Jennifer Cluff

Canadian Flutist and Teacher





 


Flute Orchestral Excerpt collections

The best single buy Orchestral Excerpts for Flute book & CD with demonstrations of how to play each one for an intermediate/advanced student to start with is by Jeanne Baxtresser: Orchestral Excerpts for Flute. See www.jeannebaxtresser.com and order locally or from Fluteworld or other music store. Other good sources are by Walfrid Kujala. See all orchestral excerpt book titles below.


List of most commonly requested Orchestral Excerpts in Auditions


Here is a complete list of readily available collections recently given as a hand-out at Camille Churchfield's Orchestral Flute Masterclass in February 2004:

Great Flute Duos from the Orchestral Repertoire
Jeanne Baxtresser/Rennee Sibert/David Kramer Pub: Theodore Presser

Opera Exerpts for the Flute with Piano Accomp. Michael Parloff Pub: Theodore Presser

The Orchestral Flute Practice Book 1 & 2 Trevor Wye & Patricia Morris Pub: Novello

20th Century Orchestral Excerpts for Flute John C. Krell Pub: Schirmer

Orchestral Studies for the Flute, Vol. I – III Wilfred Smith Pub: United Music, London

Passi Difficili e "A Solo" per Flauto et Ottavino Vol. I and II Baldassarre Torchio Pub: Ricordi

Moderne Orchester-Studien fur Flote, Vol. I and II Karlheinz Zoller Pub: Schott

Flute Excerpts from Standard Orchestral Repertoire, Books 1-4

Standard Repertoire Library Pub: Belwin Mills

Orchestral Excerpts from the Symphonic Repertoire for Flute, Vol. I-IX John Wummer Pub: International Music Company


Also see Kujala's orchestral excerpt flute books:

Two by Walfrid Kujala: 

1,  Complete Original Flute Parts - The Flute Audition Book  by Walfrid Kujala

Complete flute parts included for: Hindemith/Nobilissima Visione Orch Suite(fl1,fl2,picc) 
Hindemith/Symphonic Metamorphoses(fl1) 
Hindemith/Mathis der Maler(fl1,fl2,picc) 
Janacek/Sinfonietta(fl1) 
Kodaly/Dances of Galanta(fl1,fl2,picc) 
Kodaly/Hary Janos Suite(fl1,picc) 
Orff/Carmina Burana(fl1) 
Rodrigo/Concierto de Aranjuez(fl1) 
Stravinsky/Symphony in C(fl1) 
Stravinsky/Symphony in Three Movements(fl1) 

2. Walfrid Kujala - Orchestral Techniques for Flute and Piccolo:
An Audition Guide and an Inside Look at Symphonic Performance Traditions.  

Contents: NOT full parts.

Short musical examples and extracts with descriptions on techniques to use from the following pieces:
Bartok/Concerto(flute & piccolo); Beethoven/Leonore Overture #3; Beethoven/Symphony #3; Beethoven/Symphony #6; Beethoven/Symphony #7 Beethoven/Symphony #9(piccolo); Brahms/Symphony #1; Brahms/Symphony #4; Debussy/Prelude to Afternoon of a Faun; Dvorak/Symphony #8; Hindemith/Symphonic Metamorphosis; Mendelssohn/Scherzo to MSND; Prokofieff/Symphony #1; Prokofieff/Peter and the Wolf; Ravel/Daphnis & Chloe(flute and piccolo); Rossini/Overture to Wm Tell; Rossini/Overture to Semiramide(piccolo); Saint-Saens/Voliere from Carnival of the Animals; Shostakovich/Symphony #6(piccolo); Shostakovich/Symphony #15(flute and piccolo); Strauss,R/Till Eulenspiegels Merry Pranks; Strauss,R/Sinfonia Domestica; Stravinsky/The Firebird; Stravinsky/Petrouchka; Tchaikovsky/Symphony #4(flute and piccolo); Strauss,J/Perpetuum Mobile

Please email Jennifer Cluff from her homepage if you have new titles of flute orchestral excerpt or part books to recommend. Thank you. 


Where to purchase full orchestral flute parts:

1. Little Piper Press at www.little-piper.com is a website from which SOME orchestral flute parts can be ordered inexpensively. Some question about number of errata.

2. The Orchestra Musician's CD-ROM Volumes 1 to 7. Orchestral Parts for Flute 1, 2, & piccolo on CD-rom (over 500 orchestral parts in full.)

From: Hal Leonard http://www.orchmusiclibrary.com/TOC.htm 
 
Or see complete indexes and/or purchase CD-roms of volumes 1 to 7 of flute parts here. 
3. Complete flute parts from most typical orchestral repertoire can be found at:

http://www.hickeys.com/pages/orchpt.htm

http://www.lucksmusic.net

http://www.kalmus-music.com/

http://www.jwpepper.com/catalog/search

4. Kalmus First Flute parts are also available at www.fluteworld.com


For orchestral piccoloists:

Trevor Wye ~ Piccolo Practice Book [C/D]
Wye has produced a single book with piccolo teaching, tips, repertoire lists and orchestral excerpts all for around $40 U.S.
A fabulous resource for anyone beyond their second serious year of playing piccolo.
See
: http://www.wfg.woodwind.org/flute/index.html for piccolo fingering charts.

Other piccolo information, including more fingering charts and hints for success are here.

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