I vividly recall one particular elementary school recorder class that was discontinued after one year because it was too successful. I can attest that all of these various situations can provide a satisfying and fulfilling experience for both teacher and students, but I will confess that not all of my teaching experiences have been totally positive. I have taught college-level music majors with a serious interest in early music as well as liberal arts students with backgrounds in music ranging from extensive to non-existent, given crash courses to music education majors seeking a useful classroom tool, lectured at adult recorder workshops and conventions where the object was to get across as much useful information as possible in a very limited amount of time, and coached senior citizen groups who would get together more to socialize than to achieve musical progress. I have taught extremely precocious kids of five to six years of age and given class recorder instruction to public and private elementary school youngsters with varying degrees of interest and ability.
Introduction My own experience as a recorder teacher extends back some fifty years and, in retrospect, seems to have covered the entire gamut of young to old, beginning to advanced, and amateur to professional students, including every stage in between.It has been considerably revised and expanded since that time and is presented here in order to provide some guidance for the aspiring adult recorder player through the plethora of recorder methods, studies, and core solo and ensemble music that are presently available.] 1 (February, 1994) by ASW director David H. Nick Lander Australian author of This section gives advice on the following topics: Your tutor: photo by Tim Cranmore - thanks Tim!Īdult Recorder Methods and Materials An Annotated List of Recommended Publications [The following information is taken from an editorial published in Chrestologia, Vol. In Gosson's view this road led 'from Pyping to playing, from play to pleasure, from pleasure to slouth, from slouth to sleepe, from sleepe to sinne, from sinne to death, from death to the deuill.' Obviously for him the recorder would have symbolised delight in earthly pleasure for us today its shrieks and groans in the hands of children and enthusiastic amateurs sometimes seem to offer a foretaste of eternal torment. Dolmetsch Online - Recorder Method Online First Things First recorder method online first things first:::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Many of us might endorse the sentiment intimated by Stephan Gosson, a Puritan author, that recorder playing is the first step on the road to hell.
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