Stop Burying Your Flutes! 

Gonna write a concerto for inaudible low flute and loud orchestra

Thank you for all these incredibly wonderful videos you have been uploading for years. For me, yor are really one of the most reliable music educators here on youtube. Thank you!😊

My knowledge is always sharpened when you post a video!

To do so is flute-ile

Wow, these videos are amazing! I’m a self-taught composer and these videos really help me understand the music itself!

Thank you for calling this out! As a flute and oboe player, I see poor flute writing/range from inexperienced composers and arrangers far too often. Your points are spot on, as always.

Thank you very much Thomas!❤ I recently rewached the video about harp-scoring and there were some quite intresting things in it. And I would be delighted, and I thing other people would be also intrested, if you would make a video somewhat expanding on what you said in that other video. For example, where it is useful to use a harp and where one could have the strings or woodwinds to support it or just have the harp effectevly enhance the texture. Also touching on diffrent texures that one is able to have on the harp.

Thank you for sharing your valuable insight as always Thomas!

Great video and good to know that the "last orchestrations tips" book is coming. I'm already eager to get one copy. Thank you,Thomas, for the amazing job you have been doing. Grettings from Chile.!!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

This video was really thought provoking and helpful. Thank you so much Thomas!

Thanks a lot Thomas for sharing tips ! I will revisit my scores to align when needed !

Thank you, Thomas ♥

Ending excerpt for flute, harp and cough. 😆 Great video though, thanks for this!

Great to see your health is getting better😊 Excellent video, love all the helpful examples!

Great video! Very much looking forward to the two follow up videos. 😊

Lovely, idea and break through making ❤

It is also unwise to bury a garklein recorder. Someone might dig it up again. :-D

Great video! Thanks a lot!

What do you think of the flute writing in Chopin's First Piano Concerto? The flute lines in b.296-298 and 424-429 of the first movement seem hard to project in practice over the orchestra - do you think it's a miscalculation by Chopin, or would it have worked better on the instruments of his time?

Check out the filmscore main theme to DEATH AND THE MAIDEN by Woijchec Kilar. Alto Flute at its best

So how careful do I need to be in a chamber musical setting? I mean, each instrument should be easier audible. But I have an allegro for piano, flute and basson and sometimes the flute is in its middle or even low register below the right hand in the piano. But I mean, the dyamics are easy to balance on a piano and the tone fades away after you have stricken a string which might compensate a little bit. The contrast in tone quality creates variety and may help making the individual lines more distinct. (Also, the basson is often in a high register, but again it should be easier when there are only three instuments. I love the singing quality of the tenor register, but maybe I have overused this feature.) I have a very soft and calm passage in a largo for the brass section in a (large) wind band, but I want the upper line end on the third of the chord (G sharp), but I still wanted the upper B ablove to be there. If I use a brass instrument that upper voice will sound to much and I want a heavy weight on the upper voice in the brass so I put a flute softly on the B (below middle C) instead. I hope that should work. The entire point is that I want it to sound as if the B is almost played below even if it technically isn't so it should be much weaker than the rest of the voices. (8 voices) The passage is played pianissimo. Maybe upwards arpeggios can be suitable for the flute from its lowest register taking advantage of its agility and the fact that fast moving notes are generally more aubile in any register. I have such a passage, dubbled by clarinets. It is a gradual crescendo which also fits the flute. The disadvantage is perhaps that the lowest notes are not balanced with the clarinets, but weak, but it might work fine anyway taking everything into consideration.

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Would you consider an addendum video balancing flutes and soprano/alto saxophones, as orchestrating for wind orchestra settings is a topic I don't think is well mastered by band composers?

In the case of the dissapearing flute. Is it possible to mark this effect on the part of the flutist? For example could you use mezza voce to convey to not play with a "full" sound.

It's far easier to bury a clarinet than a flute. Most of the time, I can well darn hear the flute.

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