Jane Rutter Flute Lesson: Sound & Art of Sonority Exercise 2 Take delight in it! Once truly familiar with it, you can use it as a basis for tone practice between more than two notes also in pieces that are proving difficult from a sonority point of view also as a basis to extemporise. This exercise sets up your entire practice properly. To produce this note you need proper support. The great soprano Joan Sutherland once said to me: “I know exactly where each note lives in my body because I practice vocalise incorporating each note every day”… For we flute players it’s important the starting note is in the second octave (B was Moyse’s best note, “start with the most beautiful note”, he said). (I only repeat each two-note phrase if I’m dissatisfied with the first attempt). A ‘solid gold’ for me: Marcel Moyse’s ‘De la Sonorité’ exercise 1, covering the entire range, including ascending from the lowest note on the flute, to the top note and back down to the note on which you started. This should be done at the beginning of practice.
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