Collection
The Essential Guide to Irish Flute and Tin Whistle
51 pieces in this collection.
- About the Author
- Acknowledgements and Credits
- Also by Grey Larsen
- Appendix A: Contents of the Companion CDs
- Appendix B: Adaptations for the Boehm-System Flute
- Appendix C: Fingering Charts
- Appendix D: Key to the Front Cover Photograph
- Bibliography
- CHAPTER 1: Orientation to Traditional Irish Music on the Flute and Tin Whistle
- CHAPTER 10: Long Rolls
- CHAPTER 11: Short Rolls
- CHAPTER 12: Condensed Long Rolls
- CHAPTER 13: Condensed Short Rolls
- CHAPTER 14: Rolls in Tunes with Overly Uneven Subdivisions of the Beat
- CHAPTER 15: Double-Cut Rolls
- CHAPTER 16: Cranns
- CHAPTER 17: Charts of the Rolls and Cranns and their Symbols
- CHAPTER 18: Other Mulit-Note Ornaments
- CHAPTER 19: Ornamentation through Melodic Variation
- CHAPTER 2: The Language Analogy
- CHAPTER 20: Tonguing, Multiple Tonguing, and Throating
- CHAPTER 21: Musical Breathing
- CHAPTER 22: On Playing Slow Airs
- CHAPTER 23: The Language Analogy Revisited
- CHAPTER 24: On Practice and "Muscle Memory"
- CHAPTER 3: The Irish or Simple System-Flute and the Modern Flute
- CHAPTER 4: The Tin Whistle
- CHAPTER 5: Holding and Blowing the Tin Whistle
- CHAPTER 6: Holding and Blowing the Flute
- CHAPTER 7: Cuts
- CHAPTER 8: Strikes
- CHAPTER 9: Slides
- Dedication
- Discography
- Epigraph
- Foreword by Gearoid O hAllmhurain, Ph. D.
- General Index
- Index of Tune Titles
- Introduction
- Introduction to Ornamentation
- Preface
- Preface to Multi-Note Ornaments
- Preface to Single-Note Ornaments
- SECTION 1: First Matters
- SECTION 2: The Instruments
- SECTION 3: Ornamentation
- SECTION 4: Phrasing, Articulation, and Use of the Breath
- SECTION 5: Final Matters
- SECTION 6: Forty-Nine Studies for Ornamentation Practice
- SECTION 7: Complete Versions of Excerpted Tunes
- SECTION 8: Great Performances Transcribed (Transcriptions of Commercial Recordings from Twenty-Two Important Flute and Tin Whistle Players, 1925-2001)