Method for the One-Keyed Flute

Contents

• PREFACE
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• CHAPTER I ABOUT THE ONE-KEYED FLUTE
• On the Flute
• A bit of history
• Names
• Materials used
• Range
• Concerning the highest notes
• On the Parts of the Flute
• Three-piece flute
• Four-piece flute
• The tenon
• The cork
• The screw cap
• The foot register
• On Pitch
• Modern replicas
• Corps de rechange
• On Choosing a Flute
• Pitch
• Style
• Woods
• Used flutes
• On Care
• Checklist
• Oiling the flute
• CHAPTER II LEARNING TO PLAY THE ONE-KEYED FLUTE
• On Getting Started
• How to proceed
• Assembly
• On Holding the Flute
• Physical problems
• Left hand
• Right hand
• Checklist
• An interesting side line
• On Tone
• Checklist
• Embouchure
• Amusing side line
• CHAPTER III 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 mmor
• 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