Fernand Gillet - Exercices sur les Gammes, etc for Flute (Exercises for Scales, Intervals, and Staccato)

"Better than anything I have seen in the traditional repertoire of flute studies, Exercices provides us with a means of reining in all our gratuitous speed and laying the groundwork for a refinement of expression few flutists seem to know is available.....Gillet cultivated this refinement in his students through his special way of working out problems in pieces and cultivating a "disciplined" rubato by altering note values for practice purposes and by using a subtle, extra energy on certain special inner accentuations and portatos....Over time, the experience of his approach in my lessons along with my work on Exercices combined to bring me to an elasticity of legato and a clarity of articulation and accentuation never before conceivable in my playing.  By far, the most striking results were in my legato playing though, because Gillet found such ingenious ways to give each slurred note a special chance to merge more intrinsically through the breath into the next note, instead of the slur being just an "infringement" on the column of air by a more or less casual raising and lowering of keys....Eventually, Gillet's expression "perfect legato" took on a meaning far greater than I could have imagined - and one that I seldom hear manfested in flute playing today."  From "A Flutist's Foreward" by Joe Armstrong, Boston, October 2002