Embouchure
Amusing side line
On Homogeneity of Sound (Tone Color Tendencies)
Strong notes
Weak notes
Changes at century's end
On Key (Tonality)
On Vibrato
The flattement
How is the flattement executed?
How is the flattement used?
The flattement with the messa di voce
Notation
Are we certain that breath vibrato was not used?
Recommended readings
On Intonation
How to tune
Playing “in tune”
Enharmonic notes
Practical application
Practicing good intonation
Adjusting for intonation
On Playing Forte and Piano
Using the screw cap
On Rhythmic Hierarchy
“Good” notes, “bad” notes
Practical application
Quick notes
Beating time
Recommended readings
On Articulation
Articulation silences
Unslurred notes
Eighteenth-century patterns for quick notes
Double tonguing
Recommended readings
On Further Readings
CHAPTER III FINGERINGS FOR THE ONE-KEYED FLUTE
On Fingerings
Why so many choices?
Lowering the pitch
Use of the key
Extending the range
Alternate f sharp
How many fingerings?
On Trills
Wide Trills
Execution
Recommended readings
Explanation of the Charts
Basic Fingering Chart
Complete Fingering Chart
Table of Trills
Flattement Chart
CHAPTER IV EXERCISES AND TUNES TO PLAY
About the Music
Duet playing
Exercises and Tunes (Eighteenth-Century Sources)
D Major
G Major
e minor
A Major
CHAPTER V MODERN STUDIES FOR ONE-KEYED FLUTE
Introduction to Modern Studies
Practice Routine
Modern Exercises Major sequences for the one-keyed flute
Broken chord studies in the major keys
Broken chord studies in minor keys
APPENDIX A THE “TOP 13” EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FLUTE TUTORS
APPENDIX B ON REPERTOIRE FOR THE BEGINNING ONE-KEYED FLUTIST
Easy solos
Collections
Studies
Easy Duets
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY: BEFORE 1853
AFTER 1853
PREFACE
Musicians today are caught up in a movement to study and explore the use of old musical instruments. The flute generating
