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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, Séamus Ennis, Willie Clancy, Paddy Taylor, Paddy Carty, Grey Larsen, Josie McDermott, Matt Molloy, Cathal McConnell, Mary Bergin, Donncha Ó Briain (Denis O'Brien), Desi Wilkinson, Breda Smyth, Seán Ryan, Conal Ó Gráda, 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 two companion CDs. "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.
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As you embark upon the path of learning Irish music, you should realize that you are preparing to become a participant in a story that has been unfolding for centuries. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
short crann, fingered articulations, condensed rolls, ascending roll, píob mór, stepwise descending notes, tight triplet, bottom pinky, long roll symbol, most agile ones, normal cutting finger, lowest covered hole, tune seep, pastoral bagpipe, next easiest one, handmade whistles, legato aesthetic, cut fingerings, whistle recordings, tin whistle playing, breath vibrato, whistle ornamentation, bow trebles, practicing strikes, interrupting the air flow Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Matt Molloy, The Sporting Pitchfork, Mary Bergin, Bantry Bay, The Gravel Walk, New York, The Skylark, Fluters of Old Erin, Paddy Carty, Paddy Taylor, The Trip, Walfrid Kujala, Paddy Carry, Tom Morrison, Breandán Breathnach, Séamus Ennis, The Drunken Landlady, The Jug of Punch, Willie Clancy, Dorian Pentatonic, The Frost, The Glen Allen Reel, The Humours of Drinagh, William Cummins, William Neal New!
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As you embark upon the path of learning Irish music, you should realize that you are preparing to become a participant in a story that has been unfolding for centuries. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
short crann, fingered articulations, condensed rolls, ascending roll, píob mór, stepwise descending notes, tight triplet, bottom pinky, long roll symbol, most agile ones, normal cutting finger, lowest covered hole, tune seep, pastoral bagpipe, next easiest one, handmade whistles, legato aesthetic, cut fingerings, whistle recordings, tin whistle playing, breath vibrato, whistle ornamentation, bow trebles, practicing strikes, interrupting the air flow Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Matt Molloy, The Sporting Pitchfork, Mary Bergin, Bantry Bay, The Gravel Walk, New York, The Skylark, Fluters of Old Erin, Paddy Carty, Paddy Taylor, The Trip, Walfrid Kujala, Paddy Carry, Tom Morrison, Breandán Breathnach, Séamus Ennis, The Drunken Landlady, The Jug of Punch, Willie Clancy, Dorian Pentatonic, The Frost, The Glen Allen Reel, The Humours of Drinagh, William Cummins, William Neal New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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