Stallman, R :: Flute Workout

Flute Workout

Stallman, R

International Music Company presents Robert Stallman's Flute Workout: 14 Melodic Exercises for Technical Mastery.

Considered one of the foremost virtuoso flutists before the public today, Robert Stallman has been heard in the Americas, Europe, and the Far East as recitalist, orchestral soloist, chamber musician, master teacher, and recording artist. Devoted to expanding the world of the flutist, Robert Stallman has published a wide range of flute editions and transcriptions with International Music Co. and has frequently collaborated with distinguished composers to premiere works for flute.

Excerpt of the Introduction by Robert Stallman: 'Technical Exercises - scales, arpeggios, intervals - must they necessarily be monotonous, a matter of dry routine? Or could there be a more satisfying, more stimulating way to build technique? Questions such as these prompted me to develop this book. The aim of Flute Workout is to offer the serious flutist an alternative approach to technical mastery, one that will engage the ear and heart, as well as the tongue and fingers. This method has been developed for intermediate, advanced, and professional flutists alike. I have tried to make these exercises as tuneful as possible. While no book of this kind can ever claim to be complete, Flute Workout does contain most of the diatonic building blocks essential to the development of technical fluency on the instrument. Practiced in depth, these exercises present a lifetime of challenge to any flutist.'