Larsen, Grey - Essential Guide To Irish Flute And Tin Whistle
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Larsen, Grey - Essential Guide To Irish Flute And Tin Whistle

Catalogue No: MLB98214M
ArrangementTin Whistle
ComposerGrey Larsen
Product FormatSheet Music/Online Audio
£43.99
Typically dispatched in 2-3 working days
LanguageEnglish
Pages480
Publication Date2015
ISBN9780786686834 (0786686839)

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

  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
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