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19898829
Essential Guide to Irish Flute and Tin Whistle
19898829
19898829
19898829
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Tin whistle - Beginning - Digital Download
SKU: M0.98214BCDEB
Composed by Grey E. Larsen. Woodwinds, Flute, Tin Whistle, World, Celtic. Celtic / Irish. Book and online audio. Mel Bay Publications - Digital Sheet Music #98214BCDEB. Published by Mel Bay Publications - Digital Sheet Music (M0.98214BCDEB).ISBN 9781610658898. 8.75 x 11.75 inches.
This comprehensive guide is designed for Irish flute and tin whistle players of all levels, from beginners to advanced, including those using the Boehm system. It introduces a revolutionary, straightforward approach to understanding and notating ornamentationincorporating cuts and strikesthat covers techniques never published. Also includes adaptations for Boehm-system flute players, guidance on breathing and phrasing, 49 ornamentation exercises, history and theory of traditional Irish flute and whistle music, and 27 meticulous transcriptions of recordings by these important Irish flute and tin whistle players: John McKenna, Tom Morrison, William Cummins, Seamus Ennis, Willie Clancy, Paddy Taylor, Paddy Carty, Grey Larsen, Josie McDermott, Matt Molloy, Cathal McConnell, Mary Bergin, Donncha Briain (Denis O'Brien), Desi Wilkinson, Breda Smyth, Sean Ryan, Conal O Greda, Micho Russel, Joanie Madden, Kevin Crawford, Catherine McEvoy, and Seamus Egan.Online audio recordings of nearly all the exercises, examples, and tunes are provided to support learning, especially for those unfamiliar with music notation. Grey has, through his research, patience, and diligence, completed a work on Irish flute and tin whistle that I feel is essential reading for anybody interested in getting it right. - Matt Molloy, Irish Flute player with the Chieftains.
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- SECTION 1: First Matters
- Orientation to Traditional Irish Music on the Flute and Tin Whistle
- The Language Analogy
- SECTION 2: The Instruments
- The Irish or Simple System-Flute and the Modern Flute
- The Tin Whistle
- Holding and Blowing the Tin Whistle
- Holding and Blowing the Flute
- SECTION 3: Ornamentation
- Introduction to Ornamentation
- Preface to Single-Note Ornaments
- Cuts
- Strikes
- Slides
- Preface to Multi-Note Ornaments
- Long Rolls
- Short Rolls
- Condensed Long Rolls
- Condensed Short Rolls
- Rolls in Tunes with Overly
- Uneven Subdivisions of the Beat
- Double-Cut Rolls
- Cranns
- Charts of the Rolls and Cranns and their Symbols
- Other Multi-Note Ornaments
- Ornamentation through Melodic Variation
- SECTION 4: Phrasing, Articulation, and Use of the Breath
- Tonguing, Multiple Tonguing, and Throating
- Musical Breathing
- SECTION 5: Final Matters
- On Playing Slow Airs The Language Analogy Revisited
- On Practice and Muscle Memory
- SECTION 6: Forty-Nine Studies for Ornamentation Practice
- SECTION 7: Complete Versions of Excerpted Tunes
- SECTION 8: Great Performances Transcribed
- Appendix A: Audio Contents
- Appendix B: Adaptations for the Boehm-System Flute Appendix C: Fingering Charts
- Appendix D: Key to the Front Cover Photograph
- Index of Tune Titles:DOUBLE JIGS
- The Battering Ram
- The Blarney Pilgrim
- The Cliffs of Moher
- Tom Billy’s Jig
- The Frost Is All Over
- The Humours Of Ballyloughlin
- Jimmy Ward’s Jig
- The Monaghan Jig
- Old Joe’s Jig
- The Rose In The Heather
- Scotsman Over The Border
- Tripping Up The Stairs
- Whelan’s Jig
- Willie Coleman’s Jig
- SINGLE JIG or SLIDE
- The Star Above The Garter
- SLIP JIGS-A Fig for a Kiss
- Hardiman The Fiddler
- The Whinny Hills of Leitrim
- REELS-Christmas Eve
- The Banshee
- The Boys Of Ballisodare
- Roaring Mary
- The Drunken Landlady
- The Glen Allen Reel
- The Gravel Walk
- John Stenson’s Reel
- Lad O’Beirne’s Reel
- Lady On The Island
- The Mountain Road
- The Shaskeen
- Tuttle’s Reel, in E Dorian (as it would be fingered on a C whistle)
- Tuttle’s Reel, in D Dorian (as it would sound when played on a C whistle)
- HORNPIPES-The Home Ruler
- The Rights Of Man
- OTHER-Maids of Ardagh (polka)
- Lord Mayo (march)
- Tabhair dom do Lámh (Give Me Your Hand) (harp piece)
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