JustSheetMusic

Collection

The Essential Guide to Irish Flute and Tin Whistle

51 pieces in this collection.

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