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26

Nov

2011

Vibrato si, vibrato là

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Vibrato is a subject on which experts disagree very strongly. It is an intense matter of discussion over how to produce it, how to improve it, how to use it, or whether to use it at all

 


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26

Nov

2011

how-to-play-flute-musicFor a composer who achieved a large measure of success during his lifetime, the life and work of Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner  is exceptionally little-known today

 


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19

Nov

2011

The opening felt like a calling of the muses to bless this gathering of artists, teachers, students and craftspeople.....


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19

Nov

2011

Two young attendees review the recent 2011 Australian Flute Festival....


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13

Nov

2011

how-to-play-flute-musicIn works as complex as the Sequenza I performers must make decisions about formal divisions and musical organization in order to deliver a convincing interpretation...

 


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05

Nov

2011

how-to-play-flute-musicBerio mentioned that the “openness” of the Sequenza I lies in the instability created by the extreme density of the melody. This article recommends interpreting the Sequenza I by emphasizing those musical events in which Berio uses melodic density in combination with harmonic and motivic material...

 


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28

Oct

2011

how-to-play-flute-musicLuciano Berio’s Sequenza I for solo flute presents performers with unique interpretative difficulties because of its extreme technical complexity and the musical and intellectual depth of its writing...

 


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24

Oct

2011

how-to-play-flute-musicThe quality of Cambini's music has brought him numerous new editions in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, something that cannot be said for most of his contemporaries, including much chamber music for flute....

 


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15

Oct

2011

how-to-play-flute-musicOne can only regret the loss of most of this composer’s works (particularly the Concerto), since on the evidence of this collection he was a flutist whose work combined technical mastery with good taste. These three extended works would be a fine addition to any modern flutist’s repertoire....

 


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20

Sep

2011

how-to-play-flute-musicOne of the earliest composers to publish sets of variations for flute was J. B. Mayer, with two published sets. But who is this J.B. Mayer?...

 


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14

Aug

2011

how-to-play-flute-musicSome recent publications have begun to explore the wealth of the flute repertoire from the late eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries (notably the collection Die Soloflöte , published in four volumes by Edition Peters), but most of the repertoire for the flute (both unaccompanied, and in chamber ensemble) remains unknown and unaccessible. A case in point is the work of flutist and composer Heinrich Soussman...

 


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