Link Up Recorder Basics

Resources for Beginning Recorder

Squeaky's Recorder Playhouse

• Clear fingering chart that includes only notes that will be used in Link Up/first year of recorder
• Step-by-step process of learning to play recorder music as a beginner
• Large collection of songs that can be downloaded, printed, and listened to for free (you will need to download Finale Performance Assessment Program, which is also free)

Carnegie Hall's Link Up Beginnings

• You will need a username and password to access these resources. As a Link Up teacher you will have access.
• These materials are now included in the printed Link Up Teacher's Guide. 

Beth's Notes

• Lesson plans for different grades
• Huge collection of sheet music for beginners
• Program Ideas for 1st and 3rd grade
• Recorder resources, including graphics for each of the basic fingerings

Fingering chart from Squeaky's Recorder Playhouse

Link Up Arkansas 2013-2104

Arkansas Philharmonic Partner Schools Materials

Agenda and PowerPoint for Professional Development Workshop for The Orchestra Sings 2013-2014:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/fc9eujww8w9qczu/uESypKEkLr

Arkansas Philharmonic:
http://arkansasphilharmonic.org/


Carnegie Hall LinkUp Online:
http://www.carnegiehall.org/Education/Link-Up/

Going Home: Dvorak's 9th Symphony, Third Movement

The hymn "Going Home", can be set to the music of Dvorak's 9th Symphony, third movement. 

Going home, going home, 
I'm just going home. 
Quiet-like, slip away- 
I'll be going home. 
It's not far, just close by; 
Jesus is the Door; 
Work all done, laid aside, 
Fear and grief no more. 
Friends are there, waiting now. 
He is waiting, too. 
See His smile! See His hand! 
He will lead me through. 

Morning Star lights the way; 
Restless dream all done; 
Shadows gone, break of day, 
Life has just begun. 
Every tear wiped away, 
Pain and sickness gone; 
Wide awake there with Him! 
Peace goes on and on! 
Going home, going home, 
I'll be going home. 
See the Light! See the Sun! 
I'm just going home. 

Words are by William Arms Fisher and Ken Bible. 

The sheet music and recording for the hymn can be downloaded here: http://www.lnwhymns.com/Hymns.aspx

Sheet music and free recordings for Dvorak's 9th including original orchestration and arrangements for piano, voice and piano, recorder and piano, organ, and other resources: 
http://imslp.org/wiki/Symphony_No.9,_Op.95_(Dvo%C5%99%C3%A1k,_Anton%C3%ADn)

Tone Matrix Project

http://tonematrix.audiotool.com/

Picture Example 1: violin

Picture Example 2: violin close-up

Pattern Example 1: diagonals

Pattern Example 2: dots

Picture Project
a.     Draw a picture using your worksheet matrix.
b.     Draw the same picture on the computer matrix and see how it sounds.
c.      Experiment. Try different things.
d.     Make your own composition that you would like to save and share. Take your time and make changes and make it just like you want it to be.
e.     If you change the picture on the computer, change it on your worksheet too.

f. In writing, on your worksheet:

1. Give it a name (a title should be short...one or two words)
2. Describe it ( Is the music fast/slow, high/low, busy/simple, mellow/crazy) 
3. Dedicate it to someone (who would you like to give this to as a gift?)
4. Save the link here (with the help of one of the teachers) 

g.   Save the link of your composition (for final CD project)

1. Click on “copy link to clipboard” at the bottom of the matrix
2. Ask a teacher to save the copied link

h. Share your compositions with the class and explain what you have done




Pattern Project
a.     Draw a pattern using your worksheet matrix.
b.     Draw the same pattern on the computer matrix and see how it sounds.
c.      Experiment. Try different things.
d.     Make your own composition that you would like to save and share. Take your time and make changes and make it just like you want it to be.
e.     If you change the picture on the computer, change it on your worksheet too.

f. In writing, on your worksheet:

1. Give it a name (a title should be short...one or two words)
2. Describe it ( Is the music fast/slow, high/low, busy/simple, mellow/crazy) 
3. Dedicate it to someone (who would you like to give this to as a gift?)
4. Save the link here (with the help of one of the teachers) 

g.   Save the link of your composition (for final CD project)

1. Click on “copy link to clipboard” at the bottom of the matrix
2. Ask a teacher to save the copied link

h. Share your compositions with the class and explain what you have done