C A R R I E R O S E Flutist, Composer, Teacher
S t u d e n t P a g e
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
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
Flute-a-rama summer camp with Carrie Rose and Melissa Lindon
Flute Society of Washington's Mid-Atlantic Flute Convention
Maryland Classic Youth Orchestra
Potomac Valley Youth Orchestra