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Recorder Ensemble

Title
Composer
Genre
Instrumentation
Level
Titanic Theme
James Horner
Film / TV
SATB + piano
Easy
Three Mariners (high)
Anon.
Renaissance
SSA
Easy
Three Mariners (low)
Anon.
Renaissance
AAT
Easy
Song of the three mariners
Anon.
Renaissance
SATB
Easy
The Honiesuckle
Holborn
Renaissance
SSATB
Moderate
Sur le pont d'Avignon
Trad.
Folk
SATB
Easy
Summertime
Gershwin
Jazz / Funk
SS / AA
Moderate
Sumer is icumen in
Anon.
Medieval
SA
Moderate
Round of 3 upon a ground
Anon.
Renaissance
SATB
Moderate
Ronde
Susato
Renaissance
SATB
Easy
Rock around the clock
Freedman / Myers
Pop / Rock
SAATT + piano
Moderate
Pray the rain to fall
Jah Globe
Caribbean
SAT + piano
Easy
Bransle - tonguing.png

To do the dt tonguing say dit, then say it so you can't hear the t on the end, but so your tongue still goes back against your teeth -- di(t)  - with a cockney accent!

Tee
dee
tee
dt

Tutorial

Now go back to Book 2 and try it with the backing track.

Try using 'Notaion C' - without the letters!

Ode to Joy

Anchor 1
Ludwig van Beethoven

Beethoven composed this tune for the 4th movement of his 9th symphony. It was the last symphony he wrote and the first ever to include singers.

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He was completely deaf when he wrote it!

The words, by Friedrich Schiller, are all about freedom and friendship.

The tune has been used in several films including 'A Clockwork Orange' and 'Dead Poets Society'

It's also the tune of the 'Anthem of Europe', the (multi)national anthem of the European Union.

Things to practice

This low D is the only right hand note in the piece. Make sure you are ready for it and play it short so you can fit the breath in.
 

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Tie this B to the 1st note on the next line

Don't play this note!
Tie it on to the one before.

Optional breath
(if you need it)

Dotted crotchet:
1       beats

1/2

The first 2 lines are easy. It's the second half you'll need to practice.

Quavers:
twice as fast as crotchets

Tutorial

Make it full size!

Ronde
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