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This slip jig is taken from Francis O'Neill's collection Dance Music of Ireland (Chicago, 1907), although it had appeared in other publications as early as 1864. O'Neill obtained the tune from Irish collector Patrick Weston Joyce, who had noted it in 1853 from James Buckley, a Limerick piper.
Today we propose étude No. 20 from Italian flutist and composer Ernesto Köhler's 25 Romantic Studies, Op. 66.
This is the third movement of a Sonata in G for three flutes written by the 18th-century German composer Johann Scherer.
The fourth of five movements in Handel's Recorder Sonata in C major, this is the only movement in the sonata which is explicitly dance-related. In fact, its title means “in the time of a gavotte”, with reference to a French folk dance of moderate tempo that was very popular during the Baroque era.
This movement has a quite unusual structure: it's made up of three sections of increasing length (4, 8 and 34 bars), each with repeat markings.
This 9/8-time jig is taken from Francis O'Neill's collection The Dance Music of Ireland, published in Chicago in 1907. “The Swaggering Jig” is a member of a large family of melodies, which as a matter of fact includes a few other slip jigs sharing the same title. Various sets of words have also been set to these tunes over the years, for instance by the band Dervish from County Sligo.
This waltz-like étude is the twenty-first piece from Sigfried Karg-Elert's 30 Caprices: a “Gradus ad Parnassum” of the modern technique for flute solo.
Here is the relatively slow second movement of a Sonata in G for three flutes written by Johann Scherer in the 18th century.