95 Dexterity Exercises for Recorders in F

by G. Rooda

It is most interesting to know that nowadays the recorder has more admirers than ever before. Especially the treble recorder is most suited to be played in the home circle. There exists a lot of music for this particular instrument already, mainly of the period from Bach to Mozart. The works of the great masters during the above mentioned period, such as Bach, Handel, Telemann, Mattheson, etc., require a high technical proficiency. The object of this booklet is to familiarize the player with this technical proficiency, by means of special exercises.

64 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

Reviews

[David Glenny · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a little book of about A5 size in landscape, 63 pages, folded and stapled. It's excellent value as it's packed with exercises plus short simple pieces from the baroque repertoire that use the keys and intervals of the exercises. The level is "advanced beginner", i.e. assumes you can play a scale in each key and can read note values. The keys go to 4 flats and 3 sharps but there's plenty of material with one or two sharps or flats. There are very brief explanations of the sections in English and Dutch. It is an excellent book for daily warmups. The original publication dates from 1959 and is old style typesetting and is printed very cleanly in a good sized font.