The Modern Recorder Player

Contents

• Part I: About Scales and Arpeggios: Intervals
• Major Scales
• Interval Scales
• Minor Scales
• Church Modes
• Chromatic Scales and Other Variations
• Speeding Up
• Arpeggios Appendix for Advanced Players
• Part II: About Trills: The Function of Trills
• The Basic Movement of the Fingers
• How to Blow During a Trill
• The Measured or Chain Trill
• The "Rubato" Trill
• With or Without a Turn
• On or Before the Beat
• Alternative and Special Fingerings for Trills
• Trill-turn Fingerings
• Part III: About Vibrato: How to Produce Vibrato
• The Larynx
• Vibrato Technique
• The Position of the Cheeks and Lips
• Tempo Variations of the Vibrato Wave
• Vibrato Used to Suggest Dynamics
• Finger-Vibrato
• Some Practical Examples
• Part IV: More About Articulation: "Hidden" Articulation
• Articulaton as the Main Element
• Articulation and the Limitations of the Recorder
• Some Notorious Articulation Problems
• Some Special Early Music Articulations
• Articulations on Different Types of Recorder