Learn to Play Recorder

Lesson 33: Renaissance Recorder Music

  • Play these dances with clear tonguing and steady phrasing.
  • Hear how the note before a phrase ending changes its sound.

Let the last notes bring each phrase home.

Use Lesson 32’s steady dance beat; follow each written sharp, flat and natural at phrase endings.

The ending, or cadence

Dorian is a scale pattern; here its note before the home note is a whole step lower, rather than a half step.

Here D Dorian approaches D through C natural.

Here G Dorian approaches G through F natural.

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Renaissance articulation

Use light, clear tonguing and steady phrasing in these studies.

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Play: Pavane — Belle qui tiens ma vie

Learn one phrase at a time, then join all four in Arbeau’s 1589 top part (Superius); keep its written sharps and flats and final note length.

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Now play these

Pavane: Belle qui tiens ma vie
Keep the slow beat steady through each phrase ending.
Arbeau: Branle des chevaux
The complete three-passage air from Arbeau, including its final foot-tapping section.
Tourdion
Vigorous, with modal cadences throughout.
Branle Simple
Compare its complete repeated strains.

When a dance has a steady pulse, clear articulation and exact cadence notes, continue to Lesson 34.