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Flute 102: Mastering the Basics by Patricia George and Phyllis Avidan Louke (Fabulous Flute
Music Company) A Method for the Intermediate Flutist with Teaching and Phrasing Guide
The
technical, creative, and musical development of intermediate flutists continues with the integration of etudes, solo
repertoire, orchestral excerpts, and extended techniques instruction into an innovative curriculum. Continuation
of the pioneering set of practicing and phrasing guides expands on the pedagogical approach used in Flute 101:
Mastering the Basics. Spiral bound. 80 pages.
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Price for 3 or more: $15.00
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Flute 102: Solo Repertoire by Patricia George and Phyllis Avidan Louke (Fabulous Flute Music
Company) Solos for the Intermediate Flutist include: The Ash Grove,
The Campbells are Coming, La
Donna e Mobile by Verdi, Caprice VIII by Stamitz, Humoreske by Antonín Dvořák, Gavotte by Gossec,
Minuet from L'Arlésienne Suite No. 2 by Bizet, Menuet 1 and 2 from Suite in A minor by Telemann, Passepied 1 and 2 from
Suite in A minor by Telemann, La Cinquantaine by Gabriel-Marie, Pan Pastorale by Donjon, Andante in C Major by
Mozart, Contemporary Technique Solos by Phyllis Avidan Louke and Thom Ritter George.
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BRAND NEW!!
Four Renaissance Motets for Flute Quartet or Flute
Choir by Tomás Luis de Victoria, arranged by Phyllis Avidan Louke (Fabulous Flute Music Company)
mp3 O Magnum Mysterium mp3 O Quam Gloriosum mp3 O Vos Omnes mp3 Ave Maria (recordings by Rose City Flute Choir 12/04)
O Magnum Mysterium (O Great Mystery)
O Quam Gloriosum (O How Glorious)
O Vos Omnes (O All Ye That Pass)
Ave Maria (Hail
Mary)
These four motets were adapted from choral music written by Spanish
Renaissance composer, Tomás Luis de Victoria. He wrote exclusively Latin sacred music. O Magnum Mysterium
is perhaps the most moving sacred setting ever written during the Renaissance. Composed in the phrygian mode, this motet evokes
the ancient spectacle of high services in the great stone churches of the Old World. The opening chord progression of O
Quam Gloriosum’s, a motet for All Saints Day, depicts the mystery of transfiguration into the afterlife.
After many phrases depicting death, the music leads us to a comforting close as the dead are lead to their eternal home.
O Vos Omnes, a motet traditionally performed during Holy Week, is seen as one of the best, combining a perfect polyphonic
technique with a highly expressive interpretation of the words. Ave Maria is the composer’s best known
work.
Scored for 3 flutes and alto flute, with optional piccolo and bass flute (8:30), Level 3 |
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BRAND NEW!!
Cloud Images by Phyllis Avidan
Louke (Fabulous Flute Music Company)
mp3 (Rising Above the Clouds) mp3 (Billowing Clouds) mp3 (Oh Look! There's an Alligator!) mp3 (With Your Head in the Clouds) mp3 (Through a Sea of Clouds) (Recordings by Rose City Flute Choir 5/01)
Cloud Images is a programmatic work in five
movements for Flute Choir dedicated to Albert Weatherly of Sankyo Flutes, USA. The inspiration for this piece came from
the beauty of the cloud formations observed during a plane flight. Piccolo, alto and bass flutes are promiently featured.
Movement
1, “Rising Above the Clouds”, features a soaring melody played first by the bass and alto flute.
