Hugot Wunderlich S Methode (Page 2 of 4) in pdf

A fingering chart from the Hugot-Wunderlich treatise, with detailed illustration of the 4-keyed instrument’s design

keyed flute in Article Two of their method

The Hugot-Wunderlich treatise thus became

chart, but they also radically rethought how

(“The Composition of the Flute”):

the first extant treatise published in France to

the flute should be taught and played. Par-

both advocate for—and specifically address

ticularly revolutionary were the new peda-

The use of the three [recently-added] keys

the use of—the four-keyed flute.

While

gogical ideals they espoused: an evenness

which we have adopted have been too

French musicians were relatively late to

of articulation and tone production, a more

lightly dismissed by several people who

employ keyed flutes in comparison to musi-

systematic approach to the development of

have objected that these additions com-

cians in England and in German-speaking

finger dexterity through scale exercises and

plicate the mechanism of the instrument.

territories,

the story of their eventual

drills, a greater use of abstract instrumental

We insist on their use because we consider

acceptance in the early nineteenth century is

pieces and practice etudes, and increased

them to be a very useful improvement;

closely aligned with the establishment of the

attention to the directions of the written

the advantages that one derives from

Paris Conservatoire and its new approach to

score. Thus, in spite of Devienne’s Repub-

them in terms of intonation, equality and

strength in several pitches, the facility

music education.

lican credentials, his method continues to

that they give in making trills and finally

In their Méthode de Flûte, Hugot and

reflect the flute playing and instructional

the strength that they add in some of the

methods of the ancien régime. It is Hugot

Wunderlich not only argued for the adop-

low notes more than compensate for the

and Wunderlich’s Méthode de Flûte that truly

tion of a new instrumental technology and

light mechanical work which these keys

the inclusion of a more up-to-date fingering

exemplifies the new aesthetic and ideological

require.

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