much of duschenes' career was dedicated to inspiring a love of music among young people. he was an expert in the carl orff teaching method, and his work was also influenced by his marriage to a child psychologist, ellyn simons, whom he wed in 1951, and with whom he had five children. he was the author of widely distributed and highly regarded works of musical education, notably the "method for the recorder" i (1957) and ii (1962), the "school recorder method" (1957), and "studies in recorder playing" (1960). he also wrote and edited other works, including studies for alto recorder, and arrangements of works from the renaissance and baroque periods, of johann sebastian bach, and of leopold mozart.