EDITOR Edmund Waechter EDITOR Elisabeth Weinzierl DIFFICULTY Intermediate-Advanced

• attractive selection of 18th-century flute music, with all important composers represented • contains much useful information for flute players, including ornament realizations, breathing suggestions and advice on tonguing • notes accompanying each piece introduce the composers and often advise on dynamics and speeds • separate, fingered continuo part allows the bass line to be doubled by a string player or for keyboard players to improvise their own accompaniment

• pieces arranged in progressive order of difficulty, with Book I covering Grades 1-5 and Book II covering Grades 6-8 • explores different aspects of the flautist’s technique through the grades, with a mix of articulations, speeds, time signatures and rhythms • attractive and well-crafted studies • titles (Rag-time Flute, Dreamy Flute, Furious Flute) will help the performer to create an individual mood for each piece

Description Intermediate to advanced exercises and studies, compiled and edited by Edward Blakeman. Includes works by Paganini, Andersen, Soussmann and Taffanel.