How To Love Your Flute
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A complete guide for anyone who plays the flute or ever wanted to. Use it along with flute lessons or even to teach yourself! This book covers everything you need and more—selection and care, flute technique, fingering, playing by ear, reading music, flute history, flutes around the world, and modern folk flutes. How to Love Your Flute will appeal to all flutists, from beginning to advanced. About the Author: Mark Shepard has played flute professionally in a folk trio, as a modern dance accompanist, and as a theater musician. He has also made and sold folk flutes of bamboo and plastic pipe. Mark now lives in California. The Next Whole Earth Catalog Shepard's soul-felt passion for the flute resonates through his book like music. It's a comprehensive guide with something for everyone, from novice to professional, and so well written that it's a pleasure just to browse through it. This book inspires.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface, by Paul Horn Introduction Part 1 -- FLUTE LORE The World Family of Flutes The Story of the Western Flute Part 2 -- SELECTION AND CARE Finding Your Flute Caring for Your Flute Part 3 -- FLUTE TECHNIQUE Embouchure and Breath Posture Playing Notes More About Embouchure and Breath Fingering Technique Tuning Advanced Techniques Special Effects Part 4 -- MAKING MUSIC Scales and Chords Playing by Ear Reading Music Living Music Part 5 -- MODERN FOLK FLUTES Finding a Folk Flute Caring for a Folk Flute Playing a Folk Flute APPENDIX How the Flute Works Miscellaneous Fingering Charts Reading List
