Traverso, the international newsletter of historical flutes and flute-playing, celebrates its twentieth anniversary by reprinting the entire run of back issues in Volumes 11-20. The volume contains forty articles on the renaissance, baroque, classical, and early romantic flute, its repertoire, and performance practice, by expert authors including Rahel Brown, David Lasocki, Gianni Lazzari, Linda Pereksta, Kim Pineda, Ardal Powell, Stephen Preston, Susan E. Thompson, and Luca Verzulli. Also included are a new bibliography of writings on historical flutes and flute-playing published in 1999-2008, compiled by David Lasocki, and a CD with a searchable PDF of the entire publication including high-resolution color images.
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Ardal Powell The Hexachords and the Renaissance Flute 1
Luca Verzulli The Pope's Flutes" The MIlitary Transverse Flute in Rome From the Sixteenth Century to the Eighteenth 5
Ardal Powell Select Music Facsimiles From Italy 9
Susan E. Thompson African Blackwood: Coping with the Decline of a Precious Species 13
Ardal Powell Celebrating Flute Collectors and Their Collections 17
Jed Wentz Freedom of Expression: A Right to "Mutilate the Meter" 21
Kim Pineda Primary Stimulation: Learning to Play Historical Flutes From Primary Sources 25
Mary Oleskiewicz Bach, Quantz, and the Flute 29
Ardal Powell Three New Publications 33
David Lasocki Are There Any "Shoulds" For Traverso Playing? 37
Ardal Powell Quantz's Essay Revisited 41
Linda Pereksta New Wine in Old Bottles: Extended Techniques and the Traverso 45
Ardal Powell A French Encyclopedia of 1761 on the Flute 49
David Lasocki The Flute in Handel's Vocal Works 53
Gianni Lazzari The Flute in Eighteenth-century Italy 57
Ardal Powell Renaissance Flute Renaissance 61
Gianni Lazzari The Flute in Early Nineteenth-century Italy 65
Ardal Powell The Early Flute by Rachel Brown 69
Ardal Powell Baroque Flute Masterclasses 73
Susan E. Thompson Traversi in Colonial and Post-revolutionary Philadelphia as noted in the Pennsylvania Gazette, 1744-84 77
David Lasocki Tracing the Renaissance Flute in Contemporaneous Documents 81
Ardal Powell John Gunn's Art of Playing the German Flute 85
Ardal Powell Traces of the Late Medieval Flute in Brittany 89
Ardal Powell Better to be Sharp Than Out of Tune? 93
Rachel Brown Cadenzas for Mozart's Flute Concertos 97
Ardal Powell Before Nicholson: Origins of a Flute School in 18th-century Britain 103
Maria Bania Flute Vibrato in the 18th and 19th Centuries 107
Ardal Powell An Interview with Jan De Winne 111
Ardal Powell The Italian Flute 115
Ardal Powell Early Flute Performance in the Age of Recording 119
R.A. Rosenfeld 'Giedde Online: A Valuable Resource for Scholars and Players of the Baroque Flute 123
Clare Beesley Inspiration and Insights: The Michaelstein Flute Symposium 129
Ardal Powell Order of Succession:Taffanel, Barrère, and the French Flute School 133
Ardal Powell Full Consort to th'Angelike Symphony: Flute and Recorder Consorts in the Renaissance 137
Linda Pereksta The 2007 NFA Baroque Flute Artist Competition 141
Ardal Powell Instruments, Scripts, and the Intentional Fallacy 145
Stephen Preston Ecosonics: Modeling a New Aproach to Technique and Improvisation on Birdsong 149
Ardal Powell Embellishment Versus Expression in Regency English Flute-playing 153
Rien de Reede Antoine Mahaut (1719-c1785): Biographical Essay 157
Matthew Thomas New Light on Andrew Ashe 161
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Ardal Powell was born in Bournemouth, England, and studied at Westminster Cathedral Choir School, Cambridge, and the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. He has made a thousand flutes at one of the world's leading historical instrument-making workshops, which he co-founded in 1984. From 2007-10 he worked as a manager and editor at a specialist musicology press in upstate New York, and is now CEO of Music Word Media Group in Hudson NY. He is a member of the American Musicological Society, the American Sociological Association, and the Society of Authors, among other groups.
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