Essay on Barqoue And Modern Flute In Composition

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Barqoue And Modern Flute In Composition

A comparative study of the use of the barqoue and modern flute in composition, with specific reference to – Sonata IV for flute and continuo by J.S Bach, and Sonata for flute and piano by Hindemith
The baroque, or transverse flute is of great interest to me, mainly because of my own flute playing experience. Since listening to a concert which included both a modern orchestra and a baroque orchestra playing together in a specially written composition, and separately, I have considered the baroque flute a much softer and more beautiful instrument, in construction and sound. It is because of this interest that I have decided to carry out my investigation upon the difference between the two flutes, particularly in composition. Firstly, I plan to study the development of the baroque flute, as it is my main focus for this project, and what its capabilities were for composition. Then I will compare the flutes, using the pieces I have chosen, one written for a baroque flute, and one for a modern flute. From this investigation, I hope to be able to draw some conclusions about the better of the two flutes. At the moment I prefer the baroque flute to the modern flute, and I would like to prove that it is indeed the better flute.
History of the baroque flute
The earliest record of a flute is in a ninth century BC Chinese poem ‘Shih Ching’, but the first pictorial evidence of a transverse flute did not appear until the second cen

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