Piccolo player Nicola Mazzanti is celebrated around the world as a foremost performer, teacher, and guest clinician. Mazzanti’s lectures and workshops are known for his daily exercises for piccolo players, and The Mazzanti Method brings together his comprehensive collection of studies. Part I: SOUND is a complete course in itself, providing a wide spectrum of studies, discussions, “check points”, repertoire melodies in twelve transpositions, tone, intonation, and more. Part III: MELODIES, OPERA, AND LIEDER provides enriching opportunities to bring these technical lessons to practical application by using the greatest cantabile studies from vocal repertoire.

Introduction

PART I: SOUND

The Three Check points: Support, Larynx, and Embouchure

The First Check point: Support Use Greater Pressure

Preliminary Exercises

Tone Exercises

Vocalises

Intonation

Flexibility of the High Notes

Tone Development Through Famous Melodies

Schubert: Sonata in A Minor, Arpeggione, Mvt. II

Brahms: Concerto for Violin, Mvt. II

Mahler: Symphony No. 2, Mvt. V

Schubert: Symphony No. 8, Unfinished, Mvt. I

Massenet: Meditation, from Thas

Mozart: Concerto for Clarinet, Mvt. II

English traditional song: The Water Is Wide

Rabboni: Sonata No. 13 in D Minor

Krakamp: Rosa

The Second Check point: Larynx and Oral Cavity Open and Resonant

Low Notes

Variation Exercises (for Low Notes)

The Third Check point: Embouchure Precise and Extremely Flexible

Flexibility Exercises

Variation Exercises (for Flexibility)

Applying the Three Checkpoints: Singing & Playing and Harmonics Exercises

Sing and Play Exercises

Harmonics

PART II: SCALES AND ARPEGGIOS

Introduction to Scales and Arpeggios

Chromaticism

Major Scales

Minor Scales

Three-note Arpeggios

Four-note Arpeggios

Three-note Broken Arpeggios

Four-note Broken Arpeggios

Agility

PART III: MELODIES, OPERAS, LIEDER

Introduction to Melodies, Operas, and Lieder

J.S. Bach: Cantata No. 156, Sinfonia

Puccini: La Bohme, Vecchia zimarra

Mozart: Don Giovanni, Dalla sua pace

Puccini: Gianni Schicchi, O mio babbino caro

Vivaldi: Flute Concerto No. 3 in D Major, Il gardellino, Mvt. II

Mozart: Sonata in C Major, K. 545, Mvt. II

Bellini: Norma, Deh non volerli vittime

Verdi: Rigoletto, Tutte le feste al tempio

Saint-Sans: Carnival of the Animals, The Swan

Puccini: Tosca, E lucevan le stelle

Verdi: La Traviata, Addio del passato

Verdi: La Traviata, Di Provenza il mar il suol

Verdi: La Traviata, Dite alla giovine

Verdi: Rigoletto, Si, vendetta, tremenda vendetta

Donizetti: Lelisir damore, Una furtiva lagrima