The first book in the Isabel McNeill Carley Orff Essentials Collection, Book One of Carley's three-book sequence, Recorder Improvisation and Technique, has long been regarded by her students and colleagues as the quickest, most thorough and musically sensitive introduction to the recorder as an instrument for ensemble playing, improvisation and personal creativity.Through gentle increments, from echoing what the teacher plays (often an improvisation itself), to Q+A exchanges (that also model song structure and develop sensitivity to tonal centers), to longer improvised melodic phrases and percussive ostinati, this learning sequence makes the progression toward confident improvisation both unremarkable and easy. The three-book Recorder Improvisation and Technique series is cited in the American Orff-Schulwerk Association's "Supporting Materials - Sources" for recorder instruction.These books provide the definitive guides to teaching improvisation in the Orff Approach, - here applied to recorder teaching. As new notes are introduced, exercises in ear-training and technique precede specific assignments in improvisation. Folk songs and dances and short pieces arranged or composed for recorders and Orff ensemble supplement the exercises.

Recorder Improvisation and Technique Book One: Beginning with the Soprano Recorder

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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.

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

The third book in the Isabel McNeill Carley Orff Essentials Collection, Recorder Improvisation and Technique Book Three (RIT Three) is for the student already confident playing both C and F recorders, comfortable with pentatonic, hexatonic and diatonic scales and modes. These lessons focus in detail on how the Orff-Schulwerk Volumes' basic sequence can be successfully applied to recorder teaching and playing. Compositional forms are explored with improvised materials using major, modal, and minor scales as well as dominant and subdominant bass-lines, improvised melodies, ornamentation, paraphony, descants and other enhancements. A final chapter expands on improvisation for movement, free solo improvisation, and various kinds of group improvisation.

Recorder Improvisation and Technique Book Three: Advanced - Composing, Arranging, Analysis

Making It Up As You Go: Selected Essays / Writing about Music, Improvisation, and Teaching

Introduces the soprano recorder and its notes, one by one. Promotes the development of muscular control and confident reading skills by mastering 41 songs in G pentatonic and its minor modes. For classroom and lessons. "Recommended for use with both child and adult beginners." - Mary Stringham Shamrock, reviewing the first edition.

My Recorder Reader 1: 41 Songs in G Pentatonic - Soprano Recorder - Classroom or Lesson Setting (IMC's Five Little Books)

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