Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A recorder player is a musician who plays the recorder, a woodwind musical instrument.The recorder is used as a teaching instrument and has a large amateur following. Because of its ubiquity in these regards, the number of people who can play it in some capacity is eno
The instrument name recorder derives from the Latin recordārī (to call to mind, remember, recollect), by way of Middle-French verb recorder (before 1349; to remember, to learn by heart, repeat, relate, recite, play music) [9] [10] and its derivative recordeur (c. 1395; one who retells, a minstrel).
The Swanson tonette From top to bottom: Yamaha soprano recorder, Swanson tonette, Conn-Selmer song flute, Grover-Trophy flutophone, Suzuki precorder. The stub-ended Swanson tonette is a small (6" cavity), end-blown vessel flute made of plastic, which was once popular in American elementary music education.
The soprano recorder in C, also known as the descant, is the third-smallest instrument of the modern recorder family and is usually played as the highest voice in four-part ensembles (SATB = soprano, alto, tenor, bass). Since its finger spacing is relatively small, it is often used in music education for children first learning to play an ...
Here Turner began to play recorder and was first introduced to a wide range of repertoire. [3] He went on to study law at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, where he also continued to pursue his musical interests with contemporaries such as Christopher Hogwood and David Munrow. He then took up a legal career, often acting for musicians and musical ...
The sopranino recorder is the second smallest recorder of the modern recorder family, and was the smallest before the 17th century. This modern instrument has F 5 as its lowest note, and its length is 20 cm. It is almost always made from soft European or tropical hardwoods, though sometimes it is also made of plastic. A Baroque style sopranino ...
The alto recorder in F, also known as a treble (and, historically, as consort flute and common flute) is a member of the recorder family. Up until the 17th century the alto instrument was normally in G 4 instead of F 4. [1] [2] Its standard range is F 4 to G 6. The alto is between the soprano and tenor in size, and is correspondingly ...
Since Matthews had already synthesized speech, he agreed and wrote a series of programs known as MUSIC. MUSIC consisted of two files: an orchestra file containing data telling the computer how to synthesize sound, and a score file instructing the program what notes to play using the instruments defined in the orchestra file.