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The essential guide to Irish flute and tin whistle / by Grey Larsen.

by Larsen, Grey.

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Pacific, MO : Mel Bay Publications, 2003.

Flute -- Methods -- Self-instruction.

Penny whistle -- Methods -- Self-instruction.

Penny whistle music.

480 p. : ill., music ; 30 cm. + 2 compact discs.

Orientation to traditional Irish music on the flute and tin whistle -- Language analogy -- The Irish or simple system flute and the modern flute -- The tin whistle -- Holding and blowing -- Ornamentation -- Phrasing, articulation, and use of breath: tonguing and throating -- Musical breathing -- On playing slow airs -- Muscle memory and practice -- 49 studies for ornamentation practice -- Transcriptions of commercial recordings from 22 important players, 1925-2001 -- Boehm system flute -- Fingering charts -- Bibliography -- Discography --

[See detailed contents pp. 440-444.] Contents of CD 1: The seven church modes: Concertina -- Ionian, Mixolydian, Pentatonic, Aeolian and Dorian modes -- Tuttle's reel -- Lord Mayo -- The lonesome jig -- The boys of Ballisodare -- Hardiman the fiddler -- Bantry Bay -- The blarney pilgrim -- The Cliffs of Moher -- The star above the garter -- Willie Coleman's jig -- The sporting pitchfork -- The banshee -- Whelan'd jig -- The drunken landlady -- The gravel walk -- The monaghan jig -- The rose in the heather -- Roaring Mary -- Lad O'Beirne's reel -- The lonesome jig -- Tripping up the stairs -- The frost is all over -- The drunken landlady -- Old Joe's jig -- The Glen Allen reel -- Maids of Ardagh -- The skylark -- The trip to Durrow -- Garrett Barry -- The humours of Ballyloughlin -- The lady on the island -- The battering ram -- Old Joe's jig -- The home ruler -- The whinny hills of Leitrim -- Scotsman over the border -- The Shaskeen -- The gravel walk -- A fig for a kiss -- CD 2: The rights of man -- Jimmy Ward's jig -- The banks of Lough Gowna -- Tom Billy's jig -- The Monaghan jig -- Christmas eve -- John Stenson's reel -- The mountain road -- Maids of Ardagh -- Give me your hand --

All of the above plus these tune titles are referenced in the book : Bean Ui Chroidhealin -- Bidh Eoin -- The boy in the gap -- Cloichini beaga na farriage -- The Corry boys -- The cuckoo's nest -- Dogs among the bushes -- Dwyer's hornpipe -- Father Dollard's hornpipe -- The flogging reel -- Griffin from the bridge -- The humours of Drinagh -- The jug of punch -- The Keadue polka -- Long slender Sally -- Maids in the meadow -- Mrs. Crehan's reel -- Mrs. Galvin's fling -- O'Mahony's -- Peter Flanagan's -- The pigeon on the gate -- Ride a mile -- Shoe the donkey -- The small stones of the sea -- Sweet flowers of Milltown -- Tabhair dom do lamh -- The thrush in the straw -- Woman of the house -- The yellow tinker.

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