Solo Recorder Sheet Music

Famous dishes from France, America, Spain, China and England will all whet your appetite for these tasty, and very popular, morsels. Very adaptable too - originally written for solo descant or treble recorder they now appear with optional accompaniments for piano (or guitar). Contents Coffee & Croissants Barbecue Blue Prawn Paella Special Chop Suey Fish and Chips

Hat Box is a celebration of the town of Stockport, home to recorder virtuoso John Turner, to whom (with guitarist Neil Smith) this piece is dedicated. Stockport was formerly the centre of the hat-manufacturing industry, and gave its name to the hymn-tune Stockport written by 18th century Stockport organist John Wainwright for the carol Christians awake, salute the happy morn. The eight hats depicted in this suite refer to phrases from Wainwrights famous tune. Contents Top Hat Quadrille Breton Beret - valse melancolique Mexican Hat Dance Smokey Stetson Shuffle Deerstalkers Jig Baseball Cap Stomp Best Bonnet Waltz Cloth Cap Galop

A Joplinesque Ragtime and Latin-American Bossa Nova, both for descant, frame a lazy Blues on the treble. All 3 movements require an assured technique but are rewarding for both performers. The recorder part can be taken by a flute or other melody instrument, and the guitar part is published with an alternative version for harpsichord or piano. Contents Ragtime Blues Bossa Nova

Suggestions for the use of different recorders: I The Visitor of the Idyll - Tenor Recorder II The Hermit at the Water - Bass Recorder III The Actor with the Monkey - Soprano Recorder (Ganassi) IV The Shepherd's Flute - Alto Recorder (Ganassi)

UE15889 Hans Ulrich Staeps's Methodological exercises for progressing students for Descant Recorder, or Tenor Recorder. This book is very similar in design to his "Daily Lesson" for Alto Recorder.

These pieces were performed by the late David Munrow, for whom they were written by one of his outstanding recorder-playing colleagues. The Intrada and Waltz are fairly easy to play, but the Celtic-sounding Aubade and the rhythmic Hornpipe are technically quite demanding. Contents Intrada Waltz Aubade Hornpipe

Malcolm Arnold’s Fantasy for Descant Recorder is an exciting, varied piece which explores the range of the instrument. With a combination of lively, highly ornamented phrases and slow, lyrical lines, this work in an excellent opportunity to showcase your abilities to transport a listener through various moods.

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9 Disney classics arranged for Recorder solo or duet.

The Kid from Venezuela was commissioned in 1990 by Aldo Abreu. lt is a 12 bar blues based on a motive from the Jamaican folk song Matilda (Matilda she take me money and run Venezuela). The idiom is purely modern jazz: there is no attempt to fuse it with anything else or water it down. However, the jazz solos for both the recorder and piano are written out. After the piano solo, the recorder and piano trade 4 bar phrases as is the tradition. In this section there are many Telemann quotations for the recorder and a Bach quote for the piano.

Studies for Descant or Treble Recorder

Five bright and catchy settings of tunes from John Playfords "Dancing Master". Three are for treble - The Old Mole, The Irish Lamentation and Spring Garden. The other two, for descant, are Prince Ruperts March (well known to generations of recorder players) and The Fits Come On Me Now (a nifty Irish jig). The accompaniment is for guitar or keyboard. Contents The Old Mole The Irish Lamentation Spring Garden Prince Ruperts March The Fits Come On Me Now

for Descant Recorder Solo

OFB133 Hans-Martin Linde's Amarilla mia bella, a hommage to van Eyck. This starts with Caccini's original song, then one of Van Eyck's variations which is followed by 3 of Linde's own variations for treble, soprano and bass recorder. This piece uses relatively simple extended recorder techniques.

These 14 Miniatures for solo descant recorder are an ideal introduction to contemporary recorder music. Diverse in style, these easy pieces can be used in lessons or even as competition pieces.

Philip Lane is noted for his work on classic film scores, which he has reconstructed from the original soundtracks. His own music is light and tuneful, and this Suite, of only moderate difficulty, alludes to the 18th century era of gentility. After a rousing Intrada, the ballroom is evoked in a smooth Courtly Dance and a gracious Minuet, and the Suite ends with Revelry, a light-hearted evocation of Beau Brummels Bath Night romp. Contents Intrada Courtly Dance Minuet Revelry