Renaissance Recorder Anthology 3 Vol. 3

Publisher / Editor (EN) : Bennetts, Kathryn / Bowman, Peter Subtitle (EN) : 32 Pieces for Soprano (Descant) Recorder and Piano

Fifteenth-Century Music-The Schott Recorder Consort Anthology presents a wealth of music from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries. Although the bulk of the collection is laid out for a variety of four-part ensembles there are also duets and trios as well as five- and six-part pieces.The repertoire includes both original instrumental works and transcriptions of vocal pieces. There are lively and stately dances fantasias and arrangements of expressive madrigals catchy chansons and more restrained religious pieces; all are chosen for their effective realization by recorder consorts. 136 Renaissance pieces with notes on sources editorial technique and interpretation. Volume I contains avaluable introduction to the series and to the art of consort playing. 2-6 recorders: Descant Treble Tenor Bass in various combinations.

German and Dutch Music-The Schott Recorder Consort Anthology presents a wealth of music from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries. Although the bulk of the collection is laid out for a variety of four-part ensembles there are also duets and trios as well as five- and six-part pieces.The repertoire includes both original instrumental works and transcriptions of vocal pieces. There are lively and stately dances fantasias and arrangements of expressive madrigals catchy chansons and more restrained religious pieces; all are chosen for their effective realization by recorder consorts. 136 Renaissance pieces with notes on sources editorial technique and interpretation. Volume I contains avaluable introduction to the series and to the art of consort playing. 2-6 recorders: Descant Treble Tenor Bass in various combinations.

The Schott Recorder Consort Anthology presents a wealth of music from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries. Although the bulk of the collection is laid out for a variety of four-part ensembles there are also duets and trios as well as five- and six-part pieces.The repertoire includes both original instrumental works and transcriptions of vocal pieces. There are lively and stately dances fantasias and arrangements of expressive madrigals catchy chansons and more restrained religious pieces; all are chosen for their effective realization by recorder consorts. 136 Renaissance pieces with notes on sources editorial technique and interpretation. Volume I contains avaluable introduction to the series and to the art of consort playing. 2-6 recorders: Descant Treble Tenor Bass in various combinations.

The first part of a two-volume anthology providing a graded selection of well-crafted and idiomatic arrangements for Descant/Soprano Recorder and Piano. All the works ranging from 14th century Renaissance music to contemporary pieces have been selected and edited by Kathyrn Bennetts and Peter Bowman.

The first part of a two-volume anthology providing a graded selection of well-crafted and idiomatic arrangements for Treble/Alto Recorder and Piano. All the works ranging from 14th century Renaissance music to contemporary pieces have been selected and edited by Kathyrn Bennetts and Peter Bowman.

This superb book provides all the resources needed for aural training at GCE Advanced Level in a single volume with 2 CD's included. It is packed with examples of dictation and discrimination exercises which are carefully graded in difficulty. This extenstive text provides a systematic approach to aural training melody and two-part dictation harmonic recognition identifying errors in performance frequent hints and tips All combine to enable the student to develop increasing skill and confidence in the tests. This book also provides a complete recorded anthology of thecompositional techniques with which students are expected to be familiar at Advanced level. A huge variety of extracts have been specially selected from British folk song world music pop jazz and the main periods of art music from the late Renaissance to modern times. A detailed commentary shows how to recognise periods styles structures instruments and techniques in this music with all these features copiously illustrated in the examples on disc. The complete work provides an invaluable resource not only for the A-Level syllabus but also for any study of style and analysis in the wide variety of music that is encountered today. David Bowman was for 20 years director of music at Ampleforth College and a chief examiner for the University of London Schools Examination Board (now Edexcel) from 1982 to 1998. His publications include Sound Matters (co-authored with Bruce Cole Schott 1989) Aural Matters (co-authored with Paul Terry Schott 1993) Aural Matters in Practice (co-authored with Paul Terry Schott 1994) Analysis Matters (Rhinegold Volume 1 1997 Volume 2 1998) and numerous articles for Music Teacher. He is a contributor to the Collins Classical Music Encyclopedia (2000) and author of the Rhinegold Dictionary of Music in Sound (2002).