Flute repertory

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Flute repertory is the general term for pieces composed for flute (particularly Western concert flute). The following lists are not intended to be complete, but rather to present a representative sampling of the most commonly played and well known works in the genre. The lists also do not generally include works originally written for other instruments and subsequently transcribed, adapted, or arranged for flute, unless such piece is very common in the repertory, in which case it is listed with its original instrumentation noted.

Flute alone

Solo flute with piano

Pieces with an "(O)" originally for flute and orchestra. Opus numbers omitted unless necessary for identification.

Flute and other instruments

  • Samuel Barber: Summer Music for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn
  • Howard J. Buss: Fantasia for flute, clarinet and piano
    • Cosmic Portraits in versions for flute, clarinet, alto sax and tenor sax; and for woodwind quartet
    • Glacial Vistas for flute, clarinet and one percussion
    • Into Each Life for flute, cello, piano, and one percussion
    • Modern Times for narrator, flute, and four percussion
    • Mysterious Exit for flute and four percussion
    • Saint Francis and the Animals for flute, clarinet, and harp
    • Tennessee Suite for flute, viola and piano
    • Turbulent Times for flute, oboe and bassoon
    • Two Caprices for flute, oboe, and marimba
    • Where Now Rusts the Iron? for high voice, flute, cello and six percussion
  • Claude Debussy
    • Music for Chansons de Bilitis for two flutes, two harps, and celesta
    • Sonata for harp, flute, and viola
  • Gabriel Faure: Sicilienne from Pelléas et Mélisande, Op. 80
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto for Flute, Harp, and Orchestra, K. 299 (1778)
  • Carl Nielsen: Wind Quintet for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon and Horn
  • Behzad Ranjbaran: Fountains of Fin for Flute, Violin, and Cello
  • Alexander Shchetynsky: Introspection for flute and harpsichord
  • Karlheinz Stockhausen
    • Adieu, for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and horn
    • Balance, Seventh Hour from Klang, for flute, cor anglais, and bass clarinet
    • Der Kinderfänger, for alto flute with piccolo, children's choir, modern orchestra, basset-horn, for alto flute with piccolo, 2 synthesizer players, percussionist, tape, sound projectionist, or as solo for alto flute with piccolo and tape
    • Kathinkas Gesang als Luzifers Requiem, for flute and six percussionists, for flute and electronic music, or for flute and three pianos
    • Kontra-Punkte, for flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, trombone, harp, piano, violin, and cello
    • Licht-Bilder, for ring-modulated flute, bassett horn, ting-modulated trumpet, tenor, and synthesizer
    • Orchester-Finalisten for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, tuba, violin, viola, cello, and double bass, with electronic and concrete music
    • Paradies, Twenty-first Hour from Klang, for flute and electronic music
    • Quitt, for alto flute, trumpet, and bass clarinet
    • Schönheit, Sixth Hour from Klang, for flute, bass clarinet, and trumpet
    • Sukat, for alto flute and basset horn
    • Zeitmaße, for flute, oboe, cor anglais, clarinet, and bassoon
  • Josef Tal: Duo for Two Flutes
  • Heitor Villa-Lobos

Orchestral excerpts

Pulled from the Symphonic Orchestral literature, "Orchestral Excerpts" contain major solos or technical passages for the flute (and piccolo). These are compliled into lists by orchestras when posting a vacancy for the performer to play in order to obtain a job as an orchestral flute player.

Collections

  • John Wummer, Orchestral Excerpts from the Symphonic Repertoire, Volumes I–IX, published by International Music Company. This nine-volume 1967 collection contains some 500 pages of flute music, comprising the distinctive flute parts from the majority of the most frequently performed concert pieces to that date.
  • Jeanne Baxtresser (with piano reductions by Martha Rearick), Orchestral Excerpts for Flute with Piano Accompaniment, published by Theodore Presser Company. Although containing many of the same excerpts as the Wummer collection, Ms. Baxtresser's more modern collection is enhanced by her own commentary on the material and use of the original parts [not re-engraved parts]. Also available is a recording by Baxtresser discussing and performing the excerpts.

Famous excerpts: flute (and piccolo)

References

  1. ↑ Jean-Pierre Rampal performance using 1869 Louis Lot gold flute
  2. ↑ Esti Rofe performance
  • James J. Pellerite, A Handbook of Literature for the Flute, Zalo Publications, ISBN 0-931200-69-5. All major pieces up to 1978 are listed, with author's personal difficulty gradings and short descriptions.
  • Toff, Nancy (1996). The Flute Book: A Complete Guide for Students and Performers. Oxford University Press. 
  • John Solum, ed. (1993) The NFA 20-th Anniversary Anthology of American Flute Music Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-385875-4

See also

External links


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