Jen Cluff ~ Celtic Music for FluteCanadian Flutist and Teacher | |
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oo000oLooking for Celtic Flute sheet music?
Celtic selections for flute students ~ Books and Sheetmusic: _______________________________ RCM Grade 1-6 From: 'Playing the Flute' - Karen Smithson
See: Scottish Music for Flute and Harp Patricia Jaeger's Folk Harp with a Friend is a wonderful collection of 12 traditional Irish tunes. The harp plays an accompaniment, and there are parts for two melody instruments, as well as viola, and cello. All you need to play these are a harp and any melody instrument (flute, violin, recorder, etc). However, if you have another melody instrument, or a viola or cello, the music becomes more interesting, and more fun! The pieces are in the keys of 3 flats through 2 sharps, with some fingerings. No (harp)lever changes required during the pieces. For advanced beginners and intermediate harp players. 35 page spiral-bound harp book with four booklets for the other instruments. Manx tunes are from the Isle of Man, a small ancient kingdom set in the middle of the Irish Sea at the center of the British Isles. This book by Manx harper Charles Guard includes 18 harp solos, 4 harp duets, and 3 songs arranged for voice and harp. All in the key of C or in sharp keys, arranged for intermediate harp players, with no fingerings. 56 pages. ____________ Find: Walking Tunes a Collection At: Find: Wienand, Karl, Efen and Arawynn's Flute and Harp Book An easy collection of Celtic and Medieval pieces for harp and flute or recorder. (for flutists, the recorder parts may need to be moved one octave higher as read.) See: Take Up The Flute Repertoire Book One By Chris Morgan/James Galway =====================
Beautiful Music of Wales - arranged by Nicholas and Sian Vallis-Davies Stock Code : VAL125 [not sure if this is with CD or piano accomp]
This unique collection contains 19 traditional Welsh pieces for both flute and clarinet to play. The standard of the arrangements is about Grade 2-3 level, which makes this book very accessible and enjoyable for all. Contents: Hurry Hurry Mother, One Small Pan, Lullaby, Captain Morgan's March, Hush My Little Darling, The Black Pig, NewYear's Eve, Counting The Goats, Arabella, The Rising of the Lark, Watching the Wheat, The Ash Grove, The Minstrel's Adieu to his Native Land, Men of Harlech, David of the White Rock, Round the Yellow Sheepskin, All through the Night, Hunting the Hare ________________________________________ BEST Celtic Flute playalong books with CD: For all levels/ages/adults/children ___________________________________________ I would personally recommend "Celtic Music for Flute" by Jessica Walsh, and use the guitar chords to improvise a simple piano accompaniment for recitals, or use the CD in lessons. See: www.fluteandguitar.com for "Celtic Music for Flute" to hear MP3s. To create duets from about 60 of these tunes from three Walsh books go to my "How to created Duets from Walsh's Celtic books" article. ____________________________ Celtic Flute Duets for Novices: _______________________________ There is a great simple duet book by Sarah Watts called:
"Favourite Celtic Melodies", Duets for 2 flutes/Mel Bay. (Very easy)
These are excellent! Teacher will have to put in slurs (to distinguish from phrase markings) and other articulations as required prior to presenting these to students in lessons. Players can exchange parts on repeat.
There are also Celtic Duets listed by grade at www.justflutes.com
I have also arranged five British folksongs for flute duo in PDF format.
They are on the files-page at Flutenet.
Join Flutenet , and then feel free to download 5 folksongs for novice flutists at this link below: ________________________________ Celtic flute music for the Intermediate level: Grades 5-10 ___________________________________ James Galway & Phil Coulter books distributed by Hal Leonard Publishers, with full parts to match CDs of same name. (can playalong with CD overtop of artists) Note: Piano parts very well written, making several pieces sound very beautiful in recital/gigs: Books of sheet music: Annie's Song - Contains: Brian Boru's March/The Belfast Hornpipe Legends - Contains: Ashokan Farewell/Lament for the Wild Geese/Riverdance etc. (about 12 tunes) Winter's Crossing - Contains: About 14 original Celtic arrangements, some quite challenging. ________________________ Also see: At link: www.alrypublications.com See: Flute Quartets/Flute choir and Trios for Celtic music (Catherine McMichael esp.) There are several level II+ pieces at ALRY that feature piccolo/piano or flute/piano with Celtic themes. Level II-III is for intermediates For Piccolo or Flute: http://www.thesession.org/tunes/index.php Free short transcriptions of hundreds of contemporary artist's celtic tunes. Click on "Sheetmusic" at top of each title; do not need to join to click on tunes. Celtic Inspired Music for the Intermediate or Advanced Flutist UK sheet music source for Celtic books for flute: Brad Hurley has a wonderful site devoted to the Irish Flute. The address is: http://www.firescribble.net/flute/index.html . Also, the CD entitled "Wooden Flute Obsession" has 2 CD's worth of tunes in different settings. This includes, solo, with piano, with guitar, etc.
