Una herencia de origen italianola recepción del bel canto en los métodos de flauta travesera en Francia durante el siglo XIX

Resumo

This article proposes a study of the specialised literature which makes it possible to identify the main allusions that flautists have always sought to make with their instrument. The novelty is the identification and analysis of the methods for flute and lyrical singing published in France throughout the 19th century –preserved as a Legal Deposit and in the BnF's heritage collections– thus proposing an in-depth study of the different treatment given in these manuals to the so-called virtuoso ornamentation. This unpublished study of the manuals for pedagogical purposes finally makes it possible to connect the vocal theory advocated by the great flute masters in the learning of this instrumental practice, and specifically during the 19th century in France. The study of these data points to bel canto as a fundamental part of the pedagogical machinery of the transverse flute and supports the important development of virtuosity on this instrument in France during the 19th century.