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Clint & Vera’s Native Flute Handbook 1 2 July 22, 2016 Clint & Vera’s Native Flute Handbook Fourth Edition Course materials for participants of Native Flute Schools, Retreats, Workshops, and Gatherings facilitated by Clint and Vera by Clint Goss and Vera Shanov July 22, 2016 Private electronic distribution Not for sale or distribution Copyright ©2016 by Clint Goss, All Rights Reserved. For information, contact Clint Goss at . Clint & Vera’s Native Flute Handbook 3 For our current workshop schedule: To sign up for our monthly newsletter: http://www.ClintGoss.com/calendar.html http://www.ClintGoss.com/newsletter.html 4 July 22, 2016 Clint & Vera’s Native Flute Handbook 5 Table of Contents Rhythmic Chirping ..................... 45 You can click on any of the page numbers to FluteCasts .................................. 47 take you directly to that chapter. Technology and Headphones ........ 49 Random Melodies ...................... 51 Preface ......................................... 9 The Heavenly Rut ...................... 55 Right in Tune, Revisited .............. 59 Part 1 – Flute Playing Back to Back .............................. 65 One-Breath Solos ........................ 15 Active Listening .......................... 67 Long Tones ................................. 17 Playing (from the Heart) Over Changes ............................. 71 The Scale Song ........................... 19 Alternate Scales .......................... 75 Right in Tune .............................. 23 A Scale Codex ............................ 89 No Pain, We Gain ....................... 29 This Is My Music ........................ 93 The Rhythm Connection .............. 31 Widening the Circle .................... 97 Leaps ......................................... 33 Nudge, Nudge .......................... 101 Note Endings .............................. 37 Cultural Insights ........................ 105 The Major Minor ........................ 39 Your Brain on Flute ................... 111 I’m Sorry, So Sorry ...................... 41 The Native American Flute Vibrato ....................................... 43 and the Future .......................... 119 6 July 22, 2016 Part 2 – Flute Circle Facilitation Part 3 – Poetry and Readings What Is Our Job Title? .............. 123 Introduction to Poetry and Native Flutes .................. 217 That’s OK, Clint ........................ 125 Haiku – One Deep Warming Up ............................ 127 Breath Poetry ................. 219 Deep Listening ......................... 133 Benedictions, Invocations, Modeling ................................. 139 and Blessings .................. 221 Rounding the Circle .................. 141 Poetry and Readings for Memorial Services ........... 225 A Bill of Musical Rights ............. 145 General Poetry for Success for All .......................... 147 Music Performance ......... 229 Ensembles ................................ 151 Readings for Flute Circles Facilitating with Rhythm ........... 157 and Workshops ............... 239 Keyboards in the Circle ............. 161 Flute-specific Poetry and Readings ................... 243 Thriving Flute Circles ................ 171 Rumi Poetry Support and Shift ..................... 175 Related to Music .............. 247 Tokyo Flute Circle ..................... 179 Readings and Quotations on Music ........... 251 Flute Choirs .............................. 181 Readings and Duet Games ............................. 189 Quotations on Silence ....... 263 Music Theory Questions ............ 195 Lessons on Lessons ................... 201 Part 4 – Rhythms Exploring the Voice .................. 207 World Rhythms ........................ 269 Topic Map ............................... 211 Clint & Vera’s Native Flute Handbook 7 Part 5 – Sheet Music Sheet Music Introduction ........... 291 Amazing Grace .......................... 292 America ................................... 294 Bridal Chorus ............................ 296 By the Waters of Minnetonka .... 297 Colors of the Wind .................... 301 Death Song of the Cherokee ...... 303 Earth My Body ......................... 304 Hon Shirabe ............................. 305 The Huron Carol ....................... 306 Kayowajineh ............................. 307 Maliseet Love Song ................... 308 Ode to Joy ................................ 310 Origin Song of the Flageolet ...... 311 Pokarekare Ana ........................ 313 Sakura ...................................... 315 Shenandoah ............................. 319 Simple Gifts .............................. 320 Summertime ............................. 322 Taps ......................................... 324 Wendeyaho .............................. 325 Yaquis Deer Dance .................... 