Exercises within the complete chromatic compass

Hans Ulrich Staeps Tonfiguren or Note Patterns has been used by recorder teachers all over the world for decades and is firmly established as part of the teaching canon. It complements his well-known book,The Daily Lessonand provides exercises to explore the full chromatic range of the alto recorder as well as improve techniques in rhythms and fingering combinations.
This new edition makes no unnecessary corrections to Staeps music or advice but uses modern graphics and printing techniques to offer an old favourite in a smart new format.

Contents

• Oktaven / Octaves
• Die Gabel der linken / Left hand fork
• Akkordentfaltung / Chordal development
• Die tiefe Lage / The low position
• Barockfloskeln I / Baroque clichs I
• Tonales Zentrum F / Tonal centre F
• Wechselnoten / Changing notes
• Durchmessung der Dreiklangsintervalle / Triadic intervals with connecting notes
• Mollakkorde in Halbtonrckung / Minor chords with semitone shifts
• Umspielte Sextakkorde / Sixth chords with alternating notes
• Gezerrtes Metrum / Stretched metre
• Tonales Zentrum Zentrum C, B und G / Tonal centres C, B flat and G
• Sequenzen mit Wechseldominanten / Sequences with dominants of dominantes
• Die vier Umspielungen eines Tones / The four adjoining notes
• Sprnge ber kleine und groe Septimen / Leaps in minor and major sevenths
• Alle Tne der Flte / All notes of the recorder
• Barockfloskeln II / Baroque clichs II
• Tonale Zentren Es, D und As / Tonal centres E flat, D and A flat
• Quarten / Fourths
• Trillerfolgen / Chains of trills
• Ansteigende Sprnge / Upward leaps
• Wachsende Reihen / Rows with increasing numbers of notes
• Harmonische Ketten / Harmonic chains
• Tonale Zentren A, Des und E / Tonal centres A, D flat and E
• Staccatobung / Staccato exercise
• Ungerade Tonfolgen / Uneven passages
• Vermischte Floskeln / Mixed clichs
• Tritonus und Triolen / Tritones and triplets
• Trenntne zwischen Halbtonschritten / Notes separating semitone-passages
• Tonales Zentrum H / Tonal centre B
• Gebundene Triolen / Slurred triplets
• Repetierende Tne / Repeated notes
• Akzentwechsel durch Motivverkrzung / Change of accents by shortened motives
• Sekunden im Quartabstand / Seconds in the interval of a fourth
• Artikulierte Fnferfolgen / Articulated five-beat passages
• Beispiel eines Double-Satzes / Example of a movement with a double