Eighteen songs of a nomad flute: the story of Lady Wen-chi

Abstract Teachers and flutists at all levels will welcome the return of Nancy Toff’s unique one-stop guide to the flute and its music. Organized into four main pa...

Songwriters often use lyrics to describe the current events and social attitudes of a particular period or people. An examination of America's popular songs—and the stories behind ...

This chapter works with a concept that seems common in many animistic cultures, where flutes talk rather than produce music. Many flutists in European-derived cultures often refer ...

Relationships are a wonderful, mysterious, often elusive, sometimes painful part of the human experience. The most intimate of all human relationships, according to the Bible, is t...

Following the successful,The American Musical Theatre Song Encyclopedia(Greenwood, 1995), this new encyclopedia reviews in-depth individual songs written for the American musical f...

Flutes get much of their power from the breath of their players, and that breath is transformed into whistle tones that are manipulated by the player's fingers or tongue to produce...

This chapter deals with one of the most common issues in world flutelore—love. Many of the flute tales found in the world have to do with sexuality and magical love powers used by ...

This chapter presents numerous short folktales that pertain to the topic of gender, and includes analysis of gender sub issues, such as flute playing and the reversal of social ord...