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Catalog > Books > Flute updated May 31, 2008
Titles listed in alphabetical order

Antiquities of Scottish Music Arranged for Flute and Whistle Book/CD set -- by Dona Gilliam and Mizzy McCaskill $22.95
112 pages. This collection of carefully selected literature represents gems of traditional Scottish music. Includes a wide variety of jigs, reels, hornpipes, strathspeys, airs, & ballads arranged for flute and/or D whistle with piano accompaniment. All pieces are written in the keys of D, G, A to accommodate the range of fingerings available for simple system flutes, D-whistle and Boehm-style flutes. Arranged in performance sets with piano accompaniment, and presents both ornamented and unadorned flute/ whistle versions for each piece. Song lyrics and suggested guitar chords further enhance these melodies for practice or performance. Intermediate in difficulty. Includes a performance CD that contains the eleven ornamented sets in the book on either flute or tin whistle.

Complete Irish Flute Book/CD set -- by Dona Gilliam and Mizzy McCaskill $29.95
192 pages. While the wooden simple-system flute is traditionally used in playing Irish music, a growing number of folk players have adopted the silver flute as a viable alternative. Here for the first time, The Complete Irish Flute Book presents the silver or Boehm flutist with a method for learning authentic Irish ornamentation! This thorough guide provides detailed fingering charts, exercises, and technical essays for learning to execute ornaments in the in the Irish style. Through a wealth of hornpipes, reels, jigs, set dances, and slow airs and songs. This book focuses not only on musical accuracy, but stylistic authenticity as well. The companion CD contains 26 of the 101 tunes from the book.


Essential Guide to Irish Flute and Tinwhistle: Book and 2 CDs -- by Grey Larsen $39.95
Published by Mel Bay, 480 pages. For the beginner to the highly advanced player of Irish flute, tinwhistle, 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. 49 ornamentation exercises, history and theory of traditional Irish flute and whistle music, and 27 meticulous transcriptions of recordings by important Irish flute and tinwhistle players: John McKenna, Tom Morrison, William Cummins, Seamus Ennis, Willie Clancy, Paddy Taylor, Paddy Carty, Cathal McConnell, Kevin Crawford, Seamus Egan and others. For those who don't read music, almost all the exercises, examples and tunes appear on the two companion CDs.


Traditional Irish Flute Solos: The Turoe Stone Collection -- Vincent Broderick $16.95
40 pages. This unique collection of 68 Irish jigs, reels, hornpipes, polkas, slides, slip jigs, barn dances, marches and airs for Irish flute was composed by the renowned Galway fluter Vincent Broderick. Also includes stories about the life and work of Mr. Broderick.