Jen Cluff ~ Flute Book titles for reading & practicing

The Listening Book. W.A. Mathieu
The Artist's Way. Julia Cameron
The Inner Game of Tennis. Timothy Gallwey
To Hear Yourself as Others Hear you. James Boyk
You Are Your Instrument. Julie Lieberman
A Soprano on Her Head. Eloise Ristad
Passionate Practice; The Musician's Guide to Learning, Memorizing and Performing. by Margret Elson
Reflections from the Keyboard. David Dubal
The Inner Game of Music. Barry Green/Timothy Gallwey
Effortless Mastery. Kenny Werner
The Art of Teaching. Gilbert Highet
The Art of Playing the Piano. Heinrich Neuhaus.
The Aladdin Factor. Jack Canfield
Release the Butterfly. Robert Murray Diefendorf
The Music Teacher's Companion- A Practical Guide
by Paul Harris and Richard Crozier
Teaching Genius. Barbara Lourie Sand
Art & Fear. Bayles/Orland
Cello. William Pleeth
The Simplicity of the Violin. Herbert Whone
Life Classes. Yehudi Menhuin

Novels with large musical themes:
The Soloist. Mark Saltzman

The Student Conductor. Robert Ford

An Equal Music. Vikram Seth

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Best flute method books for advanced students:
All time favourites listed first:

Walfrid Kujala:
The Flutist's Vade Mecum - great resource for stabilizing fingerings
in fast and slow playing of scales, arpeggios and sequences. Very
relaxing, good fingering charts, very calming approach to finger
technique.

Fiona Wilkinson:
The Physical Flute - great book for learning to relax and poise
posture while playing, and releasing tension for a soaring tone. Also
good info. for using vowel dynamics, playing soft high register etc.

Werner Richter:
Conditioning Training for the Flutist - a fabulous, detailed
explanation of all embouchure changes and suggestions for easiest
positions for maximum results (dramatic tone colours, easy high
register, very easy large-interval slurs etc.)

Robert Dick:
Tone Development Through Extended Technique - best book for developing
core of the sound through singing-playing, throat tuning, vowel
placement of interval leaps etc. Huge number of fingerings for
extended technique tone colours etc.

Sheryl Cohen:
Bel Canto Flute ~ The Rampal School - great focus on articulation with
breath support on every note. Terrific collection of pieces (Bach
etc.) and etudes studied with Rampal and Marion and all technical
notes made during 10 years of study.
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Etudes ~ Current Favourites:

Robert Stallman:
The Bach Handbook - excellent intermediate level one-page studies
taken from suites, partitas and keyboard works. Beautifully editted.
Make terrific warmups (as do Julius Baker's Bach collections from
Arias and Oratorios.)

Robert Stallman:
The Flutist's Detache Book - for advanced students. Fabulous book with
hundreds of studies and pieces for single, and multiple tonguing.
Excellent in all respects!
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Old standards, favourites:

Marcel Moyse:
De La Sonorite - best ever tone development book
Exercises Journaliers - great book for all finger technique
Twenty-four Melodious Studies with Variations - explains
simplification of etudes vs. the addition of variations that add
complications
Gammes et Arpeges - a dictionary of every possible arpeggio and scale
sequence
Tone Development Through Interpretation - opera melodies to be played
in all registers with all dynamics; focus is on vocal quality and
extensive colouration and phrasing.
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John Wion:
Sing!! Fabulous flute transcriptions of famous opera arias with full
piano parts. A great start to collecting all of John Wion's Opera
Excerpt books for those who love Opera, or are training to play in
opera orch.
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Cd-roms for the budget minded advanced flutist:
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Orchestral Musician's Library: Flute CD-roms full parts

CD-roms (currently 5 CD-roms in all) containing a huge number of
flute1/2/picc. parts for Beethoven, Bruckner, Mahler symphonies etc.
All parts full size, full symphonies and overtures.
Unbelievably valuable for playing along with your fave. CDs of
pro-orchestras playing standard symphonic rep (at home!), or for
preparing for upcoming concerts prior to rental music arriving.
http://www.orchmusiclibrary.com/TOC.htm

For the intermediate player or teacher:
Theodore Presser's Ultimate Flute Sheetmusic Cd-rom
See Woodwinds- FLUTE for full indexes of
1. Flute Solos (print out on your home computer flute and piano pieces in full)
2. Flute Methods, Studies & Ensembles at:
www.cdsheetmusic.com
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Trevor Wye:
Omnibus edition of "Practice Books for the Flute vol. 1-5" All topics
covered: Tone, Scales, Arpeggios, Vibrato, Intonation etc.

Good, fundamental books for all players.

Complete Daily Exercises- Great warmup melodies, full range scales to
D4, execerpts of Taff/Gaubert, Boehm, Reichert studies.
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Taffanel & Gaubert:
17 Daily Exercises - Fundamental shorter version book for intermediate
to advanced players. Galway loves the etudes in the "Complete Method"
that is the hard-cover version (includes much more than just the 17
daily exercises.)
I personally only use the daily exercises in this occassionally, as I
prefer other books for students (less expensive ones.)

Vernon Hill:
Flute Player's Book with demo CD - great for the returning player or
adult amateur as all techniques (breath impulses, vibrato, tonguing
etc.) are demonstrated on CD, and clear, concise instructions on how
to practice, and WHY practice certain techniques.

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