Practice Corner

Tod Brody's list of Flute and Piccolo excerpts

from orchestraedxcerpts.com

International Music Score Library Project

a virtual library containing all public domain musical scores, as well as scores from composers who are willing to share their music with the world without charge

Orchestral Musicians' CD-ROM Library

Complete orchestral parts on CD

Practicing excerpts

by Patricia George. Here is a page for Peter & the Wolf fingerings from Jennifer Cluff. And Jen's helpful compilation of suggestions for Prokofiev's Classical Symphony here.

Dr. Edwin Lacy's tips for taking orchestral auditions

Volière or Aviary by Saint-Saëns

Practice suggestions from Jennifer Cluff

Tevor Wye's Top of the Pops Orchestral Excerpts

Dolmetsch online

Scroll down the page past the theory links to get to discussions of music from the 16th to the 20th century

Flute History

D-flat/ C-sharp in TUNE!

Youtube masterclass excerpt with Leone Buyse

Difference Tones

by John Rosen

Ear Training Software

How to check your flute scale

from Trevor Wye

Interval calculator

Computer program that produces tones to tune against

Intonation

Sir James Galway

Intonation and intuitive learning

Wissam Boustany

The Intonation of the Modern Flute

by Trevor Wye

Korg tuners

Google list

(Archived site.) Revised [flute] scale

A multi-page document courtesy of William Bennett, Eldred Spell, & Trevor Wye

Tartini

Freeware that uses a microphone attached to your computer to" give real-time feedback including: Accurate pitch contours for visualising intonation, vibrato shape, tuning or just which note is being played; Loudness graphs, to help analyse dynamics; Harmonic structure of a note describing timbre"

A Thousand & One flute tuning ideas

Index of tuning articles from Jennifer Cluff

Tuning software

Frequency Chromatic Tuner Online - wide pitch and octave range.

Using a tuner to help with intonation

by Andrea La Rose

10 Easy Ways To Optimize Your Music Practice
Memorization tips

How I memorize music

from Zara Lawler

On Memorizing

by Jamey Andreas, guitarist

Sir James Galway's suggstions on memorization

Memory Map

"an approach to practice in which the performer writes down details in short-hand graphics, chord symbols, rhythmic stems, descriptive words or pictures—any type of notation–to trigger mental recall of a passage."

British vs. American Musical Terms

Dolmetsch Online Music Dictionary

Glossary

from Naxos Digital Services

Music Dictionary - downloadable to PDA

Absoluteworld.com

Musictionary - for iOS devices

Music Dictionary Online

"explains words and terms found in musical scores, in books and on web sites, in notes on CDs or concert programmes."

OnMusic Dictionary

ABCs of Extended Techniques

Susan Maclagan offers an overview of an NFA masterclass

Graded Repertoire with Extended Techniques for unaccompanied Flute, Piccolo, Alto and Bass Flute

Courtesy of Helen Bledsoe

xxxx Multiphonics

by Robert Dick

New Sounds for flute

Glissandi, Micro intervals, Multiphonics and more

The Virtual Boehm Flute

Click on any combination of keys and see what sounds you can make

Andersen Etudes Online

Download your free copy of Andersen Etudes

Baroque Music Italia

"[M]usic from the 17:th and 18:th century, many of them not available in any other modern form." Free for non-commercial use. Composers include J.S., J.C. & C.P.E. Bach, Telemann, and many others. Individual works unfortunately sorted by date of upload instead of alphabetically.

Fagotizm

Russian site with free bassoon & woodwind quintet scores

Flute duets - by Scarlatti, among others

Thanks to Matthew Taylor

Flute tunes

Tunes & midi files for beginner & intermediate flutists

Flutetunes.com

Free flute music - as well as articles like "How to practice sight-reading"

Free online tunes to print out

www.8notes.com

Jennifer Cluff's collection of free music sites

Werner Icking Music Archive - The Sheet Music Archive contains free, ready-to-print sheet music, most in .pdf format.

Mark Perry's New Flute Music - PDF format available free for downloading

(Archived site.) Online music scores - These links include only sites with scores that may be downloaded free ofcharge.

The Royal Library - Copenhagen, Denmark - amazing collection of .pdf files, all free for the downloading

Free-scores.com

Some by brand-name composers

International Music Score Library Project

a virtual library containing all public domain musical scores, as well as scores from composers who are willing to share their music with the world without charge.

Bach Gesellschaft ausgabe

Public domain nonets

Public domain quartets

Public domain quintets

Public domain septets

Public domain sextets

Kuhlau flute oeuvre

From the Danish Royal Library

The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music

Over 29,000 pieces of American popular music. A search for flute returned 300+ entries.

