Where to Find Modern Music

All flutists know that one of the biggest problems is finding good sheet music to play, and while today many classical works can be downloaded for free from the Internet, most modern and contemporary music, which of course is subject to copyright, cannot be found anywhere online. That's why sheet music can make an excellent gift for amateur musicians of all ages and levels.

At flutetunes.com we receive many requests from our visitors asking for free sheet music, and we do everything possible to fulfill these requests. However, since we must honor copyright law, we cannot share transcriptions of modern works.

We have thus decided to make a list of the most popular commercial sheet music for flute, based on all the requests that we have received and that could not be fulfilled.

These pieces can be bought online at very reasonable prices, and will bring joy to the heart of every flute enthusiast!

Pop & Rock

Jethro Tull: Flute Solos — As Performed by Ian Anderson. Flute solos from 18 Jethro Tull songs have been transcribed for this collection. Songs include: Bungle in the Jungle • Cross-Eyed Mary • Fire at Midnight • Look into the Sun • Nothing Is Easy • Thick as a Brick • The Witch's Promise • and more.
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Essential Rock for Flute — Flutists will love jamming with a play-along CD for 15 top rock classics, including: Aqualung • Brown Eyed Girl • Crocodile Rock • Don't Stop • Free Bird • I Want You to Want Me • La Grange • Low Rider • Maggie May • Walk This Way • and more.
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Glee for Flute — 15 hits from the first season of the popular FOX TV show! Includes a full-accompaniment play-along CD so you can sound just like a pro. Songs include: And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going • Defying Gravity • Don't Stop Believin' • Keep Holding On • Lean on Me • No Air • Sweet Caroline • True Colors • and more.
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Taylor Swift — 15 favorites from the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter! Contains arrangements of: Back to December • Change • Fearless • Fifteen • Love Story • Mine • Our Song • Picture to Burn • Should've Said No • Sparks Fly • Speak Now • Teardrops on My Guitar • Today Was a Fairytale • White Horse • You Belong with Me.
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Adele - Guest Spot Series — Step into the spotlight and play along with ten of the best hits from Adele. Includes a book with instrumental arrangements and a CD of backing tracks. Songs include: Chasing Pavements • Cold Shoulder • Hometown Glory • I'll Be Waiting • Make You Feel My Love • Right As Rain • Rolling in the Deep • Set Fire to the Rain • Someone like You • Turning Tables.
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Michael Jackson - Instrumental Solos — Songs include: Beat It • Billie Jean • Black or White • Don't Stop Till You Get Enough • Human Nature • I Just Can't Stop Loving You • Man in the Mirror • She's Out of My Life • Thriller • The Way You Make Me Feel • You Are Not Alone.
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The Beach Boys — Play along with 12 Beach Boys classics, including: Barbara Ann • California Girls • Fun, Fun, Fun • Good Vibrations • Help Me Rhonda • Surfin' U.S.A. • Wouldn't It Be Nice • and more.
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Best Of The Beatles — 89 of the greatest songs from the legends of Liverpool, including: All You Need Is Love • Yesterday • The Fool on the Hill • Michelle • Hey Jude • Come Together • Let It Be • Norwegian Wood • Eleanor Rigby • Ticket to Ride • and more.
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Film Music

