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Recorder Songs
Play your recorder along with the music on this page! If the songs do not play when you double click on them, have your Mom or Dad or older brother or sister help you by clicking here for help.
If your school
is using the "Recorder Karate" book, then you can practice
these songs and get ready to earn your colored Note to teachers about copyrights Here are the Songs! Click
on this link to see the music for Hot Cross Buns Hot Cross Buns earns a White belt. Hot cross buns are a sweet roll with a cross of white icing on the top. The song "Hot Cross Buns" is an English street vendor's song - it was would have been sung by a person selling hot cross buns in the street. Many kinds of food used to be sold in this way - the person selling something would sing about what he/she had for sale - "hot cross buns", and how much they cost - "one-a-penny, two-a-penny". The song "Hot Cross Buns" is also sometimes known as the "National Recorder Anthem", because almost every student in America that learns to play recorder learns to play "Hot Cross Buns".
Click on this link
to see the music for Pierrot Pierrot earns a Pink belt. "Pierrot" is a French melody. It is pronounced "pea-air-row". The "t" at the end of the word is silent. In the French language, many times the last consonant in a word is silent.
Click
on this link to see the music for Merrily We Roll Along
"Merrily We Roll Along" earns a Yellow belt. "Merrily We Roll Along" is an English sea chantey. A chantey is a song sung by sailors. Many of the chanteys were work songs. The sailors would sing the song as they worked, and the rhythm of the song would help them as they worked. Other chanteys were ballads - songs that told stories about the adventurous life of the sailors on the sea. Stories told in the ballads might be about famous shipwrecks, faraway places, or stories about catching whales.
Click on this
link to see the music for Gently Sleep Gently Sleep earns an Orange belt. "Gently Sleep" is a traditional lullaby from the area of England known as Wales. It is also known by the name "Lullaby".
Click
on this link to see the music for Hop Old Squirrel "Hop Old Squirrel" earns an Orange belt. "Hop Old Squirrel" is an American song that is sung with a hide-and-seek game.
Click
on this link to see the music for Juba "Juba" has been rated Gold for a Recorder Karate belt. "Juba" is an African American game song.
Click on
this link to see the music for Ol' Mister Rabbit "Ol' Mr. Rabbit" has been rated at Independence Gold for a Recorder Karate belt. "Ol' Mr. Rabbit" is an African American song that reflects the fact that people used to grow much of their own food in a garden at home, and had to try to keep animals like rabbits from eating up their garden.
Click on
this link to see the music for It's Raining "It's Raining" earns a Green belt. "It's Raining" is a favorite American children's song.
Click on this
link to see the music for Hammer Ring "Hammer Ring" has been rated at Independence as a Green belt. "Hammer Ring" is an American folk song. It probably refers to the great work that was done in our country during the Industrial Revolution to build railroads, factories, and other machinery. "Hammer Ring" is in a minor key, the key of E minor.
Old
MacDonald Had A Farm - Slow
Old
MacDonald Had A Farm - Fast Click
on this link to see the music for Old MacDonald Had A Farm
"Old MacDonald Had A Farm" earns a Purple belt. "Old MacDonald Had A Farm" is a favorite song of American children. It reflects the fact that in early American history, many people lived either on a farm or in rural areas.
Click
on this link to see the music for Go Tell Aunt Rhody "Go Tell Aunt Rhody" earns a Purple belt. "Go Tell Aunt Rhody" is an American nursery song.
When
the Saints Go Marchin' In - Slow
When
the Saints Go Marchin' In - Fast Click
on this link to see the music for When the Saints Go
Marching In "When the Saints Go Marchin' In" earns a Blue belt. There is a drum part on this song that helps you count the long notes. "When the Saints Go Marchin' In" is the unofficial song of the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. Many people say that jazz music started in New Orleans around the year 1900. "Saints" is a favorite song of many jazz musicians and people around the world.
Tinkle,
Twinkle Little Star - Slow Tinkle,
Twinkle Little
Star - Medium Tinkle,
Twinkle Little Star - Fast Click
on this link to see the music for Twinkle, Twinkle Little
Star "Tinkle, Twinkle Little Star" earns a Red belt. "Tinkle, Twinkle Little Star" is a favorite children's song. Many people have thought that this melody was written by Mozart, but in fact it is a French folk tune. Mozart used the tune as the basis for a "theme and variations" composition that he wrote when he was very young.
John Newton Click on this
link to see the music for Amazing Grace "Amazing Grace" earns a Brown belt - you're getting closer to being a master of recorder! "Amazing Grace" is one of the most popular American songs of all time. It is sung in many churches. The melody was probably originally played on a fiddle (violin), and later someone took a poem by a sea captain named John Newton and set the words to this tune.
Click on
this link to see the music for Ode To Joy If you can play "Ode To Joy", you are at the highest rank of recorder players - it earns the Black belt! "Ode To Joy" is the theme to the 4th movement of the 9th Symphony composed by the great Classical composer, Ludwig van Beethoven. The 9th Symphony was the last symphony for orchestra that Beethoven completed. It is a very important and significant symphony in the history of Classical music - one reason is that Beethoven was the first composer to use a choir in a symphony. The Choir sings the "Ode To Joy" melody in the 4th movement of the 9th Symphony.
To go "Home", lick on the picture of the lute below. The lute is an instrument that is similar to the guitar and that was often used to accompany recorders in the Renaissance era.
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belts! Each song
shows which color belt it will earn if you learn to play it well.
There are also some extra
songs that may not be in your
"Recorder Karate" book - Mr. McDade and Mr. Gibbs have
rated them according to the color belt we think that song should
earn. Independence Elementary students should be ready to play a
song at the Medium tempo with only two or three mistakes in pitches
or rhythm in order to earn your belt for that song.