The Maine Music Box

a flagship music access site, created through a collaboration of the Bagaduce Music Lending Library, Blue Hill, Bangor Public Library, and the University of Maine’s Fogler Library

Musopen.org

Royalty-free music. Everything from Aadler to Zöschinger

The Mutopia project

The Mutopia Project offers sheet music . . . based on editions in the public domain.

Carl Nielsen Edition

Music scores of selected works by Carl Nielsen are available for free download from the Danish Royal Library. Includes his flute concerto.

New York Philharmonic archives

Fabulous resource for orchestral parts, including Shostakovich's Festive Overture.

Orchestral parts

Public Domain and Creative Commons: A Guide to Works You Can Use Freely

Click on the sources link you'll find the gold. There is also a well-thought-out discussion of what constitutes public domain material for those interested.

Public Domain Flute Works

Schirmer partial perusal scores

"SchirmerOnDemand allows anyone to view scores from its vast catalog of works by some of the 20th and 21st centuries' greatest
composers...allows users, with one-time free registration, to instantly view the scores online and in most cases print them out for perusal." -- "500 scores are currently ready to view"

Sheet Music Consortium

a group of libraries working toward the goal of building an open collection of digitized sheet music using the Open Archives Initiative:Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI:PMH).

Sibley Music Library - search by composer name

Eastman School of Music

Sousa parts

From the Library of Congress. Make sure to read the copyright link at <http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/home/copyright.html>. That page also has a couple interesting articles to read.

Articulation

Articulation links: provided by Jen Cluff
Phrasing & articulation: From Dolmetsch.com. Scroll down the page to find out what all those pesky accent marks mean.
Playing with "Pop": Nina Perlove's take on diaphram kicks in articulation

Breathing

Circular Breathing: Helen Bledsoe video

Computer Tools

Amazing Slow-downer: for MAC computers. "Allows you to slow down any music without changing the pitch."
Flute Fingering Font: Not free. The manual on how to use your keyboard in making fingerings is here.
Online Metronome: For those of you looking for a free metronome & having a computer hookup in your practice room.
Transcribe - an assistant for working out a piece of music from a recording, including the ability to slow down the music without changing its pitch

Finger technique

101 Uses for Scales: by Mary C.J. Byrne, Ph.D., Victoria (Canada) Conservatory of Music
Finger position corrector: From Expanded Musical Concepts - they also publish obbligati for hymns and carols and transcriptions of works by Dvorak, Cui and others
Practicing scales & arpeggios: by Wissam Boustany
Technique help!: by Robert J. Billington
Tension in the hands: a wholistic approach: by Jonathan Brahms

Fingerings

Alternate flute fingerings: Fourth octave
Altès's alternate fingerings for fast passages
Auxiliary piccolo fingerings - from John Krell
C# trill uses
Flute and Piccolo Fingerings: Basic flute fingering chart, Fingerings above C4, Alternate flute fingerings and more.
Flute fingering charts: For smartphones. Fingerings, trill fingerings, alternate fingerings and more.
Flute fingering generator: Courtesy of Nestor Herszbaum. Be sure to read the "Help" file first.
Flute Fingerings for old-style flutes: Fingering for the (tenor) renaissance flute, one-key flutes, trill chart for one-key flutes, Altès' chart of fingerings to facilitate execution and alter pitch (notes sensible) on the Boehm flute, and more.
Flute fingerings on the web: Graphic images of flute fingerings courtesy of Google
Trill Fingerings
Trill Fingerings: From flutetunes.com
Trill fingerings: 1st through 4th octaves for flute and piccolo from wfg.woodwinds.org (donate if you can)
The Woodwind Fingering Guide: Recorder, Charanga, Shakuhachi, and more

Pedagogy

Flute Secrets: FLUTE list postings on articulation, hand position, etc. that I've collected over the years
Getting to the second octave: Patricia George
How to be(come) a good teacher
Matthew Taylor's Learnfunflute: All kinds of pedagogical tools including Accompaniments for Taffanel & Gaubert excercise #4 (mp3 format) — available at mm. at 70, 80, 90, 100, 110, and 120 in 16ths. Thanks to Matthew Taylor who says, "There is also one at 160bpm if your an absolute show off smarty bum."; and Flute flash cards — with note names, fingerings and notation.
Teaching four-year-old Katelyn to play the flute: from Blocki Flute Method
Teaching the Adult Student
Teaching trills: by Nathan Zalman
Throat Tuning: Part 1; Part 2; Part 3. Extremely helpful youtube videos from Robert Dick.

