Three Exercises

*Three Exercises* focusing on fingering. Preface and Performance notes included.

1. The Right Hand - based on the four fingers of the right hand
2. The Left Hand - based on the four fingers of the left hand
3. The 28 Steps - contains all the connections between all the notes

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These three exercises were born from the lack in recorder literature of material to tackle the typical finger-technical problems of our instrument. My intention has been to concentrate as many specific fingering difficulties as possible in each exercise, without bothering to much about being musically interesting, since I felt that technique can have a fascination of its own. Thus you can consider every single measure or group of measures equally useful as an exercise by itself. Played in their entirety though, they are valuable as a test for prolonged concentration and mere physical condition. Kees Boeke 1977

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_AMEB Grade 8 Treble List A [No 1 or 2] AMEB Licentiate Treble List C [No 3]_

_Part 7 pp._