Recorder Improvisation and Technique Book Two: Intermediate for Alto and Soprano Recorder

The second book in the Isabel McNeill Carley Orff Essentials Collection, beginning where Recorder Improvisation and Technique Book One left off, RIT Two concentrates on the also recorder, with improvisations, exercises, and appropriate repertoire. Part I begins with lessons transferring pentatonic fingering patterns to the also instrument until the notation is thoroughly familiar. then the major scales in F, C, G and Bb are elucidated by 'filling in the holes' in familiar pentatonic scales, through improvisation, exercises and repertoire in hexatonic and diatonic versions. Part II introduces the other diatonic modes in a similar fashion, concluding with shifting chord techniques and examples of paraphony - parallel melodic progressions using fourths and fifths - treated in historical and improvisatory contexts.