The essential guide to Irish Flute and tin whistle

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General : Flûte

Contenu : - Dedication
- Epigraph
- Foreword by gearoid O hallnhuràin, 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 overtly 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 multi-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 excerpred 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