Disney Solos — 12 Disney favorites with a CD that lets you play along with a full band! Songs include: Be Our Guest • Can You Feel the Love Tonight • Colors of the Wind • Part of Your World • Under the Sea • You'll Be in My Heart • You've Got a Friend in Me • Zero to Hero • and more.
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Harry Potter, movies 1–5 — Play-along with the best-known selections from the first five movies in the Harry Potter series! Titles include: Hedwig’s Theme • Harry’s Wondrous World • Nimbus 2000 • Fawkes The Phoenix • Hogwarts’ March • Hogwarts’ Hymn • Fireworks • and more.
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Star Wars I–VI — By John Williams. Selections from all six Star Wars® movies arranged for solo Flute. Contains a carefully edited part that is appropriate for the Level 2–3 player and a fully orchestrated accompaniment CD.
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The Lord of the Rings — Music from all three films arranged for flute. Desirable and collectible, these instrumental folios are loaded with full-color photos of scenes from all three films. They are printed on top-quality antique paper stock, and the covers showcase the new "trilogy" artwork.
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Pirates of the Caribbean — 16 pieces from this swashbuckling blockbuster arranged for solo flute. Includes: The Black Pearl • Davy Jones • He's a Pirate • I've Got My Eye on You • Jack Sparrow • To the Pirate's Cave! • Wheel of Fortune • and more.
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James Bond 007 Collection — A complete collection of all the major themes from 19 James Bond movies. This instrumental collection offers arrangements specifically created for the level 3 flutist along with fully orchestrated accompaniment CD tracks.
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Music From Titanic — 8 flute solos, including: Hymn to the Sea • My Heart Will Go On • Hard to Starboard • Never an Absolution • Rose • Southampton • Take Her to Sea, Mr. Murdoch • Unable to Stay, Unwilling to Leave.
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The Very Best of John Williams — This incredibly versatile new collection includes some of John Williams's most-loved titles arranged for Level 2-3 flutists.
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Music Of Henry Mancini — Henry Mancini's biggest hits arranged for solo flute and piano accompaniment. Titles inlcude: The Pink Panther • Baby Elephant Walk • Moon River • Blackie's Tune • Brass on Ivory • Breakfast at Tiffany's • and more. Includes orchestral accompaniment CD.
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Twilight — Flute arrangements of the songs from the blockbuster movie with accompaniments on CD. Songs: Bella's Lullaby • Decode • Eyes on Fire • Full Moon • Go All the Way (Into the Twilight) • Leave Out All the Rest • Spotlight (Twilight Remix) • Supermassive Black Hole • Tremble for My Beloved.
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Twilight - New Moon — Fifteen songs arranged for solo flute from the second installment in the Twilight film saga: Almost a Kiss • Done All Wrong • Dreamcatcher • Edward Leaves • I Need You • Memories of Edward • New Moon • No Sound but the Wind • You're Alive • and more.
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Broadway Musicals

The Phantom Of The Opera — Nine songs from the Andrew Lloyd Webber masterpiece, including: The Phantom Of The Opera, Think of Me, All I Ask of You, The Music of the Night, Angel Of Music and more.
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The Sound of Music — Eleven songs from the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic, including Climb Ev'ry Mountain, Do-Re-Mi, My Favorite Things, Edelweiss and more.
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Wicked — Collection of songs from the Broadway sensation arranged for solo flutists. Includes an accompaniment CD. Titles include: What Is This Feeling?, Defying Gravity, I Couldn't Be Happier, Wonderful, and more.
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Les Miserables — Collection of songs from the classic musical, including: Bring Him Home • Do You Hear The People Sing • I Dreamed A Dream • A Little Fall Of Rain • On My Own • and more.
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Broadway Showstoppers — 47 incredible Broadway selections from over 25 shows - from the classic to contemporary stage. Songs include All I Ask of You, Climb Ev'ry Mountain, Seventy-Six Trombones and many more!
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The Best Of Andrew Lloyd Webber — 26 hit songs from his fabulous shows, including: All I Ask of You • Any Dream Will Do • Don't Cry for Me Argentina • I Don't Know How to Love Him • Memory • The Music of the Night • Only You • Starlight Express • Unexpected Song • more.
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Jazz

Jazz & Blues — 14 songs for solo flutists, complete with a play-along CD. Includes: Fly Me to the Moon, One Note Samba, Cry Me a River, God Bless the Child, Satin Doll, and more.
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The Definitive Jazz Collection — An incredible collection of 88 of the greatest jazz songs ever compiled into one volume. Includes Ain't Misbehavin', Girl from Ipanema, Stormy Weather and more.
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Mel Bay's Complete Jazz Flute Book — A comprehensive text teaching elements of jazz phrasing, articulation, vibrato, harmony, and technical studies leading to improvisation. For the flute student beginning the serious study of jazz and contemporary styles, this book will help in many ways.
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Collections

