The Glissando Headjoint is is a sliding, telescoping tube that extends the overall length of the flute to create a glissando to and from every note. The Glissando Flute is a C flute played with a Glissando Headjoint.This headjoint offers access to an entirely new sonic vocabulary of glissandi, bends, multiphonics, timbres, microtones, and scales, which dramatically increases the expressive potential available to flutists and composers.THE GLISSANDO FLUTE is a handbook for composers who wish to explore new possibilities, performers who have a Glissando Headjoint and are ready to get started, and anyone curious about new music.In this book includes:- an introduction by Robert Dick, creator of the Glissando Headjoint- a history of pitch bending and the Glissando Headjoint- complete fingering diagrams- repertoire lists- techniques- exercises- transcriptions- Melissa Keeling's solo for glissando flute, Tilt

»Award-Winner of the National Flute Association's Newly Published Music Competition« The Blocki Flute Method Book 1 is an award-winning method designed to the give beginners an excellent foundation in beautiful tone, embouchure flexibility, rhythm and technique. This comprehensive and step-by-step approach was written to ensure success and also includes theory and composition projects. The method is designed so students can play in both octaves without having to read the notes in both octaves. This is an incredibly important aspect of teaching beginners. The Blocki Flute Method's unique approach to teaching Five-Note patterns has proven to consistently help even the youngest students develop exceptional technical abilities. Five-note patterns are used as the foundation for teaching new notes, technique, moving between beat levels, simple transposition and fun and easy ear training. Because of the combination of a systematic approach to note reading, fun composition projects, ear training games, and basic theory, this book is also an excellent supplementary book for Suzuki students. As of August 2010: The Blocki Flute Method has been completely updated with the Third Edition. Listen to Samples Katelyn After One and a Half Years of Lessons - YouTube Video What's New in the Third Edition? After using the method for over 10 years, we knew which pieces the students loved and which one were just "okay." Anything that was just "okay" has been replaced with kid tested exciting pieces. There are many new duets and since students love trills we've included many more. These trills have transformed boring octave exercises into motivating pieces such as Half Pipe Stunts, Trampoline Tricks, and Bungee Jumping A's. Other new favorites include the Yankee Doodle Theme and Variations, The Sad Singing Swan, and the Daring Detective.

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(Music Sales America). Trevor Wye's acclaimed Practice Books for the Flute have now sold over one million copies and proved invaluable to players at every grade. Each book explores individual aspects of flute technique in concise detail. This revised edition features updated diagrams, clearer musical notation and improved overall design. This omnibus edition of all six books in the Practice Book series is invaluable for both amateur and would-be professional players. Together these books form a complete reference guide for players who are looking to overcome technical difficulties, and who are seeking advice on how best to practice.

A comprehensive instruction manual for learning to play the Native American flute, including information on tunings, fingerings, performance technique, tablature, style, history, standard notation, traditional ornaments, and a section on the care and maintenance of the flute. Also features sixteen transcriptions of songs from Nakai's recordings, and an analysis of his career as a recording artist and performer by the ethnomusicologist David P. McAllester.

The award-winning Book 2 has been carefully designed to be versatile, so that it can be used after any beginning band method book. Each of the six key-based units (beginning with B-flat major) opens with a foundation page to be used throughout the unit, which includes scales, arpeggios, finger exercises, a flexibility exercise, and trills. Next, a new rhythm pattern is introduced using our "fill in the note value" approach to ensure correct understanding and execution. This method of teaching has been highly successful, especially with students who have had difficulty learning new rhythms. Each unit provides much systematic review so that the students can master the new rhythms and techniques. Often students learn to play a rhythm pattern in a piece, but cannot sight read that same rhythm in a new piece. This is like teaching students by rote to read "The Cat in the Hat" and then having to start all over when they pick up "Are You My Mother?" Our goal is that the students will quickly become excellent sight readers. Other features in this 97-page book include an abundance of duets and rounds, theory projects, transposition exercises, and composition pages. One of the most unique features of this method is the inclusion of the many composition projects which allow the students to be creative and "think outside the box" but, at the same time, to teach the basic concepts of music theory. Parameters are given as guidelines, and then "the sky's the limit!" After two years of sorting through thousands of melodies, only those that would both systematically help students to master new techniques and make students excited about practicing made it into the book.

Blocki Flute Method Book 3 is an advanced method book designed to thoroughly prepare students for studying advanced literature. This fun and challenging book helps students master the extreme octaves in a systematic method. 1) By the end of the book, students will be able to play all major, natural and harmonic minor two octave scales and arpeggios in less than 8 minutes. 2) Each unit is packed with rhythmic exercises systematically presented to enable students to master new concepts. The 2nd ed. includes systematically learning advanced rhythms and includes quarter note triplets. Though this book contains several etudes in each unit, it serves as a bridge to using the standard etude books and solos. 3) Each unit contains an abundance of duets. Many of these duets are based on the original flute parts from famous orchestral scores including: Capriccio Espagnol's Fandango Asturaino, , Wm Tell Overture, Carmen's The Mountain Garden and Habenera, Pictures at an Exhibition: The Great Gate at Kiev, Brandenburg Concerto no. 4, and Sousa's Stars and Stripes. Other duets include the Mozart Flute Sonata no. 5, pieces from Kabalevsky's opus 24, Boccherini Minuet, La Gioconda, and the March from the Nutcracker. 4) An abundance of tone and technique practice throughout all octaves of the flute. This book is appropriate for advanced junior high and high school students and as a remedial book for college students. It also provides excellent and challenging sight-reading material for the advanced college flutist. Students will learn standard literature such as Stars and Stripes, The William Tell Overture, and etudes written in duet form.

Revised 3rd edition. An annotated list of solos, graded method materials, reference reading, flute ensembles, music for alto flute, piccolo and bass flute. Over 3,500 entries, representing more than 1,700 composers and authors. Used throughout the world by flutists, artists, teachers, libraries and music dealers.

While the wooden simple-system flute is traditionally used in playing Irish music, a growing number of folk players have adopted the silver flute as a viable alternative. Here for the first time, The Complete Irish Flute Book presents the silver or Boehm flutist with a method for learning authentic Irish ornamentation! This thorough guide provides detailed fingering charts, exercises, and technical essays for learning to execute ornaments in the in the Irish style. Through a wealth of hornpipes, reels, jigs, set dances, and slow airs and songs. This book focuses not only on musical accuracy, but stylistic authenticity as well. The companion CD contains 26 of the 101 tunes from the book.