descant recorder

The cheapest and most generally in use is the descant recorder, although the other members of the family are equally useful, if harder to play.

A low F sharp on a descant recorder will be fingered 1 2 3 0 2 3.

Chaconne for Tom for descant recorder and piano (1982)

Suite in C for descant recorder and piano (Schott, 1955)

Margareeting for tenor or descant recorder and piano (MS) 2'

A Cambridge Suite for descant recorder and piano, Op.22 (1960)

Sonatina for descant recorder and piano, Op.84 (1978)

A Little Concerto for descant recorder and string orchestra, Op.108 (1984)

Welsh Airs, Arrangements for 2 descant recorders with piano or harp ad libitum (1955)

I remember Lily playing her first solo on a flat-sounding descant recorder made by Dolmetsch and bought for her by her father.

Duets for Descants, 4 Pieces for 2 descant recorders (or alternative combination), Op.95 (1980)

Arne's orchestration is quite progressive for its day, using strings, bassoons, oboes, trumpets, horns, and drums; it also includes obbligato parts for piccolo, flute, descant recorder and cello.

Ms. Petri, meanwhile, was employed in more appropriate fare: Sammartini's Descant Recorder Concerto in F and Vivaldi's Sopranino Recorder Concerto in C (RV 443).

The cantata in six movements is scored for three soloists, alto, tenor and bass, a four-part choir, trumpet, flauto piccolo (descant recorder in D), two oboes d'amore, two violins, viola and basso continuo.

I crouched my way along to the very end of the gable that overlooked the front of the house, and there were Sara's old college books, as well as a Fisher-Price camper, two sections of a fibre-glass fishing-pole, a copy of Playboy for May 196x, and a descant recorder.