Learn to Play Recorder

Upper Intermediate

Years 1-2: Advanced articulation, Baroque style, complete sonata movements

20 lessons in this level.

  1. 41. Advanced Articulation — Double Tonguing Two consonants for one note value — and the fast Baroque passages that finally become playable.
  2. 42. Baroque Sonata Allegro Movement The Allegro from a complete Baroque sonata.
  3. 43. Baroque Adagio Movement and Ornamentation The slow movement and the improvised ornamentation it asks of you.
  4. 44. Introduction to the Alto Recorder The alto recorder — a fifth lower, in F, the instrument most Baroque solo repertoire was written for.
  5. 45. Trill Technique The trill, refined: variable speed, controlled termination, expressive shaping.
  6. 46. Minor Keys, Part 1 — Natural and Harmonic Minor Two flavours of minor: natural (modal, archaic) and harmonic (Baroque, leading-tone-raised).
  7. 47. Minor Keys, Part 2 — Melodic Minor and Modal Mixture The third form of minor — different ascending and descending — and the borrowed-chord moments where major and minor meet.
  8. 48. Baroque Ornamentation Practice — Port de Voix, Coulé, Mordent, Turn The four small ornaments a Baroque player adds without thinking: port de voix, coulé, mordent, turn.
  9. 49. Extended Range — G5 and A5 Above F#5 the recorder leaves familiar ground.
  10. 50. Altissimo — Bb5 and C6 Bb5 and C6 — the top of the working recorder range.
  11. 51. A Complete Baroque Suite Movement Until now you have learned techniques.
  12. 52. Theme and Variations A theme and two variations — the form that taught generations of recorder players how to decorate a melody.
  13. 53. A Complete Short Baroque Sonata From single movements to a multi-movement whole.
  14. 54. Finger Vibrato (Flattement) The French Baroque finger vibrato — a soft pitch flutter produced by rapidly half-shading the next open hole below a sustained note.
  15. 55. Contemporary Techniques, Part 1 — Flutter Tonguing and Glissando Two twentieth-century extended techniques for the recorder: flutter tonguing for rough texture and glissando for pitch slides.
  16. 56. Contemporary Techniques, Part 2 — Multiphonics, Whisper Tones, and Harmonics Three more extended techniques: producing two pitches at once (multiphonics), the soft sub-tone (whisper tones), and overblown harmonics.
  17. 57. Major Work Study, Part 1 — Overview and First Movement Begin a multi-lesson study of one major Baroque sonata.
  18. 58. Major Work Study, Part 2 — The Slow Movement The Adagio of Loeillet's D minor sonata.
  19. 59. Major Work Study, Part 3 — The Fast Movements The Allegro and Giga of Loeillet's D minor sonata.
  20. 60. Major Work Study, Part 4 — Performance and Recording The whole Loeillet D minor sonata, end to end.