Product Overview
Product Number: 98214M
Format: Softcover & Online Audio
ISBN: 978-07866-8683-4
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.
Contents:
SECTION 1: First Matters
CHAPTER 1: Orientation to Traditional Irish Music on the Flute and Tin Whistle
CHAPTER 2: The Language Analogy
SECTION 2: The Instruments
CHAPTER 3: The Irish or Simple System-Flute and the Modern Flute
CHAPTER 4: The Tin Whistle
CHAPTER 5: Holding and Blowing the Tin Whistle
CHAPTER 6: Holding and Blowing the Flute
SECTION 3: Ornamentation
Introduction to Ornamentation
Preface to Single-Note Ornaments
CHAPTER 7: Cuts
CHAPTER 8: Strikes
CHAPTER 9: Slides
Preface to Multi-Note Ornaments
CHAPTER 10: Long Rolls
CHAPTER 11: Short Rolls
CHAPTER 12: Condensed Long Rolls
CHAPTER 13: Condensed Short Rolls
CHAPTER 14: Rolls in Tunes with Overly Uneven Subdivisions of the Beat
CHAPTER 15: Double-Cut Rolls
CHAPTER 16: Cranns
CHAPTER 17: Charts of the Rolls and Cranns and their Symbols
CHAPTER 18: Other Mulit-Note Ornaments
CHAPTER 19: Ornamentation through Melodic Variation
SECTION 4: Phrasing, Articulation, and Use of the Breath
CHAPTER 20: Tonguing, Multiple Tonguing, and Throating
CHAPTER 21: Musical Breathing
SECTION 5: Final Matters
CHAPTER 22: On Playing Slow Airs
CHAPTER 23: The Language Analogy Revisited
CHAPTER 24: 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:
CHAPTER 1: Orientation to Traditional Irish Music on the Flute and Tin Whistle
CHAPTER 2: The Language Analogy
SECTION 2: The Instruments
CHAPTER 3: The Irish or Simple System-Flute and the Modern Flute
CHAPTER 4: The Tin Whistle
CHAPTER 5: Holding and Blowing the Tin Whistle
CHAPTER 6: Holding and Blowing the Flute
SECTION 3: Ornamentation
Introduction to Ornamentation
Preface to Single-Note Ornaments
CHAPTER 7: Cuts
CHAPTER 8: Strikes
CHAPTER 9: Slides
Preface to Multi-Note Ornaments
CHAPTER 10: Long Rolls
CHAPTER 11: Short Rolls
CHAPTER 12: Condensed Long Rolls
CHAPTER 13: Condensed Short Rolls
CHAPTER 14: Rolls in Tunes with Overly Uneven Subdivisions of the Beat
CHAPTER 15: Double-Cut Rolls
CHAPTER 16: Cranns
CHAPTER 17: Charts of the Rolls and Cranns and their Symbols
CHAPTER 18: Other Mulit-Note Ornaments
CHAPTER 19: Ornamentation through Melodic Variation
SECTION 4: Phrasing, Articulation, and Use of the Breath
CHAPTER 20: Tonguing, Multiple Tonguing, and Throating
CHAPTER 21: Musical Breathing
SECTION 5: Final Matters
CHAPTER 22: On Playing Slow Airs
CHAPTER 23: The Language Analogy Revisited
CHAPTER 24: 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) p 355
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)
ISBN
978-07866-8683-4