The piccolo adds a countermelody which contributes to the feeling of being above the clouds. Movement 2, “Billowing
Clouds”, features the alto flute in a cadenza with an Irish flavor. The alto flute is then joined by
the bass flute in a duet, and eventually by the other flutes. A melody in 7/8 time is then alternated 6/8 to convey
the shape and roundness of clouds. Movement 3, “Oh Look! There’s an Alligator!”, is a
whimsical look at the different shapes that can be found in clouds. A running bass line in the bass flute supports a
jaunty melody which seems to be “on the prowl” to find various shapes in the clouds. Several different animal
shapes are “seen”: a hippo, an elephant, and finally, an alligator. Vocals can also be utilized in
this movement to better communicate the whimsy of these animal shapes to the audience. Movement 4, “With Your Head in the Clouds”,
is in a light-hearted “soft shoe” style. The melodies describe the feeling of skipping through life, not
having a care in the world. For a “Lawrence Welk” ending, one of the players with rests can blow bubbles
during the last measure. Movement 5, “Through a Sea of Clouds”, has a dream-like quality imagining what it would
be like to travel through a sea of clouds and touch their wispy softness. The bass flute is prominently featured, and
then joined by the alto flute. The piccolo adds the “frosting” on top. Scored for piccolo, 3 flutes, alto
flute (alternate C-flute part included) and bass flute. (12:00), Level 3 |
BRAND NEW!!
Four Renaissance Motets for Flute Quartet or Flute
Choir by Tomás Luis de Victoria, arranged by Phyllis Avidan Louke (Fabulous Flute Music Company)
mp3 O Magnum Mysterium mp3 O Quam Gloriosum mp3 O Vos Omnes mp3 Ave Maria (recordings by Rose City Flute Choir 12/04)
O Magnum Mysterium (O Great Mystery)
O Quam Gloriosum (O How Glorious)
O Vos Omnes (O All Ye That Pass)
Ave Maria (Hail
Mary)
These four motets were adapted from choral music written by Spanish
Renaissance composer, Tomás Luis de Victoria. He wrote exclusively Latin sacred music. O Magnum Mysterium
is perhaps the most moving sacred setting ever written during the Renaissance. Composed in the phrygian mode, this motet evokes
the ancient spectacle of high services in the great stone churches of the Old World. The opening chord progression of O
Quam Gloriosum’s, a motet for All Saints Day, depicts the mystery of transfiguration into the afterlife.
After many phrases depicting death, the music leads us to a comforting close as the dead are lead to their eternal home.
O Vos Omnes, a motet traditionally performed during Holy Week, is seen as one of the best, combining a perfect polyphonic
technique with a highly expressive interpretation of the words. Ave Maria is the composer’s best known
work.
Scored for 3 flutes and alto flute, with optional piccolo and bass flute (8:30), Level 3 |
NEW FOR 2011! Four Spirituals for Flute Choir by Phyllis
Avidan Louke (ALRY Publications)
Four
Spirituals for Flute Choir was dedicated to Francine Ross Pancost, Flute Choir Director. Sometimes referred to as Negro spirituals and dating
back to the days of slavery, there are three basic categories of spirituals: Call and response , slow and
melodic with expressive phrasing, and fast and rhythmic, often with syncopated rhythms. Songs were part
of slaves’ daily lives and were sometimes used as a means of communicating secret messages about the Underground Railroad,
rather than just for worship.
1. Sometimes
I Feel Like a Motherless Child is slow and melodic, opening with a poignant alto
flute solo, later joined by the bass flute in a duet. The piccolo provides a mournful line of counter melody in many
of the tutti passages. In the era of slavery, it was common practice to sell children of slaves away from their parents.
The song expresses the pain and despair of a child separated from his parents. 2. Elijah
Rock is fast and rhythmic with the low flutes providing a syncopated melodic ostinato.
There is some call and response between the low flutes and c-flutes, and the piccolo provides a counter melody with a gospel
flavor. 3. Wade in
the Water is also fast and rhythmic with a call and response section. The
song urges runaway slaves to travel along the river bank and through the water to avoid detection by pursuing bloodhounds
and the authorities. 4. Every Time I Feel the Spirit is fast and rhythmic with syncopated
rhythms and a gospel flair. Scored for piccolo, 3 flutes, alto (alternate C-flute part
included), bass, and opt. contrabass flute. (12:00), Level 2 to 3+
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BRAND NEW!!
