Edition 4 - March 2022 | The Babel Flute

Interview with The Babel Flute Founders

March 20, 2022

| Edition 4 - March 2022, Editors' Choice, Featured, Interviews, Italy, Switzerland, USA

by Sofia de Salis The Babel Flute was launched on March 20, 2021 and received over 50,000 views from 118 countries in a year (according to the official statistics from Google Analytics)! Our authors are located in Peru, Australia, Italy, USA, Russia, Ukraine, Switzerland, Spain, Argentina, Germany, Canada, Venezuela, Portugal, Nigeria, Hungary, San Marino and China. We have published…

Making The Flute Sing! How Does a Player Do This?

March 20, 2022

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| Australia, Edition 4 - March 2022, Flute Technique

by Eileen Gilligan It all started with the Boehm system flute and the French School of flute playing. The Boehm system made from metal and with larger tone holes enabled a bigger tone and more resonance than the Baroque wooden flute with few keys. The French School with Taffanel and Gaubert explored timbre, vibrato and a lyrical singing approach…

Female composers from down under, flute works, 1960s – 2000s

March 20, 2022

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| Australia, Composers & Biographies, Edition 4 - March 2022

by Laura Chislett Australians love to move. Many of us spend weekends in The Great Outdoors participating in sport or simply experiencing the beauty of the natural world. The aural representation of landscape became a central theme of Australian composition from the mid 20th century onwards; likewise, the incorporation of elements from the cultures to our north. Toru Takemitsu…