarvan's Jig, The Old Mole, The Drunken Sailor, Sh-Ta-Da-Ra-Day
• Lesson 13:  Paraphony, Organum, Faux Bourdon  
• Titles:  Sit Gloria, Hymn to St. Magnus, Beata Viscera, Bobby

RESOURCES

• More to Learn
• Recorder Fingering Chart
• Recorder Fingering Sets I - IV