It had been two months since my last music lesson, and my practice time was limited during those months. But somehow I pulled it together for a productive hour-long lesson today.

🎶 Having completed work on Hans Köhler’s Sonatina for Two Flutes in Album of Flute Duets, revised and annotated by Louis Moyse, we have selected Jean-Jacques Naudot’s Sonata for Two Flutes in the same collection. For my late-July lesson, I will prepare the Adagio and the first part of the Allegro (the first page of the four-page piece).

Over the spring semester, we completed the fifteen pieces in Interval Duets by Thomas Filas. The deceptively simple collection focused on achieving a clear, beautiful sound. Over the next fifteen lessons, then, we have decided to work through the book again; this time, I will play second part. We are also revisiting the Adagio and Allegro from Jean-Baptiste Loeillet’s Sonata No. 1 in Selected Duets for Flute, Vol. II (Advanced); again, I am playing the second part.

🎶 Today I finished (if that is correct verb) the third of Köhler’s “moderately difficult pieces as studies for flute” from Op. 33, Book 2, in Robert Cavally’s Melodious and Progressive Studies from Andersen, Gariboldi, Koehler, and Terschak for Flute, Book 2. In April, I shared with my teacher that pieces like this feel needlessly difficult for an adult learner whose chief goals are (1) to do well in community band and (2) to always be learning and improving. She has now moved me into his Twenty-Five Romantic Etudes (Op. 66), and for my next lesson I will prepare the “The Swing.”

🎶 In April, I finished 116 in P. Bona’s Complete Method for Rhythmical Articulation, and my teacher provided excellent notes and examples to help me approach 120, my last assignment in the book; however, I have no plans to tackle this until after I present the first movement of the Stamitz Concerto in G major, Op.29, in August. Because I chose to work on the three movements out of order, this will conclude my work on the concerto, freeing me to focus on the Bona.

🎶 For my scales and long tone work, I have primarily relied on Parès Scales for Flute or Piccolo and ILMEA Senior HS Band Audition Scales sheet. My teacher now recommends that I begin working in Maquarre’s Daily Exercises for the Flute.

🎶 For my piccolo studies, in addition to exercises in Danielle Eden’s Piccolo! Piccolo! method books, my teacher recommended revisiting Köhler’s Op. 33, Book 1.

🎶 My July practice sheet:

— 15 minutes: long tones, scales, exercises
— 20 minutes: Twenty-Five Romantic Etudes (Op. 66), “The Swing”
— 10 minutes: Interval Duets, No. I
— 15 minutes: Album of Flute Duets, Jean-Jacques Naudot’s Sonata for Two Flutes
— 15 minutes: Selected Duets for Flute, Vol. II (Advanced), Jean-Baptiste Loeillet’s Sonata No. 1
— 15 minutes: piccolo