Intro to 'On Playing the Flute' by Quantz | Team Recorder

It's maybe the most important resource for recorder or flute players getting into Baroque music: 'On Playing the Flute' by J.J. Quantz! In this video I explain why it's so great, give an intro (with lots of examples) to a few useful chapters, as summarise some good ol musical life advice from Quantz himself ;)
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Quantz trio sonata in C major for flute and recorder
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[@toddsterben6647]

I always liked his statement that the notes must note seem glued together

[@flutechannel]

Hey! One of my favorite books! Interesting and historical! Thanks for a brief introduction. Go Quantz!

[@Team_Recorder]

Yesss flutists unite! 😄

[@christophertsiliacos8958]

@@Team_Recorder Yes indeed! As a concert, fife, pan and Native American flutist -- I definitely concur! 😋 ♫

[@caleb-hines]

Man, that wig powder trick is really going to come in handy.

[@sharondavies4160]

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[@richardfananas272]

Où peut-on acheter de la poudre à perruque ?

[@joyztik]

I dont play any instrument for real. I bought a recorder just as a whistle for my 2 yr old, yet im here watching all your videos. I find myself smiling as if we were in an actual conversation. You are very talented at this. Thank you.

[@Team_Recorder]

Aww thanks 😊

[@Ratwoman5000]

Ahhh Quantz! So glad I found this. Really fascinated by him and excited to learn a bit more from you here! I've not long discovered him... His little Minuet and variations from The Baroque Solo Book are so interesting, and are part of my regular repertoire now. They work really well as finger exercises and are also versatile unnacompanied solo pieces that you can mix and match with heaps of room for ornamentation, improv and making them entirely your own. I played them in town for the first time busking recently, And having immediately found out that my lovely warm and reedy *but soft* Mollunhauer Denner treble wasn't carrying very well outside- 😅 and people couldn't hear me if the wind blew, 😬 I quickly switched to a Renaissance descant 📣 And kept the fingering - changed the key (this was risky sight reading wise and there were one or two usual notes that nobody in the general public noticed... ☺️) And my gosh I actually prefer it that way now and stick with descant... it sounded haunting and enticed many listeners to pause en route to Primark.... !! Can't wait to watch the vid 🎶 And buy this book 📙 I've no doubt I will find loads of pointers I'll wish I'd known pre-busk day, but at least I know now... 😆 Thank you!

[@fepatton]

I’ve heard of this book for years. Finally ordered my copy. Thanks for the intro!

[@annp322]

One of your best vids. I remember reading this book when I was a flute performance major in music school. I think I got more out of it from your video than from trying to reading it myself.

[@ssedarius]

I love how excited you get about this subject! It's cool to see how nerdy you are! You're fabulous! 😚

[@grumpyinbrooklyn6347]

Great video, Sarah! This could be the first of a series on Quantz' advice on musicianship, etc. This could be of use to all those interested in baroque music, not just recorder players.

[@michaelzaret8105]

This has got to be one of your best videos yet! I got my first copy of Quantz way back in music school (don't want to say how many years ago that was...), and I'm still learning from it today. Love your section on Inegale at 3'30!" Love the powder-from-your-wig section. Kind of like chalk on lute pegs.

[@nickperpirakis2211]

Oh my! Exactly the examples I wanted to listen to how to play! Great video!

[@anepictree]

Thank you -I am so enjoying all your videos. I have ordered the Quantz and look froward to dipping into it! Best Wishes.

[@marti_flute]

So glad that you made this video. I bought the book last year and haven't read much of it yet.

[@mantistoboggan2676]

I just bought an aulos traverso and found Quantz’s book to be the most valuable source on playing by far! Very detailed good instruction.

[@donnahughes-barton9737]

Thank you, this is really helpful. I love the recorder you are playing too

[@rhythmharmony2923]

Wow! That‘s wonderful!

[@jimmagwojo2718]

Great video Sarah fun and informative as ever. Had not realized it was applicable to the recorder too had initially got my copy to help with my Irish flute playing ...

[@johndunn3424]

Sarah, awesome video, thank you! As a side note, I was challenged to apply the advice on improving fast passages by correcting my tongue technique while playing my primary instrument, so I simply bite my tongue and found that this does improve my guitar playing. This is almost as good as the “tongue-in-cheek” method I usually employ! Sorry, I couldn’t help myself. I love your videos and your playing inspires me! Thanks again!

[@fredoliveira4882]

Thank you for another great video. Greetings frontal Brazil.

[@roseatkinson1990]

I bought an old copy of this in a fleamarket in Amsterdam many years ago and I was very proud of my purchase because I bargained for it in Dutch :) It was full of beautifully written margin notes in fountain pen but it got lost in a house move :(

[@Team_Recorder]

Ah goedzo! Maar jammer dat die kwijt is geraakt 😔

[@roseatkinson1990]

Ja, toch jammer... ik weet dat ik zal nooit zo'n boek meer vinden :(

[@aprilmunday1152]

Thank you. I've read bits of my copy, but I obviously need to read more and practise the exercises.

[@goschasintozen]

One of the best videos on planet! Bravo!!!!!

[@Team_Recorder]

Thank you!

[@deannesherriff3247]

Quantz sounds like a really good guy. Thank you. 😊

[@tristanrush5526]

I shall definitely acquire this book!

[@someshsp]

your a star sarah keep them coming please

[@idraote]

Hello Sarah! As usual you managed to make an interesting video about an apparently nerdy topic. Great job (as usual)!

[@Team_Recorder]

Hehe, thanks!

