Complete Irish Flute Book

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. Includes access to online audio containing 26 of the101 tunes from the book.

CONTENTS

• Historical Notes
• Fundamentals
• Hand Position
• Finger Position
• Embouchure
• Breath Support
• Irish Music
• Jigs
• Hornpipe
• Reel
• Set Dance
• Performance Practice
• Tempo
• Rhythm
• Phrasing
• 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
• Vibrato
• Diaphgmatic Vibrato
• Fingered Vibrato
• Pieces for Study and Practice
• Piano Accompaniments
• Fingering Charts
• Indexes