Historical timeline for choosing Flute Repertoire

Dear Flutists,

Often flute students are a little confused about composer's dates and musical styles, especially when asked to prepare "two contrasting pieces from two musical eras".
In competitions or auditions, flute students may also have to "Choose a Baroque/Classical piece, and then choose a Romantic or Modern piece". They then turn to the internet for help, and get lost in lists of repertoire and cross-referencing the dates, or get lost in a discussion of whether Beethoven is Romantic or Classical, only to find there's very few actual flute pieces by Beethoven.
You can enter a tiny flutey coma after this kind of confusion.
But fear not. I'm here to help. :>) hahhahahaa!
To start:
Here is a useful chart from an old book from the 1950s.
(Almost)Everything you want to know about which musical era your piece or composer comes from.



Isn't this a great little chart?
You can download a PDF version here too.

Download it and print it, then, as you gradually learn your flute pieces and look up their composer's dates you can add those composers to this chart (in tiny black ink as I do! :>) or make a new one up based on this template.
Very useful.
Enjoy!
And more about choosing flute repertoire in the next post.
Best,
Jen