Recorder Improvisation and Technique Book 3

Advanced Composing, Arranging, Analysis

Classroom or Lesson Setting

by Isabel McNeill Carley

Book only

Book 3 parallels the Orff Schulwerk volumes III and V, introducing major and minor modes with functional harmony, along with many historical techniques of ornamentation and improvisation such as heterophony, variation, and chaconne. 

These books provide the guide to teaching improvisation in the Orff Approach – here applied to recorder teaching. As new notes are introduced, exercises in ear-training and technique precede specific assignments in improvisation. Folk songs and dances and short pieces arranged or composed for recorders and Orff ensemble supplement the exercises.