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INTERNATIONAL STUDENT ESSAY CONTEST

by The Babel Flute team During Spring 2022 semester, some of the school students have been working on a review essay to enter the Best Review of an Article contest promoted and sponsored by The Babel Flute International Flute Magazine. CONTEST The idea belongs to Manuel Domingo Carranza Cueto, The Babel Flute Regional Director for South America! The aim…

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Music, Wonderful Music

by Helen Campo It’s the beginning of May – an average overcast morning in New York City, and I’m gazing out the window by my dining table drinking a cup of fennel tea, distractedly twirling my favorite oat breakfast cookie between my fingers. I notice, yet barely, the overlapping walls of brick, visible from the back of my apartment…

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Appoggio and the Art and Science of Bel Canto Flute Pedagogy

by Robert Cart This article introduces flutists to the imagery and physiological concepts of vocal pedagogy as presented by the great masters of bel canto singing (Lamperti, Garcia, Miller, et al), integrated with pedagogical approaches of the French school of flute playing as taught by Taffenel, Gaubert, Moyse, et al.  The bel canto principles of appoggio, portamento, and messa…

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Florence Beatrice Price (1887-1953)

Una compositrice afroamericana col pseudonimo di Vee Jay di Vilma Campitelli Abstract  Compositrice, educatrice, organista e pianista afroamericana. É stata la prima donna di colore ad essere riconosciuta come autrice di musica classica ed avere una sua sinfonia eseguita dalla una delle principali orchestre statunitensi. La sua musica è in uno stile tardo romantico e fa un uso considerevole…

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Основы игры на флейте. Часть 2. Дыхание.

Автор – Илья Дворецкий В предыдущей статье мы обсудили то, как стоять, как держать флейту и варианты выставления головки относительно корпуса: Основы игры на флейте. Часть 1. Постановка Теперь самое время поговорить об ещё одном базовом навыке – дыхании.Наше дыхание, это то, с чем мы рождаемся и то, что незримо сопровождает нас всю жизнь. Поэтому зачастую, мы не акцентируем…

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Секреты эффективных занятий. Часть 4

Автор – Софья де Салис Мы должны сделать свою мечту частью настоящего. Мы должны верить в мечту чтобы жить.  А. Курпатов Испробовав огромное колличество методик планирования, прочтя множество книг на тему Таймменеджмента, планирования и личной эффективности, а такаже работая и практикуя разные методы с учениками, я нашла для себя самый эффективный алгоритм для любой деятельности или работы: Мечта – Цель –…

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International Babel Flute Days – 2022

by Yulia Berry The Babel Flute turned exactly one year old! But what is exactly The Babel Flute? The Babel Flute is a multilingual platform where flutists from many countries share their unique research and articles with the global flute community. The platform offers instant and exceptional quality translations in over 100 languages ​​and aims to connect flute players…

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Low Flutes

by Stefan Keller The fascination of low flutes is something that has been haunting me for nearly thirty years. What really sets this fascination are the deep “slow” vibrations, the “sonorous sound”, the “resonance” of the different sized tubes, and the unbelievable sonority. In the following text I introduce the individual low flutes from my very personal point of…

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