The Virtuoso Flute-Player

Contents

• Translator's note
• Introduction
• Foreword
• 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.