Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Translator's note
- Introduction by Eileen Hadidian
- Title in the series
- DETAILED AND THOROUGH TUTOR FOR PLAYING THE FLUTE
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 The flute and its character
- 2 Holding the flute, and the embouchure
- 3 Fingering
- 4 The notes and rests, their values and denominations, and the other musical signs
- 5 Time-signatures, and how the notes are divided and counted in them; the beat itself, or counting time according to an appointed tempo
- 6 Tone and pure intonation
- 7 Modern key-signatures
- 8 The articulation proper to this instrument, or the means of governing the wind suitably, as well in slow as in moderately quick movements; also called the single tongue
- 9 The technique for executing fast and very fast passages clearly and roundly; also, though improperly, called the ‘double tongue’
- 10 The ornaments
- 11 The trill
- 12 Fermatas and cadenzas
- 13 The taking of breath in flute-playing
- 14 The discretionary ornaments; or how to vary a simple melody according to the rules of harmony, and to use these variations in a good and suitable way appropriate to the material
- 15 Summary of the whole, together with a few remarks for pupils and masters
- Fingering-chart
- Select bibliography
- Index
Translator's note
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 June 2011
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Translator's note
- Introduction by Eileen Hadidian
- Title in the series
- DETAILED AND THOROUGH TUTOR FOR PLAYING THE FLUTE
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 The flute and its character
- 2 Holding the flute, and the embouchure
- 3 Fingering
- 4 The notes and rests, their values and denominations, and the other musical signs
- 5 Time-signatures, and how the notes are divided and counted in them; the beat itself, or counting time according to an appointed tempo
- 6 Tone and pure intonation
- 7 Modern key-signatures
- 8 The articulation proper to this instrument, or the means of governing the wind suitably, as well in slow as in moderately quick movements; also called the single tongue
- 9 The technique for executing fast and very fast passages clearly and roundly; also, though improperly, called the ‘double tongue’
- 10 The ornaments
- 11 The trill
- 12 Fermatas and cadenzas
- 13 The taking of breath in flute-playing
- 14 The discretionary ornaments; or how to vary a simple melody according to the rules of harmony, and to use these variations in a good and suitable way appropriate to the material
- 15 Summary of the whole, together with a few remarks for pupils and masters
- Fingering-chart
- Select bibliography
- Index
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- The Virtuoso Flute-Player , pp. ix - xiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1991