Orientation to traditional Irish music on the flute and tin whistle Language analogy The Irish or simple system flute and the modern flute The tin whistle Holding and blowing Ornamentation Phrasing, articulation, and use of breath: tonguing and throating Musical breathing On playing slow airs Muscle memory and practice 49 studies for ornamentation practice Transcriptions of commercial recordings from 22 important players, 1925-2001 Boehm system flute Fingering charts Bibliography Discography

[See detailed contents pp. 440-444.] Contents of CD 1: The seven church modes: Concertina Ionian, Mixolydian, Pentatonic, Aeolian and Dorian modes Tuttle's reel Lord Mayo The lonesome jig The boys of Ballisodare Hardiman the fiddler Bantry Bay The blarney pilgrim The Cliffs of Moher The star above the garter Willie Coleman's jig The sporting pitchfork The banshee Whelan'd jig The drunken landlady The gravel walk The monaghan jig The rose in the heather Roaring Mary Lad O'Beirne's reel The lonesome jig Tripping up the stairs The frost is all over The drunken landlady Old Joe's jig The Glen Allen reel Maids of Ardagh The skylark The trip to Durrow Garrett Barry The humours of Ballyloughlin The lady on the island The battering ram Old Joe's jig The home ruler The whinny hills of Leitrim Scotsman over the border The Shaskeen The gravel walk A fig for a kiss CD 2: The rights of man Jimmy Ward's jig The banks of Lough Gowna Tom Billy's jig The Monaghan jig Christmas eve John Stenson's reel The mountain road Maids of Ardagh Give me your hand

All of the above plus these tune titles are referenced in the book : Bean Ui Chroidhealin

Bidh Eoin

The boy in the gap

Cloichini beaga na farriage

The Corry boys

The cuckoo's nest

Dogs among the bushes

Dwyer's hornpipe

Father Dollard's hornpipe

The flogging reel

Griffin from the bridge

The humours of Drinagh

The jug of punch

The Keadue polka

Long slender Sally

Maids in the meadow

Mrs. Crehan's reel

Mrs. Galvin's fling

O'Mahony's

Peter Flanagan's

The pigeon on the gate

Ride a mile

Shoe the donkey

The small stones of the sea

Sweet flowers of Milltown

Tabhair dom do lamh

The thrush in the straw

Woman of the house

The yellow tinker.