Piccolo pointers

Alternate piccolo fingerings: John Krell
Cleaning the piccolo embouchure hole: Courtesy of Janet Kinmonth
Piccolo cork placement: from Dan Colburn, USAF Band, D.C. Retired
Piccolo intonation exercises: by Kate Prestia Schaub
Piccolo questions: From the wondrous Jennifer Cluff

Practicing

How Many Hours a Day Should You Practice?: by Dr. Noa Kageyama from the Bullet-proof Musician (unfortunately kinda violent, but a website chock full of good information). This particular link compares mindless and mindful practicing & offers a list of things to concentrate on for the latter
Improving Technique: By Patricia George
PIPES: from Steven Peters
The Practicespot.com: An excellent resource including a "Scales Board Game" and more
The Practice Notebook: a blog by Zara Lawler
Practice components: by flutist/composer Peter J. Bacchus, flute professor at the Barcelona Conservatory
Practice religiously or parish (pun intended?): Leonard Garrison
Practice time: by Trishia Craig (GBFA Gazette article)
Practicing above C4: by Shelley Collins
Practicing Tips and Stuff: Angela's Flute Page - the main page is hard to read but the practicing page is good.
S.M.A.R.T. practicing
Summer Practicing: from Jennifer Cluff
Taffanel & Gaubert - John Wion's approach to practicing
When practicing alone isn't enough: Wall Street Journal article by Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim about Noa Kageyama whose blog, The Bulletproof Musician, uses principles developed to toughen up tennis pros . . . to help musicians cope with the intense pressure of solo performance.

Repertoire

Alto and Bass Flute Resources: from Chris Potter, D.M.A.
Andersen Etudes, opus 15: English translations of the Italian expressive subtitles from Barbara Hopkins
Andersen sequence: Kincaid's sequence for studying Andersen's etudes
Annotated Bibliography of Double Wind Quintet Music: Created and maintained by Catherine Gerhart
Backing tracks: Midi versions of the accompaniment of commonly studied pieces like Faure's Pavane, Gluck's Blessed Spirits, etc.
Baroque style: Thoughts from Rachel Brown & Daniel Pyle
Jeanne Baxtresser's lessons learned: Notes from a masterclass taken by Susan Maclagan
Learning Berio's Sequenza: by Robert Dick
Celtic Music for Flute: compiled by Jennifer Cluff
"Contemporary" flute works: I say contemporary because some of the pieces on this list are almost 100 years old. It's drawn from the rep list for the SoundScape summer program in Italy.
Density 21.5: "Varèse's Explication of Debussy's Syrinx in Density 21.5 and An Analysis of Varèse's Composition: A Secret Model Revealed," The Music Review 43/2 (1982): 121-134. - by Carol Baron. Search for the second "Density" on the page for the link to the article.; Density 21.5 by Varèse - by Robert Dick
Robert Dick videos: 10,000 hours - an interview with Robert Dick. From the website: "Robert Dick and James Ilgenfritz discuss Dick’s early development as an innovative performer on the flute."; Fish are jumpin' cadenza tips; Sliding life blues - with his glissando headjoint
Online instruction: These are videos in which Robert teaches classical repertoire. Quoting him, "The students are some wonderfully talented high school flutists from the New York City area.
Hindemith Flute Sonata: by Katherine Hoover
Karg-Elert Caprices: By Patricia George
Klezmer vs. Sephardic music: by Adrianne Greenbaum
Messaien's Merle Noir: Blackbird sound clip
Errata in the solo flute part of Jules Mouquet's "La Flute de Pan": by Matt Johnston
Mozart K. 314, a.k.a. Concerton in D: Performance suggestions form John Wion.
Opera tunes for flute: mp3 files
Le Grand Répertoire de la flûte de B. Pierreuse: "Indispensable" catalog of flute chamber works. Link is to MAC CD, but print & Windows CD available
The Repertoire Catalogue for Piccolo, Alto Flute and Bass Flute: The above link is to information about the book. Compiled by Peter van Munster, the Royal Conservatory in The Hague.
Repertoire suggestions from Jen Cluff: Everything from Baroque to extended techniques.
Syrinx: Important historical information courtesy of Trevor Wye and thoughtful commentary from Robert Dick.
Teaching Telemann Fantasie No. 1: By Rachel Brown
Works for flute and viola: Thanks to Clifford Nieweg

Sightreading

http://www.practicesightreading.com/

How to practice sightreading

Sight reading by Betty Stone

Tone studies

Embouchure flexibility exerciese with a bottle: Youtube video
Harmonic Roll: a video demonstrating Bill McBirnie's tone exercise.

