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he Low Flutes Committee is compiling a list of outstanding repertoire for alto, bass, and contra bass flutes that will be available on the NFA website in the future. The following pieces represent about half of the alto repertoire we have chosen. The pieces are shown in order of difficulty as deterChris Potter mined by the NFA Pedagogy Committees criteria chart; A is the easiest level, K the hardest. For a detailed description of the skills needed for each level, please refer to the Pedagogy Committees publication Selected Flute Repertoire and Studies or visit nfaonline.org. There are no Level A pieces written specifically for alto. If you are an absolute beginner (level A), any number of beginning flute method books will help you learn to read music and show you the fingerings. For level B players, someone who would typically be in the second year of playing, there is an entry in the Collections section.

Updates on committee activities and other news of interest from the national office

Selected Alto Flute Repertoire

Recommendations from the Low Flutes Committee

Bozza Telemann Vadala

Aria; alto, piano (ALRY) Six Canonic Sonatas; 2fls (altos) (various publishers) Sea Change; alto, piano (Southern)

Level F Genzmer Pan; fl (alto) solo (Peters) Giovaninni Morocco; fl (alto), piano (RBC Publications) Gottsche-Niessner Nachfaltergedanken; fl/alto (Zimmerman) Jacob Pied Piper (The Spell); fl (alto)/picc (Oxford) Louke As the Clouds Parted; fl (alto),piano (ALRY) Molnar-Suhajda Voices from the Deep; three altos, two basses, one contra bass, other optional low flutes (flute.net) Scottish Folk Song The Banks of Ayr; fl (alto) solo (ALRY)
fl/alto indicates that one person alternates between both instruments

Level G Bach Beethoven Holcombe McMichael Mower

Four Bach Fugues; two altos (Falls House) Largo,alto, piano (Progress Press) Blue Flute Funk; alto, piano (Musicians) Baikal JourneyAncient Friend;alto, piano (ALRY) Sonnets; alto, piano (Boosey & Hawkes)

Solos and Chamber Music

Level C Datshkovsky Part Level D Dallinger Palmer Rhone Schocker Tung Lullaby for Alexandra; alto, piano (Southern) Spiegel im Spiegel;alto, piano (Universal) Level H Aquino Dahl Debussy Dunleavy Erb Gunn Harwood Hoover Level I Albert Clarke Galloway Liebermann Kessner A Taste of Brazil; alto, piano (Assunto Grave) Variations on a Swedish Folktune; flute, alto (Presser) Syrinx; fl(alto) solo (Jobert) Music for Foul Play; alto, bass, contra bass, subcontra bass (National Library of Australia) Music for Mother Bear; fl (alto) solo (Merion) Lunar Mural; alto, CD (davidgunn.org) Sonatina; alto, piano (Progress Press) Two for Two; alto/bass, piano (Papagena)

Day-Times: Three Pieces; fl (alto) solo (Doblinger) Raga Kalyan: aalap; alto, CD (Harpistic Publications) Bethlehem Pastorale; fl (alto), piano (ALRY) Atlantis; alto, piano (Falls House) Alone in the Rain; alto, piano (flute.net)

fl (alto) indicates that this is a flute part that could also be played on alto or that the piece includes an alternate part for alto.

Three for Two; alto/bass, contrabass

(adriennealbert.com)

Level E Archer Burnette

Signatures; fl (alto) solo (Canadian Music Centre) Stone SuiteCliff Palace Ghost Dance;solo alto, flute choir or alto, piano (Pine Castle)

Within; picc/fl/alto, CD (ianclarke.net) Alabado; soprano, alto, piano (NFA Library) Eight Pieces; picc/fl/alto/bass solo (Presser) [hij] Tous Le Matins; alto solo (Theodore Front)
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Level J Francaix Luppi-Betts Mower Mower Takemitsu Level K Lindquist Schwantner Snyder Le Colloque des deux Perruches; flute, alto
(Schott)

Sollberger Veldhuis

Hara; alto solo (Peters) Lipstick; fl/alto, CD (Muziekgroep Nederland)

Vier Stucke fr Vier Floten; picc/fl/alto/bass solo (Peters) A Night in Greenwich; alto solo (Itchy Fingers) Obstinato and Scareso; alto/bass solo, flute choir (Itchy Fingers) Toward the Sea; alto, guitar (Schott)

Collections
A lowercase letter indicates just a few pieces at that level, an uppercase letter indicates several pieces at that level. Potter Wolzein/Noble Alto and Bass Flute SolosBeginning and Intermediate; alto, piano (Falls House Press) [bCDE] Six Folk Songs; fl(alto), guitar (Southern) [D]

Nakoda; alto solo (amplified) (ellenlindquist.com) Silver Halo; picc, flute, alto, bass (Schott-Helicon) Concerto for Alto Flute and Flute Ensemble; solo alto, flute choir (JP Publications)

Prepared by the NFA Low Flutes Committee: Christine Potter (chair), Marion Garver Fredrickson, Martin Melicharek, Paige Long, Andrea Graves, and Peter Sheridan.

To Your Health!
Updates from the NFA Performance Health Care Chair
Many of these folks have been working to improve health care for flutists their whole lives, and it is an honor to work with them. We are developing information for the NFA website. Our content will include descriptions of health care topics of concern to flutists; information on many treatment modalities, including how and when they might be helpful to flutists; resources and links; archives of relevant Power Point presentations from past NFA conventions; and bios of the above committee members. We are hard at work compiling material, and hope to have the initial page up this year. We welcome any and all feedback on how to make this page the first stop for all flutists with questions about performance health care issues. Have you wanted someone to ask questions of at the convention? Well, for the first time in several years, we are going to have a table staffed with health care practitioners in the exhibit hall. There will be hours posted for each practitioner so you can decide whom you want to talk with and when. We can address questions you might have about how to proceed with various health care issues; obviously, we will not be offering medical advice! You will also find at the convention several helpful panels and presentations on topics from breast cancer to injury prevention and updates in hand surgery, physical therapy, hearing, and chiropractic. As always, we are available for questions by e-mail or phone during the year. If you have concerns and are not sure where to turn, please e-mail me at leapearson@mac.com or call me at 614-353-7259. Heres to your health!
Lea Pearson

Lea Pearson

s the incoming chair, I share here my excitement about new developments in the health care area for NFA. We have a dynamite committee that consists of representatives of many professions. All are flutists, and many are health care professionals:

Susan Fain, physical therapist Stephen Mitchell, ear, nose, and throat physician Ellen Shapiro, physical therapist Chip Shelton, dentist Susan Harmon, medical librarian Michael Treister, hand surgeon Lee Van Dusen, chiropractor Other members have a professional interest in the field: Laura Erickson Marilyn First Karen Lonsdale Mary Louise Poor
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