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The flute book : a complete guide for students and performers / Nancy Toff
A modern guide to fingerings for the fluteMT348.P334 M6 1972
by James J. Pellerite
17 big daily finger exercises for the flute MT345.T33 G7 1958
Flute repertoire catalogue: 10,000 titles ML128.F7 V48 Reference
by Frans Vester
A handbook of literature for the flute : a list of graded method materials, solos, and ensemble music for the fluteML128.F7 P4 1963
by James J. Pellerite
Flute solos : the ultimate collectionM64 .F58 2001 CD-ROM
Printable scanned images of over 2000 pages of public-domain music.
The other flute : a performance manual of contemporary techniquesMT340 .D48 1989
An essential reference work of contemporary flute techniques.
The simple flute : from A to Z (eBook)The book is particularly strong on such aspects of technique as breathing, articulation, fingering, and more advanced aspects of playing, e.g., flutter tonguing, harmonics, and ghost tones.
Flute Journals
Flute Talk(Bound Journal)
Welcome to the Flute Page
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Databases
Classical Music Library
Classical Music Library is an ever-growing database of classical music recordings. The collection includes recordings from the world's greatest labels including Hyperion, Bridge Records, Sanctuary Classics, Artemis-Vanguard, Hänssler Classic, Vox and many more. Coverage includes music written from medieval times to the present, including many contemporary composers. Repertoire ranges from vocal and choral music, to chamber, orchestral, solo instrumental, and opera.
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Oxford Music Online
Oxford Music Online is the gateway offering users the ability to access and cross-search multiple music reference resources in one location.
[More details]With over 60,000 articles written by over 6,000 music scholars, Grove Music Online (GMO) is the authoritative resource for music research
Naxos Music Library
Naxos Music Library [NML] is the world´s largest online classical music library. Currently, it offers streaming access to more than 87,860 CDs with more than 1,247,500 tracks, standard and rare repertoire. Over 800 new CD-length recordings are added to the library every month.
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Websites
Larry Krantz Flute Pages
One of the largest websites on and about the flute with lots of helpful information from biographies of performers and composers of the flute to helpful informative pages on playing or teaching the flute.
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Flute World
Resource for purchasing flute, piccolos, alto flutes, and bass flutes, and flute sheet music.
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Dayton C. Miller Flute Collection
The collection contains a 17th century flageolet tutor from the Miller Flute Collection of almost 1,700 flutes and other wind instruments, statuary, iconography, books, music, trade catalogs, tutors, patents, and other materials mostly related to the flute. Western and nonwestern examples represented. Items in the collection date from the 16th to the 20th century.
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National Flute Association
The National Flute Association, founded in 1972, is the largest flute organization in the world. Approximately 5,000 members from more than 50 countries join together in person, online, at conventions, informally and in forums, through publications and classrooms, in performance, in friendship and collegiality.
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Flute Talk
Free service provides information on auditions, masterclasses, competitions, and festivals.
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Flute Reference Guide
Resource provides sheet music, articles, selected biographies, and other reference materials for studying the flute.
[More details]Contains suggested call numbers and subject headings for searching resources for flute repertoire. Also, a list of print resources (not in our library) and online links for flute related sources.
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Where to look in the library
Below are general call number ranges for Shelf Browsing:
| M60-M64 | Flute alone |
| M240-M244 | Flute with piano accompaniment |
| M288-M289 | Duets-- with another wind instrument |
| M290-M291 | Duets-- with a string instrument |
| M296-M297 | Duets-- flute with guitar, harp |
| M957, M1470 | Flute ensembles |
| M1020 | Concertos with orchestra |
| M1021 | Concertos with orchestra (arranged) |
| M1120 | Concertos with string orchestra |
| M1121 | Concertos with string orchestra (arranged) |
| ML128 .F7 | Flute bibliographies |
| ML935-937 | Books about the flute |
| MT342-MT345 | Studies and methods for flute |
| MT346 | Orchestral excerpts |