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The simple flute : from A to Z / Michel Debost ; illustrated by Jeanne Debost-Roth.

By: Debost, Michel.
Contributor(s): Debost-Roth, Jeanne.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2002Description: 282 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780195399653.Subject(s): Flute -- Instruction and studyDDC classification: 788.32193
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Drawing from his highly praised French work, Une simple flute, distinguished flutist and teacher Michel Debost has compiled a useful and imaginative introduction to playing the flute. This alphabetically arranged compendium of advice and insight covers essential topics such as breathing, articulation, and tone, but also explores "jawboning," "finger phrasing," "the little devils," and other quirky and vexing aspects of flute playing. Full of practical advice on technique and axioms that lend moral support during tough practice sessions, The Simple Flute will be a welcome addition to any serious or novice flutist's library. In addition, the book includes original exercises such as "Debost's Scale Game," making it an excellent resource for flute teachers. Debost concludes each essay with "In a nutshell" and "Please refer to" boxes that make the book easy to browse, dog-ear, and return to again and again. Offering concise, common-sense solutions for flutists of all levels, this book is an ideal reference guide on flute performance.

Bibliography: p. 269-270. - Includes index.

Translated from French.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • A-Z in Form of Introduction
  • Accompaniment
  • Accoustics
  • Agogic
  • Air column
  • Air speed
  • Alignment
  • Appoggiatura
  • Appoggio
  • Arpeggio
  • Articulation
  • Attacks
  • Beginners
  • Blowing Long Phrases
  • Breathing
  • Bridge
  • Center of Gravity
  • Circular Blowing
  • Concentration, Relaxation
  • Diaphragm
  • Dynamics
  • Embouchure
  • Etudes
  • Facilitating Fingerings for Passing Notes
  • Fingerings
  • Finger Phrasing
  • Flutes
  • Focus
  • Freedom
  • Grace Notes
  • Hands
  • Hierarchy of Beats
  • Images
  • Interpretation
  • Interpreting Accents
  • Intervals
  • Intonation, Intonations
  • Isometrics
  • Jawboning
  • Keys
  • Lips
  • Little Devils
  • Memory
  • Muscle Groups
  • Muscles-Stong and Weak
  • Notes
  • Pain and Pleasure
  • Paris Conservatoire and French School
  • Phrasing
  • Posture
  • Practicing
  • Programs
  • Quod libet
  • Repertoire
  • Resonance
  • Rituals
  • Rest
  • Rubato
  • Scale Game
  • Silence
  • Stability
  • Stepping-stones
  • Stress
  • Style
  • Technique
  • Tempo
  • Tonguing
  • Trills
  • Tuning
  • Unusual Trill Fingerings
  • Vibrato
  • Warm-ups
  • Yawning
  • Zeal in Form of Conclusion

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Michel Debost is Professor of Flute at the Oberlin Conservatory. He succeeded Jean-Pierre Rampal at the Paris Conservatoire National and served as principal of the Orchestre de Paris under music directors Munch, Karajan, Solti, and Barenboim.