TIME PIECES FOR DESCANT/SOPRANO RECORDER - VOLUME 1 (Time Pieces (ABRSM)) (v)

"All four of these volumes include wonderfulselections, representative of many historical eras and of many different genreswithin each era....These books become especially valuable as they contain music representing styles that are often not included in the education of young recorder students....Considered as a whole, this series really hit home with me, since music students on any instrument at any level of instruction should be developing a knowledgeof stylistic distinctions of the various musical eras."--Sue Groskreutz, for American Recorder (January 2009) * Traditional: Songs of Kokiriko * Traditional: Spanish Ladies * Traditional: Marcho di Rei * Susato: Basse danse bergeret from 'Musyck Boexken' (1551) * Morley: Now is the month of Maying (1595) * Praetorius: Volte from 'Terpsichore' (1612) * Purcell: Fairest Isle from 'King Arthur' (1691) * J.S. Bach: Bourree from Suite for lute BWV 996 (ca.1715) * Blavet: La Furstemberg from 'Premier receuil de pieces' (ca. 1755) * Beethoven: Maigesang, Op. 52 No.4 (ca.1795) * Mendelssohn: Jagdlied, Op. 84 No.3 (1834) * Schumann: Soldiers' March from 'Album for the Young', Op. 68 No.2 (1848) * Humperdinck: Evening Prayer from 'Hansel and Gretel' (1893) * Hindemith: March from 'Let's Build a Town' (1931) * Prokofiev: March from 'Musiques d'enfants', Op. 65 No.10 (1935) * Copland: Simple Gifts from 'Old American Songs I' (1950) * Thompson: Stepping-out Piper from 'Suite of Six Pipers' (2001) * Benn etts: Pip's Pedal (2006) * Bennetts: Spring