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Tune of the Day: Duet in E-flat major by Tulou

This “Andantino grazioso” for two flutes is taken from the celebrated Méthode de flûte by French flutist Jean-Louis Tulou, published in Paris in 1835.

Tune of the Day: Trip to Dilington

This tune was composed by British writer and musician Ignatius Sancho (1729–1780), and was first printed in his Twelve Country Dances for the Year 1779. The title probably refers to Dillington House, a 16th-century college near Ilminster in the parish of Whitelackington, Somerset.

Tune of the Day: The Pipers' Picnic

The earliest known appearance of this tune in print is in Francis O'Neill's collection Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies, published in Chicago in 1903.

Since 1965, there has actually been an event called the “Pipers Picnic” held every year in Earltown, Nova Scotia on the first Saturday in August.

Tune of the Day: Study in C major by Boehm

This étude is the fourth piece of a collection of Twelve Grand Studies for the flute by Theobald Boehm, the German inventor who perfected the modern Western concert flute and its improved fingering system.

Tune of the Day: Alice Gray

This popular ballad was likely composed around 1830 by Virtue Millard, about whom very little is known aside from the fact that she was the wife of a Mr. Philip Millard.

She's all my fancy painted her,
She's lovely, she's divine,
But her heart it is another's,
She never can be mine;
Yet lov'd I as man never lov'd,
A love without decay,
Oh! my heart, my heart is breaking
For the love of Alice Gray!

The present arrangement for two flutes appeared in Blake's Young Flutist's Magazine, published in 1833.

Tune of the Day: Allegro by Bellinzani

This is the second movement of the twelfth sonata from Sonate a flauto solo con cembalo, o violoncello (“Sonatas for solo flute with harpsichord or cello”) by Italian Baroque composer Paolo Benedetto Bellinzani, originally published in Venice in 1720.

This movement has actually no tempo indication in the original manuscript, but it usually appears as an “Allegro” in modern editions.

Tune of the Day: Shandon Bells

The earliest known appearance of this tune in print is in Francis O'Neill's collection Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies, published in Chicago in 1903.

The tune is named after a bell tower in the city of Cork, Ireland. According to O'Neill, “No double jig ever introduced in Chicago met with such immediate popularity among musicians and dancers as Shandon Bells.” It seems that his source for the tune, fiddler Edward Cronin, had no title for it, so O'Neill came up with an original one.