Q: I am looking for some Celtic Flute Music arranged for flute trio or quartet. Do you know of any really good arrangements? My students love the arrangements from the Flutewise website but they want me to find more "cool" music for them.
--------------------------------------------------------------------- Answer: Some of the links that follow may be useful to you as a teacher: Scarborough Fair Mari's Wedding
She Moved Through the Fair
Dream of Arren
Matt's Drone
Mireille from Gounod's opera
Original compositions
=================================================== CELTIC FLUTE ENSEMBLE MUSIC Beginner-Novice-Intermediate level flute Celtic or Folk Flute Ensemble resources: ==================================================== ----------------------------------------------------------- 1. DUOS for Novice Flutists (expandable) --------------------------------------------------------- The Jessica Walsh Celtic Music for Flute is a good source of celtic flute duos with CD accompaniment, originally written for solo flute and guitar, but changeable to two or more flutes. Example: Four novice level student flutists can double parts and perform with CD accompaniment played on stereo in classroom: See: Celtic/Renaissance Flute played from Walsh books as duets: http://www.jennifercluff.com/walsh.htm -------------------- 2. FLUTE TEACHER'S REPERTOIRE LISTS ONLINE: Novice to Intermediate level Celtic Flute Trios & Quartets (4 C flutes): ------------------------------- TRIOS: Look for celtic titles at: http://www.svsu.edu/flutee/TrioRep.html ------------------------ QUARTETS: Look for Celtic titles at: http://www.svsu.edu/flutee/Flute4tetRep.html ---------------------------------------------------- 3. A SELECTED LIST OF CELTIC (or folk) FLUTE TRIOS and QUARTETS ----------------------------------------------- Composer/Arranger Title Lombardo, arrangement of "Aura Lee" Lombardo, arr: Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair Kile Brother James Air Lombardo Cedar Ridge Lombardo, arr Fairest of the Fair Wye, arr Flute Class Concert Album Bailey Flute Fugue 1 Jeffries Flute Trio (Trio) Madison, arr His Eyes Are On the Sparrow Lombardo, arr Introduction to the Flute Family Holcombe, arr Londonderry Air Bach-Eck Minuet (various) Music for Three, vol. 3 (Trio) Jeffries New Beginnings (Trio) Bailey, arr Renaissance Album, The Goff, arr Sacred Medley Lombardo, arr Scarborough Fair Lombardo, arr School Days Lombardo, arr Sheep May Safely Graze Lombardo, arr Shenandoah Lombardo, arr Simple Gifts Luening Sonority Canon Holcombe/Dorsey, arr Sound of Music, Selections from The Dorff Through a Misty Arch (Trio) Kane, arr Vocalise Lombardo, arr Water Is Wide, The Lombardo, arr Water Music Robertson, arr Wondrous Love (Trio) ---------------------------- Recommended titles for more advanced flute levels: Zempleni, Trio for Three Flutes (Trio) Holcombe, arr: Spring, from Vivaldi's Four Seasons Lombardo, arr: Fiesta De Canciones Folkloricas McMichael,A Gaelic Offering, ------------------------ 4. GRADED SHEETMUSIC LISTS: Flute Trios & Quartets -------------------------- Search the sheetmusic lists online to find orderable titles: TRIOS: Published flute trios that included some celtic & folk trio music: a) ALRY catalogue see levels 1-2 for beginner to novice: http://www.alrypublications.com/ b) JUSTFLUTES [U.K]CATALOGUE: Graded 1-9, beginner [1-2]to very advanced [7-9]: Link to listings of published titles of Flute Trios: http://www.justflutes.com/ c) Also see flute trios in the Flute World catalogue: http://www.fluteworld.com ============================= Published flute quartets that include some celtic/folk: a) ALRY CATALOGUE [see levels 1-2 for novice players]: Flute Quartets: http://www.alrypublications.com/ b) JUSTFLUTES [U.K]CATALOGUE: Graded 1-9: Flute Quartets: http://www.justflutes.com/ c) Also see flute quartets in the Flute World catalogue: http://www.fluteworld.com ------------------------ 5. Other Useful Links --------------------------- Celtic Flute sheetmusic links for solo flute: http://www.jennifercluff.com/celtic.htm Searchable free music sites that have flute sheetmusic: http://www.jennifercluff.com/freemusic.htm Flute Trio and Quartet free online advice and repertoire lists: http://www.svsu.edu/flutee/fluteedocs.html ------------------------- 6. Celtic Composers for Flute Ensembles: ------------------------- Catherine McMichael's celtic flute ensemble music list: http://catherinemcmichael.com/library.html ------------------------- 7. Celtic flute ensemble music to listen to: ---------------------------- http://cdbaby.com/cd/silverwoodquartet http://www.svsu.edu/flutee/ Back to Jen's homepage
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