Creative Flutist Ideas for Practice on Etudes

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Performance Video Guide by Ebonee Thomas

​Listening Playlist For TMEA Etudes YouTube 

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Etude #1​: Kohler Op. 33 no.19 ~ C Major ~ Moderato ~ p. 28

quarter note = 84-88

From Wikipedia:

Ernesto Köhler (4 December 1849 – 17 March 1907) was an Italian flautist and composer. He was considered one of the best flautists of his era.[1]

Born in Modena, Köhler was taught the flute by his father, Venceslau Joseph Köhler, who was the first flute of the Duke of Modena's orchestra.[1] He moved to Vienna in 1869 as a flautist, and then became a member of the orchestra of the Imperial Opera in Saint Petersburg beginning in 1871.

Noted as a composer for flute, Köhler wrote over 100 works for the instrument: études, duets, and solos. He also produced an opera and several ballets. He is well known among flute players for "Flöten-Schule" (c. 1880), his popular method for learning the flute, and for Progress in Flute Playing (his Opus 33, published in the 1880s), a series of three progressive instructional books for the flute player.

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Another resource for Kohler 

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The Romantic/Expressive style of Kohler.

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Meter: Common time  and how to give this gesture and phrasing.

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Expression in all our beautiful registers. 

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Contrast of dynamics. p & f

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Finding and bringing out the phrasing and your interpretation.

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Key: C Major - And modulation through many other keys: arpeggios, thirds, scales.  

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Main Keys/ Arpeggios: C Major, B minor, B Major, D Major, E minor,  E Major, F#Major,  A minor, F Major, G7…. 

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Large Intervals - Flexibility of Sound… Embouchure ~ Air: speed, angle, support, flow ~ Beautiful Centered Sound in all registers… 

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Articulation - Combination of slurring and articulations. Length of notes & Resonance

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A#/Bb - Using our 3 choices of Long, Lever and Thumb. 

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Practice Ideas:

1. Slur to find the Phrasing & Beautiful Sound . 2. Articulation; haha, t’s & k’s 3. Chunking, 5’s 9’s… to find harmony and patterns. 3. Phrasing 4. Dynamics 5. Breathing 6. Endurance

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Etude #2: Kohler Op. 33 no.10 ~ A min/A Maj ~ Adagio Patetico ~ p. 29

eighth note = 56-76

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Etude #2 Kohler Adagio ~ Krista Jobson 

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Etude #2 Kohler Adagio with Orchestral Harmony

Another resource for Kohler 

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What are we studying?

​1. Flute Etude in the Romantic/Expressive style of Kohler. ~Sing the Story~
2. Rhythms, meter
3. Mood ~ Story
4. Phrasing ~ Breathing
5. Sound
6. Intonation
7. Vibrato
8. Dynamics

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Practice Ideas:

1. Decide how to count each measure, phrase and whole etude. Meter Matters.
2. Mood/Story of Etude and of each phrase.
3. Begin to get to know and express the phrasing - sing … Breathing
4. Create your most beautiful expressive sound. Key A minor and A Major
5. Use tuner to check intonation by checking and with a drone.
6. Choose a variety of vibrato speeds and amplitude to express each phrase.
7. Bring out the dynamics via mood, story and what they mean to you.

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Etude #3: Andersen Op 37 ~ A Major ~ Allegretto ~ p.42-43

 dotted quarter note = 44-54

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Etude #3 Andersen Caprice in A Major no.7 - Green Banana Flute Studio​​

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

Carl Joachim Andersen (29 April 1847 – 7 May 1909) was a Danish flutist, conductor and composer born in Copenhagen, son of the flutist Christian Joachim Andersen. Both as a virtuoso and as composer of flute music, he is considered one of the best of his time. He was considered to be a tough leader and teacher and demanded as such a lot from his orchestras but through that style he reached a high level.

As well as his little brother, Viggo was taught by his father and already as a child he performed with success at a Danish theater called Casino accompanied by the little harpist Frantz Pønitz. From when he was 13 years old to the year of 1868 he was first flutist in a musical orchestra in Copenhagen conducted by Niels Gade.

In 1869 he became employed by the Royal Danish Orchestra as a flutist but resigned after a year of leave in 1878. He was longing for larger challenges and went abroad. First stop was Saint Petersburg (1878–1880) where he was engaged by St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Afterwards in 1881 he went to Berlin where he was engaged in Bilse's Band as a solo flutist as well as he was in the Royal German Opera.

In 1882 he was a co-founder of the Berlin Philharmonic, which he and 53 other musicians formed out of the former Bilse's Band. Along with his job as a solo flutist, he took over more and more conductor's assignments and conducted over 8 summers one of the orchestra's two daily concerts in Scheveningen.

In 1893 Andersen was forced to resign his job because of a paralysis in his tongue and travelled then back to Copenhagen where he was employed as a composer. Among other pieces he was the composer of concerts in Tivoli Gardens. In 1897 he founded an orchestra school and was, until his death, leader and professor in conducting at the school.

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What are we studying?

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1. 1. A Major/ Sound 2. Articulation & Accents 3. Phrasing 4. Dynamics 5. Meter 6. Intervals. 7. Breathing

Practice Ideas:

1. Single note articulation style and resonance 2. Slur for sound and phrasing 3. Ha ha, w/o tongue for articulation 4. Accents and bringing them out expressively. 5. Chunk measures with larger intervals 6. Chunk each phrase 7. Practice linking together and breathing

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