Saturday 24 July 2021
Tune of the Day: Study in D minor by Hugues
from “40 New Studies”
Today's piece is the thirty-first study from 40 Nuovi Studi, Op. 75, by Italian flutist, composer and arranger Luigi Hugues.
Friday 23 July 2021
Tune of the Day: Duet in E-flat major by Tulou
from “Méthode de flûte”
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.
Thursday 22 July 2021
Tune of the Day: Trip to Dilington
by Ignatius Sancho
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.
Wednesday 21 July 2021
Tune of the Day: The Pipers' Picnic
Traditional Irish jig
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.
Tuesday 20 July 2021
Tune of the Day: Study in C major by Boehm
from “12 Studies”
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.
Monday 19 July 2021
Tune of the Day: Alice Gray
arranged for two flutes
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.
Sunday 18 July 2021
Tune of the Day: Allegro by Bellinzani
from Recorder Sonata in D minor
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.