Keys and Scales Flute History Orchestral Excerpts General Music History Extended Techniques
100
D major
This major key signature has 2 sharps.
100
Bone, wood, bamboo
Before metal, flutes were typically made from this type of material.
100
The Magic Flute
Mozart wrote this opera, which includes the word "flute" in the title.
100
True
True or False: Mozart composed in the Classic period.
100
Demonstrate flutter tonguing.
200
Play a 1 octave B-flat major scale (ascending and descending).
200
Piccolo
This member of the flute family sounds an octave higher than the flute.
200
Debussy
This French Impressionist composer wrote the "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun," which opens with a famous flute solo.
200
Beethoven
This composer wrote the "Ode to Joy" theme in his ninth symphony.
200
Demonstrate a pitch bend.
300
Play a 1 octave chromatic scale beginning on C (ascending and descending).
300
True
True or False: the modern flute is a traverse flute.
300
Peter and the Wolf
In this composition with narration, Prokofiev used the flute to depict a bird.
300
J.S. Bach
This famous Baroque composer, who wrote the popular cello suite, had over 15 children!
300
Flutter tonguing, pitch bends, key pops
This extended technique is found in Berio's Sequenza 1 for solo flute.
400
Play a 2 octave F harmonic minor scale (ascending and descending).
400
Theobald Boehm
This man invented the key mechanism (that we still use today) for the flute in the 19th century.
400
Daphnis et Chloe
Ravel wrote this piece, which features a prominent flute solo in the middle along with active flute 2 and alto flute parts in a "murmuring" style.
400
Medieval
Gregorian chant was popular in which time period? (Romantic, Classic, Baroque, Renaissance, Medieval)
400
Density 21.5 by Varese
This piece, which includes key pops/clicks, was considered the first flute solo with extended techniques.
500
Play a 3 octave C scale (ascending and descending).
500
Emmanuel Pahud
This man is the principal flutist for the Berlin Philharmonic.
500
Dvorak
This Czech composer's Symphony No. 8 features flute solos in the low register, based off the tune "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot."
500
Wagner
This opera composer is known for using "leitmotifs," which are similar to the character themes found in the music for Star Wars.
500
Demonstrate beat-boxing on the flute.






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