The Flute Book: A Complete Guide for Students and Performers - Softcover

Toff, Nancy

 
9780195105025: The Flute Book: A Complete Guide for Students and Performers

Synopsis

The Flute Book is a one-stop guide to the flute, its performance, and its repertoire. The book offers detailed information on choosing and caring for a flute, all aspects of performance, and the history of the flute and its literature. This second edition includes a completely revised and updated repertoire catalogue, including both solo and chamber works; appendices listing flute manufacturers, repair shops, sources for flute music, flute clubs and organizations; and an extensive bibliography.

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About the Author


Nancy Toff is the author of The Development of the Modern Flute and Georges Barrère and the Flute in America. Highly respected as a writer, researcher, and lecturer, she has been a consultant to the Dayton C. Miller Flute Collection in the Library of Congress and the Department of Musical
Instruments of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A former president of the New York Flute Club, she studied flute with Arthur Lora and James Pappoutsakis.

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