A Study of René Le Roy's Flute Method
TRAITÉ DE LA FLÛTE HISTORIQUE, TECHNIQUE ET PÉDAGOGIQUE: A STUDY OF RENÉ LE ROY’S FLUTE METHOD Jennifer Rodriguez, B.M., M.M. Dissertation Prepared for the Degree of DOCTOR OF MUSICAL ARTS UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS May 2018 APPROVED: Mary Karen Clardy, Major Professor Graham H. Phipps, Committee Member Kathleen Reynolds, Committee Member John Holt, Chair of the Division of Instrumental Studies Benjamin Brand, Director of Graduate Studies in the College of Music John W. Richmond, Dean of the College of Music Victor Prybutok, Dean of the Toulouse Graduate School Rodriguez, Jennifer. Traité de la flûte historique, technique et pédagogique: A Study of René Le Roy’s Flute Method. Doctor of Musical Arts (Performance), May 2018, 60 pp., 23 figures, bibliography, 94 titles. In 1966, René Le Roy (1898-1985) and his student Claude Dorgeuille co-authored Traité de la flûte historique, technique et pedagogique. This treatise presents the culmination of Le Roy's career as a renowned performer and teacher in both Europe and North America. His approach to the study of music, as presented in the method, diverges from traditional French training, instructing teachers to compose exercises specific to the needs of the student and by using repertoire as source material. Claude Dorgeuille writes of the method, "...the Traité gives an outline analysis of the principal elements of technique, thus allowing exercises to be devised as appropriate to the needs of the individual." Using Le Roy's treatise, I demonstrate the application of his teaching to Jacques Ibert's Deux stèles orientées pour voix et flûte (1925), a work dedicated to and premiered by Le Roy, through the creation of individual exercises tailored to preparation of Ibert's work.
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