Books with author Philip Hawthorn

This is the revised edition that is a simple guide to playing the descant recorder for beginners. Clear text & straight forward exercises allow young children to advance at a steady pace. The tunes have been carefully selected & graded to help players develop their technical & musical skills gradually. Lively cartoon characters explain how to play each note & provide an entertaining introduction to reading & understanding music. There are games & puzzle throughout the book.

This book of easy, color illustrated tunes is at the elementary level for piano. Friendly “jelly people” provide helpful hints & reminders about playing techniques & the meaning of music symbols & terms. The book includes classical music, jazz and folk pieces some arranged as duets & rounds. Titles: 1. Anna’s gerbils 2. Apache rain dance 3. At the fair 4. Au clair de la lune 5. Auld lang syne 6. Autumn 7. The bell ringers 8. Bobby shaftoe 9. Burger bar blues 10. A classic duet 11. Clementine 12. Daisy bell 13. Dinosaur & the dormouse 14. Down in the valley 15. Frere Jacques 16. From the New World (Dvorak) 17. German national anthem (Haydn) 18. Girls & boys come out to play 19. Grand old duke of York 20. Haunted house 21. Ho-la-hi 22. How far is it to Bethlehem 23. Israeli folk dance 24. Kum by yah 25. Lavender’s blue 26. Lullaby (Brahms) 27. Melody in a minor 28. Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen 29. Oh, dear, what can the matter be 30. Oh, Susannah 31. On eagles’ wings 32. From piano concerto no. 3 (Beethoven) 33. Riding on a donkey 34. Rock-a-bye baby 35. Row, row, row the boat 36. St. Anthony chorale (Haydn) 37. Scarborough fair 38. Silent night 39. Soldier’s march (Schumann) 40. Space walk rag 41. Spring 42. Summer 43. Sur le pont d’Avignon 44. From the surprise symphony (Haydn) 45. From symphony no. 7 (Beethoven) 46. Toreador’s song (Bizet) 47. Two o’clock 48. Walking (Diabelli) 49. Wedding march (Mendelssohn) 50. We three kings 51. We wish you a merry Christmas 52. Where, oh where has my little dog gone 53. Winter 54. Yankee Doodle

Over a hundred easy tunes--including jazz, folk, classical, and modern--for beginner recorder players are collected here with color illustrations on every page. Friendly "jelly people" provide helpful hints and reminders about fingering, playing techniques and music symbols and terms. These tunes are carefully graded throughout the book, introducing new notes and skills at appropriate points.