Flute Music Essentials for Exams

Friedrich Kuhlau wrote the absolute bible of flute music and the guy didn't even play the instrument.

You need to memorize these facts if you want to survive the General Knowledge section of your

exam. Kuhlau is Classical, think 1810 and Beethoven vibes. If you're playing

Leclair, that is Baroque, and he was literally murdered, which is a crazy

fact to drop on your examiner. Taffanel is late Romantic, so crank the dynamics.

And Anne Boyd isn't in a normal key, she uses Balinese modes. Stop guessing the

Italian terms, just say everything means sweetly and pray you pass.