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20111614
Essential Guide to Irish Flute and Tin Whistle
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Woodwinds - Beginning
SKU: MB.98214M
Composed by Grey E. Larsen. This edition: Perfect Binding. Woodwinds, Flute, Tin Whistle, World, Celtic, Perfect binding. Style. Book and online audio. 480 pages. Mel Bay Publications, Inc #98214M. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc (MB.98214M).ISBN 9780786686834. 8.75 x 11.75 inches.
For the beginner to the highly advanced player of Irish flute, tin whistle, or Boehm-system flute. Features a simple and penetrating new approach to understanding and notating ornamentation that goes beyond any previous method, exploring ornamentation techniques never described in print before.
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.
For those who don't read music, almost all the exercises, examples and tunes appear on the audio download available online. 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. Includes access to online audio.
- 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 (Transcriptions of Commercial Recordings from Twenty-Two Important Flute and Tin Whistle Players, 1925-2001)
- 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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