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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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