![]() If we think you have a good point we will make the necessary changes or amendments and add you to our list of credits when that page is up and running. If you have any comments to make, either on its content or its clarity, please contact us with your thoughts. Dolmetsch runs a very popular summer course in England details of which you will find on this web site: click here. If you want to make further progress on the recorder but in the company of other enthusiasts then why not join the many thousands of recorder players who attend the weekend, Easter and Summer Recorder Courses held around the world. ![]() These are now being upgraded to print from the Scorch plug-in or as pdf format files which can be read and printed out using Adobe Acrobat. In the past, we have provided printable versions of every musical score as graphic images. The latest version of Scorch allows the user to print and save files locally. All the text and graphics apart from the Scorch scores may be saved locally. This on-line method is a synthesis of the experience of countless hundreds of players and teachers combined with the latest technology - live sound from Sibelius Software.Ī number of users of the recorder lessons online have asked whether they can save the method to their own machine for later offline use. Our concerns here are more basic - how to hold the instrument, how to tongue and blow into it and how to make sounds that will satisfy you, the player, and those who will hear you. The training needed to perform early music in a convincing way, or at least in a way that will convince other early music practitioners, is beyond the task of this method. All 'historically-informed' early music performance comes to us through the recordings of a legion of 'modern' early music performers none of whom has ever heard one note played by any musician performing before the advent of recording. Fortunately, the amateur's desire to improve through the medium of print has provided modern researchers with the means to rediscover the techniques of performance from hundreds of years ago without the benefit of contemporaneous recordings. Those hoping to follow a professional career would have studied with the leading players of the time, by rote and by example, every moment strictly scrutinised by the master. ![]() Musical instrument teaching is as old as music itself and some of the most interesting material from the sixteenth, seventeen and eighteen centuries lies in a wealth of tutor books, books on musical theory and musical exercises written primarily for amateur performers. Hamlet by William Shakespeare (1564-1616)Īs the quotation above demonstrates, little of what we present here has not been written in a legion of recorder methods, intentional or unintentional, that have appeared since the time of William Shakespeare, or, more recently, since Arnold Dolmetsch produced one of the first and certainly the most influential modern recorder in 1919. Govern these ventages with your fingers and thumb,Īnd it will discourse most eloquent music. To start learning the notes: first descant/soprano lesson :: first treble/alto lesson :: first bass in F lesson (thanks to Anne Griffin for suggesting this) Recorder ranges, clefs and other useful information by Ann BiesĬomposing for the Recorder by Benjamin Thorn Online Metronome, and it's free by Fabrizio Ferrari This section gives advice on the following topics: Nick Lander Australian author of Recorder Home Page In Gosson's view this road led "from Pyping to playing, from play to pleasure, from pleasure to slouth, from slouth to sleepe, from sleepe to sinne, from sinne to death, from death to the deuill." Obviously for him the recorder would have symbolised delight in earthly pleasure for us today its shrieks and groans in the hands of children and enthusiastic amateurs sometimes seem to offer a foretaste of eternal torment. Many of us might endorse the sentiment intimated by Stephan Gosson, a Puritan author, that recorder playing is the first step on the road to hell. Home :: resources :: music theory & history :: recorder lessons :: music dictionary :: physics of musical instruments :: e-monographsĬontents :: help page :: first things first :: fingering charts :: glossary of recorder terms :: Quick C :: Quick F :: comments or queries? Dolmetsch Online - Recorder Method Online First Things First
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