The Essential Guide to Irish Flute and Tin Whistle - Online Audio

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 on the audio download available online.

Through his research, patience, and diligence, Grey has 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.

480 Seiten, Klebebindung
Schwierigkeitsgrad: Anfänger

Inhalt

Dedication Epigraph Foreword by Gearoid O hAllmhurain, Ph. D. Preface Acknowledgements and Credits Introduction SECTION 1: First Matters CHAPTER 1: Orientation to Traditional Irish Music on the Flute and Tin Whistle CHAPTER 2: The Language Analogy SECTION 2: The Instruments 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 SECTION 3: Ornamentation Introduction to Ornamentation Preface to Single-Note Ornaments CHAPTER 7: Cuts CHAPTER 8: Strikes CHAPTER 9: Slides Preface to Multi-Note Ornaments 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 SECTION 4: Phrasing, Articulation, and Use of the Breath CHAPTER 20: Tonguing, Multiple Tonguing, and Throating CHAPTER 21: Musical Breathing SECTION 5: Final Matters CHAPTER 22: On Playing Slow Airs CHAPTER 23: The Language Analogy Revisited CHAPTER 24: On Practice and "Muscle Memory" 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) 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 Discography Index of Tune Titles General Index About the Author Also by Grey Larsen

• an einen Freund senden
• Seite drucken
• Produkt vergleichen

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 on the audio download available online.

Through his research, patience, and diligence, Grey has 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.

480 Seiten, Klebebindung
Schwierigkeitsgrad: Anfänger

Inhalt

Dedication Epigraph Foreword by Gearoid O hAllmhurain, Ph. D. Preface Acknowledgements and Credits Introduction SECTION 1: First Matters CHAPTER 1: Orientation to Traditional Irish Music on the Flute and Tin Whistle CHAPTER 2: The Language Analogy SECTION 2: The Instruments 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 SECTION 3: Ornamentation Introduction to Ornamentation Preface to Single-Note Ornaments CHAPTER 7: Cuts CHAPTER 8: Strikes CHAPTER 9: Slides Preface to Multi-Note Ornaments 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 SECTION 4: Phrasing, Articulation, and Use of the Breath CHAPTER 20: Tonguing, Multiple Tonguing, and Throating CHAPTER 21: Musical Breathing SECTION 5: Final Matters CHAPTER 22: On Playing Slow Airs CHAPTER 23: The Language Analogy Revisited CHAPTER 24: On Practice and "Muscle Memory" 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) 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 Discography Index of Tune Titles General Index About the Author Also by Grey Larsen

• an einen Freund senden
• Seite drucken
• Produkt vergleichen