He explains that when we put the pieces together we should turn the embouchure hole inside towards the lips of the player. The group is composed of four flute players, including myself. Rondeaule plaintif, giguelitalienne, jacquesmartin. The baroque flute was popular from the 1670s up until the 1900s. The development of the flute as a solo instrument from the medieval to the baroque era. The swan neck headjoint is a flute headjoint that has a bend of approximately 40 degrees. This type of flute is used in many ensembles, including concert bands, military bands, marching bands, orchestras, flute ensembles, and occasionally. Developing your best sound if youre learning to play the flute, youve probably heard people talk about embouchure and how important it is to a flute player. The western concert flute is a family of transverse sideblown woodwind instruments made of metal or wood. Claudio barile plays js bach bwv 10 on baroque flute video. I also have an elderly simple system ebonite rudall carte flute which does have a small hole typical c19th. See also for flute arr, scores featuring the flute, for flute, continuo, for flute, piano, for 2 flutes, for 3 flutes. For example, the 3rd and 7th degrees of the major scale need attention.
For my part, as much as possible, i follow quantzs own advice in his famous treatise. 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. The aulos matteblack grenser is a really easytoplay flute. And any note in a chord that needs tweaking on the concert flute likely will need very careful adjusting on the baroque flute. The 19thcentury french fivekey flute and the modern. Lower lip is rolled over bottom teeth, top teeth rest on mouthpiece. The flute body is molded, but the embouchure is actually an individually cut insert. Tuning is a problematic subject on the traverso baroque flute because of the different embouchure techniques of players. The flutist blew into an embouchure, which is a mouth hole on the side of the flute near its closed end. Wind musicians use embouchure to describe the shape of their lips as they play a musical instrument.
But i think that most baroque flute players have the head turned inward to some extent. A tempo di gavotta from recorder sonata in c major, op. Try the copies of instruments by quantz, oberlender, stanesby, ih rottenburgh, and beukers. This gave considerably more volume, but still required the player to adapt to the hole. 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. Newton baroque, june 12th mary oleskiewicz, traverso, andrus madsen, harpsichord bizzaria e melancolia. 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. Developing a flexible flute embouchure can be the difference between a weak, fuzzy sound and clear, beautiful notes. Baroque, classical, and modern flutes have successively more and larger tone holes. Clarinet articulations and embouchure in the baroque. The list below includes all pages in the category for flute. By the 19th century, this had developed into an elliptical hole, usually with straight sides or sometimes a small amount of undercutting. 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.
It comes in a small, very light instrument case, which also con tains a thumb rest. 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. Keyed and keyless flutes with sterling silver tenons and sleeves. 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. The basic flute embouchure should be essentially the same for any sideblown flute. The term flute was originally applied both to pipe instruments held sideways and pipe instruments held vertically. Clarinet embouchure and articulation in the baroque period by connie corine gardner modern embouchure and articulation. That said, modern flutes manufactured today generally have greatly improved cuts on the embouchure hole. Vienna philharmonic flute master class with dieter flury. Article about the beaudin flute michael dollendorf.
By the baroque era, the flute was a finely crafted concert instrument. A musician who plays the flute is called a flautist, flutist, flute player, or rarely fluter. The second fingering is the standard baroque fingering for c. The early, wide bore french instruments are best played in a significantly lower tessitura than renaissance flutes. Thus, the vertically held recorder was also called a flute. 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.
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. Ralph sweet sells an inexpensive baroque flute with both 415 and 440 joints. I couldnt find message when i ordered the pdf file so i listened and. This ensemble was and continues to be a helpful source for experimenting with the music and the instruments.
On the baroque flute there are 2 different sets of accidentals, as previously discussed with reference to hotelier paragraph 4. Baroque flute handbook wikibooks, open books for an open world. 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. It must be very relaxed, with the bottom lip spread.
These dont only include boehm flutes, but also baroque flutes, modern. Pdf the development of the flute as a solo instrument. Baroque flute handbookcare wikibooks, open books for an. 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. Boehm flute players are used to having the embouchure in line with the finger holes. 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. Cutoff frequencies and cross fingerings in baroque. Keyless and keyed irish flutes, baroque flutes, irish whistles, fifes, tabor pipes. This experience has done a lot of good for my baroque traverso playing. There is no secret magical fingering that will just make it work. 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. 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. Finding that note on your flute will have more to do with finding the right embouchure position.
The baroque flute had the most basic of embouchure a round hole to blow down. Between the embouchure hole and the closed end of the traverso is a cork which may be moved to adjust an instruments intonation. The thumb rest simply clicks on your flute and you can leave it there. 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. It is made by the paris maker thomas lot, around 1750, and is one of about half a dozen surviving baroque basses. A comprehensive text and resource book for both the. What baroque flute is the best for a beginner fipple. 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. Baroque flute embouchure vs boehm system embouchure. He has recently revised his embouchure to be of baroque period proportions. 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. Comparison of baroque flute and modern flute essay example. Impedance spectrum of a baroque flute measured at the embouchure hole using fingering for d4. My baroque piccolo story by jessica dunnavant the flute.
In general, typi cal tuning issues on the concert flute are magnified on the baroque flute. When claudio plays this antique style of flute, you can really see the flexibility of embouchure he has to use to tune the notes. 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. Sort this list by work type, instrumentation, composer, and more. Baroque flute advice for traverso beginners instruments.
Embouchure hole has been crudely altered, to an oval shape at the exterior with crude undercutting, not compatible with the exterior shape. I want to buy another same flute and enjoy duet with friends who are interested in baroque flute. It is handmade from sterling silver, with a handcut embouchure. The type of flutes used at the start of the baroque era were transverse flutes. The baroque flute is emerging as a new and remarkably flexible voice in. Making oval embouchure hole for baroque flute 1 youtube. 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. Fluteembouchure and producing sound wikibooks, open.
It has a conical bore that is wide at the end with the embouchure hole and tapers to become. This includes works originally scored for solo flute. The pattern begins with the hole furthest from the embouchure, next to the key. Much what i said about the renaissance type of flutes see 9. I took to it and continued study past theclasses by joining the fsu baroque ensemble. 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.
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