Selected Duets For Flute Podcast

Selected Duets for Flute, Page 35 Number 2, performed by David Summer. This is the second of the two Kummer duets from his Opus 20. The tempo marking is poco adagio, which translates to "a little slow". In relative terms it's not quite as slow as an adagio marking would be. This duet offers the teacher a good opportunity to introduce the gruppetto. The gruppetto (translation "little group") is an ornamentation that adds a certain gracefulness to the music. It's indicated in the printed music by what looks like a sideways 'S'. A gruppetto is played by starting on the printed note, moving up one note, then back to the printed note, then down one note and finally back to the printed note again. An example of the interpretation is at the bottom of the duet on page 35. The metronome setting for this performance is quarter note = 76.