Vibrato

Diaphragm to throat vibrato: by Richard D. Billington
Vibrato: From John Wion

Miscellany

Helen Bledsoe's blog: Everything from acoustics to yoga
Characteristics of Musical Keys: The article "contains a selection of information from the Internet about the emotion or mood associated with musical keys. It is not complete nor does it include information found only in print sources."
From C to shining C (4) Chromatic Scale (8th notes) in triplets in Dr. John's publications
Circle of fifths graphic
Copyright
Does material affect tone quality in woodwind instruments?: Why scientists and musicians just can�t seem to agree: Bret Pimental
Errata in flute music
Fingering Diagram Builder: Fabulous free tool for putting fingerings into your electronic documents. From the prolific Bret Pimental.
Flute Spa with Patricia George: FLUTE list posting by Susan Maclagan (used with permission)
FLUTE listserv pages: Thank you, Larry Krantz. See also Flutelist.com
Innovative ideas in performance and pedagogy: This useful site, created by Laura Lentz and others, includes areas devoted to creativity, entrepreneurship, pedagogy and wellness, to name but a few, in addition to tips for flutists.
Johann Joachim Quantz's Five Lessons: Poem by W.S. Graham. Thanks to Christopher Krueger, director University of Massachusetts Amherst Flute Studio
Manuscript paper: .pdf file Adobe Acrobat Reader required. Available here.
Marlene Metz Hartzler's bolg on practicing & keeping kids inspired
Musical symbols (and their interpretation): From Dolmetsch.com
MusicStaff.com: Enables parents, students and musicians to find music teachers, music schools and music lessons anywhere in the United States by zip code.
"Of the Standard of Taste": originally published in 1757 by David Hume (1711-1776), one of the most important of the British empiricists, philosophers.
"Performing Arts Reading Room": In the Music Division of the Library of Congress. over 25 million items spanning more than 1000 years of Western music history and practice, including classified music and book collections, music and literary manuscripts, iconography, microforms, periodicals, musical instruments, published and unpublished copyright deposits, and over 600 special collections in music, theater, and dance.
Practice log: Only for PCs (i.e. no Mac version) "a program for tracking the time that you spend doing an activity. This could be anything that you want a log of; like practicing a musical instrument, studying, excersising, working or sleeping."
Positive Reinforcement: A self-instructional exercise: teaches the concept of positive reinforcement
Quantz tuner: "a suite of real-time, interactive, data-driven music visualization tools that respond to sound." There's a free online version.
Rhythm Help
Rockstro online: In the 19th century Richard Rockstro devised an alternative way of holding the flute. Here are two links to online versions of part of his book A treatise on the flute; Rockstro on holding the flute; Rockstro on tone
Scale routine: Five note pattern from Sir James Galway
Schubert's Trockne Blumen translation
Sheet music available for free: modern editions of a lot of music from the 17th and 18th century, in .pdf format from Johan Tufvesson.
Tips for flute: from Diane Boyd Schultz, Associate Professor at Stephen F. Austin State University: The "Art" in articulation, Piccolo FAQ, and more.
Tips for the Preparation of Contemporary Flute Music: by Helen Bledsoe (available in English and German)
Youtube videos of flute pieces: Paul Taffanel "Francesca da Rimini" Fantasie - Juergen Franz, flute, Thomas Haberlah, piano

For Dr. John's program notes, see my recital page

notes in .pdf format, which requires Adobe Acrobat reader

The Concert Programmes Project Online Database

from the International Association of Music Libraries

Finding Online Program Notes

By Paul T. Jackson -- Trescott Research

Immaculata Symphony

Orchestral literature

Music Program Notes for Band and Wind Ensemble Music

"ordered by composer, of the program notes and biographies generated for use in programs for performances of the Foothill College Symphonic Wind Ensemble," Los Altos Hills, CA

(Archived site.) Sierra Chamber Society

Program notes by Joseph Way

Dolmetsch online

A comprehensive list ot topics from Staff, Cleff & Pitch Notation to Counterpoint

Duke Journal of Music Theory

Fundamental principles of scale/chord relationships

from Bill McBirnie

The Music Theory Song

Thanks to David Rakowski and friends.

Music Composition Theory

A blog several years old, but with some pretty choice information.

Musictheory.net

Macromedia Flash Player 6.0r65 or higher is required to view the content. Lessons from staves to neopolitan chords, quizzes (Ricci calls them trainers) on identifiying notes, keys, intervals, etc., and "utilities" like chord calculators (you pick the key & the root & it displays the chord on a keyboard)

Mymusictheory.com

Seven levels of lessons from time signatures, key signatures, major scales and intervals, to figured bass, 7th chords and more. Lesson 7 certificate awards the user "UCAS points (UK university entrance points)." According to the site's creator, Victoria Williams, a graduate of The University of Leeds, "you can download PDF versions of everything on the site (and more) if you prefer to work with a pen and paper."

Society of Music Theory

a very helpful listserv

Theory books for youngsters

recommended by Jen Cluff

Fish are Jumpin' cadenza tips

This FLUTE listserv posting specifically about the FAJ cadenza also includes general tips for cadenza creation

johnranck.net

Practice Corner

Excerpts

History

Intonation

Memorization

Music Dictionaries Online

Multiphonics, etc.

Online scores

Practicing & Teaching Resources

Program notes

Theory

Writing cadenzas