THE FLUTE PLAYER'S COMPANION Book 1

Before joining BBC Radio 3 as a Commissioning and Programme Editor, where he was also Controller of the 2015 Proms season, Edward Blakeman was a freelance flautist, writer and presenter. He was head of the Wind Department at the London College of Music and a member of the Council of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

In the Introduction to 'The Flute Player's Companion', he emphasizes and explains the five main points of flute technique. The fifty-five exercises, studies and duets which follow are grouped under the four headings 'Warming Up, Tone, Facility and Articulation' to practise those main points. This collection has been drawn from a wide and varied range of methods and studies by noted European flautists/teachers/composers of the nineteenth century, and some earlier. "Any worthy companion should be interesting as well as instructive. Such, at least, is the aim of this collection."

• Dorus - 4 studies.
• TONE
• Demersseman - 6 studies; Devienne - 2 studies; 1 study each by Leplus, K�hler, Andersen, Drouet, Camus, Gariboldi & Devienne.
• FACILITY
• Hotteterre - 5 studies; Quantz/Frederick the Great & Demersseman - 3 studies each; Leplus & Camus - 2 each; 1 each by Soussman, K�hler, Gariboldi, Berbiguier & Devienne.
• ARTICULATION
• Quantz/Frederick the Great - 3 studies; 2 sudies each by Par�s, Demersseman, Soussmann, Andersen; 1 each by Camus & Gariboldi; Devienne - 2 duets.

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