Flute Piccolo. Reader. Part 2. Ed.-comp. Vologdina M. Score and part, Compozitor Publishing House

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979-0-3522-0529-1 Flute Piccolo. Reader. Part 2. Ed.-comp. Vologdina M. Score and part, Compozitor Publishing House Saint-Petersburg

From the compiler.
It is difficult to imagine a modern symphony or brass orchestra without the smallest instrument that has such a piercing, loud sound - the piccolo flute. This is an instrument that every professional flutist must own. Due to circumstances, flute musicians encounter it at different ages. The practice of some children's music schools has included teaching young children to play the piccolo. And although such practice cannot be considered positive - due to the child’s not yet strong muscular labial apparatus (and playing the small flute requires more subtle work, a greater concentration of the exhaled air stream, more intense exhalation and a more developed - due to intonation difficulties - ear for music ), but this is reality. Meanwhile, some foreign teachers recommend starting to master this instrument no earlier than after three years of studying the large flute. Most flutists get acquainted with the "pikkulka" at a music school.
Despite the fact that the piccolo flute is used primarily in orchestral music, sometimes it can become a striking solo and ensemble instrument. I would like to mention some authors who used the small flute in chamber music. These are M. Ravel, A. Schoenberg, L. Janacek, A. Tomasi, S. Slonimsky, G. Ustvolskaya, the Spanish composer K. Surinach and the Chilean composer E. Eitler...
Unfortunately, it solo repertoire is very limited. First of all, these are three concertos by A. Vivaldi (RV 443 in C major, RV 444 in C major, RV 445 in A minor), created, however, for a completely different instrument, since Vivaldi lived and worked long before T. Boehm. Music publications indicate flautino (i.e., sopranino recorder) or ottavino (some kind of small transverse flute), but these days these works are brilliantly performed on the modern piccolo flute of the B?hm system. Of the living authors, one of the most significant American composers, Lowell Lieberman, turned to this instrument. His excellent Concerto for piccolo flute and orchestra, recorded on disc by the outstanding flautist James Galway, is unfortunately little known in our country, but it is he (in his I and II parts) that changes our ideas about the small flute as an instrument suitable for performing only bravura and mischievous music.
The proposed collection includes ancient and modern works: a piece for piccolo flute and piano, a three-part cycle for solo piccolo flute, two concertos (arranged for piccolo and piano). All works require very good mastery of the instrument and are intended for students of secondary and higher educational institutions of music.
Marina Vologdina

Pages: 52+28.
Soft cover.
Compozitor Publishing House – Saint-Petersburg.
ISMN/ISBN: 979-0-3522-0529-1