Complete Irish Flute Book By Mizzy McCaskill & Dona Gilliam

(Boehm System)

A superb guide to playing the 'Irish Flute'. This book contains 192 pages of great Irish Flute tunes with fingering diagrams. Ornamentation is explained in depth throughout. A very attractive book with pieces for study and practice. Fingering charts and line drawings.

While the wooden simple-system flute is traditionally used in playing Irish music, a growing number of folk players have adopted the silver flute as a viable alternative. Here for the first time, The Complete Irish Flute Book presents the silver or Boehm flutist with a method for learning authentic Irish ornamentation! This thorough guides provides detailed fingering charts, exercises, and technical essays for learning to execute ornaments in the Irish style. Through a wealth of hornpipes, reels, jigs, set dances, and slow airs and songs this book focuses not only on musical accuracy but stylistic authenticity as well.

This book also has a CD included in the price.