Flute Etudes Reviewed

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Over the years I have collected many etude books. I have worked through some and taught from some and put some back in the music cabinet.  Here in alphabetical order, are the ones that I have reviewed for this website. Keep looking for new ones that work for you and your approach to teaching.

Bold indicates further reference on this site.

9 Etudes for the Contemporary Flutist, Michael Colquhoun
17 Big Daily Exercises for the Flute, P. Taffanel et Ph. Gaubert
24 Caprices for Flute; William Schade

24 Concert Studies, Southern Music Company (From Bach and famous solos)
24 Little Melodic Studies with variations (Easy) for flute, Marcel Moyse
24 Short Concert Pieces for Flute and Piano; Robert Cavally
40 New Studies for flute, Op. 75, Louis Hugues

A Complete Modern School for the Flute, Leonardo De Lorenzo
Amazing Studies: Flute Arranged by Howard Harrison
Andersen Eighteen Studies for the Flute, Op. 41
Andersen Studies Op. 15, 21, 30, 33, 60, 63

The Art and Practice of Modern Flute Technique, William Kinkade

Bona Rhythmical Articulation: A Complete Method

The Chart Buster Series – Jazz with CD
Cinquante Études Mélodies (Op. 40) de Demersseman, Jules Demersseman
[Fifty Melodic Studies by Demersseman]
Circular Breathing for the Flutist, Robert Dick

Daily Exercises for the Flute, Andre, Maquarre
Daily Exercises for the Flute, Marcel Moyse
De La Sonorite Art et Technique, Marcel Moyse
Douze Études pour Flûte [Twelve Studies for Flute], Jacques Castérède

Essential Elements: Flute, Book 1
Etude Complete Des Gammes, G. Gariboldi
Etudes de Salon and Solo Caprices, Francis and Johannes Donjon
Etudes Modernes pour Flute, Paul JeanJean

Fifty Melodious Studies by J. Demersseman, Marcel Moyse
Flute & Piccolo Note Speller by Fred Weber Flute Student: Student Instrumental Course, Douglas Steensland and Fred Weber
Flute Trills, Emil Eck Foundation to Flute Playing: An Elementary Method by Ernest F. Wagner

FLUTE ETUDES REVIEWED (cont’d): Bold indicates further reference on this site

Highlights of Familiar Music for Flute or Oboe with Piano Accompaniment; Walter Eckard

Masterworks for Flute, Compiled by Jay Arnold
Mel Bay’s Fingering Chart
Melodious and Progressive Studies for Flute, Book I; Revised by Robert Cavally
Melodious and Progressive Studies for Flute, Book II; Revised by Robert Cavally
Moyse, Marcel: Dix Etudes D’Apres Wieniawsky
Musical Treasures Volume I (Ervin Monroe)

Pares, G.; Daily Exercises and Scales for Flute or Piccolo
Platonov: Thirty Studies for Solo Flute ; revised by Ervin Monroe; maj and minor keys
Practical Etudes for Flute, Ralph Buenther
Practical Hints on playing the flute, Richard Hahn, James D. Ployhar
Pro Art Flute and Piccolo Method Book 2

Quatorze Etudes-Arabesques, Eugene Bozza

Reichert: Seven Daily Exercises for Flute Op. 5
Rubank Elementary Method
Rubank Intermediate Method
Rubank Advanced Method, Vol. 1

Selected Studies, H. Voxman
Seven Daily Exercises, Op. 5, M.A. Reichert
Sequences For Flute by Geoffrey Gilbert
Special Effects for Flute, Sheridon W. Stokes

Tango Etudes pour flute solo, Astor Piazzolla
Technical Flexibility for Flutists, Geoffry Gilbert
Technique Duets for Flute Students and Teachers by Chris Potter
Ten Famous Studies for the Flute, Altes
The Modern Flutist (Donjon, Karg-Elert)
The Other Flute: Tone development through extended techniques, Robert Dick
The Other Flute: A Performance Manual of Contemporary Techniques, 2nd Ed., R. Dick
The Pinkie Polka; Ernie Block, Copied from Flute Talk Magazine/ March 1990
Thirty Easy and Progressive Studies for Flute, Volume II, Nos. 16-30, G. Gariboldi
Thirty Easy Duets in All Keys for two Flutes; Louise Moyse
Tone Development Through Interpretation, Marcel Moyse
Top Register Studies for Flute by Thomas J. Filas
Twelve Daily Exercises for Flute, John Wummer
Twenty-Six Studies for the Flute, Altes

Vingt-Quatre Caprices de N. Paganini, Transcribed by Jules Herman