"The flute" por Ardan Powell

Título: The flute
Autor: Ardan Powell
Idioma: Inglés
Editorial / Publicado por: Yale Musical Instrument Series, 2002.
352 pags.
ISBN: 0300094981
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-09498-5

Contenido:

Preface
Introduction
1. Shepherds, monks, and soldiers [covers prehistory-c1475]
Terminology
Medieval modes
2. The flute at war and at home [1475-c1600]
Flute and fife
Clefs and transposing
The hexachords and the renaissance flute
3. Consort and solo: the seventeenth century [1600-1700]
The Hotteterre flute: the French flute's creation myth
4. The early eighteenth century: the 'baroque' flute's golden age [1700-c1740]
Tuning systems
5. Quantz and the operatic style [1714-1780 and later]
6. The Classical flute [c1740-c1800]
The keyed flute
(Abingdon's) Hanover Square Grand Concert, 1784: Third concert (3 March 1784)
Guilds and capitalists
7. Travelling virtuosi, concert showpieces, and a new mass audience [Classical and Romantic periods]
M. Droüet's Concert (1829)
8. Flute mania [c1800-1850]
Equal temperament
Mechanical Innovations in the Flute Mania period
9. The Boehm flute [1829-c1854]
The Ring-key flute in Paris before 1837
Chronology of the Boehm flute
10. Nineteenth-century Eclecticism [c1850-c1918]
Further innovations in the Eclectic period
Dresden repertoire 1854-1929
11. The French Flute School [1790-1983 and later]
Paris Conservatoire flute professors
Flute and harp recital, Salle Chopin, Paris, 27 February 1932
12. The Flute in the age of recording [c1890-c1960]
Early recordings and musical style
British Women's Symphony Orchestra Queen's Hall concert, 22 May 1925
13. The Flute in the early music revival [c1880-1995]
14. The postmodern age [after World War 2]
Uniformity
References and notes
Abbreviations
Notes and bibliographic essays :
Reference, General works
History and criticism of the flute
Notes and bibliographic essays for each chapter