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Tune of the Day: The Frieze Breeches

This jig is taken from Francis O'Neill's The Dance Music of Ireland, published in Chicago in 1907. O'Neill states that the tune was “in some form known all throughout Munster. A strain remembered by from my mother's singing of it was added to Delaney's version, making a total of six in our printed setting.”

Frieze is a coarse woolen fabric with a rough surface. The title refers to clothing made from the material, once common in Ireland. However, the title is often rendered as “The Friar's Britches” due to the similarity of “frieze” and “friars” when spoken.

Tune of the Day: Study in G major by Köhler

This easy étude in G major is taken from the first book of Twenty Easy Melodic Progressive Studies by Italian composer Ernesto Köhler.

Thanks to Bruno for contributing this piece!

Tune of the Day: Vivace

This is the fourth and last movement from the second of Telemann's Sonates sans Basse à deux Flutes traverses, ou à deux Violons, ou à deux Flutes à bec, or “Sonatas without Bass for Two Transverse Flutes, or Two Violins, or Two Recorders”. You should be aware that this sonata is sometimes referred to as Sonata No. 1. We have already posted the other three movements from the sonata, and you can find them here: Dolce, Allegro, Largo.

Tune of the Day: Allegro by Braun

This Allegro is the fourth and final movement of the fifth of the six Op. 7 flute sonatas with bass accompaniment by French flutist and composer Jean-Daniel Braun, published in Paris in 1736.

Tune of the Day: Paddy's Whiskers

This lively jig appears to be unique to Chicago Police captain Francis O'Neill's collection The Dance Music of Ireland, published in 1907.

Tune of the Day: Study in B minor by Gariboldi

This is étude No. 13 from Italian flutist and composer Giuseppe Gariboldi's Twenty Studies, Op. 132. Make sure to play sixteenth notes shorter than eighth notes in triplets.

Tune of the Day: Fugue in C major

For those who have never heard of Dietrich Buxtehude, he was one of the most important composers of the 17th century, and strongly influenced many younger composers of the period, including Johann Sebastian Bach.

This jaunty Fugue in C major has aptly been nicknamed the “Jig” Fugue. It has an extraordinarily long subject compared to other fugue subjects in Buxtehude's keyboard repertoire: it is six measures long in 12/8 time.