Editor’s Note:

These ten etudes for the advanced alto flutist provide training and practice in several areas:

– Tone quality across registers, dynamics, and intervals

– Pitch consistency across registers, dynamics, and intervals

– Double- and triple-tonguing

– Finger technique

– Embouchure technique

– Airstream consistency through varied articulation and staccato

– Breath control through long phrases

These etudes also target several musical challenges – shifting meters, abrupt dynamic and register changes, musical phrasing ,and more – throughout their playful, tonal 20th Century language.