ANNOTATIONS AND PERFORMANCE SUGGESTIONS FOR SELECTED EXCERPTS FROM MARCEL MOYSE'S TONE DEVELOPMENT THROUGH INTERPRETATION

Graduate Thesis Or Dissertation

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Abstract

In 1919 Marcel Moyse secured the position of Principle Flutist of the Opera Comique
orchestra in Paris. It was during his stay with the orchestra that he was inspired to compile a collection of operatic and other melodies to aid flutists in their quest for a "good tone." The result is Tone Development Through Interpretation for the Flute (and other wind instruments): The study of expression, vibrao, color, suppleness and their application to different styles (published by McGinnis and Marx publishers in 1962, with a corrected edition appearing in 1978).

Tone Development Through Interpretation (TDTI) contains 90 excerpts (transcribed for flute) from works by 28 composers. Ten excerpts are from instrumental works by composers such as Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, and Wagner. Two excerpts are from folk songs (one French and one Japanese). Seventy-eight excerpts are from opera arias by Bellini, Bizet, Delibes, Donizetti, Gounod, Massenet, Messager, Offenbach, Rossini, ·Saint-Saens, Verdi and Weber. Also included with the work are piano accompaniments for nine of the excerpts. These were added to the corrected edition of 1978.

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