Schirmer - Flute

Easy to Intermediate Level / G. Schirmer Instrumental Library-An ideal collection for a student performing in a contest or recital for the first time. Contents: Gavotte from the French Suite No. 5 BWV 816 (J.S. Bach) · Minuet from the Notebook for Anna MagdalenaBach (J.S. Bach) · Scotch Dance WoO 23 (Beethoven) · Sonatina (Beethoven) · Aria of the Shepherd from La liberazione de Ruggiero (Caccini) · Berceuse from the DollySuite (Fauré) · Tambourine from Iphigénie en Aulide (Gluck) · Allegro from the String Quartet in F Major Op. 74 No. 2 (Haydn) · Minuet from the Symphony No. 89 in FMajor (Haydn) · The Entertainer (Joplin) · Musette (Leclair) · Andante Espressivo Op. 58 No. 1 (Mendelssohn) · Gymnopédie (Satie) ·Andantino (Schubert) · Minuet (Schubert) · Romanze Op. 94 (Schumann). The book also includes access to online audio recordings of Piano accompaniments for each piece for download orstreaming.

The Baroque flautist and composer Quantz not only wrote at least 20 Flute concertos but he was also responsible for many innovations in Flute design including the addition of keys to improve intonation. This edition contains apreface by Frances Blaisdell who edited the piece and dedicated it to George Barrere her own teacher who realised the cadenzas for this work.

Score and Parts-Arranged for Flute and Piano from the original work for Flute and String Orchestra by Mark Starr.

Solo Flute-A two-minute fanfare composed in 2008. Euterpe in Greek and Roman mythology was the muse of Flute playing and lyric poetry.

Introduction Theme and Variations is a challenging and exciting for solo Flute with Piano accompaniment. The theme has folk-like melody but was also inspired by Japanese music the composer often visited Japan with his wife and father. The seven variations are more firmly in the western classical tradition but still have elements of Japanese tonality. They remain among the finest works of Louis Moyse (1912-2007): a noted French flautist composer and editor of Flute music. Raised in Paris and educated by his father Marcel also a famous flautist he was also a skilled pianist.

This is a compilation of good pieces to end a programme with. They are concise enjoyable and give the performer a fantastic chance to really demonstrate their technique. Flute with Piano accompaniment.

Michael’s Suite (1994) is a 4 movement work for solo Flute which will provide a suitable challenge for the advanced student or budding performer. It combines tonal and atonal elements in a lyrical style producing a modern work that is still fun to listen to. Ezra Laderman (1924-2015) was an American composer who was for many years also Dean and Professor at the Yale School of Music. He wrote for many mediums from solo instrumental and vocal works to large-scale choral and orchestral music as well as film and opera. His music although rigorously conceived speaks with immediacy and accessibility.

An advanced meditative piece for unaccompanied Flute that serenely expresses the composer's spiritual viewpoint.

A collection of favourite encores selected and transcribed by James Galway for Flute with Piano accompaniment. Includes 'Annie's Song' Faure's 'Berceuse' from the Dolly Suite and the first movement of W.A Mozart's 'Piano Sonata in C'.

From The Four Seasons RV293 Op.8 No.3-Vivaldi's depiction of Autumn here transcribed for Flute by James Galway. The piece begins with the peasants dancing and singing their thanks for the good harvest. During the festivities one man drinks too much and become alittle wild but he soom falls into a deep sleep and peace and rest overtake all the joyous peasants. At dawn the hunter appears with his horn hound and gun. The prey appears and the chase is on. Fatigued and wounded the preyfalls and dies.

Bach’s Arioso was arranged in many different forms by the composer. First written as a Violin or Oboe Concerto in G minor now lost it was then transposed and re-used as the Sinfonia to the Cantata BWV 156 in F major first performed in 1729. A much embellished version was then used as the middle movement of his Harpsichord Concerto in F minor BWV 1056 published in 1738. It has been arranged here for Flute with Piano accompaniment by George Barrère. J. S. Bach (1685-1750) was a German Baroque composer who is revered for the originality and skill of his contrapuntal and harmonic techniques. He spent most of his life working as an organist andchoirmaster but was also employed as a composer a many different Royal Courts.

This comprehensive collection contains 88 studies caprices and solos for the Flute in the Art of Articulation. There are 7 sections: 1-6 organize etudes for tonguing while 7 contains concert solos and excerpted movements.Contains studies by Anderson Boehm Kohler and many others.