[@TheF70846]

love your video,very perfessional! Could you make a video to explain how to get tuned with two or more recorders with ears

[@ornleifs]

The powder from the wig advice is gold.

[@gillchatfield3231]

Brilliant video as usual. I can never wait to watch them, so usually look at them with no sound but automatic subtitles wherever I happen to be. They think inégale is illegal! At the end is a link to some Teleman 'rock music'. Can't wait to try it 🙄

[@Team_Recorder]

Bwa ha ha ha, illegal rock music... maybe that's why some of my baroque videos got flagged as 'inappropriate content'! 😳

[@Oaktreealley]

I need this

[@rrssna]

Coincidentally, though I've been learning the baroque flute for the last three years, I've convinced my teacher that we should prepare the Quantz trio sonata for flute and recorder with one of her other students (who would play the flute part on the modern flute). By the way, I'm her only baroque flute student at present. I performed this piece years ago, both playing with baroque flute players and modern flute players. It works well playing with the modern flute if you're aware of the performance practice of the period. Anyway, I'm excited to take out my recently revoiced A=440 recorder out for a spin with this piece.

[@colinbailey5199]

'Alchemy' is a brilliant album!

[@Bermudasyl]

Great video, Sarah. Thanks. I just checked to see if the book is available on Amazon (I live on an island where we have to order most things in) and it's available for Kindle!

[@Team_Recorder]

Ah awesome!

[@thomashughes4859]

Does he mention his pulse rate guide to tempo in there? Fascinating stuff! Thank you.

[@rrssna]

There is a really fun skit staged by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, that represents a lesson given by Quantz to his student King Frederick the Great of Prussian. Lisa Beznosiuk plays Quantz and Neil McLaren plays Frederick. Passages of the book are read. It's worth a view; a lot of fun. It can be found here on KZbin, titled "A Royal Invitation". I would put a link here, but I'm now sure KZbin allows links in comments.

[@Team_Recorder]

It does, I just have to approve the comment that it's not spam! Please post!

[@davidburry2472]

A google search for "youtube a royal invitation" just gives me a lot of royal wedding videos. :(

[@rrssna]

@@davidburry2472 I made another comment with the link, but if you search "OAE a royal invitation" it should take you to the correct video.

[@bernnardo7]

Hi, I been looking for a video for a tenor flute in your channel, but I haven't find it yet. Please make a tutorial for this flute, I would really like to play this flute. Keep making videos like this. Regards from Mexico.

[@Team_Recorder]

There is one! ‘Intro to the tenor recorder’ 😊

[@Ratwoman5000]

I feel this is, in good way, like military school for musicians 😄

[@jayaramanthamizhirai9332]

can i use this technique\quantz for clarinet sarah because i play the clarinet thanks

[@reeser8]

Darn, I forgot to powder today. Anyone got any extra?

[@arielfuentes7439]

Thanks for this video, do you know if it is something similar but for the harpsichord?

[@Team_Recorder]

There is a big section in the book with info for accompanists and also for keyboard players, and most of the chapters (on music in general, good taste, ornaments, passagi, adagio and allegros etc) are suitable for any instrument! But yes there are a lot of keyboard treatises out there too... *racks brains for the entire treatise course I took in my bachelors* Couperin... and.... ach my memory fails me but try googling 'keyboard treatise'! 😅

[@arielfuentes7439]

Sarah Jeffery / Team Recorder thank you :)

[@ivandemiguelurain7649]

Hmmmm… Should I add this book to my Christmas wishlist??? ;)

[@thehomeofimperfectyoga]

i just did!! 😁

[@chrisgay4786]

There is even a kindle version so i can read it!

[@marcelo90z]

I found copies from it in public domain at the internet. The thing is: only german or french copies exist :P perhaps I will learn a bit of french...

[@bofHeidelberg]

You can read most of the original books on archive.org/search.php?query=johann%20joachim%20quantz if you not afraid of ancient german language and fracture letters. I am just reading the 'Versuch einer Anweisung die Flöte traversiere zu spielen' dated 1752.

[@pearspeedruns]

My favorite chapter is "Histroy"

[@Pets383]

The Bible for flauto traverso players :)

[@josevalverde2656]

What I I've to do to get it? I think it's an excellent book. I think so..lol you is a marvelous girl....

[@idraote]

www.amazon.co.uk/Playing-Flute-Johann-Joachim-Quantz/dp/0571207804/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1542307927&sr=8-1&keywords=quantz+on+playing+the+flute

[@josevalverde2656]

@@idraote thanks so much.

[@padrepatta5535]

Is that a Bernolin resin recorder?

[@allthingsflutey4642]

Quantz says that flute players with larger lips will struggle with embouchure and tone on the flute 😂 😂😂 I’ve not had a problem! Apart from this, awesome book!

[@Team_Recorder]

I know, a few of his bits advice are a bit dodgy...!

[@stephenmartin8197]

I usually articulate with an unaspirated t, as in romance languages. Do you think that works?

[@sleepydrJ]

Does that create more of a "d" than a "t"? then it wouldn't be as distinct

[@stephenmartin8197]

@@sleepydrJ I use it when I want very light articulation.

[@stephenmartin8197]

@@sleepydrJ I used Hugh Orr's method book. He's really big on tongued legato. Sarah has a name for it that I forget. It's using the bare minimum amount of tonguing to separate notes.

[@toddsterben6647]

but style varied by nationality and time, and Quantz was very much at the end of the baroque

[@RecorderArcade]

I’m somewhat convinced that I was Quantz in a former life. 🧐

[@Vhbaske]

Find a good teacher? I bet you know who is she...