Flute: Foundations 2 (non-credit)
COURSE OVERVIEW:
Lesson 1: Timekeeping in Compound Meter
- Sixteenth notes in compound meter
- Irish melodies
- New note: low C
- C major scale: two octaves
Lesson 2: The Circle of Fifths
- Famous flutist: Jean-Pierre Rampal
- Eighth and two sixteenth note rhythms
- The circle of fifths
- New note: high E
- E major scale: two octaves
Lesson 3: F Major and Dotted Rhythms
- Expression terms
- New note: high F
- F major scale
- Dotted eighth-sixteenth notes in simple meter
- Cut time
Lesson 4: A Major, A-flat Major, and Articulations
- Famous flutist: Claire Chase
- A and A-flat major scales
- Tenuto and portato articulations
- Dotted eighth-sixteenth-eighth rhythm
Lesson 5: Ornaments, Form and Review
- Mordents
- C. al Fine
- Scale review
- Performance review
REQUIRED MATERIALS:
- Working instrument & tuning rod
- Reliable access to a computer and internet
- Recording device for recording assignments (phone, tablet, camera, computer, etc.)
- Mirror
- Soussmann Complete Method for Flute – Part 1 (Publ. Carl Fischer Music) and 123 Easy Classical Studies for Flute (Publ. Universal).