Playing the Recorder - Alto [Paperback]

Florence White (Composer), Anni Bergman (Composer)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 1984

An elementary method with a large collection of easy-to-play pieces by Florence White and Anni Bergman.

Product Details

• Paperback: 48 pages
• Publisher: Edward B. Marks Music Company (March 1, 1984)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0793550025
• ISBN-13: 978-0793550029
• Product Dimensions: 11.7 x 8.8 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #499,805 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good guide to the Recorder, February 13, 2007

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Vlmastra "*Baroque*" (Akron, OH) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Playing the Recorder - Alto (Paperback)

This is a good method book for the Alto recorder. It has a large assortment of music from many periods and teaches some of the fundamentals of music theory well. My only gripe was that even in the beginning most of the music was unfamiliar, which made it harder for me to learn to read music. Also, the fingering guide is interspersed throughout the book and there is no one chart to which I could refer. I suppose that it is easy enough to print a chart out on the internet, but including a fingering chart would have been nice.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Playing the recorder - Alto, June 25, 2008

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rawnoodle "Noodles" (League City, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Playing the Recorder - Alto (Paperback)

I have been playing soprano/tenor recorder for awhile now, and decided it was time to learn the alto. I searched through just about all of Amazon's instructional books for the alto recorder, and bought anything that was rated decently. This book is good (alto books are kind of hard to find - most books are for the soprano), but I prefer one of the other books I bought from Amazon at the same time - The Recorder Guide by Kulbach and Nitka. It teaches both soprano and alto at the same time, which makes it a double value for your money. However, of the four alto books I bought, this takes a very close second place to The Recorder Guide, and there is no harm in having both.

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Thorough and well done, August 1, 2007

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M. Tuchman "mftuchman" (Montgomery County, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Playing the Recorder - Alto (Paperback)

This book serves the need of an adult learning music very well. It not only teaches the recorder, but also the basics of music theory. This is necessary because many scores need to be transposed to play easily on a recorder. But what I like most is how they emphasize ear training and developing your own melodies as well.

Many recorder books have stodgy melodies and Germanic folk songs with which I feel no personal connection. This one has melodies that appeal to me because they help me play some of my favorite classical melodies.

I'm also getting the soprano book to teach my kids. Everything I say here goes equally well for the soprano recorder text.