Product Number:
96332MEB
Format:
eBook + Online Audio
Skill Level:
Beginning
Notation Type:
Standard Notation
Pages:
192
Binding:
eBook
ISBN:
1-6191-1625-1
ISBN13:
978-16191-1625-2
Series:
Complete
Publisher:
Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
Date Published:
12/29/2015
While the wooden simple-system flute is traditionally used in playing Irish music, a growing number of folk players have adopted the silver flute as a viable alternative. Here for the first time, The Complete Irish Flute Book presents the silver or Boehm flutist with a method for learning authentic Irish ornamentation! This thorough guide provides detailed fingering charts, exercises, and technical essays for learning to execute ornaments in the in the Irish style. Through a wealth of hornpipes, reels, jigs, set dances, and slow airs and songs. This book focuses not only on musical accuracy, but stylistic authenticity as well. The companion audio download available online contains 26 of the 101 tunes from the book.
Historical Notes
Fundamentals
Hand Position
Finger Position
Embouchure
Breath Support
Irish Music
Jigs
The Angry Peeler
Banish Misfortune
The Banks of Lough Gowna
Come Along with Me
The Connachtman’s Rambles
Fasten the Leg in Her
The Foot of the Mountain
Galway Tom
Grandfather’s Pet
Jack of All Trades
Jackson’s Bottle of Brandy
The Jolly Corkonian
Julia McMahon
Long John’s Wedding
Merry Mary
Miss Grant’s Jig
The Rambler from Clare
The Red Haired Boy
Shandon Bells
Wellington’s Advance
The Woeful Widow
Young Francis Mooney
Single Jigs
Behind the Bush in the Garden
The Humours of Ballinafauna
The Lovely Lad
The Shady Lane
Slip or Hop Jigs
Comb Your Hair and Curl It
Dublin streets
The Rakes of Westmeath
Roudledum
Tipperary Hills
Polka
My Love She’s But a Lassie Yet
Hornpipe
Cronin’s Rambles
Dick Sand’s Hornpipe
The Drunken sailor
Early in the Morning
Fair and Forty
Galway Bay
The Grove’s Hornpipe
Hick’s Hornpipe
Humphrey’s Hornpipe
Miss Brown’s Fancy
Tim the Turncoat
To the Men at Sea
Reel
The Avanmore
The Blackberry Blossom
The Bloom of Youth
The Boys of Cappoquin
The Bucks of Oranmore
The Callan Lasses
Captain Kelly’s Reel
Clancy’s Fancy Reel
A Cloudy Morning
Coming Over the Hills
Dogs Among the Bushes
The Dublin Lasses
The Ewe Reel
The Flower of the Flock
The Green Jacket
The Greenlefe Inn
The Happy Days of Youth
Johnny’s Wedding
The Jolly Seven
The Jug of Punch
Leaves of Three
The Magpie’s Neal
The Maid at the Churn
The Maid in the Cherry Tree
Maids Aplenty
The Mason’s Apron
The Mills are Grinding
The Miltown Maid
The Morning Star
The New Demesne
Nora O’Neill
The Old Grey Gander
O’Reilly’s Greyhound
Over the Moor to Maggie
The Peeler’s Jacket
Peggy on the Settle
The Pigeon on the Gate
The Rose in the Garden
The Ships are Sailing
The Steam Packet
The Strawberry Blossom
The Swallow’s Tail
Take Your Choice
Touch Me if you Dare
The Western Lasses
Your Mother’s Fair Pet
Set Dance
The Blackbird
The Job of Journey Work
King of the Fairies
Performance Practice
Tempo
Rhythm
Phrasing
Breath Support
Ornamentation
Slide
Cut
Cuts (Fingering Chart)
Cuts Between Two Notes of the Same Pitch (Fingering Chart)
Pieces for Study of Cuts
Double Grace Notes
Scale Practice for Double Grace Notes
Pieces for Study of Double Grace Notes
Triple Grace Notes
Triplets
Rolls
Short Rolls
Short Roll Fingerings
Short Roll Exercises
Pieces for Study of Short Rolls
Long Roll
Long Roll Fingerings
Long Roll Exercises
Pieces for Study of Long Rolls
Cran
Process of Variation
Styles
Slow Airs and Songs
General Monroe’s Lamentation
Light from Ennistimon
Little Heathy Hill
Lord Mayo
Sloan’s Lamentation
Twas on a Winter’s Evening
The Winter it is Past
The Woods of Kilmurry
Vibrato
Diaphgmatic Vibrato
Fingered Vibrato
Pieces for Study and Practice
Piano Accompaniments
Fingering Charts
Indexes
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