Teachers and flutists at all levels will welcome the return of Nancy Toff's unique one-stop guide to the flute and its music. Organized into four main parts--The Instrument, Performance, The Music, and Repertoire Catalog--the book begins with a description of the instrument and its making, offers information on choosing and caring for a flute, sketches a history of the flute, and discusses differences between members of the flute family. In the Performance section, readers learn about breathing, tone, vibrato, articulation, technique, style, performing, and recording. In the extensive analysis of flute literature that follows, Toff places individual pieces in historical context. The book ends with a comprehensive catalog of solo and chamber repertoire, and includes appendices with fingering charts as well as lists of current flute manufacturers, repair shops, sources for flute music and books, and flute clubs and related organizations worldwide.
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"The veritable vade mecum for that instrument."--Ovation.
"Absolutely indispensable to everyone connected with the flute and flute playing, from the professional to every public school teacher."--The School Musician.
"A landmark in the literature of the flute and a must for both professional and amateur flutist alike."--Pan.
"The last section, which includes the orchestration and publishing information of flute literature from the Baroque to the present, is worth its weight in gold--not only for the flutist, but for the music librarian as well."--Library Journal.
"An indispensable source book for flutists on every level."--IThe Radcliffe Quarterly.
"Toff's scholarship was impressive in The Development of the Modern Flute, and her latest effort reflects the same meticulous approach....a wealth of information about a fascinating instrument."Choice.
About the Author
Nancy Toff is the author of The Development of the Modern Flute and Georges Barr�re and the Flute in America. Highly respected as a writer, researcher, and lecturer, she has been a consultant to the Dayton C. Miller Flute Collection in the Library of Congress and the Department of Musical Instruments of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A former president of the New York Flute Club, she studied flute with Arthur Lora and James Pappoutsakis.
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54 of 55 people found the following review helpful:
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Should be Mandatory Handbook for All Flutists,
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This review is from: The Flute Book: A Complete Guide for Students and Performers (Paperback)
This is an excellent resource. It has whole chapters on breathing (including exercises and circular breathing), tone, vibrato, articulation, technique, style, and performance (including repertoire catalogue information). The recording section lists catalogues, play along tips, and how to make you own recordings. There are four chapters covering music of the Baroque, Classic, Romantic, and Modern Eras. The book is worth every penny, if only for the appendices, which include listings of flute manufacturers, repair shops, periodicals, music and book source information, and flute clubs and related oganizations, all with addresses, phone numbers, and a few E-mail or web page addresses. The 153 page repertoire catalogue is excellent, and lists publishers, so you can find just about any classical flute work easily. The extensive selected bibliography is also of interest, especially historically, and is divided by topic, such as performance and technique, the instrument, biographies, or eras. The section on the instument and its care includes drawings and photographs. The amount of research that must have gone into this work is amazing. The bibliography runs ten pages. The index is excellent and thorough. With regards to the sections on performance, breathing, etc., it would have been nice if a CD with examples and more drawings were included. Maybe this could be developed later to go along with the book. Hopefully, the author will also write a book about popular flute music, with such a handy repertoire catalogue and web page addresses and flute links, including Amazon.com. This book is so great, I just ordered a second copy as a gift.
20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
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Great Reference tool,
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This review is from: The Flute Book: A Complete Guide for Students and Performers (Paperback)
Nancy Toff does an exceptional job with this complete and well-rounded reference book for books. Any information that one could hope for about playing the instrument, buying the instrument, or listening to the instrument is included. The author also does well to give many perspectives on many flute issues, reasoning them out for the reader. The second half of the book on the history of many composers is exhaustive and complete. The catalog of repertoire pieces in a table format with available publishers is invaluable for any performer. Really a must own.
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Nancy Toff has left nothing out of this grand book -- the history, anatomy, selection, and care of the flute in its popular and more esoteric forms; an extensive discussion on the development of not only classical and modern technique, but also personal style; building a repertoire and creating or finding performance opportunities; the history of flute music, and authoritative suggestions for building a sheet and recorded music library; countless charts and reference materials -- all has been included that a flute player, whether amateur or professional, student or teacher, could and would want to know and reference in the course of their playing career. And if one happens to find anything not included, I feel confident that Ms. Toff would personally see to correcting the matter immediately. An absolute must; look no further, oh wearied flutists (as Ms. Toff insists you are to be called, and not flautists, based on a well-researched etymological conclusion), for your redemption is at hand.
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"A flute," wrote an early nineteenth century British critic, "is a musical weed which springs up everywhere." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
trill lever, repertoire catalog, silver headjoint, gizmo key, flute literature, sensitive fingerings, flute club, embouchure plate, flute vibrato, many flutists, most flutists, double concerto for flute, flute tube, system flute, flute repertoire, student flutes, embouchure hole, unaccompanied flute, trill key, flute works, flute technique, first flutist, plateau model, model flute, flute choir Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Marcel Moyse, Paris Conservatoire, Theobald Boehm, William Kincaid, Georges Barrère, Charles Nicholson, Concert Spirituel, National Flute Association Newsletter, World War, Philippe Gaubert, Frederick the Great, Johann Joachim Quantz, Boston Symphony, Georges Laurent, Jack Moore, Johann Stamitz, Les Six, Dover Publications, Jean-Pierre Rampal, John Krell, Louis Fleury, Michel Corrette, Abraham Veinus New!
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trill lever, repertoire catalog, silver headjoint, gizmo key, flute literature, sensitive fingerings, flute club, embouchure plate, flute vibrato, many flutists, most flutists, double concerto for flute, flute tube, system flute, flute repertoire, student flutes, embouchure hole, unaccompanied flute, trill key, flute works, flute technique, first flutist, plateau model, model flute, flute choir Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Marcel Moyse, Paris Conservatoire, Theobald Boehm, William Kincaid, Georges Barrère, Charles Nicholson, Concert Spirituel, National Flute Association Newsletter, World War, Philippe Gaubert, Frederick the Great, Johann Joachim Quantz, Boston Symphony, Georges Laurent, Jack Moore, Johann Stamitz, Les Six, Dover Publications, Jean-Pierre Rampal, John Krell, Louis Fleury, Michel Corrette, Abraham Veinus New!
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- On Playing the Flute by Johann Joachim Quantz on 4 pages
- Handbook of Literature for the Flute by Pellerite on 4 pages
- Modern Guide to Fingerings for the Flute by James J. Pellerite on 4 pages
- Early Chamber Music (Da Capo Press music reprint series) by Ruth Halle Rowen on page 215, page 240, and Back Matter
- The History of Music in Performance: The Art of Musical Interpretation from the Renaissance to Our Day by Frederick Dorian on page 160, page 240, and Back Matter
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- Musical Instruments: History, Technology and Performance of Instruments of Western Music by Donald Murray Campbell in Back Matter
- Making Music for the Joy Of It by Stephanie Judy in Back Matter
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