Click on the links below to hear audio files of the playing by ear songs, the poetry and rhythms for improvisation, and some of the repertoire in Introducing the Recorder and Music Theory.Them individually below. To download any MP3 file to your computer, click on “Download” and then on your computer find the file where downloads are saved.

Unit 1 - Three-Note Melodic Range

Playing by ear

Playing by ear

Improvising

Improvising

Unit 2 – Pentatonic Melodies

Playing by ear

Improvising

Repertoire

Unit 3 – Diatonic Melodies, Five-Note Range in Major and Minor

Repertoire

Unit 4 – Diatonic Melodies, Eight-Note Range in Major and Minor

Playing by ear

Improvising

Repertoire

*Note: “Shenandoah” can be performed with a variety of instruments. In this recording, it is performed with Soprano Recorder (on Recorder 1), Oboe (on Recorder 2), and Clarinet (on Recorder 3).