Thought I'd get going with this before lessons restart, but am coming unstuck on the mordants e.g.i n bar 12.

The mordant is on Eb in the second octave with D being the following note and then that figure is immediately repeated. So it's Eb F Eb D, Eb F Eb D

Should I be playing this with the normal fingering, which seems very hard? My trill diagram seems to suggest keep the RH index finger down for the Eb which is easier, but the index finger has to come up for the following D anyway ...

I'm using Time Pieces for Flute Vol 3.

I've played this piece for my grade 4, and for the mordents you mention, I've been taught to keep all the fingers on my right hand down for the Eb, then lift the second finger for the mordent on the end of the note. I hope I've tried to make this understandable, but I probably haven't.

For those with swine flu it's a right middle trotter trill; for those without, it's a right middle finger trill....

Bag x

Thanks both very much. Flute not within reach at the moment but will try later.
Must take son to doc's ... horrid flu-like symptoms over 2 days, most unusual for him, we've usually got cast iron constitutions. Oink-oink? (Maybe Bag's trotter trill is not so wide off the mark!)