Russian Sailors Dance by Reinhold Gliere, arranged
by Phyllis Avidan Louke mp3 (recording by Rose City Flute Choir 5/05)
Reinhold Moritsevich Gliere was a prominent Soviet composer who was best known
for compositions inspired by folk music of Russia and its republics. Prokofiev and Khachaturian were his students.
Originally written for orchestra, Russian Sailors Dance is from Gliere’s ballet “The Red Poppy.”
Scored for piccolo, 3 flutes, alto flute (alternate C-flute part included) and bass flute. (3:30),
Level 3 |
BRAND NEW!!
Shadowlands--A Journey by Phyllis Avidan
Louke (Fabulous Flute Music Company) mp3 Out of the Darkness mp3 Into the Shadows mp3 Moving Toward the Light! (Recordings by
Rose City Flute Choir 5/99)
Shadowlands is a programmatic work in three movements for Flute
Choir written in memory of the composer’s uncle who died from cancer.
1. Out
of the Darkness features a plaintive melody conveying sadness and later transforming to hope.
2. Into the Shadows begins with a beautiful bass and alto flute duet written in quartal harmony.
The melody is introspective, while in conjunction with syncopated chords in 4ths, keeps moving the listener forward toward
a climax of resignation.
3. Moving Toward the Light conveys a feeling of
hope and peace, ending with a touching chorale. Scored for 3 flutes, alto (alternate C-flute part included) and bass flute.
Flute 1 doubles on piccolo. (7:30), Level 3
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BRAND NEW!!
Shenandoah arranged by Phyllis Avidan Louke
(Fabulous Flute Music Company) One of America’s best loved songs began as a sea shanty. The Shenandoah spoken of in the song
is not about a place, but is about an Indian chief living along the Missouri River. This arrangement opens with a haunting
Flute 1 and Alto Flute duet. The instruments are featured in various combinations throughout the piece to explore the different
of colors produced by the flute choir. The harmonies and rhythms are altered during various sections--most notably a
duet between the Bass Flute and Alto Flute. All instruments have a turn at the melody at some point in this arrangement.
Scored for piccolo, 3 flutes, alto (alternate C-flute part included) and bass flute. (5:30) Level 3
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BRAND NEW!!
A Song of Winter—Snowmen
& Icicles by Phyllis Avidan Louke (Fabulous Flute Music Company)
This piece is evocative of a cold and windy
day in winter. A Song of Winter explores the contrasts between the smoothness and roundness of a snowman and
the hardness and jaggedness of icicles. Beginning with a winter storm with wind and swirling snow, the wind calms and
the building of a snowman begins with the rolling of a snowball. The rolling progresses to form the biggest ball of
the snowman (represented by the bass and alto flutes), which is briefly interrupted by a playful snowball fight.
The flutes continue the melody for the rolling of the second ball of the snowman, followed by the piccolo representing the
rolling of the smallest ball (the head of the snowman). The melody is smooth and round in a lilting ¾ time.
With the snowman complete, the wind and swirling snow return to lead into the Icicles section.
The jaggedness of the icicles is represented by the jaggedness of syncopation in a marcato style with the melody skipping
larger intervals than the Snowmen melody. Even visually, the score shows the jagged shape of the icicles.
Double-tongued ascending and descending lines, add to the hard and brittle feeling of the icicles, as well as to the shape.
The piccolo adds the glistening, shimmering effect the icicles have when the sunlight reflects off them. A final windy
storm follows, which calms at the end of the piece.
Scored for piccolo, 3 flutes, alto flute (alternate C-flute
part included) and bass flute. (6:45) Level 3+
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BRAND NEW!!
When Johnny Comes
Marching Home arranged by Phyllis Avidan Louke (Fabulous Flute Music Company)
Arranged
in a theme & variations style, each section of the flute choir has a turn at the melody, and the piccolo is featured prominently.
Interesting countermelodies and quotations interwoven into this piece give it a unique sparkle. Scored for
piccolo, three c-flutes, alto flute (alternate C-flute part included) and bass flute (4:00) Level 3 |
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