The Spiders' Revenge is a short music-theatre work (duration about 25 minutes) designed for performance by primary school children. The work was written for Evie Primary School a small rural school in Orkney of about 60 pupils between the ages of five and eleven and was specially devised to enhance an environmental studies project on 'mini-beasts'. All the pupils in the school took part in the first performance. Two children playing in a garden delight in tormenting ladybirds snails spiders and other living creatures who they claim 'have no right to be'. The spiders teach the children a salutary lesson during the course of which they learn a great deal aboutthe ways of these creatures finally recognizing the wonder of the insect world and acknowledging that all 'have their place on the earth'.The songs include simple recorder and percussion parts and guitar chords. Descant recorder part. This is a special item which is made to order. Please e-mail our Mail Order Department for further information.

Par PUSCOIU COSTEL. Well-known classical works for recorder students at all levels of ability, adapted and arranged especially for the recorder. The works are drawn from all periods, including Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Modern. The author has carefully placed the melodies in the best keys for easy recorder. / Niveau : Intermédiaire / Classic - Solos / Recueil / Flûte à Bec Soprano

This book teaches everything you need to know to get started playing the recorder. Beginning with how to hold the instrument and make a sound through reading music and basic technique you???ll be guided all the way to articulation dynamics and composing. With pieces in styles ranging from ethnic folk tunes to Renaissance dances and classical symphonic melodies this book is a fun method for learning to play this very accessible and enjoyable instrument.The accompanying CD includes demonstrations of all the examples presented in this book allowing you to hear how the examples should sound as well as giving you the opportunity to play along yourself.

Method for descant recorder-A special method for beginners. First published by Schott in German in 1990. The translation and adaption into English has been made by Peter Bowman.three Volumes for the descant recorder which advance in small steps and include many playful elements suitable for both group and individual lessons. ? Discover the adventure of learning the recorder? Make real progress through games: breathing? A mixture of lively new and traditional tunes? Three supplementery tune books each with a sheet of stickers? Teacher's commentary? Join Dotty-do-a-lot and her friends in the exciting orld of musicFun and Games with the Recorder is a comprehensive recordertutor covering all stages from the first notes of the beginner up to the point of preofessional instruction for budding performers. Although the recorder is often the instrument with wich children will make their first musical discoveries it is also an instrument of the highest artistic merit. This series of books tries to link these two extremes providing a carefully planned pathway between first playful contact with the instrument and professional recorder playing.The three Tutor Books are suitable for use both with small groups and for individual tuition. Progress is methodical and is made in small steps placing great value on consistent work with breathing sound production and the development of rhythmic security.In the Tutor books we speak directly to the child and provide carefully planned precisely formulated exercises. We recognise that some children learning the recorder will not yet be able to read but hope that this will provide an opportunity for a parent or teacher to become involved in the learning process. Each step in this process should be fun and accessable to both the parent/teacher and the child.Tutor Book 1 is intended for children from about six years of age. Previous musical experience is not essential but undoubtedly would prove useful. It concentrates on the notes B A g E1 C2 and D2 leaving sufficient time

Chill-out pieces to enjoy between exams.-?Chill-out? pieces to enjoy between exams. Fun Club continues with a Descant Recorder edition (Grade 0-1) including a free CD containing the performance and backing tracks. The student copy nowavailable contains everything in the teacher?s copy but without the Piano accompaniment. Includes 15 fun pieces: Bo's boogie Budgie Calm seas Cool it! Emerald Isle Flower dance Honk your horn! Hot potato Insects Lullaby Minor mission One step at a time Skateboard ride The race and The secretgarden. Alan Houghton studied Piano at the Royal Academy of Music and spent many years in education where he became Deputy Headteacher and Co-ordinator of Music. Having left mainstream teaching he has becomeestablished as a well-known and successful composer of music for the early grades his music being published by the Associated Board and OUP. Many of his pieces are set for Associated Board exams.

62 Traditional Pieces for Descant (Soprano) Recorder-English Folk Tunes For Recorder contains 62 traditional songs arranged for the descant (soprano) Recorder.Suitable for players at a grade 3-8 level this book features pieces in a range of styles including ballads hornpipes jigs and more.Experienced Recorder player and author Peter Bowman (The Baroque Recorder Anthology Fun And Games With The Recorder) provides notes on all of the styles and individual pieces covered. This volume is also accompanied by a CD with a recording of all the tunes performed by Kathryn Bennetts.English Folk Tunes For Recorder includes the songsPortsmouth Scarborough Fair Greensleeves Early One Morning Here We Come A-Wassailing and more.

for Descant recorder-Twelve easy pastoral pieces for Descant Recorder and Piano that reflect the magic and unique atmosphere of the countryside. Written and compiled for the ABRSM syllabus for young recorder students this edition is set as part of Descant Recorder examinations grades 1 and 2.

