Table of Contents for
The Essential Guide to Irish Flute and Tin Whistle

(the first book)

 

Dedication
Epigraph       
Foreword by Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin, Ph. D.      
Preface
Acknowledgments 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 Excerpted Tunes
SECTION 8: Great Performances Transcribed (Transcriptions of Commercial Recordings from Twenty-Two Important Flute and Tin Whistle Players, 1926-2001).

 
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    
General Index  
Index of Tune Titles   
About the Author       

 



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