Einige Parallelen zwischen historisch-folkloristischen Spieltechniken auf Flöteninstrumenten und der Bedeutung der Flöte in zeitgenössischer Musik

Diplomarbeit (pdf file 316 KB) Oktober 2000.

This essay investigates into the varieties of flute playing; its starting point being the "perverse" flute playing tradition encountered so often in nowadays´ academies and schools (Th. Bernhard), ancient terminology is called to witness, in terms of coming to know what "flute names" all around the world tell us about the matter in question. (End-blown "flutes" bear names like in Accadian tegu-ru, Hebrew alalu, Latin fistula, Middle High German flegil, Old Irish fetan, French flûte, English flute; contrarily, words meaning "duct flutes" run through history as e.g. Accadian , Hebrew abub, Latin pipa, Middle High German pfîfe, Old Irish piob, French sifflet, English pipe or fife.)
"Historic", "folkloristic" and "contemporary" "flute" types, playing techniques, repertories and traditions, respectively, compared to one another, the reader´s attention is drawn to the hidden analogies within the apparently heterogenous as well as to the implicit, proceeding from questioning the affinity of "flute" and "pipe" embouchure - given some samples of spectrum analysis of the duct "flute´s" embouchure.