Fun and jazzy versions of well-known Christmas tunes-These grade 1-3 pieces will add a real swing to your Christmas festivities - and your players will love them too! Fabulous arrangements of favourite Christmas carols including optional second and third parts for ensemble playing and a free demo and play-along CD. each book contains Sarahâ??s trademark jazzy interpretations of ten favourite carols including Kings Swing! (We three kings) Three Swingin' Ships (I Saw Three Ships) and DistantSleighs (Jingle Bells).

Joannes Collette: 12 Melodic Exercises for Descant Recorder Advanced players of the descant recorder will make a great find of this sheet music edition on their search for melodic studies for their instrument. Contents - 12 Melodious Exercises for descant recorder Legato and portato with expression / Ausdrucksvolles Legato und Portato Interval leaps and triads with single tongueing / Intervallsprünge und Dreiklänge mit einfachem Zungenstoß Difficult rhythm with soft tongueing slurring and study in tone production / Schwierige Rhythmen mit weichem Zungenstoß Bindungen und Übung in der Tongebung Mixed rhythms / Verschiedene Rhythmen Combination of different types of tongueing / Kombination verschiedener Arten von Zungenstoß Single tongueing and ornaments / Einfacher Zungenstoß und Verzierungen Movement of the thumb / Beweglichkeit des Daumens Legato playing (slurring) / Legatospiel (Bindungen)

The best way to learn any instrument is to have lessons from a good experienced teacher. Although happily the number of such teachers is constantly growing the recorder is still frequently taught by enthusiastic but inexperienced teachers and many players start by teaching themselves. This series of books sets out to help learners of all ages in all three situations. Experienced teachers who may choose to disregard much of the text as personal demonstration is always clearer than the written word will find exercises and fine tunes a-plenty to support their own mathod at each stage. The less experienced willbenefit from many valuable teaching hints culled fromlong experience and may rely on the books to lead to a sound playing technique and a mastery of simple notation. Those learning by themseves - and I started in this way - are urged to work carefully and systematically through the books taking plenty of time to assimilate each point before moving on. For them without the personal model provided by a live teacher it is vitally important to listen as often as possible to fine players in person or on record so that they have in their mind's ear a clear notion of the kind of sound they would like to produce. But however they start I can only wish that all who use these books will derive as much pleasure and musical satisfaction and gain as many lasting and valued friendships as I have through this most subtle delightful and sociable of instruments. (Brian Bonsor)“...this work is likely to become a standart work very quickly and is to be recommended to all schools where recorder studies are undertaken“ (Oliver James Contact Magazine) Descant Tutors provide a sound-playing technique a mastery of simple notation and contain 570 tunes including concert pieces by Bonsor carols attractive rounds and melodies by 'early music' composers. Clear line drawings greatly assist the pupil making them especially suitable for self-instruction.

A very popular beginner's text which presents a step-by-step method of soprano (descant) recorder instruction supported by carefully written studies examples and songs. This book is designed to meet the demand for a clear easy-to-understand and Pedagogically well constructed method in a form that is suitable for both classroom teaching and individual instruction. It may be used in class with the companion Fun with the Alto Recorder.

Now more than ever the ability to sight-read fluently is an essential part of the training of musicians on any instrument. This workbook is designed to help overcome the nerves that can cause sight-reading problems taking the young recorder player up to grade three level. Step-by-step it helps the player to build up a complete picture of each piece first through rhythmic and melodic exercises related to specific problems then by the study of Prepared piece with associated questions for the student to answer finally to the unprepared sight-reading test itself. Check-boxes for each stage allow both teacher and pupil to keep a eye on progress.

Soprano Recorder Method for Classroom or Individual Use- Recorder Express is the track to becoming a great recorder player and having fun! More than 120 folk pop and original songs and exercises are included as well as technique tips and beginning music theory. Levels 1 and 2 are combined in this one edition! Notes are taught in this order: B A G C D low E low D F# low C F high E. This method was well conceived and thoroughly tested by master teacher clinician and professional recorder player Artie Almeida. A separate CD is available withy 99 tracks. Most tracks are accompaniment only but some feature a professional recorder player so that students can strive to match her beautifultone and musicality.