基本説明
In this informative edition, Ardal Powell presents a translation of Tromlitz's important tutor for playing the flute (published 1791).
Table of Contents
Translator's note
Introduction
Foreword
1. The flute and its character
2. Holding the flute, and the embouchure
3. Fingering
4. The notes and rests, their values and
denominations, and the other musical signs
5. Time-signatures, and how the notes are
divided and counted in them
the beat itself, or counting time according to
an appointed tempo
6. Tone and pure intonation
7. Modern key-signatures
8. The articulation proper to this instrument,
or the means of governing the wind suitably, as
well in slow as in moderately quick movements
also called the single tongue
9. The technique for executing fast and very
fast passages clearly and roundly
also, though improperly, called the
double-tongue
10. The ornaments
11. The trill
12. Fermatas and cadenzas
13. The taking of breath in flute-playing
14. The discretionary ornaments
or how to vary a simple melody according to the
rules of harmony, and to use these variations
in a good and suitable way appropriate to the
material
15. Summary of the whole, together with a few
remarks for pupils and masters.
