Playing the Soprano Recorder: For Church, School, Community, and the Private Studio (Complete Edition: With Piano Accompaniments) [Multiple-component retail product]

Playing the Soprano Recorder...is a comprehensive recorder book for beginners of all ages and groups of all sizes. The author presents not only music fundamentals and recorder techniques with a wealth of well-chosen repertoire but she also integrates activities to foster creative thinking and good teaching strategies. While the music literature is extensive, including works from folk music, jazz style to opera tunes and more, the piano accompaniments are simple yet very expressive. A few pieces place the recorder playing along with a small string ensemble, with other recorders, or Orff instruments. Words are included for many of the songs so that the instructor may incorporate much singing and other music activities. This is the book most music teachers would love to use. The lessons are attractive, logical, well organized and the content maximizes opportunities for musical learning. What makes this book most valuable and unique is the original arrangement of the melody as well as piano accompaniment by the author. The result is most musical in expression and with a sound pedagogy. -- Dr. Cecilia Wang, associate professor of Music Education, University of Kentucky Rarely do we see methods texts of this sort that are informed so well by practice and research. Guderian has created a marvelous resource for learning the recorder, full of so many features - including wonderful creative activities. -- Peter R. Webster, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Northwestern University, Scholar in Residence, University of Southern California I am happy to say that Playing the Soprano Recorder has become our recorder book of choice for our music educators and Sunday School teachers throughout the USA. The musical methods, activities and music created by [ the author] have led to wonderful developments in our recorder ensembles and the constant building of our music culture. -- Richard A. Freund, director, Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies, University of Hartford I will recommend this book to my students, both non-major and music ed major, and I know it will be of interest to both. The elementary education students often come to my class with no knowledge of how to read music, and some (not all) of them really want to develop this skill. The music majors are, of course, interested in exploring a variety of materials in order to be knowledgeable about many possibilities. I have students who will teach in parochial schools, and others who are involved with music in church situations, and for these people, [ the] book is perfect! -- Judy Bond, past-president of the American Orff-Schulwerk Association and coordinator of Music Education at the University of Wisconsin, Ste I highly recommend getting this guide to use with your own students. * American Recorder *