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All the tools the beginner, novice, and intermediate tin whistle player needs in order to progress to a high level of competence in Irish music. Includes an "Orientation to Traditional Irish Music", which puts the music in context, with information on scales and modes, dance tune types, the historical roots of whistle playing, and advice for learning by ear. The book is full of thorough instruction, exercises, and musical examples: from holding, fingering, breathing, and blowing, on up to advanced ornamentation, phrasing, and variations. Features a simple and penetrating new approach to understanding and notating ornamentation that goes beyond any previous method. Also includes history and theory of traditional Irish tin whistle music. For those who don't read music, almost all the exercises and examples appear on the companion CD.
About the Author
Grey Larsen was born in 1955 in New York City. His family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, the following year. He began piano lessons at the age of four and enjoyed a childhood and youth full of music exploration, his inner world filled with the keyboard music of Bach and Mozart, the rock, R & B, and Motown sounds on the radio, the songs of contemporary folk music interpreters, and traditional Appalachian and Irish music. From 1970 to 1972, he studied composition and early music at the Cincinnati College - Conservatory of Music before moving on, in 1973, to continue at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Oberlin, Ohio. While pursuing early and modern classical music on the one hand, he came ever more deeply under the spell of traditional music on the other, and for several years he followed both streams with equal energy and dedication. In these and later years, he spend a great deal of time learning traditional Irish music from elder musicians, especially immigrant Irishmen Michael J. Kennedy (1900-1978), Tom Byrne (1920-2001), and Tom McCafferty (born 1916), in Cincinnati and Cleveland, Ohio. Upon completing his Bachelor of Music degree at Oberlin in 1976, the streams forked. He bid a fond farewell to the academic side of music and set a course following his love of traditional music, exploring other waterways that would branch, cross, and rejoin over the decades. He leads a varied and rich musical life as a performer, teacher, author, recording artist, record producer, mastering engineer, and as the Music Editor of Sing Out! magazine. Since the early 1970s, he has also devoted himself to the traditional fiddle music of his native Midwest and Appalachia. But that's another story. He has three children and lives in Bloomington, Indiana, USA.
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As you embark upon the path of learning to play 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)
practicing short rolls, practicing long rolls, preparation clicks, fingered articulations, lowest covered hole, ascending roll, legato aesthetic, whistle ornamentation, cut fingerings, reel rhythm, pastoral bagpipe, struck slide, tin whistle playing, roll preceded, jig rhythm, ornamentation techniques, descending strikes, inarticulate breathing, falling slide, breathing spots, mode signatures, secondary pulse, whistle players, playing the whistle, slurred group Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Sporting Pitchfork, The Essential Guide, The Drunken Landlady, Martin Hayes, Bantry Bay, Matt Molloy, The Gravel Walk, Willi Apel, Musical Breathing, Old Joe, The Banks of Lough Gowna, Fiddler Magazine, Hardiman the Fiddler, Mary Bergin, The Banshee, The Lonesome Jig, Lad O'Beirne's Reel, Most Irish, Nancy Toff, New York, Play C-natural, The Complete Tin Whistle Tutor, The Monaghan Jig, The Rose, Tuttle's Reel New!
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As you embark upon the path of learning to play 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)
practicing short rolls, practicing long rolls, preparation clicks, fingered articulations, lowest covered hole, ascending roll, legato aesthetic, whistle ornamentation, cut fingerings, reel rhythm, pastoral bagpipe, struck slide, tin whistle playing, roll preceded, jig rhythm, ornamentation techniques, descending strikes, inarticulate breathing, falling slide, breathing spots, mode signatures, secondary pulse, whistle players, playing the whistle, slurred group Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Sporting Pitchfork, The Essential Guide, The Drunken Landlady, Martin Hayes, Bantry Bay, Matt Molloy, The Gravel Walk, Willi Apel, Musical Breathing, Old Joe, The Banks of Lough Gowna, Fiddler Magazine, Hardiman the Fiddler, Mary Bergin, The Banshee, The Lonesome Jig, Lad O'Beirne's Reel, Most Irish, Nancy Toff, New York, Play C-natural, The Complete Tin Whistle Tutor, The Monaghan Jig, The Rose, Tuttle's Reel New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Harvard Dictionary of Music: Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged (Series I: Diaries) by Willi Apel on page 15, page 28, and page 165
- The Dance Music Of Willie Clancy by Willie Clancy on page 123, and page 142
- Traditional Irish Tin Whistle Tutor (Penny & Tin Whistle) by Geraldine Cotter on page 96, and page 97
- The Lotus Dickey Songbook, Second Edition (Quarry Books) by Nancy McEntire in Back Matter
- Dictionary of Music by Elizabeth Martin on page 28
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