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 Bookpresents the silver or Boehm flutist with a method for learning authentic Irish ornamentation! This thorough guide provides detailed fingering charts exercises and technical essays for learning to execute ornaments in the in theIrish 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. The companion audio download available onlinecontains 26 of the 101 tunes from the book.

For Beginner Flautist-This volume includes a selection of 22 traditional tunes from English Irish Scottish and Welsh backgrounds all arranged for beginner Flautists with a Piano accompaniment by Patricia Ramsay. These provide a varied and tuneful selection of pieces for the developing flautist to enjoy while also intruducing a new generation of musicians to the traditional songs of the British Isles.

Grey Larsen in the 150 Gems collections has given us a most welcome follow-up to his encyclopedic volume The Essential Guide to Irish Flute and Tin Whistle (Mel Bay Publications 2003) and The Essential Tin Whistle Toolbox(Mel Bay Publications 2004).The Gems feature not only meticulously-selected tunes but represent the first major offerings that use Larsen's innovative system of notating Irish ornamentation.These books and onlineaudio will help players gain a deeper understanding of the Irish musical tradition as well as provide new material to enhance the experience of the solo player and Irish session participant alike.

Following on from Jessica's hugely successful book Celtic Music for Flute she has produced a Volume 2 which contains 46 pieces ranging from lovely portraits to lively jigs. They come from traditions including Irish Scottish Welsh and Manx and were gathered from various sources: among others manuscripts written for Bagpipe Lute Mandora Fiddle and Voice. The unique personality and sound of the Flute complements them all. A few of the tunes are more than 400 years old; some are new. All have that inexplicable but necessary magic the quality which draws the flutist to begin the tune again just one more time...Whether a march lilt love song or lament eachmelody in this collection is a gem; many are sure to become cherished favorites. The accompanying Play-Along CD includes all the tunes in the same order in which they appear in the book. This CD features separate channels for Flute and Guitar so that the flutist can play along with the Guitar accompaniment. Allan Alexander artfully renders the chords on Guitar providing a harmonic tapestry over which the melodies float.