The following is a selected list of important books about the flute in our collection:
The flute book: a complete guide for students and performers
Nancy Toff, author
New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2012 [3rd ed.]
ML935 .T65 2012
Contents: The instrument. The flute today -- How to choose an instrument -- Care and maintenance of the flute -- A brief history of the flute -- The flute family. Performance. Breathing -- Tone -- Vibrato -- Articulation -- Technique -- Style -- Performance -- Recordings. The music. The Baroque Era -- The Classic Era -- The Romantic Era -- The Modern Era. Repertoire catalog -- Fingering chart for the Boehm flute -- Flute manufacturers -- Repair shops -- Sources for instruments and accessories -- Sources for music and books -- Journals, societies, and service organizations -- Flute clubs and societies.
The development of the modern flute
Nancy Toff
New York: Taplinger Pub. Co., 1979
ML935 .T63
The flute : a study of its history, development, and construction / Philip Bate.
London : E. Benn ; New York : Norton, c1979
ML935 .B25 1979
The flute and flute-playing in acoustical, technical, and artistic aspects. With a new introd. by Samuel Baron.
Böhm, Theobald, 1794-1881
New York, Dover Publications [1964]
ML936 .B682 1964
Flute / James Galway.
New York : Schirmer Books, c1982.
ML935 .G33 1982
The flute / Ardal Powell.
New Haven : London : Yale University Press, 2002.
ML935 .P69 2002
Quantz's Versuch einer Anweisung die Flöte traversiere zu Spielen
Johann Joachim Quantz, 1697-1773
MT342 .Q313 1958a V. 1
MT342 .Q313 1958a V. 2
Title of translation: Essay of a method for playing the transverse flute.
Editions of Quantz's music; leaves 755-789. "Facsimile reproduction of Quantz's Sei duetti a due flauti traversi (Berlin: Winter, 1759)": leaves [790]-822. "Mr. Johann Joachim Quantz's reply to Mr. von Moldenit's so-called published missive to Mr. Quantz": leaves 823-851.
Edward R. Reilly's doctoral dissertation
On playing the flute
Johann Joachim Quantz, 1697-1773
Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2001
MT342 .Q313 2001
translation of Versuch einer Anweisung die Flöte traversiere zu spielen by Edward R. Reilly, based on his dissertation
Principes de la flûte traversière. English
Hotteterre, Jacques, 1673-1763.
New York : Dover, 1983, c1968.
MT342 .H7414 1983
The early flute
John Solum
Oxford England: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1992
ML935 .S66 1992
History of the Boehm flute: with Dr. von Schafhäutl's life of Boehm, and an examination of Mr. Rock
Christopher Welch, 1832-1915
New York: McGinnis & Marx, 1961 [Facsimile of reprint of 1892 edition]
ML936 .W3 1961
A treatise on the construction, the history and the practice of the flute
Richard Shepherd Rockstro
London, Musica Rara, 1967
ML936 .R8 1928a
Including a sketch of the elements of acoustics and critical notices of sixty celebrated flute-players by Richard Shepherd Rockstro; the greater part of the biographical information collected and the whole of the extracts from the German and the Italian translated by Georgina M. Rockstro
The other flute: a performance manual of contemporary techniques
Robert Dick, 1950-
New York: Oxford University Press, Music Dept., 1975
MT342 .D53
