Jen Cluff ~ Free Flute Music Online

Canadian Flutist and Teacher

FREE FLUTE MUSIC ONLINE:

Free and good flute sheet music on the net is rare to come by.
It is far easier, in the long run to purchase published sheet music, as it keeps the music in print, and you get top quality pieces to play. Most free sheet music is either quite elderly ;>), not of the best quality, or not quite in the form you want it (instrumentation has to be re-arranged etc.)

As of September 2008 the free sheetmusic sites that I've found

that have some flute pieces, mostly classical. modern

and world music, are:

Recently found: best free music source for flute solos, studies, duets in downloadable PDF:

http://www.score-on-line.com/freescores.php?collection=flute

Gariboldi etudes, J.S. Bach, Telemann Fantasias and more.All free; good copies.

http://PublicDomainFlute.4shared.com/

Flute and piano scores, duets and misc. old editions.

All public domain scores in pdf sorted by composer or with "flute" as search term:

Good for Bach, Telemann and 1 or 2 suprisingly good modern flute editions like Griffes Poem etc.

http://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Composers

BEST: Flute Technique, Scales & Warmups:

Herbert Lindholm's full bookof exercises, warmups,

fingerings, scales, trills and technical practice ideas are in his FLUTE BASICS manual.

This is the rectangle second from the bottom when you scroll down on his "free flute sheetmusic" webpage.

Part One ~ Part Two ~ Part Three ~ Part Four

Or go to:
http://www.iwn.fi/~hlindhol/flute1.html

Lindholm's manual is in four parts.

The first has one octave and two octave scales,

Blues scale, chromatic scale etc. Part two has patterns

to use as daily scale exercises (uses your brain and trains

your fingers!) lip flexibility exercises, and Parts three has

tone exercises, octave and third patterns, tonguing,

multiple tonguing and vibrato.

Part four has both trill and basic fingering charts.

All four parts print out as 41 pages that can be hole punched and put in a binder. Help yourself: Lindholm is a smart flute teacher and very generous. :>)

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BEST COMPOSED FLUTE WORKS:

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ANDERSEN:

Library of almost every flute etude and concert piece by

flute composer, etude writer and virtuoso:

Joachim Andersen:

http://www.kb.dk/en/nb/samling/ma/digmus/jo_and.html

Telemann and Handel transcriptions: http://www.flutes.fsbusiness.co.uk/transcriptions.html

PDF versions of light flute music (Mozart/Debussy etc.):
http://www.free-scores.com/free-sheet-music.php?CATEGORIE=120

Obscure rennaissance, early-baroque composers including

not-so-obscure Bach, Byrd and Dowland:

http://www.laymusic.org/music/sp/html/bycomposer.html

or: http://www.laymusic.org/music-publish.html

J.S. Bach Cello Suites (transcribed for violin)

http://www.icking-music-archive.org/scores/bach/cello_suites/vl100712.pdf

and other great Bach works by BWV number in pdf: http://icking-music-archive.org/ByComposer/J.S.Bach.html

19th Century Flute Music by Nicholson & other flute treatise composers: http://www.oldflutes.com/facsimiles

MIDI files of flute repertoire (for playalong):
http://www4.osk.3web.ne.jp/~kasumitu/eng.htm

All other composers listings for same as above (but mostly for string players):
Scroll down at: http://icking-music-archive.org

Easy Flute Trios of Celtic Traditional pieces,

arr: Galway for Flutewise: http://flutewise.com/fw/music/index.html

Jazz Flute transcriptions, James Moody pieces:
http://www.geocities.com/farrell_vernon/flute_transc_menu.htm

Popular flute classical pieces (Pachelbel, Debussy etc.):
http://www.virtualsheetmusic.com/cgi-bin/search/search2.pl?keyword=Flute&viewlistflag=&sumbit=Go%21

Free Klezmer music:
http://www.free-scores.com/frame-uk.php?url=http://www.klezmer.de/Noten/noten.html&CATEGORIE=130&TITRE=Virtual+Klezmer

Herbert Lindholm avantguarde flute music/duets/quartets:

http://www.iwn.fi/~hlindhol/samples2.html

Slightly classical sounding free pieces on Sibelius (needs "flash" download first).

Note: You can use the search function at www.sibeliusmusic.com to find more recently added pieces too.

Andante for flute & piano:
http://www.sibeliusmusic.com/cgi-bin/show_score.pl?scoreid=50015

Amazing Grace Fantasy for flute/organ:
http://www.sibeliusmusic.com/cgi-bin/show_score.pl?scoreid=45060

Woodall Serenade; flute part only:
http://www.sibeliusmusic.com/cgi-bin/show_score.pl?scoreid=14755

Woodall Serenade; Piano part only:
http://www.sibeliusmusic.com/cgi-bin/show_score.pl?scoreid=2011

Mercadante Concerto in e-minor score only for flute & piano
http://www.sibeliusmusic.com/cgi-bin/show_score.pl?scoreid=40651

Skipping stones (uptempo popular flute) with piano:
http://www.sibeliusmusic.com/cgi-bin/show_score.pl?scoreid=18398

Flute quartet: Mysterious Dream (2-C, + alto, bass):
http://www.sibeliusmusic.com/cgi-bin/show_score.pl?scoreid=19809

Nocturne for flute and harp:
http://www.sibeliusmusic.com/cgi-bin/show_score.pl?scoreid=14436

Concerto for flute and orchestra (jazzy):
http://www.sibeliusmusic.com/cgi-bin/show_score.pl?scoreid=36870

Duet for 2 flutes:
http://www.sibeliusmusic.com/cgi-bin/show_score.pl?scoreid=19308

J.S. Bach A minor Partita (edited Egner):
http://www.sibeliusmusic.com/cgi-bin/show_score.pl?scoreid=43760

Score for orch: CPE Bach Concerto in D minor (edited Egner):
http://www.sibeliusmusic.com/cgi-bin/show_score.pl?scoreid=38205

General free sheetmusic links

(search for flute):

http://www.freesheetmusic.net/sheet_music_4.html

http://www.free-scores.com/centre-uk.php?CATEGORIE=120

If you're willing to spend $40 for two CD-roms filled with hundreds of pieces for flute and piano, and flute methods, studies and duets, see www.cdsheetmusic.com and click on Woodwinds-Flute. There is no greater bargain for binders full of flute sheet music, studies and duets that you print out yourself (full piano parts included for all solos).

For a list of the best pieces and etudes on the above CD-roms see:

Jen's Favourite repertoire.

All asterisked pieces at the "Faverep" link, above, are on these Cd-roms called "The Ultimate Flute Sheetmusic".

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