Book 2 · Early intermediate alto recorder
Expanding skills and cultural horizons — seventy pieces, mostly grades 3–4, with some later-level movements.
Fourteen chapters introduce Baroque composers, Playford’s Dancing Master, Renaissance dances and folk traditions. Sourced music includes complete Handel movements, the complete first parts of first movements from six Telemann duets, the first movements of five Telemann solo sonatas and Bach BWV 1035, Petzold’s Minuet, five Playford dances and three Arbeau branles. The Cancionero pages give complete upper vocal parts; the Carr, Simpson and Apollo’s Banquet selections give complete named melodies.
Some complete movements extend beyond this book’s early intermediate level: Petzold’s complete Minuet is upper-intermediate; HWV 362 and TWV 41:c2 are late intermediate; HWV 377, BWV 1035, the other Telemann parts and Captain Digby’s Farewel are advanced. Use their practice extracts first, then return to the full movements as your skills develop.
Chapter 1 · Telemann sonatas — 11 songs
- Telemann Duet Sonata in G major, TWV 40:101 (complete first movement, first part, advanced)
- Telemann Duet Sonata in D major, TWV 40:102 (complete first movement, first part, advanced)
- Telemann Duet Sonata in A major, TWV 40:103 (complete first movement, first part, advanced)
- Telemann Duet Sonata in E minor, TWV 40:104 (complete first movement, first part, advanced)
- Telemann Duet Sonata in B minor, TWV 40:105 (complete first movement, first part, advanced)
- Telemann Duet Sonata in E major, TWV 40:106 (complete first movement, first part, advanced)
- Telemann Sonatina in A minor, TWV 41:a4 (complete Andante, advanced)
- Telemann Sonata C Major TWV 41:C5 (complete first movement, advanced)
- Telemann Sonatina C Minor TWV 41:c2 (complete Largo, late intermediate)
- Telemann Sonata in D minor, TWV 41:d4 (complete Affettuoso, advanced)
- Telemann Sonata in F major, TWV 41:F2 (complete Vivace, advanced)
Chapter 2 · Handel — 4 songs
Chapter 3 · Bach — 4 songs
Chapter 4 · Vivaldi — 3 songs
Chapter 5 · Barsanti — 4 songs
Chapter 6 · Playford dances and an English ballad — 10 songs
- All in a Garden Green — complete 1651 melody
- Bobbing Joe — Sharp’s complete upper melody
- Cheerily and Merrily — Sharp’s complete upper melody (upper-intermediate)
- Cuckolds All a Row — Sharp’s Hey, Boys, Up Go We
- Daphne — Sharp’s Hit and Miss upper melody (upper-intermediate)
- Gathering Peascods — complete 1651 melody
- Greensleeves — complete Chappell verse and older refrain
- Rufty Tufty — complete 1651 melody
- Sellenger’s Round — complete 1665 melody
- The Bath — complete 1665 written melody
Chapter 7 · French Renaissance — 5 songs
Chapter 8 · German folk — 5 songs
Chapter 9 · Irish traditional — 6 songs
- Carolan’s Concerto — complete O’Neill reading (advanced)
- Londonderry Air (Danny Boy) — complete Petrie 1855 upper melody (upper-intermediate)
- Off to California — complete first O’Neill setting (upper-intermediate)
- The Blackbird — complete second O’Neill setting (upper-intermediate)
- The Irish Washerwoman — complete O’Neill 1907 strains (upper-intermediate)
- The Rakes of Mallow — complete theme and variations (upper-intermediate)