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The Essential Guide to Irish Flute and Tin Whistle
Includes Online Audio

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“A Comprehensive Guide”

Chris Hankin Just Flutes staff member - [email protected]

This is a publication which really does live up to its title. A cross between a manual and a tutor this weighty tome has 458 pages packed full of instruction, photos, diagrams and musical examples. The chapters include sections on the various instruments, ornamentation, studies and 'Great Performances Transcribed', each one encompassing a great deal of informations. Breathing, posture and blowing are all illustrated, modes are covered in great detail, and such things as Rolls and Cranns are comprehesively analysed. There's even a detailed description of the various instruments on the front cover. In short, if it's not in this book it's probably not worth bothering with.

From the Publisher

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.

Difficulty guide: 5-9
Difficulty level, roughly compared to ABRSM exam grades. 0 is total beginner, 9 is advanced (beyond grade 8).

Contents

1. Dedication
2. Epigraph
3. Foreword by Gearoid O hAllmhurain, Ph. D.
4. PREFACE
5. Acknowledgements and Credits
6. introduction
7. SECTION 1: First Matters
8. CHAPTER 1: Orientation to Traditional Irish Music on the Flute and Tin Whistle
9. CHAPTER 2: The Language Analogy
10. SECTION 2: The Instruments
11. CHAPTER 3: The Irish or Simple System-Flute and the Modern Flute
12. CHAPTER 4: The Tin Whistle
13. CHAPTER 5: Holding and Blowing the Tin Whistle
14. CHAPTER 6: Holding and Blowing the Flute
15. SECTION 3: Ornamentation
16. Introduction to Ornamentation
17. Preface to Single-Note Ornaments
18. CHAPTER 7: Cuts
19. CHAPTER 8: Strikes
20. CHAPTER 9: Slides
21. Preface to Multi-Note Ornaments
22. CHAPTER 10: Long Rolls
23. CHAPTER 11: Short Rolls
24. CHAPTER 12: Condensed Long Rolls
25. CHAPTER 13: Condensed Short Rolls
26. CHAPTER 14: Rolls in Tunes with Overly Uneven Subdivisions of the Beat
27. CHAPTER 15: Double-Cut Rolls
28. CHAPTER 16: Cranns
29. CHAPTER 17: Charts of the Rolls and Cranns and their Symbols
30. CHAPTER 18: Other Mulit-Note Ornaments
31. CHAPTER 19: Ornamentation through Melodic Variation
32. SECTION 4: Phrasing, Articulation, and Use of the Breath
33. CHAPTER 20: Tonguing, Multiple Tonguing, and Throating
34. CHAPTER 21: Musical Breathing
35. SECTION 5: Final Matters
36. CHAPTER 22: On Playing Slow Airs
37. CHAPTER 23: The Language Analogy Revisited
38. "CHAPTER 24: On Practice and ""Muscle Memory"""
39. SECTION 6: Forty-Nine Studies for Ornamentation Practice
40. SECTION 7: Complete Versions of Excerpted Tunes
41. SECTION 8: Great Performances Transcribed (Transcriptions of Commercial Recordings from Twenty-Two Important Flute and Tin Whistle Players, 1925-2001)
42. Appendix A: Contents of the Companion CDs
43. Appendix B: Adaptations for the Boehm-System Flute
44. Appendix C: Fingering Charts
45. Appendix D: Key to the Front Cover Photograph
46. Bibliography
47. Discography
48. Index of Tune Titles
49. General Index
50. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
51. Also by Grey Larsen

Item Details

Category: Tin Whistle Music
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications, Inc
Publisher's reference: MB98214M
Our Stock Code: 1025514
Media Type: Paperback (479 pages [score]); includes accompaniment Online Audio