Big Book of Flute Songs — 130 popular solos! Includes: Another One Bites the Dust • Any Dream Will Do • Bad Day • Beauty and the Beast • Breaking Free • Clocks • Edelweiss • Heart and Soul • I Will Remember You • Imagine • United We Stand • You Raise Me Up • and dozens more!
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Essential Songs for Flute — This jam-packed collection features 130 hits from the past and present, across a variety of genres. Includes: Bennie and the Jets • Can You Feel the Love Tonight • Good Vibrations • In the Mood • La Bamba • Let It Be • My Favorite Things • Y.M.C.A. • and many more!
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29 Top Hits — 29 smash hits, including: A Whole New World (Aladdin's Theme) • All for Love • Dreamlover • I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That) • River of Dreams • and more!
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TV Favorites — 15 TV tunes arranged for solo flute, including: The Addams Family Theme • The Brady Bunch • Green Acres Theme • Happy Days • Johnny's Theme • Linus and Lucy • NFL on Fox Theme • Theme from the Simpsons • and more.
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Arrangements by Sir James Galway

Winter's Crossing — This inspiring collection of seasonal music tells the tale of the men and women who braved a rough ocean crossing to come to America from Ireland, full of hope and strength. Includes a wide range of music from spirited jigs to touching melodies, arranged for flute and piano.
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In the Pink — James Galway with Henry Mancini! Piano solos with inserted flute parts. Includes: Pink Panther • Baby Elephant Walk • Breakfast at Tiffany's • Medley of Days of Wine and Roses, Charade, and Moon River.
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Songs for Annie — A Collection of Favorite Encores. Contents: John Denver: Annie's Song • Mozart: Piano Sonata in C • Hasse: Tambourin • Marais: Le Basque • Spanish Love Song • Brian Boru's March • Belfast Hornpipe • Fauré: Berceuse • Debussy: La Plus Que Lente.
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Legends — By James Galway and Phil Coulter. This collection features some of the best loved Celtic melodies for flute and piano. It is for an intermediate to advanced player and features tunes such as: Riverdance, Ashokan Farewell, The Thorn Birds and Danny Boy.
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James Galway's Christmas Album — For Flute and Piano, with optional 2nd Flute and Percussion. A nice variety of Christmas music that ranges from very easy to intermediate.
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Modern Classical

Flute Sonata — By Francis Poulenc. A virtuosic flute solo by renowned influential French composer Francis Poulenc. Written in 1956-57, this is an elegant, dreamy chamber work and he has demonstrated his obvious compositional skill.
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Flute Sonata — By Paul Hindemith. An excellent piece, which has a lot of feeling in it. Every flutist should include Hindemith's Sonata in their repetoire.
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Suite Antique — By John Rutter. Arrangement for Flute and Piano. The Suite is made up of six movements ranging from a 'Bach-like Aria' to a 'Richard Rodgers-style Waltz'.
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Aria Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 — By Heitor Villa-Lobos. This arrangement for flute and piano is edited by James Galway, and it works very well.
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Astor Piazzolla: Libertango for Flute and Guitar — Classical guitar and flute duet. An absolute music, based on the melodic, harmonic, and above all, the rhythmical qualities of the tango.
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Histoire du Tango and other Latin Classics for Flute & Guitar — Guitar and flute virtuosi Christian Reichert and Katarzyna Bury bring you this album featuring Argentina's most fabled 20th-century tango composer, Astor Piazzolla.
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Suite For Flute And Jazz Piano Trio — By Claude Bolling. This suite in seven parts is composed for a 'classic' flute and a 'jazz' piano. It was the first jazz recording of world-renowned flutist Jean-Pierre Rampal.
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Christmas Music

Mannheim Steamroller - Solo Christmas — 12 pieces from Christmas and A Fresh Aire Christmas. Yes, you can sound like Mannheim Steamroller with just a flute and a piano.
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Big Book of Christmas Songs — An awesome collection of over 175 Christmas songs, traditional and contemporary, arranged for solo flute. It has almost every Christmas song you can think of.
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Everything Else

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