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A carefully graded selection of tuneful pieces for flute and piano including well-crafted arrangements providing practice of the keys, note-ranges and fingering patterns encountered in the early grades. Each volume features a wide range of material, from Purcell to Puccini and from Schubert to Stravinsky. Pieces are presented in chronological order and include the year in which they were written to give a sense of the different styles of music through the years.
List of contents
- Prelude in E Major, BWV 853 from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Part I [Johann Sebastian Bach]
- Tambourin, from Pieces de clavecin [Jean-Philippe Rameau]
- Allegro, from Sonata No. 3 in A, K. 12 [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]
- Ein Kinderscherz [Modest Musorgsky]
- Entrée des jeunes Nubiennes, from Faust [Charles Gounod]
- Bavarian Dance, Op. 27, No. 1 [Edward Elgar]
- Gavotte, from the Classical Symphony, Op. 25 [Serge Prokofiev]
- Sinfonia, from Pulcinella [Igor Stravinsky]
- Fishing Song, from Friday Afternoons, Op. 7 [Benjamin Britten]
- Prelude No. 6, from Six Preludes, Op. 23 [Lennox Berkeley]
Summary
A carefully graded selection of tuneful pieces for flute and piano including well-crafted arrangements providing practice of the keys, note-ranges and fingering patterns encountered in the early grades. Each volume presents the pieces in chronological order to give a sense of the different styles of music through the years.
