Altès- Method for Boehm Flute (Part 1)
Composer: Henri Altès
Flute score
Publisher: Carl Fischer
About
Method for the Boehm Flute provides necessary instructive material in concise, clear, and progressive form to offer thorough and valuable advice for the purposes of self-instruction.
Contents
- Preface
- The Rudiments of Music
- Drawing and Description of the Boehm Flute
- Manner of Holding the Flute
- Position of the Player
- Production of Tone
- Lesson I
- Tonguing on the syllable Tu
- Position and use of the first finger of the left hand
- Scale of C (middle and lower registers)
- Melodic exercises Nos. 3 and 4
- Fingering variations I & II (No. 5)
- Lesson II
- Half notes
- Quarter rests
- Melodic Exercise (No. 2)
- Theme and Variations I–IV
- Half-note quarter-note studies
- Lesson III
- Half notes and rests
- Melodic Exercise (No. 2)
- Theme and Variations I–V
- Introducing dotted half notes
- Lesson IV
- Three quarter time
- Melodic Exercise (No. 2)
- Theme and Variations I–VII
- Introducing dotted quarters, quarter and eighth rests
- Lesson V
- Lower notes
- Exercises Nos. 1 and 2
- Melodic Exercise (No. 3)
- Theme and Variations I–II
- Exercise No. 4
- Exercise No. 5 (Scale)
- Melodic Exercise (No. 7)
- Lesson VI
- Equality of tone and perfect intonation
- Exercises Nos. 1, 2, 3 (Octaves)
- Melodic Exercise No. 4
- Exercise No. 5 (Detached and tied notes)
- Exercise No. 6 (Scale)
- Melodic Exercise No. 7 (Sixteenth notes)
- Lesson VII
- Three-eight time
- Exercise No. 2 (Scale)
- Melodic Exercise No. 3 (Allegretto)
- Exercise No. 4 (Triplets)
- Exercise No. 5 (Scale)
- Melodic Exercise No. 6 (Triplets)
- Lesson VIII
- Scale and arpeggio in C Major
- Exercises Nos. 1–4
- Exercise No. 5 (Scale progressing in intervals)
- Exercises Nos. 6, 7
- Melodic Exercise No. 8 (Inversions)
- Lesson IX
- Key of G Major
- Scale and arpeggio in G Major
- Exercises Nos. 1–8
- Melodic Exercise No. 9
- Lesson X
- Key of D Major
- Scale and arpeggio in D Major
- Exercises Nos. 1–8
- Melodic Exercise No. 9
- Lesson XI
- Key of F Major
- Scale and arpeggio in F Major
- Exercises Nos. 1–8
- Melodic Exercise No. 9
- Lesson XII
- Key of B-flat Major
- Scale and arpeggio in B-flat Major
- Exercises Nos. 1–6
- Melodic Exercise No. 7
- Lesson XIII
- Key of A Major
- Scale and arpeggio in A Major
- Exercises Nos. 1–5
- Melodic Exercise No. 6
- Theme and Variations
- Lesson XIV
- Key of E-flat Major
- Scale and arpeggio in E-flat Major
- Exercises Nos. 1–6
- Melodic Exercise No. 7
- Canzonetta
- Studies in Chromatic Scales on C and A
- Table of the General Compass of the Flute
- Ordinary fingering
- Lower, middle and upper octaves
- Scales and Arpeggios in all Major Keys with Sharps
- Followed by chromatic scales on C and A
- Scales and Arpeggios in all Major Keys with Flats
- Followed by chromatic scales on A and C
About Joseph-Henri Altès
Joseph-Henri Altès (1826-1895)[1] was a French flautist, composer and teacher.
In 1840, he won a place at the Conservatoire de Paris studying with the renowned flautist/composer of the time, Jean-Louis Tulou.
From 1848 to 1872, he was Principal Flute of the Orchestre de l’Opéra National de Paris. In 1868 he was appointed as a flute professor at the Paris Conservatoire teaching students such as Georges Barrère and Adolphe Hennebains.
His ‘Célèbre méthode complète de flûte’ remains a popular method in the flute repertoire. Housed at the Paris Conservatoire are forty of his compositions, including his fantasies on opera themes and six solos used for the annual Concours at the Paris Conservatoire.
