Article about the beaudin flute michael dollendorf. Baroque flute handbook wikibooks, open books for an open world. A musician who plays the flute is called a flautist, flutist, flute player, or rarely fluter. For an allaround baroque flute for music composed before about 1750, including music by composers like telemann, bach, and handel, i recommend trying copies of an original, pre1750 german, english, belgian, or dutch instrument. A comprehensive text and resource book for both the. Comparison of baroque flute and modern flute essay example. This experience has done a lot of good for my baroque traverso playing. The flutist blew into an embouchure, which is a mouth hole on the side of the flute near its closed end. Claudio barile plays js bach bwv 10 on baroque flute video. Baroque flute advice for traverso beginners instruments. I studied baroque flute in both my undergraduate and masters programs, adding alto recorder during my years at florida state university, where it is still a requirement that all flute graduate students learn to play both baroque flute and recorder. Developing a flexible flute embouchure can be the difference between a weak, fuzzy sound and clear, beautiful notes. I took to it and continued study past theclasses by joining the fsu baroque ensemble. Thus, the vertically held recorder was also called a flute.
It is made by the paris maker thomas lot, around 1750, and is one of about half a dozen surviving baroque basses. The second fingering is the standard baroque fingering for c. Impedance spectrum of a baroque flute measured at the embouchure hole using fingering for d4. Baroque flute handbookcare wikibooks, open books for an. It has a conical bore that is wide at the end with the embouchure hole and tapers to become. With some flutes, on a long bb, one can open the key and cover the embouchure a bit more, with the first fingering, to get a more resonant sound. Baroque flute embouchure vs boehm system embouchure. Baroque, classical, and modern flutes have successively more and larger tone holes. He has recently revised his embouchure to be of baroque period proportions. It is pitched a whole octave below a regular flute in d and has four open standing keys for holes 1,3,4 and 6.
These dont only include boehm flutes, but also baroque flutes, modern. Pdf the development of the flute as a solo instrument. The thumb rest simply clicks on your flute and you can leave it there. Cutoff frequencies and cross fingerings in baroque. I couldnt find message when i ordered the pdf file so i listened and.
Improving tone production on the flute with regards to embouchure. The baroque bass flute is based on a rare original in the collection of the music and theatre museum in st. The early, wide bore french instruments are best played in a significantly lower tessitura than renaissance flutes. What baroque flute is the best for a beginner fipple. It must be very relaxed, with the bottom lip spread.
On the baroque flute there are 2 different sets of accidentals, as previously discussed with reference to hotelier paragraph 4. Clarinet embouchure and articulation in the baroque period by connie corine gardner modern embouchure and articulation. A tempo di gavotta from recorder sonata in c major, op. The development of the flute as a solo instrument from the medieval to the baroque era. You might be interested in learning about some of the flutes that came in between the baroque flutes and the 19th century larger holed flutes that are in use on this forum.
The swan neck headjoint is a flute headjoint that has a bend of approximately 40 degrees. Keyed and keyless flutes with sterling silver tenons and sleeves. Playing in tune on a baroque flute by catherine folkers learning the principles of correct tuning involves a paradigm shift from our 20thcentury belief that playing the flute in tune means matching the notes as they sound on a piano or harpsichord. It is handmade from sterling silver, with a handcut embouchure. Fajardo this article was felt to be of interest to readers of early music as it puts forward general principles of flute tone production that have a bearing on the baroque as well as the boehm flute. The pattern begins with the hole furthest from the embouchure, next to the key.
The baroque flute is emerging as a new and remarkably flexible voice in. For those of an engineering bent, there are various rules for placing the cork based on parameters such as the diameter of the flute, for example, that the cork should be as far away from the there are several. Finding that note on your flute will have more to do with finding the right embouchure position. For example, the 3rd and 7th degrees of the major scale need attention.
