Easy Traditional Duets Two Descant (Soprano) Recorders is a collection of lively traditional pieces from around the world plus several familiar Christmas songs arranged for beginner recorder players of a similar standard. These are short pieces, most are one page in length, with straightforward rhythms and in easy keys. The tunes are easiest at the start where notes range from low D to D2. The tunes become harder as the book progresses and include notes up to second octave G. Great for playing with friends, in lessons, entertaining the family and even busking.
Includes: All the Pretty Horses • Away in a Manger • Boat on Tai Lake • Bobby Shaftoe • Clown's Dance • Cripple Creek • Deck the Halls • Giants • Hey Ho, Anybody Home? • J'ai du bon tabac • Jingle Bells • Kookaburra • La Bergamesca • Maria • Matilda • Molly Malone • Old Man of the Woods • O My Darling Clementine • Silent Night • Sur le pont d’Avignon • Sweet Betsy from Pike • The Cobbler • The Old Tree • The Surprise • The Volga Boatman • The Windmill • We Three Kings • When I First Came to This Land • We Wish You a Merry Christmas • Will the Circle Be Unbroken • Yankee Doodle •
More coming from The Ruby Recorder very soon. Look for our solo, duet and trio music arranged for mixed instruments: Flute, Clarinet, Bassoon, Oboe, Saxophone, Recorder, Trumpet, Trombone, Tuba, Violin, Viola, Cello and Double Bass, Mini-bassoon, Tenoroon, Guitar etc. We have a spectacular variety of duet books, a gargantuan selection of festive books (including Christmas, Valentine’s and Halloween!), instrument-specific theory, including theory puzzles for very young recorder players and even a few downloadable playalong and backing tracks and sheet music on our website. Just visit WildMusicPublications.com and for tweets on our latest books, why not follow us on X? @wmpublications
Testimonials
Hi there - I'm just emailing you to tell you how much I love your Oboe duet books, especially the vast range of Christmas music! I have all of them!
I'm an oboe and double bass teacher (I know!) based in Dublin, and I am very much a Christmas enthusiast. I'm known among my students for wearing Christmas socks 365 days a year (they've checked!!)
I've taken on some double bass students this year, and I'll be buying your double bass Xmas duets to play with them. Given the brilliance of the oboe books, I'm really looking forward to it. Many thanks and keep up the good work! Eimear
Hello - I love the arrangements We just played some today! Have a lovely Christmas and thanks for providing beginner bassoonists with some great music!! Pauline
Hi there! I have been really impressed with your books! I have been wishing there was such a thing as instrument specific theory books, and now I've found them. I've also been very pleased with your Christmas books. I intend to get your whole selection of flute books- they are excellent. I just wanted to tell you how great I think your books are! Thank you ever so much- I will continue to use you and to recommend you to others xxx Janine
May I say how pleased I was to find that you now produce a piano accompaniment to go with the flute/clarinet parts. I already have your flute/clarinet music which is proving to be most useful and now that I have the piano part it will make our playing even better. Many thanks. I look forward to placing further orders with you in due course. Sylvia
Very pleased to have found your Christmas songs for flute. Delighted with the Duets for Flute 21 Christmas songs and the 50+ Classics for Flute. The selections in both cases were very appealing - so many of the tunes I had hoped for gathered together in one book. Sharon
I am loving your books. Jessie
Amanda Oosthuizen is a prize-winning writer and the author of many music books. She is a highly experienced woodwind teacher and lives with her family in the UK. Jemima Oosthuizen is a freelance bassoonist and a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music.
