Your Recorder Community

If you have just gotten started with the bass recorder and want to move to the next level, this is the course for you! Professional recorder player and teacher Tish Berlin will cover basics such as hand and finger position, tonguing, and tone, and instill good habits for continuing to learn on your own or with a teacher. Students will need to purchase the 1986 edition of the Mönkemeyer method for the bass “Das Spiel auf der Bass Blockflöte”.  (This book may be available at Honeysuckle Music, and other sources.) This class is intended for recorder players who have taken an ARS beginning bass class, or for those who have some experience on the bass recorder.
 

“The breath of winter holds a hushed enchantment, a captivating stillness.” Scenes of winter and holiday revelry captivated many Renaissance poets and composers, including Lassus, Weelkes, Campion, and others. We’ll focus on how we use our breath as both an intimate connection to the instrument and to the character of the poetry expressed through music. Open to: recorder players, intermediate and up, viols also invited! Pitch: A=440Hz