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Listening

Listening

Flutists from many backgrounds can serve as models.

These pieces inspire, broaden musical awareness, and can even serve as life-long companions.

Flutists

Emmanuel Pahud plays with so much color and gusto.

Claire Chase won a MacArthur Fellowship (known as the genius grant) for her playing of new and experimental music.  Here she plays the bass flute.

Herbie Mann is a jazz flutist.  My favorite album of his is Flautista, which is Afro Cuban Jazz

Paula Robison is famous for this rendition of Carnival of the Animals

 

Flook is a Celtic group.  They include whale sounds in this album!

Hariprasad Chaurasia plays traditional flute music from India

Julius Baker is renown for his gorgeous, pure tone.  He is my grandteacher (my teacher’s teacher), so would be my students’ great-grandteacher.

Jean Pierre Rampal  made flute popular as a solo classical instrument.  My favorite recording by him is the Mozart Flute Quartets with Rampal (flute) Stern (violin) Accardo (viola) Rostropovich (cello)

Ian Anderson is the flutist in the band Jethro Tull.  He plays classic rock, while singing and playing to create a funky, distorted sound.

Emi Ferguson plays Baroque flute.  How does it look and sound different than the modern flute?

Nicholas Williams plays for folk dancing, and effectively uses airy and consonant sounds to create color and rhythmic drive.

New Music

Only the Words Themselves Mean What They Say by Kate Soper (composer and performer in this video) 

This wildly expressive piece makes use of extended techniques on the flute.

Rebonds A by Iannis Xenakis

Xenakis used mathematical principles to compose.  I recommend playing ping pong while listening to these.

Player Piano 1, no. 3a by Conlon Nancarrow

These pieces are so difficult that Nancarrow had to program them on player pianos.  This was before the time of computers.

Many Many Cadences by Sky Macklay

This string quartet expores musical humor as the rhythms shake up what we expect.

From the Canyons to the Stars by Olivier Messaien The whole piece is over an hour.  I’ve linked to one of my favorite movements: "The Resurrected and the Song of the Star Aldebaran".  Here, as in much of his music, Messaien transcribes the songs of birds

Glassworks by Phillip Glass

String Quartet movement 3 by Ruth Crawford Seeger

 

Symphony #4 movement 2 by Charles Ives

You can hear overlapping layers of music, as if many orchestras are playing at the same time. 

Drumming by Steve Reich

Sonatas and Interludes by John Cage

An ordinary piano is prepared with screws, bolts, and plastic to create different sounds

Lux aeterna by Gyorgy Ligeti

This piece is in 2001 Space Odyssey when the 'monolith' appears

Classical Music

Slavonic Dances by Anton Dvorak

Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber

Scheherazade by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Symphony #38 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (starting at Allegro)

Symphony #5 by Ludwig van Beethoven

Brandenburg Concerto #2 by Johann Sebastian Bach

Appalachian Spring by Aaron Copland

String Quintet in C Major by Franz Schubert

O magnum mysterium by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Symphony #1 by Gustav Mahler

Afternoon of a Faun by Claude Debussy

Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky

Symphony #5 by Dmitri Shostakovich

Symphonic Metamorphosis by Paul Hindemith

Intermezzo in A Major for Piano by Johannes Brahms

Symphony #4 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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Helpful Videos

Helpful Videos

Digital Resources

SmartMusic is a website that allows students to play with accompaniment at any tempo without changing the pitch.  In addition to accompaniments for their lesson pieces, there are lots of fun resources for sight-reading, scales, jazz, and pop songs.  

Jennifer Cluff's website has a wealth of high-quality information about EVERYTHING flute-related. 

Blue Note - Pitch reading app for Apple products

Scales App - Scale flashcard app for Apple products

Rhythm App - Rhythm app for Apple products

Fingering Chart App - Flute fingerings for Apple and Android

ProMetronome App - Metronome app for Apple or Android

InsTuner App - Tuner app for Apple products

Books

Harvard Dictionary of Music contains definitions of all of the musical vocabulary that students will encounter, as well as interesting articles about music and musicians.

Classical Music by John Stanley has beautiful illustrations and leads students through the history of classical music in the context of world and art history.  It also explores the lives and music of over 100 composers.

 

Playing Opportunities

DC Youth Orchestra Program

Flute-a-rama summer camp with Carrie Rose and Melissa Lindon 

Flute Society of Washington's Mid-Atlantic Flute Convention

Maryland Classic Youth Orchestra

Paul Carr's Jazz Academy

Potomac Valley Youth Orchestra

University of Maryland Summer Camp

Digital Resources
Books
Playing Opportunities
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