The Glissando Headjoint is is a sliding, telescoping tube that extends the overall length of the flute to create a glissando to and from every note. The Glissando Flute is a C flute played with a Glissando Headjoint.This headjoint offers access to an entirely new sonic vocabulary of glissandi, bends, multiphonics, timbres, microtones, and scales, which dramatically increases the expressive potential available to flutists and composers.THE GLISSANDO FLUTE is a handbook for composers who wish to explore new possibilities, performers who have a Glissando Headjoint and are ready to get started, and anyone curious about new music.In this book includes:- an introduction by Robert Dick, creator of the Glissando Headjoint- a history of pitch bending and the Glissando Headjoint- complete fingering diagrams- repertoire lists- techniques- exercises- transcriptions- Melissa Keeling's solo for glissando flute, Tilt

"Circular Breathing allows the performer to sustain tone while inhailing, a tremendously valuable tool. For the first time, a method is available specifically for the Flutist, covering developments of the embouchure and breathing coordinations needed to master Circular Breathing. Examples include orchestral passages, selections of solo literature from Bach to Varese and contemporary repertoire." From author's website.

This thesis " traces the istory of the Glissando headjoint from Dick's initial idea to the release of the commercial models. Interviews with Dick provide insight into the prototypes... While the concept of the Glissando headjoint seems simple, the realities of using it effectively are much more complex. This paper explores the technical capabilities of the invention, and the ways it can be used..." summarised from Abstract (p.iii)

A Dictionary for the Modern Flutist presents clear and concise definitions of more than 1,500 common flute-related terms that a player of the Boehm-system flute may encounter. Fully illustrated with more than 100 images, the entries contain descriptions of words related to all aspects of the flute: flute types, flute parts, flute repair, playing techniques, acoustics, articulations, intonation, common ornaments, flutemaking, flute history, flute music books, and more. Susan Maclagan has thoroughly researched and classified each term, including important flute words that have caused confusion or not been clearly defined previously, listing them alphabetically with concise, in-depth definitions. Carefully labeled illustrations for many flute types, parts, mechanisms, and accessories help to make the definitions easier to visualize. The entries also consist of brief biographies of more than 50 significant names in the flute community worldwide. Several appendixes provide further information on subjects like flute classifications, types of modern Boehm-system flutes and their parts, key and tone hole names, head joint options, and orchestra and opera audition excerpts. Two articles, Checking Your Flute Tuning and Scale by the flutist and pedagogue Trevor Wye_who also contributed the foreword_and Flute Clutches by the historian David Shorey, are also included, as well as an extensive bibliography.

A very comprehensive book study into the pan flute. This book, made in cooperation with the Dutch Ministry of Culture, covers such topics as the history of the pan flute, today's pan flute, posture and embouchure, breathing, extending and improving tone quality, intervals, the technique of chromatics, staccato, legato, vibrato, diatonic scales, adjacent and nearby keys, arpeggios, difficultkeys, technical formulas, ornaments, chromatic scales and exercises, special effects, phrasing and difficult technical exercises. This is an essential book for the pan flutist

A total of 35 solos for soprano recorder (advanced) or flute (intermediate). Introduction includes hints for performance in school or church, use with a sound system, fingering chart for recorder high notes, and notes regarding special techniques, such as double tonguing, vibrato and recorder glissando. Final pages are a unique section of carol-specific historical notes, including Internet addresses. Includes all favorite Christmas carols as well as gems from the Oxford Book of Carols. Ideal for use in church services and Christmas-season concerts, or with carolers. These instrumental solos give new meanings to age-old expressions of the Christmas spirit.