Twelve Lessons and Duets for the Advancing Flutist [Playing score(s)]

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Composer's Notes

Twelve lessons and duets for flute covers the intermediate range of flute playing, from after the initial methods to the intermediate level (approximately ABRSM Grade 6). The lessons are designed in theme in variation format, with two or more variations per theme designed to highlight specific musical concepts and flute playing techniques that students need to master at this level. The duets are selected from a wide range of style periods (1521 to 2011) and are broadly contrapuntal, emphasizing musical content and depth over raw technical difficulty. The book was conceived partly as a reaction to Moyse' 25 Études mélodique (Var) and 24 Petites études mélodique (Var) (1928) and follows the same pattern of little melodic studies with variations, but with an updated approach more suited to a slightly younger or lower level beginner. It is also more focussed on teaching musical concepts rather than purely flute technique. Each lesson is followed by a duet, covering a range of periods and all roughly in a contrapuntal "bicinium" style. The music is flanked by some general theory and technique sections including a fingering chart, a section on phrasing and some posture exercises. I use this book for all my students now and have found that it can be slotted pretty soon after the beginner stage (but is also useful later as sight reading). My method is to start the student with "Learn as You Play the Flute" by Peter Wastall up until the end of the first section, after the first set of recital pieces. While the student is learning the recital pieces I teach them the remaining chromatic notes and accompanying scales. Then I introduce "Twelve Lessons", relegating "Learn as you Play" to additional sight reading material status. Once "LayPtF" is exhausted I introduce the Rubank "Advanced Method 1" and use it with "Twelve Lessons". This works really well for me and appears relatively painless even for students with no prior musical experience.

Contents

• Fingering Chart
• Technical Revision
• 12 Lessons
• Prinicples of Phrasing

Item Details

Instrumentation

• Part 1: Flute
• Part 2: Flute