Stephen F. Goodyear: The New Recorder Tutor Book III: Descant Recorder:

The quality of the first volume combined with its excellent production and the ever increasing popularity of the recorder made this Tutor an almost immediate success and the publishers had many requests for a second book.The entire compass of the recorder is covered in these books and as in Book One there are helpful revision exercises spaced throughout to give the teacher a better opportunity of measuring the pupil's progress.

The original and still popular recorder method can be used by people of no great musical ability who may be unable to take a music lesson by means of any other medium and can thus discover music together with their pupils. In fact the book takes no previous musical knowledge for granted. It contains a useful general introduction to music and the various elementary technical difficulties of learning to play the recorder are dealt with in the text. Ideal for providing a first thorough grounding in music and musicianship complete with a repertoire of exercises and many popular tunes that will make progress fun!