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Tune of the Day: Merry Mary

This 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: Zig-Zag

This is étude No. 8 from Ernesto Köhler's 25 Romantic Studies, Op. 66. Make sure not to insist on the eighth-notes that come after a triplet, and try to play the piece wittily but clearly.

Tune of the Day: Duet in E minor by Köhler

This is duet No. 5 from the first volume of Twenty Easy Melodic Progressive Studies by Ernesto Köhler. As for all duets of the collection, the second flute part is meant to be played by the teacher.

Thanks to Bruno for contributing this piece!

Tune of the Day: Presto

The B-minor sonata is the greatest and most difficult of Bach's flute works. Its historical significance, technical demands and timeless beauty, bring it to the forefront of his compositions and takes the rightful place as a staple in the solo flute literature.

The third movement of J.S. Bach's B-minor Sonata for Flute and Harpsichord is in two parts, beginning with a fugal presto that leads straight into a gigue-like section which is most notable for its witty syncopations and technical demands.

Tune of the Day: Three Halfpence A Day

This jig is taken from Francis O'Neill's collection The Dance Music of Ireland, published in 1907. O'Neill obtained this version of the tune from the manuscripts of Timothy Downing, a gentleman farmer of Tralibane, County Cork, who taught O'Neill the rudiments of the flute when the latter was a boy during the 1860s.

At one time, three halfpence a day was referred to as the common wage for an ordinary laborer or soldier.

Tune of the Day: Study in C major by Gariboldi

This is étude No. 16 from Italian Romantic composer Giuseppe Gariboldi's collection of 30 Etudes faciles et progressives.

Tune of the Day: Les Bourgeois du Roule

Here is another duet from 55 Easy Pieces by French Baroque composer Joseph Bodin de Boismortier'. This is a bourrée, so it should be played as if to accompany a quick double-time dance.