And there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak? One reason that soprano recorders are a popular choice for grade school music classes is their child-friendly package. To play it, musicians blow into a tube-shaped mouthpiece that swoops down from the top of the recorder. The transverse flute migrated to Europe from Asia in the 14th century , and by the 19th century, it was featured in most orchestras.
As the 19th century progressed, the recorder was phased out of the modern orchestra altogether. At the turn of the 20th century, more museums were displaying historical instruments, and interest in pre-classical music began to rise. This helped pave the way for the recorder to make a comeback as a revivalist instrument.
Soon it began appearing in arrangements of early music. Around the middle of the 20th century, the recorder underwent its cheap, lightweight transformation.
Read More. As our thoughts once again return to the school year, let us learn more about the structure and performance capabilities of the recorder with our ten facts: Recorders come in a number of sizes.
The four most commonly played today — descant, treble, tenor, and bass — roughly correspond to the four principal voice parts — soprano, alto, tenor and bass. In many European languages, the word for recorder was the same as the word for flute.
The details of the construction of a recorder have changed drastically throughout history. However, the basic structure of the principle characteristics —whistle mouthpiece, seven finger-holes, thumb hole — have always remained the same.
It is mm in length, and made from a single piece of plumwood. The instrument most similar to today's flute was called the "traverso" or "transverse flute" because it was held horizontally as opposed to the vertical recorder.
Technological advancements of the instrument over many years led to what we now know as the modern flute. The soprano and tenor recorder still use fingerings very similar to the flute. The sopranino, alto and bass recorders share the same fingerings that are most similar to our modern clarinet. Depending upon the type of recorder you own, your instrument may come in all one piece or it may be made up of three parts: the headjoint, body and foot.
When connecting the pieces, the hole in the headjoint should line up in a straight line with the row of holes on the body.
The hole in the foot joint should remain slightly out of line with the others in order to allow the pinky to comfortably cover it completely. To hold the recorder, make a "C" shape with both hands. Your left hand should be placed above the right hand, with the thumb on the hole in the back.
Your fingers should wrap around and cover the holes on top like this:. Your right hand should make a "C" shape with the thumb under the first finger and the pinky on the bottom key. The fingers must remain curved:. In order to play the recorder, you must be able to read music. Most music for recorders is written in treble clef, except for bass recorder which commonly uses bass clef. These notes can also be sharp , which raises the pitch by a half step, or flat b , which lowers the pitch by a half step.
The rhythm tells us how long to hold a note. The sooner music notation is learned, the easier everything else will be! Fortunately, producing the first sound on the recorder comes fairly easily for most students! Take a good, deep breath through the mouth. Using your lips, form a seal around the opening of the recorder at the top.
Keeping an open throat think of yawning , blow the air through the recorder. Tenor Recorder. Tenor Recorder Bassano. Venus and the Lute Player Titian and Workshop. Wendy Powers Independent Scholar October Citation Powers, Wendy.
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