Foundation To Flute Playing Elementary Method

Although titled an ""elementary"" method, this very standard flute method progresses at a very rapid rate, and includes material for at least two or three years of study.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Position
3. The Flute and Its Care
4. How to Practice
5. What to Practice
6. Transposition
7. Fingering
8. The Crutch (or Bridge)
9. Open and Closed G# Key
10. Breathing
11. Tuning
12. Time
13. Before Playing
14. General Preliminary Advice
15. Additional Advice
16. Rudiments of Music
17. Kinds of Notes
18. Kinds of Rests
19. Sharps, Flats, Naturals, etc.
20. Signs Most Frequently Used
21. Tone Production
22. Construction of Scales
23. Exercises on the D and F Scales
24. Dotted Quarter Notes Followed by Eighths
25. The Slur
26. Simple Tonguing Exercises
27. Slurring and Tonguing
28. Miscellaneous Slurring Exercises
29. Syncopation
30. Staccato Tonguing
31. Staccato Exercises in 6/8 Time
32. Miscellaneous Exercises
33. Dotted Eighths Followed by Sixteenths
34. Staccato Exercises in Sixteenth Notes
35. Sixteenths Followed by Dotted Eighths
36. Scale Studies
37. Triplets
38. The Chromatic Scale
39. Exercises for Developing Technique
40. Preparatory Exercises on the Turn
41. The Turn
42. Grace Notes
43. The Trill
44. Major and Minor Scales
45. Major and Minor Chord Exercises
46. Melodic Minor Scales
47. Harmonic Minor Scales
48. Sustained Tones
49. Intervals
50. Embouchure Exercises
51. Miscellaneous Technical Exercises
52. Double Tonguing
53. Triple Tonguing
54. Cadenzas
55. Collection of Songs and Solos
56. Etude I
57. Etude II
58. Etude III
59. Etude IV
60. Etude V
61. Etude VI
62. Etude VII
63. Grand Fantasie Theme and Variations