Fredericksburg Recorders: Play-Alongs

Toka-Ebisu is a Japanese folk song. Find the score on IMSLP: https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/d/d2/IMSLP666007-PMLP1068811-Toka_Ebisu.pdf

Find the score on IMSP: https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/0/04/IMSLP493732-PMLP62417-folketone.pdf

Cindy is a relatively modern American Folk Song. Find the score on IMSLP: https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/7/7d/IMSLP666993-PMLP1070345-Cindy_-_Score.pdf

This is a relatively modern tune from New Zealand. Find the score at 8notes.com: https://www.8notes.com/scores/34652.asp

The Mexican Hat Dance is the national song of Mexico. Find the score at IMSLP: https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/b/b2/IMSLP670260-PMLP1075574-Mexican_Hat_Dance_-_Score_%26_Parts.pdf

This score was generously donated by Mr. Grosvenor. email: davidgrosvenor@hotmail.com

Join the Greater Fredericksburg Chapter of the American Recorder Society for our "Play the Recorder Month" Collaboration. Members submitted their recordings which were then compiled into a play along. The recorder is for everyone! Score here: https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/2/20/IMSLP188556-WIMA.5063-Handel-Canticorum-Recorders.pdf

Order your copy of the score and parts from Sheetmusicplus and support the composers and arrangers who work for them: https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/15-easy-trios-for-recorder-trio-soprano-alto-tenor-digital-sheet-music/21147793

Find the score here: https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/5/5a/IMSLP645427-PMLP592640-z655.pdf When the public demanded new Scottish tunes to satisfy the publics' enthusiasm, Purcell complied.

Find the score here: https://www.8notes.com/scores/24248.asp Learn more about this tune here: https://bagpipe.news/2020/07/04/stories-of-the-tunes-the-green-hills-of-tyrol/

The score can be found at: https://www.8notes.com/scores/18199.asp To learn more about the Black Bear visit: http://cornemusique.free.fr/ukblackbear.php

This arrangement is an excerpt of the main tutti themes. Sorry, no solo parts. But let's be honest, it's really that opening tutti that puts us in a spring mood in the first place.

Album fur die Jugend, op. 68 was written in 1848 for Schumann’s three daughters: Marie, Elise, and Julie. The album is a collection of 43 works. The pieces are not restricted to beginners only. The pieces become more challenging as one proceeds through the volume. No. 15 Fruhlingsgesang means “Spring Song.”

Voices of Spring (Frühlingsstimmen ) was originally a brilliant show piece for soprano Bianca Bianchi. The text of the piece are about the songs of the lark and nightengale as the fields and meadows break into their springtime splendor. The piece was so popular it was encored on the spot, and Strauss, being an excellent businessman, arranged the piece immediately (17 days) for orchestra.

The original version of this piece had nothing to do with spring. Enjoy looking up the original setting. It's a hoot.

Imslp: https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/f/fc/IMSLP211345-WIMA.d503-Purcell-Hornpipe-rec.pdf Dancing Master of 1709 (Hole in the Wall is no. 222): https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/9/9e/IMSLP98453-PMLP144608-dancing_master_1709.pdf

“Come, Ye Sons of Art” is the second of two odes written for the birthday of Queen Mary II. The ode was written in 1694. The text is attributed to Nahum Tate. The primary woodwinds used in this ode are oboes. In the movement, “Strike the Viols”, the oboists double on recorder. Imslp: https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/c/c9/IMSLP420909-PMLP377575-sound4.pdf

Minuet: A minuet is a social dance for two people. It is said to originate in France and the music is usually in ¾ time. The dance was very popular in the 18th century.

The Fantasia were written originally written for Voila da Gamba consort. The pieces themselves were written during a 2 week period in the summer of 1680. The are arguably the last great consort works written for the gamba. Imslp: https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/7/76/IMSLP21572-PMLP49666-fantazias_bfl.pdf

Hornpipe: This dance emerged in Britain and Ireland in the 16th century (1500s). It is suggested that the dance developed on sailing ships and some of its’ movements are inspired by what happens to a person while the ship lurches to and fro. There are fast and slow hornpipes.

John Wilson (1595-1673) Take, oh take those lips away, from Measure for Measure (Act IV scene I)

Thomas Morley (1577-1602) Though Philomena Lost Her Love (Canzonet)

Anonymous, The Sinkapace (Galliard), from Twelfth Night (Act I, scene iii)

Thomas Ravenscroft (1582-1635) Three Country Dances in One, from Henry IV, part 2 (Act 5, scene iii)

John Whitfelde (fl. 1588-c.1620), Sweet Oliver, from As You Like It, (Act III, scene iii)