The Virtuoso Flute-Player
- Author: Hadidian, Eileen
- Author: Tromlitz, Johann Georg
- Editor: Powell, Ardal
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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.