Essential Guide to Irish Flute and Tin Whistle
Flute - Sheet Music

Tinwhistle - Beginning

SKU: MB.98214M

Composed by Grey E. Larsen. Flute, Fife and Oboe, Perfect binding, Technique, Theory and Reference, Celtic / Irish, Tin Whistle, Method, World. Style. Book and online audio. 480 pages. Mel Bay Publications, Inc #98214M. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc (MB.98214M).

ISBN 9780786686834. 8.75 x 11.75 inches.

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, Seamus Ennis, Willie Clancy, Paddy Taylor, Paddy Carty, Grey Larsen, Josie McDermott, Matt Molloy, Cathal McConnell, Mary Bergin, Donncha Briain (Denis O'Brien), Desi Wilkinson, Breda Smyth, Sean Ryan, Conal O Greda, 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 appear on the audio download available online. Grey has, through his research, patience, and diligence, 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. Includes access to online audio.