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Welcome to your daily source of free flute sheet music. Our commitments:
- Every day you will find a new piece of printable flute music to sight-read.
- No matter if you are a beginner or an expert: the pieces span across all levels of difficulty.
- If you're a teacher, here you'll find a great deal of free sheet music to use with your students… and to enjoy yourself, too!
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Sunday 10 December 2023
aka “Click Go the Shears”
Nowadays this melody is best known as the vehicle for the Australian bush ballad “Click Go the Shears”, which details a day's work for a sheep shearer.
The tune, however, comes from American Civil War song “Ring the Bell, Watchman” by Henry Clay Work, originally published in 1865. The first verse of “Click Go the Shears” follows closely, in parody, Work's lyrics as well. The earliest version of the Australian song can be found in a 1891 edition of the regional Victorian newspaper The Bacchus Marsh Express, under the title “The Bare Belled Ewe”, where the tune was indeed given as “Ring the Bell Watchman”. There was a shearers' strike in 1891, so the publication of the song in that year probably resonated with the Australian community.
“Click Go the Shears” has since been recorded by many artists, notably in 1958 by American folk musician Burl Ives, on his album Australian Folk Songs.
Thanks to Michael for suggesting this tune!
Saturday 9 December 2023
from “48 Famous Studies for Oboe or Saxophone”
Today's piece is the ninth study from 48 Études pour hautbois ou saxophone, composed around 1835 by German oboist and clarinetist Franz Wilhelm Ferling.
Friday 8 December 2023
from Sonata for 3 Flutes in A major
This is the third movement of a sonata for 3 flutes in A major by the prolific French Baroque composer Joseph Bodin de Boismortier. It was first published in Paris in 1725.
Thursday 7 December 2023
from Violin Sonata in D major
Today we propose the second movement from a sonata for violin and basso continuo in D major, HWV 371, composed by George Frideric Handel around 1750.
Wednesday 6 December 2023
Traditional Irish jig
This jig first appears as “The End of the Day” in Francis O'Neill's celebrated collection Music of Ireland, published in Chicago in 1903. However, the tune closely resembles another one, known as “Barley Grain”, which can be traced back to the 1850s.
Tuesday 5 December 2023
from “A Theoretical and Practical Essay on the Boehm Flute”
Today we propose a little 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.
Monday 4 December 2023
from Sonata for 3 Flutes in A major
This is the second movement of a sonata for 3 flutes in A major by the prolific French Baroque composer Joseph Bodin de Boismortier. It was first published in Paris in 1725.