327 You Are My Sunshine ................ 329 Zuni Sunrise ............................. 331 8 July 22, 2016 Preface This handbook is based on a collection of articles we have developed over the past several First Edition years, assembled and edited specifically as an The first edition of this handbook – 190 pages aid to participants attending our workshops, in length – was individually printed, bound, and retreats, and gatherings (Flute Haven Native privately distributed to partcipants of our music Flute School, Flute Harvest Native Flute workshops in 2014. This was rather laborious Retreat, Native Rhythms Flute School, etc). and environmentally unfriendly. However, since Each chapter is a typically based on a separate this first edition of the book contained some article, so each of the chapters can be read elements that were only distributable under fair- independenly. They are also designed to be read use settings, a digital version was not an option. straight through, providing a graded, building- The first edition was dated June 17, 2014. block approach. Many people have contributed to this material, Second Edition especially my co-authors on some of the chapters: Lynn Miller, Eric Miller, and Mary In 2015, we removed copyright-restricted Knysh. Kathleen Joyce-Grendahl, in her role as content so that a digital distribution was editor for the INTERNATIONAL NATIVE feasible. The document was overhauled to AMERICAN FLUTE ASSOCIATION newsletter reduce the size of the PDF distribution (70 MB Voice of the Wind and the WORLD FLUTE to under 6.7 MB), provide clickable links to SOCIETY newsletter Overtones, provided web sites and a table of contents outline in editorial input on a number of the articles. Acrobat Reader, and to use fonts that are Additional material and input has been provided licensed for distribution. The content was also by Randy Brody, Cornell Kinderknecht, R. substantially updated to make corrections, add Carlos Nakai, James Oshinsky, and many information on our workshop schedule, and others. Individual co-authors and contributors include 14 new chapters based on articles are noted at the footer of each chapter. written over the last year, which brought the PDF distribution size to 7.8 MB. A great deal of the material is based on my training at the MUSIC FOR PEOPLE organization The second edition was released in PDF format (www.MusicForPeople.org), which is the primary on September 26, 2015 and comprised 252 basis for the facilitation techniques that Vera pages. Note that this document still retains and I use in Native Flute workshops. aspects of the printed version: offset left and right pages as well as blank pages to achieve the We hope you find this material useful! proper pagination for duplex printing. Clint & Vera’s Native Flute Handbook 9 Third Edition to time. Different editions of this handbook may This third edition was released February 16, contain substantially different content. For these 2016. It comprised 320 pages in the digital reasons, rather than distributing copies of this release. It was updated with articles written over electronic file, please access the latest version the prior year as well as a new section on at: Poetry and Readings. http://www.FluteHaven.com/nfh.htm or This edition was a limited “mid-year” release http://www.NativeFluteSchool.com/nfh.htm for advance review by the participants in Flute Haven’s Leadership program as well as for This material is for your own personal use. participants of the Japan Flute Life 2016 Please do not make copies of this material or program. A fourth edition is planned for later in distribute it in any form. 2016. — Clint Goss and Vera Shanov July 22, 2016 Fourth Edition This fourth edition was released July 22, 2016. Citations It comprises 332 pages in the digital release. It is updated with articles written over the past six Although this handbook is designed to be practical rather than academic, some of the months as well as new entries in the Poetry chapters cite references and external sources. and Readings section and a new chapter on An example of a citation in the body of the text Flute-specific Poetry. is [Author 2014]. You can find the details of Accessing the Content Beginning with the Second Edition of this Native Flute Handbook, the electronic distribution can be read by version 6.0 or later of Adobe Acrobat Reader and related products. This standard was released in July of 2003, so most up-to-date computer systems should be able to access this content. You can click on any of the hypertext links in this document to access related content, including web pages, audio recordings, and other related PDF documents. The content of this handbook will likely change from time 10 July 22, 2016 the citations in a chapter at the end of that