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Recorder players. The recorder is a family of woodwind musical instruments in the group known as internal duct flutes: flutes with a whistle mouthpiece, also known as fipple flutes, although this is an archaic term. A recorder can be distinguished from other duct flutes by the presence of a thumb-hole for the upper hand and seven finger-holes ...
The most common instrument, in C, is 12.5 inches or 32 cm long. Due to having a closed bore instead of an open bore like a recorder, its range is an octave below recorders of comparable length; for example, the soprano recorder's lowest note is C5, while the C xaphoon's is one octave lower at C4. [3]
Jonkheer Jacob van Eyck (/ væn ˈaɪk / van EYEK, Dutch: [ˈjaːkɔp fɑn ˈɛik]; c. 1590 – 26 March 1657) was a Dutch nobleman, composer and blind musician. He was one of the best-known musicians of the Dutch Golden Age, working as a carillon player and technician, a recorder virtuoso, and a composer. He was an expert in bell casting and ...
Released: November 26, 1982. Nebraska is the sixth studio album by the American singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen, released on September 30, 1982, by Columbia Records. Springsteen recorded the songs solo as demos on a 4-track recorder, intending to rerecord them with the E Street Band, but decided to release them as they were.
List of recorder music. The recorder has a wide repertoire, both written expressly for it and also adapted for it. Following is a list of Wikipedia articles on music written expressly for the recorder: Recorder Sonata in C major, HWV 365 (Handel) Recorder sonata in A minor (HWV 362) (G F Handel) Recorder sonata in F major (HWV 369) (G F Handel)
t. e. The contrabass recorder is a wind instrument in F 2 that belongs to the family of recorders. The contrabass recorder plays an octave lower than the ordinary bass (or "basset") recorder. Until recently, it was the largest instrument in the recorder family, but since 1975 has been exceeded by the sub-great bass recorder (also called "contra ...
The following is a list of compositions by Vivaldi that were published during his lifetime and assigned an opus number. The more comprehensive RV numbering scheme was created in the 1970s. Opus. Work. Date. RV. 1. 12 sonatas for two violins and basso continuo. 1705.
The first two phrases of the melody from Stephen Foster 's " Oh! Susanna " are based on the major pentatonic scale [ 1 ] A pentatonic scale is a musical scale with five notes per octave, in contrast to heptatonic scales, which have seven notes per octave (such as the major scale and minor scale). Pentatonic scales were developed independently ...