This jig first appears in Francis O'Neill's collection Music of Ireland, published in Chicago in 1903. It is however closely related to the Scottish jig “Teviot Brig”, which was first printed in Nathaniel Gow's Complete Repository in 1817. Ballinafad (meaning “mouth of the long ford”) is a village in the south of County Sligo in the west of Ireland ..read more

This Allegro is the third movement of a sonata for 3 flutes in C major by the German Baroque composer and music theorist Johann Mattheson. It was published in Amsterdam in 1708 ..read more

This Andante is the opening movement of the first of the six Op. 7 flute sonatas with bass accompaniment by French flutist and composer Jean-Daniel Braun, published in Paris in 1736 ..read more

This jig is taken from Francis O'Neill's celebrated collection Music of Ireland, published in Chicago in 1903. Dunmanway is a market town in County Cork, in the southwest of Ireland ..read more

Today we propose a study by British flutist and composer John Clinton. It was first published in London in 1843, as part of his A Theoretical and Practical Essay on the Boehm Flute. The second half of this piece, starting with the switch to C major, only uses 4 notes. If you are up for a challenge, the whole 16 bars can be played (an octave higher) on a single fingering, by using harmonics ..read more

This Adagio is the second movement of a sonata for 3 flutes in C major by the German Baroque composer and music theorist Johann Mattheson. It was published in Amsterdam in 1708 ..read more

This is the last of Jean-Daniel Braun's Pièces sans basse for flute or bassoon, published in Paris in 1740 together with Braun's Flute Sonata in E minor. You may find its title spelled with a varying number of r's and z's, but the short form “Bizaria” appears to be the most common one in manuscripts ..read more

This catchy jig is taken from Francis O'Neill's collection Music of Ireland, published in Chicago in 1903. O'Neill's source was Chicago policeman and fiddler Timothy Dillon. Although this is the earliest known appearance of the tune in print, the melody is related to that of older jigs such as “How Are You Kitty ..read more

This study in double tonguing is the eleventh piece from a collection of 24 esercizi by Italian flutist and composer Vincenzo De Michelis ..read more

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