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Tune of the Day: Study in D minor by Hugues

Today's piece is the twenty-fifth study from 40 Esercizi per Flauto (40 Exercises for Flute), Op. 101, by Italian flutist, composer and arranger Luigi Hugues.

Tune of the Day: Duet in A minor by Devienne

This short duet is taken from the Nouvelle Méthode théorique et pratique pour la flûte by French flutist and composer François Devienne, published in 1794.

Tune of the Day: Capriccio in G minor by Ruge

This is the seventeenth and last piece from a collection of Capricci for Flauto Traverso by Italian flutist and composer Filippo Ruge. Born in Rome around 1725, Ruge appears to have spent most of his professional life in France, and especially in Paris, where several of his compositions were published, ranging from small-scale chamber music to large-scale symphonic works.

Tune of the Day: The Ruffian's Rant

The composition of this melody has been credited to Scottish fiddler and music publisher Robert Bremner (c. 1713–1789), who printed the first collections of specifically Scottish dance music between 1757 and 1761. The tune had previously appeared under the title “Lady Frances Wemys' Reel” in London publisher John Walsh's 24 Country Dances for the Year 1742.

Set as an air, the melody was used by Robert Burns for his song “Theniel Menzies' Bonie Mary”. Burns must have liked the tune, for his song “In Commin' by the Brig o' Dye” in The Caledonian Museum (1770) and three songs in his Merry Muses of Caledonia (published after his death, in 1800) were directed to be sung to it.

Tune of the Day: Study in D-sharp minor by Kummer

This is the fourteenth piece from 24 Etudes mélodiques, Op. 110 by German flutist and composer Caspar Kummer. The piece is presented in two versions, the first in D-sharp minor and the second in the enharmonic key of E-flat minor.

Tune of the Day: Giga by Corelli

Today we propose the third and last movement of Italian Baroque composer Arcangelo Corelli's Trio Sonata No. 11 in E-flat major. You may notice that the key signature has only 2 flats instead of 3, despite the piece being in E-flat major. This kind of discrepancy was relatively common during the Baroque period.

This piece was originally composed for two violins and continuo. As a consequence, a couple of notes have been altered in order to make it playable on the flute.

Thanks to Mario for contributing this piece!

Tune of the Day: La Mozelle

This musette is the fifth movement of Amusement palatin, a suite for solo instrument (“musette, vielle, flute and oboe” according to the original edition) and continuo by the French Baroque composer Nicolas Chédeville. The title “La Mozelle” appears to be an old French spelling of the name of the Moselle, a river that flows through France and Germany.