The Keyed Flute by Johann George Tromlitz
Series: Early Music Series; 17;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 18 July 1996
- ISBN 9780198164623
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 254x197x19 mm
- Weight 800 g
- Language English
- Illustrations halftones, line figures, tables, and music examples 0
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Short description:
J.G. Tromlitz's German tutor for the keyed flute explains in great detail how to play a flute of that period. In addition to a complete translation, this edition contains a study of the flute's history, and assesses Tromlitz's importance as a designer. It contains information vital to the historically informed performance of the music of the period.
MoreLong description:
The Keyed Flute is a translation and study of J.G. Tromlitz's tutor for the 8-keyed flute, first published in German in 1800 when the design of the flute was multifarious. It is the first serious 19th-century method book for the instrument, explaining in great detail how to play flutes of Tromlitz's own special design.
Powell's study of the late 18th-century flute places the Tromlitz flute in its context. He offers a new approach to the instrument's history, relating the design and manufacture of the flute, its tone and intonation, to contemporay evidence of playing technique, performance practice, composition style, developments in the flute market, and the flute's important place in society. Documentation of the history of the flute in this period is the most complete to date, revealing a clear picture of
Tromlitz's importance and of his contemporary influence. The edition contains information vital to the historically informed performance of classical and Romantic music.
If no other praise were due, the mere fact of his translating these books would have indebted the general, and specifically the English-speaking readers to Ardal Powell...More, and even higher praise is merited by the fact that Mr Powell placed this text in its historical context and perspective...The translation of Tromlitz's text makes fluent and comfortable reading. It does not feel as a translation. No mean feat!...Ardal Powell suceeds eminently in establishing
Tromlitz, with Johann Joachim Quantz before and Theobald Boehm after him as the pioneering maker, teacher and theoretician he undoubtedly was. providing the flute world with a book that puts the development of the flute from 1800 to this day in a better and more consequential perspective.
Bravo.