Newton baroque, june 12th mary oleskiewicz, traverso, andrus madsen, harpsichord bizzaria e melancolia. Try the copies of instruments by quantz, oberlender, stanesby, ih rottenburgh, and beukers. Characteristics of the baroque flute traverso conical bore the flute tapered from the head joint to the foot joint, with some variations at the tenons between pieces of the flute. By the baroque era, the flute was a finely crafted concert instrument. The type of flutes used at the start of the baroque era were transverse flutes. Quantz says to have the upper edge of the mouth hole in line with the middle of the finger holes. The 19thcentury french fivekey flute and the modern boehmsystem flute in cuban charanga by jessica valiente of interest to many flutists working in charanga is the kind of flute that is commonly associated with the genre. The western concert flute is a family of transverse sideblown woodwind instruments made of metal or wood. Wind musicians use embouchure to describe the shape of their lips as they play a musical instrument. Making oval embouchure hole for baroque flute 1 youtube. I also have an elderly simple system ebonite rudall carte flute which does have a small hole typical c19th. My baroque piccolo story by jessica dunnavant the flute. Lower lip is rolled over bottom teeth, top teeth rest on mouthpiece. The baroque flute was popular from the 1670s up until the 1900s.
The term flute was originally applied both to pipe instruments held sideways and pipe instruments held vertically. Between the embouchure hole and the closed end of the traverso is a cork which may be moved to adjust an instruments intonation. The pitch was adjusted by turning the flute away from the mouth, as with the modern flute, and also by the embouchure, and by control of breath. It comes in a small, very light instrument case, which also con tains a thumb rest. By the 19th century, this had developed into an elliptical hole, usually with straight sides or sometimes a small amount of undercutting. There is no secret magical fingering that will just make it work. The embouchure you use for the baroque flute requires even flexibility than the modern flute this is because the tuning on a baroque flute is not as stable, and thus requires movement on almost every note. This includes works originally scored for solo flute. Clarinet articulations and embouchure in the baroque. Sort this list by work type, instrumentation, composer, and more. Ralph sweet sells an inexpensive baroque flute with both 415 and 440 joints. The modern cuts to which we are accustomed may require some embouchure adjustments to get the best possible sound on an older cut such as on a baroque flute. The baroque flute had the most basic of embouchure a round hole to blow down. If by embouchure one means the shape of the lipopening, that statement is untrue on two counts 1 the embouchure varies from flutist to flutist and therefore 2 various shapes are used by the players of every sort of flute, be it chinese traditional flute, or indian flute, or boehm flute, or baroque flute, or irish flute.
In general, typi cal tuning issues on the concert flute are magnified on the baroque flute. I want to buy another same flute and enjoy duet with friends who are interested in baroque flute. Claudio barile plays js bach bwv 10 on baroque flute yesterday i was teaching one or two flute students about the continuous flexibility of the lips. For my part, as much as possible, i follow quantzs own advice in his famous treatise. See also for flute arr, scores featuring the flute, for flute, continuo, for flute, piano, for 2 flutes, for 3 flutes. Boehm flute players are used to having the embouchure in line with the finger holes. Rondeaule plaintif, giguelitalienne, jacquesmartin. Vienna philharmonic flute master class with dieter flury. This ensemble was and continues to be a helpful source for experimenting with the music and the instruments. I have always been interested in the history of the flute and have been doing research about the instrument and its music for many years. And any note in a chord that needs tweaking on the concert flute likely will need very careful adjusting on the baroque flute. Keyless and keyed irish flutes, baroque flutes, irish whistles, fifes, tabor pipes. Embouchure hole has been crudely altered, to an oval shape at the exterior with crude undercutting, not compatible with the exterior shape. The 19thcentury french fivekey flute and the modern.
Indeed, up until around the middle of the eighteenth century the era of baroque music, the word flute was commonly used to. When claudio plays this antique style of flute, you can really see the flexibility of embouchure he has to use to tune the notes. The group is composed of four flute players, including myself. He explains that when we put the pieces together we should turn the embouchure hole inside towards the lips of the player. That said, modern flutes manufactured today generally have greatly improved cuts on the embouchure hole. The list below includes all pages in the category for flute. The aulos matteblack grenser is a really easytoplay flute. This type of flute is used in many ensembles, including concert bands, military bands, marching bands, orchestras, flute ensembles, and occasionally. The embouchure hole refers to the hole in the mouthpiece or headjoint of the instrument finding a practicable embouchure on the flute can be extremely difficult at first, but this challenge is easily overcome with perseverance.
Much what i said about the renaissance type of flutes see 9. Its a great time to upgrade your home music studio gear with the largest selection at. The basic flute embouchure should be essentially the same for any sideblown flute. The flute in its new form became popular first in france, where it was well suited for the refined gestures and elegant ornaments of the french baroque style. Tuning is a problematic subject on the traverso baroque flute because of the different embouchure techniques of players. This gave considerably more volume, but still required the player to adapt to the hole. The flute body is molded, but the embouchure is actually an individually cut insert.
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