| Contents |
Introduction -- Instruments: Materials, Pitch, Makers, and Maintenance -- Playing the Flute: Sound, Fingerings, and Articulation -- Playing Together: Sound, Tuning, and Temperament in Consort Playing -- Exercises -- Introduction to the Music -- Music Suitable for One Flute -- Music Suitable for Two Flutes -- Music Suitable for Three Flutes -- Music Suitable for Four Flutes -- The Renaissance Modes -- The Hexachord -- Musica Vera and Musica Ficta -- Cadences in Renaissance Music -- Renaissance Ornamentation: Diminutions and Graces -- Notation and Transcription -- The Haka Flute. |
| Abstract |
""The last four decades have seen a revival of interest in the renaissance transverse flute. The few collections of surviving original flutes from the sixteenth century have increasingly attracted musicologists, instrument makers, and players to examine, measure (and copy), perform and record on them. Renaissance flute workshops and summer courses attract students and amateur players in several corners of Europe every year. At the same time, renaissance manuscripts and early prints have increasingly become available on the internet, providing an ever-expanding supply of materials for flutists wanting to experience renaissance music for themselves. This handbook for renaissance flute players offers all the information needed to buy, maintain, and learn to play the renaissance flute, whether alone or in consort. It explains how to read and interpret renaissance music whether from original notation or in modern editions, how to make your own transcriptions, and how to write your own diminutions. It also introduces readers to the basics of renaissance music theory, in clear and simple language. At a time when the gap between the professional "classical" music world and its public seems to have grown irrevocably, this book aims to demystify the business of making beautiful music together. It is a key to the elegant, cylindrical flute that was played all over Europe in the age of polyphony and to the gentle art of consort playing.""-- Provided by publisher. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Clark, Kate, 1962- The renaissance flute New York : Oxford University Press, 2020. 9780190913328 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019052477 |
| ISBN | 9780190913359 (epub) |
| ISBN | (paperback) |
| ISBN | (hardback) |
