Universal Edition gives us a cleaned-up version of 12 Melodious Exercises for Descant Recorder, created by the founder of the Dutch school of recorder, Joannes Collette.

Contents

• Legato and portato with expression
• Interval leaps and triads with single tongueing
• Difficult rhythm with soft tongueing, slurring and study in tone production
• Mixed rhythms
• Combination of different types of tongueing
• Single tongueing and ornaments
• Movement of the thumb
• Legato playing (slurring)
• Combination of different types of intervals
• Broken triads / Gebrochene Dreiklänge
• Combination of portato and legato with difficult fingerrings
• Interval leaps, chromatic movement