Billaudot Bernold Philippe - Le Souffle Le Son - Flute

Summary of This Workbook

Philippe Bernold: Breath, Sound - Exercises, Repertoire Excerpts Designed to Master the Flute's Air Column and Achieve a Beautiful Sound is an exercise book created to extend and deepen the work initiated in "La technique d'embouchure." The goal is clear: to help the flutist build a stable, efficient, and flexible air column in order to obtain a centered, homogeneous, and expressive sound, regardless of the tessitura.

Philippe Bernold, professor at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, offers here a very musical approach: the majority of exercises are based on excerpts from essential repertoire works (solo, chamber music, and orchestra). This allows exploration of varied stylistic worlds, from Bach and Mozart to Bizet, Reinecke, Prokofiev, Debussy, Dutilleux, and Messiaen, to work on technical reflexes directly transferable to performance situations.

The workbook notably highlights new vocalises, true fundamental exercises to establish the foundation of breath, develop endurance, and refine air management. Embouchure work and phrase endings are also addressed through harmonic sounds, a valuable tool to improve attack, stability, and resonance quality.

Two new chapters, devoted to breath length and legato, invite the development of a continuous phrasing line, with expressiveness close to that of singers. Finally, a concluding section in the form of articles revisits essential themes such as support, vibrato, air column, jaw movement, timbre, and dynamics, illuminated by solid experience as a pedagogue and performer.

Technical specifications

Musical Genre

Classical

Publication

Sheet music

Composer	Philippe Bernold	Instrumentation	Flute
Artist	Philippe Bernold	Genre	Method / exercise book for flute