Preece Music

Following on from Volume 1, this book aims to provide even more music for intermediate ocarina players. Just like the first volume, this is not a graded tutor book, but contains pieces of varying difficulty levels ­ although anyone who has successfully played the music in Volume 1 should have no difficulty with Volume 2.

Despite being a follow-up to Volume 1, this book is also designed to stand alone, and so the exercises from Volume 1 have been reproduced here, and will be particularly helpful for those who haven’t yet picked up a copy of the first volume. The pieces presented after the exercises, however, are all new, but still following the same structure of folk songs, then classical solos and duets, and finally an extended suite – in this case, selections from Handel’s Water Music.

This edition is for ocarinas in C – an alternative edition is available for ocarinas in D.

Arrangements In This Book

• Aura Lee
• Simple Gifts
• Ah, Poor Bird (round)
• Scotland the Brave
• Clementine
• King of the Fairies
• Herr Mannelig
• The Bending Branch
• Kalinka (duet)
• Trumpet Tune – Purcell
• Radetzky March – Strauss (duet)
• Les Barricades Mystérieuses – Couperin (duet)
• Habanera from Carmen – Bizet (duet and continuo)
• Air on the G String – Bach (duet and continuo – for D ocarinas and for G ocarinas)
• Selections from Water Music – Handel (duet)
  • Air
  • Minuet
  • Bourree
  • Hornpipe
  • Alla Hornpipe

Please note: this book was originally written for pendant ocarinas, and so some of the advice on playing techniques may not be relevant to transverse or inline ocarinas. For pieces with harmony parts, it follows the Langley convention of notating all parts in the first octave of the treble clef, regardless of the octave the ocarina plays in. All of the music is playable on any style of C ocarina.