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