The story of the flute : being a history of the flute and everything connected with it / by H. Macaulay Fitzgibbon.
| Author/creator | Fitzgibbon, H. Macaulay |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | 2nd edition / with added material including the position of the flute to-day (1928), frontispiece of Lulli and his flautists, also corrections & revisions of the work. |
| Publication Info | London : William Reeves Bookseller Limited; New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, [1929] |
| Description | xvi, 291 pages : frontispiece, illustrations, (including music) portraits ; 19 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | The music story series / edited by Frederick J. Crowest Music story series. ^A643633 |
| Contents | Chapter I. Flutes of the ancients. Antiquity of the flute ; Classic legends ; Egyptian origin ; The Arab "Nay" ; Development ; The fipple ; Fingerholes ; Double flutes ; Popularity amongst the ancients ; Ancient players of note ; Their position and costume -- Chapter II. Flute-a-bec and recorder. Beaked flutes ; Recorders ; Double and triple recorders ; Popularity ; Gradual decline ; Flageolet and other early pipes -- Chapter III. Transverse flute. Section I. Was it known to the Greeks and Romans? ; The Chinese ; India ; Early representations and references ; The Schweitzerpfeiff ; Virdung ; Agricola ; Praetorius ; Mersenne's description ; In England -- Section II. Flutes with keys ; The D [sharp] key ; Hotteterre ; The conical bore ; Structure of early flutes ; Tuning slides ; Quantz's inventions ; The low C keys ; Further keys added ; Tromlitz's inventions ; Open keys ; The eight-keyed flute ; Capeller and Nolan's keys -- Chapter IV. Bohm and Gordon. Biographical ; Revolution in the flute ; Gordon ; His flutes ; Bohm ; His flutes of 1831, 1832, and 1847 ; His publications ; As a player ; His compositions ; Bohm's centenary ; The controversy ; Priority of inventions ; Coche's attack ; Clinton's views ; Revival of the controversy ; Rockstro's attack ; Summary -- Chapter V. Flute after Bohm. Various patentees ; Coche and Buffet ; Ward ; The Dorus key ; Siccama ; Briccialdi's lever ; Carte's flutes ; Clinton ; Pratten ; Rockstro ; Radcliff ; Other minor "improvers" -- Chapter VI. Military fife. Early history, examples, and references ; Arbeau's description ; Introduced into the French army ; Into the English army ; Duties of military fifers ; Their position ; Temporary disuse ; Re-instatement ; The true fife ; In opera -- Chapter VII. Piccolo: F flute. Piccolo ; Orchestral use ; Characteristics ; Berlioz on its abuse ; Its various registers ; As used by great composers ; Two piccolos ; With cymbals, bells, etc. ; As a solo instrument ; Military varieties ; The F flute -- Chapter VIII. Alto and bass flutes. The true bass flute ; Early examples ; Alto flutes ; Modern examples ; The flute d'amour ; Recent revival -- Chapter IX. Characteristics of the flute. Popularity of the flute ; Its tone ; Various registers ; Its agility ; Harmonics ; Double-tongueing ; The glide ; Vibrato effect ; Shakes and turns ; Tremolo ; Best keys ; Hygienic aspect -- |
| Contents | Chapter X. Music for the flute. Early composers ; Loeillet ; Mercy ; Blavet ; Quantz ; Classical composers ; Flautist composers ; Kuhlau ; His successors ; Good flute music ; Taste of the public ; Airs with variations ; Doppler ; Terschak ; Modern school of flute composers ; Flute and harp or guitar ; Flute and voice -- Chapter XI. Flute in the orchestra. Introduction of the flute into the orchestra ; The flute and piccolo as used by the great composers ; Bach ; His obligatos ; Handel ; His flauto-piccolo ; Flute and organ ; Gluck ; Haydn ; The Creation ; Symphonies ; Mozart ; Disliked the flute ; Symphonies ; Serenades ; Operas ; Concertos ; Beethoven ; His famous flute passages ; Weber ; Meyerbeer ; Piccolo passages ; Italian operatic composers ; William Tell overture ; Mendelssohn ; Midsummer Night's Dream ; Symphonies ; Oratorios ; Schubert ; Schumann ; Use by modern composers ; Berlioz ; Flute and harp ; Brahms ; Dvorak ; The Spectre's Bride ; Cadenzas ; Grieg ; Bizet's ; Carmen ; Sullivan ; The Golden Legend ; Coleridge-Taylor ; Wagner ; Tschaikowsky [Tchaikovsky] ; R. Strauss ; Passages of extreme difficulty -- Chapter XII. Flute in chamber music. "The neglected wind" ; Chamber pieces by great composers ; Spohr's Nonett ; Pieces for wind and pianoforte ; For wind and strings ; For wind alone ; Larger combinations ; For flutes alone -- Chapter XIII. Famous flautists. Section I. Foreign players ; Quantz ; Frederick the Great ; Royal flautists ; Early French players ; Hugot ; Berbigueir ; Tulou ; Drouet ; Furstenau ; Doppler ; Dorus ; Demersseman ; Ciardi ; Briccialdi ; Ribas ; Terschak ; Altes ; Taffanel -- Section II. British players ; Early performers ; Ashe ; Charles Nicholson ; Richardson ; Clinton ; Pratten ; B. Wells ; Henry Nicholson ; Svendsen ; Principal living flautists -- Chapter XIV. British and foreign styles compared. Statistics ; Style of performance ; English, French, Italian, German ; Bohm's opinion ; Foreign players of note -- Chapter XV. Woman and the flute. Suitability ; Female players in classic times ; More recent flautistes ; English flautistes of to-day ; American flautistes ; Female composers for the flute -- Chapter XVI. Flute in America and Australia. Early notices and players ; Later players of foreign origin ; Ernst ; Introduction of the Bohm flute ; Native American players ; Kyle ; Lemmone -- Chapter XVII. Flute in English literature: poet flautists. Early English references ; Chaucer ; Flute and fife in Shakespeare ; In the early dramatists ; In the poets ; References to the qualities of the flute ; Epithets applied to it ; Cowper ; Longfellow ; Other poets ; Prose references ; In modern novelists ; Dickens ; A weird flute story ; Flute in American authors ; Sidney Lanier ; Other literary flautists ; Legends -- Chapter XVIII. Curiosities of the flute. Flutes of curious materials ; Walking-stick flutes ; Ornamented flutes ; Bohm's crutch ; Ward's terminator ; Various other inventions ; The Giorgi flute ; Automaton players ; Dulon, the blind flautist ; Rebsomen, the one-armed flautist ; Hallet, the youthful prodigy ; How to silence a flautist -- Chapter XIX. Flutes of oriental and savage nations. Oriental flutes ; Chinese ; Japanese ; Effect of the flute on animals ; Indian flutes ; Nose-flutes ; South American flutes ; The love flute ; Ancient prejudices ; The fathers and the puritans -- Appendix I. Early instruction books for transverse flute ; II. Wooden and metal flutes ; III. Bibliography of the flute. |
| Bibliography note | "Bibliography of the flute": pages 281-284. |
| LCCN | 34035797 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Music | Music Stacks | ML935.F5 S8 1929 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |