Selected Duets for Flute: Volume 1 - Easy to Medium (Rubank Educational Library, 177) - Flute Music Book for Duet Playing - Flute Learning Materials for Growing Musicians Paperback – May 1, 1993

I’m a strong intermediate amateur player and find this compilation wonderful for both playing for pleasure and developing my skills. Most of the pieces are relatively short, and a wonderful review of mid-17th through 19th century composers. When playing alone I switch voices on the repeats for the variety and to keep both parts under my fingers.

I really like this flute book of duets to play with other musicians of all ability levels. This is a great book for intermediate, advanced, college and professional musicians. Great book! I would highly recommend this book for all musicians!!

Recommended by my kids’ flute teacher.

I like to end each flute lesson with a short duet with the student, and this is a real workhorse of a book for that purpose. The duets so far as I know are originals -- written as duets by the composers-- and there's plenty of useful work in each part. Most are fairly short. The book is pleasantly formatted, with notes big enough and spaced enough to make it easy for students new to sight-reading, and the staves are spaced apart enough and with heavy enough brackets to make it easy for students to keep track of the parts. The selection is pretty heavy on 17th and 18th century composers though -- you might want to add one (or more) of the Hal Leonard Jazz Flute Duets. The ones I have are well done with good parts for both players.

Trying to get back into playing flute after several years and I probably used this same book a long time ago in late middle school or early high school. Easy to read music and fun to get back into playing with a fellow flute friend. Relatively easy music to pickup, even if it has been a while since seriously playing.

I needed this book and couldn't find my original copy, so was happy to get this cheaply and quickly. I wish volume 2 was as good as this volume 1, but there is nothing I can do about that.

A really nice selection of music, although some of the music is pretty challenging for beginners.

After only 10 months of lessons, I find being able to practice a piece, then play the duet with my instructor the best way to learn to play toward participation in a community group. This book provides a wide range of pieces to choose from.