Flute Handbook

Mizzy McCaskill · Dona Gilliam

ஜன. 2011 · Mel Bay Publications

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A handy text filled with notes on embouchure, hand position, and breath support, daily warm-ups, major and minor scales and arpeggios, lower octave etudes, contemporary etudes, and a trill and note fingering chart! The easy-to-use format makes it an excellent companion to any beginning to intermediate method. The included online audio is an ideal way for the developing flutist to listen to and practice with the solo etudes found in the book. It contains contemporary etudes, lower-octave etudes, and extended range etudes. All etudes are presented in sections. Flute and piano tracks are followed by piano track accompaniments. The grouping of piano accompaniment tracks may facilitate the use of this recording in both studio and performance settings. All accompaniment tracks have an added two-measure introduction. Mixed-meter etudes begin with two measures of the meter found in the first bar of the piece. Includes access to online audio.         

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Gilliam is an attorney who specializes in the area of entertainment law and intellectual property law (including copyright and multimedia). She has shared her legal expertise through classes in legal aspects of the music business and multimedia law. Dona Gilliam is recognized as a leading writer of flute pedagogy materials. Her Flutist's Companion has become a standard text for the developing player, and her collections of solo materials for the instrument are popular as solo and contest literature. Her works have been featured at the National Flute Association, and by recitalists at contemporary festivals throughout the country. For over 25 years Gilliam has overseen the design, manufacture, and distribution of a six-holed vertical fipple flute (tin whistle) known as the Pocket Companion. The instrument has been distributed internationally and is a favorite of Celtic instrumentalists and classroom teachers alike. Dona continues to promote the whistle as one of the most viable folk instruments of our time. Her numerous classroom and instructional books for the whistle and other folk flutes are published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc. of Pacific, Missouri. Mel Bay Publications is a world-leading publisher of print music in the acoustic and folk tradition. Professor Gilliam received her Bachelor of Music from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge and her master's in music (Composition) and Juris Doctorate of Law from the University of Kentucky, Lexington.