The Techniques of Flute Playing I

Carin Levine and Christina Mitropoulos-Bott present the Barenreiter thorough anthology of extended techniques for C flute, including detailed explanations and instructions for mastery of each technique as well as fingering charts for extended trills, bisbigliando, multiphonics and microtones, as well as extended sound examples and discographies in the appendices. Text is presented in both English and in German.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

1. Foreword
2. Types of flutes
3. Flute Diagram-Fingering Chart

2. Effects that Extend the Sound

1. The 4th Octave of the flute
2. Flutter Tongue
3. Harmonics
4. Whistle Tones
5. Jet Whistles
6. Trumpet embouchure
7. Singing and Playing
8. Multiphonics

3. Percussive Effects

1. Pizzicato
2. Key Clicks
3. Tongue Ram

4. Vibrato

1. Tongue vibrato
2. Lip Vibrato (smorzato)

5. Air Sounds

1. Tone and Air
2. Aeolian Sounds
3. Speaking and Playing

6. Circular Breathing

7. Trills

1. Trills of the 4th Octave
2. Timbral Trill/Bisbigliando
3. tremolo
4. Trill Figures
5. Double Trill
6. Multiphonic trill

8. Glissando

1. Embouchure Glissando
2. Fingered Glissando

9. Microtonality

1. the Microtonal Scale

10. Flute Plus

1. Flute and Tape
2. Flute and Electronics

11. Open Forms of Notation

1. Graphic Notation
2. Spatial Notation

12. Appendices

1. Appendix 1: Fingerings of the 4th Octave
2. Appendix 2: Trills of the 4th Octave
3. Appendix 3: Bisbigliando Fingerings
4. Appendix 4: The Microtonal Scale
5. Appendix 5: Multiphonic Fingerings
6. Appendix 6: Sound Examples
7. Appendix 7: Discography