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This 9/8-time jig first appears in Francis O'Neill's celebrated collection Music of Ireland, published in Chicago in 1903. O'Neill's source for this tune was fiddler John McFadden, born in the 1850s in the townland of Carrowmore, near Westport, County Mayo in western Ireland.
This is the very first study from Italian composer Giuseppe Gariboldi's Etudes mignonnes (Dainty Studies), Op. 131.
This is the fifth duet from La scuola del flauto (The School of the Flute) by Italian composer and arranger Luigi Hugues.
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A tambourin (literally “small drum” in French) is a piece of music that imitates a drum. French composer Jean-Philippe Rameau wrote many of them as parts of his operas. The most famous one is the Tambourin in E Minor from his second collection of pieces for the harpsichord, titled Pièces de clavessin (1724), which also appears in his 1739 opera Les fêtes d'Hébé. With its driving melody full of trills and accents, this piece is unforgettable. In order to make it playable in its entirety on the flute, the tune was transposed to G minor.
One of the earliest appearances of this tune is in P.M. Haverty's One Hundred Irish Airs, published in New York in 1858, under the title “Leather the Wig” (meaning to thresh, or thin out, a wig). The hairpiece, however, symbolizes the (now defunct) British party of the Whigs, as is made apparent in the more recent, playful title “A Whack at the Whigs”, first found in O'Neill's The Dance Music of Ireland (Chicago, 1907).
This is the second study from German flutist and composer Caspar Kummer's 32 Etudes amusantes et instructives, Op. 129, first published in 1858.
This minuet, along with its Trio in E major, constitutes the fourth and last movement of the second Sonata for three flutes by Johann Scherer.
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