Media Type : Book Level : Beginning Musical Genre : All Styles Number of pages : 24 Flute Primer is a beginner's guide to the flute that is especially useful for the trial or rental period. The emphasis of this book is on the establishment and development of sound fundamental skills including the embouchure (lip position), tone production, and other basic techniques. The text begins with a fingering chart followed by a photo essay on the assembly and care of your instrument. Hand, sitting, and embouchure positions are all carefully described and illustrated. Through photographs and diagrams, each natural note in the middle range of the flute is introduced. As in most introductory Mel Bay method books, elements of note reading and music theory are introduced as required by the book's elementary level repertoire. This approach provides the essential ingredients for making music at the beginning level without overwhelming the student. The beginning student will enjoy progressing through this gently nurturing introducing method while establishing a sound technical foundation. This simple method is ideal for young children who will love the bigger notes.

Suitable for beginning players of all ages Peter Lansing: A First Book Of Music For The Flute offers a splendid variety of melodies from many different genres. In addition to classical favourites and standardsof the Flute repertoire the contents include traditional songs Spanish airs and jazz and ragtime melodies. A free MP3 download is available for each tune offering students the chance to familiarise themselves with the featuredmelodies.This book includes the well-known songs Scarborough Fair The Entertainer and St. James Infirmary as well as classical favourites such as Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and Rossini'sWilliam Tell Overture.**Please note: The CD included with this title can only be played through an MP3 compatible program.**

The Legendary Series: Flute is a luxuriously presented limited edition book featuring 100 fantastic pieces specially arranged for Flute. Reflecting the instrument’s versatility the music withinThe Legendary Series: Flute reflects contrasting performers such as Marcel Moyse Herbie Mann and Ian Anderson and brings together legendary classical themes jazz standards show-tunes and timeless pop songs allcarefully arranged to suit the instrument. Alongside the beautifully presented repertoire is a selection of illustrations and commentaries on the lives of many celebrated flautists and composers.It should benoted that the chord symbols above the stave are written for an accompanying concert pitch instrument i.e. Piano or Guitar. This is to allow the accompanist to read from the same score as the soloist.

Grade 1 Flute Pieces allows you to learn a diverse range of popular solo works that have all been carefully chosen with the specifications of the major exam boards in mind. This particular book is perfect forGrade 1 flautists including some classic tunes and contemporary pop hits. The included download card also gives you instant online access to full backing tracks for every song. This fantasticsongbook includes valuable supplementary repertoire for beginning Grade 1 flautists of any age. These particular Flute Pieces will aid with your technique and theoretical skills while alsoallowing you to play some incredible tunes that will help to enhance your musicality. Including such contemporary pop classics as Taylor Swift's 22 One Direction's Best Song Ever Adele's Make You Feel MyLove and Coldplay's Sky Full Of Stars  these familiar tunes will be fun to play for any flautist. Not only this but a big collection of timeless pop tunes are included such as TheBeatles' Yesterday Frank Sinatra's My Way and Elvis Presley's All Shook Up such familiar favourites allowing everyone to enjoy Grade 1 Flute! Each of the tunes features songbackground notes and brief performance guidance while at the beginning of the songbook is an introductory section featuring an invaluable fingering chart. With a fantastically diverse collection of oldand new pop songs some beautifully crisp engraving and helpful performance tips for each song this is the perfect songbook for Grade 1 flautists. It will help hone the techniques necessary for major exam boards while enabling you to develop a versatile repertoire and have fun playing some familiar songs.

Grade 2 Flute Pieces allows you to learn a diverse range of popular solo works that have all been carefully chosen with the specifications of the major exam boards in mind. This particular book is perfect forGrade 2 flautists including some classic tunes and contemporary pop hits. The included download card also gives you instant online access to full backing tracks for every song. This fantasticsongbook includes valuable supplementary repertoire for Grade 2 flautists of any age. These particular Flute Pieces will aid with your technique and theoretical skills while also allowingyou to play some incredible tunes that will help to enhance your musicality. Including such contemporary pop classics as Miley Cyrus' Wrecking Ball One Direction's What Makes You Beautiful and some fantasticfilm songs like Atlas from 'The Hunger Games' and 'Frozen's Let It Go  these familiar tunes will be fun to play for any flautist. Not only this but a big collection of timeless poptunes are included such as The Beatles' Yellow Submarine Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah and Simon & Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water such familiar favourites allowing everyone to enjoyGrade 2 Flute! Each of the tunes features song background notes and brief performance guidance while at the beginning of the songbook is an introductory section featuring an invaluable fingeringchart. With a fantastically diverse collection of old and new pop songs some beautifully crisp engraving and helpful performance tips for each song this is the perfect songbook for Grade 2flautists. It will help hone the techniques necessary for major exam boards while enabling you to develop a versatile repertoire and have fun playing some familiar songs.

Johann Sebastian Bach's Partita in A minor for solo Flute actually entitled 'Solo pour la flûte traversière' is one of the undisputed gems of the Flute repertoire. The work is extant in only one copy as autograph material of the composer has not survived. This raises a number of questions and problems which the present edition faces again not only in the preface and notes on interpretation but also in the musical text itself. Due to the meticulous examination and assessment of all text details the transition to the repetition of the second part in the Allemande for example is structured differently than in most establishededitions. The practical performance notes examine the musical text on the basis of practical sources of contemporaries of Bach as well as in accordance with the principles of musical rhetoric.

The Undine Sonata for Flute and Piano is one of the few works by the composer Carl Reinecke which is regularly performed even today and is at the same time one of the few Romantic repertoire pieces for transverse Flute. Although not obviously programme music at first glance and sometimes even questioned as such by contemporaries the work nevertheless falls back on the Undine subject which was a popular Opera theme in the 19th century. The Wiener Urtext Edition now presents a new publication of the work which closely follows the text of the original edition (unfortunately manuscript sources are not extant). The notes oninterpretation follow the tracks of the extra-musical programme trying to bring the work and its interpretative understanding into close connection with the Undine subject.

A collection of repertoire pieces providing enjoyable interesting and stimulating material for use in the early stages of learning the Flute. Pieces are in chronological order with brief notes placing them in history and illuminating the circumstances surrounding the composer’s creation of the piece.

Music Through Time is an exciting series of instrumental repertoire books designed to provide young musicians with enjoyable interesting and stimulating material in the early stages of their playing career. The contents of each volume are arranged chronologically and each piece is accompanied by short notes which place the music in it’s wider historical context so that the student can more easily relate the style of the music to its period.

Music Through Time is an exciting series of instrumental repertoire books designed to provide young musicians with enjoyable interesting and stimulating material in the early stages of their playing career. The contents of each volume are arranged chronologically and each piece is accompanied by short notes which place the music in it’s wider historical context so that the student can more easily relate the style of the music to its period.