This is the forty-fourth study from 58 Esercizi per flauto (a.k.a. First Exercises for Flute, or Die ersten Übungen für Flöte) by Italian Romantic flutist and composer Giuseppe Gariboldi.
The earliest appearance of this jig is in the large mid-19th-century music manuscript collection of County Cork cleric and uilleann piper James Goodman, under the title “O'Connell's Welcome to Clare”. The title “Charley the Prayermaster” is first seen in Francis O'Neill's 1903 collection Music of Ireland. This was a reference to Charley Murphy, a professional piper “who had a regular outdoor pitch at Tralibane Bridge, a few hundred yards from the O'Neill home” (as mentioned by Nicholas Carolan in A Harvest Saved: Francis O’Neill and Irish Music in Chicago).
This is the opening movement of Johann Joachim Quantz's Sonata in E minor for flute and continuo, QV 1:70. It is one of many works for flute that Quantz composed for his student and patron Frederick II, King of Prussia.
This “Affettuoso” for two flutes is the eleventh piece from Twelve Divertimentos for Two German Flutes by Matthias von Holst (1767–1854), the great-grandfather of Gustav Holst (of The Planets fame).
This is the forty-fifth study from 58 Esercizi per flauto (a.k.a. First Exercises for Flute, or Die ersten Übungen für Flöte) by Italian Romantic flutist and composer Giuseppe Gariboldi.
This march was kindly contributed to our collection by its composer, piper Roddy Campbell from the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. About “The Pale Blue Dot”, he writes:
Scientist and writer Carl Sagan was the first to use this phrase to describe how the Earth looked from Outer Space.
Today we present the eleventh of 12 caprices included in French flutist and composer Charles de Lusse's L'art de la flûte traversière, first published in Paris in 1760.
Today we propose the sixteenth piece from François Devienne's XXIV Duos faciles pour deux flutes à l'usage des commençans (24 Easy Duets for two flutes for use by beginners). It was first published in Leipzig around 1800.
This is the forty-sixth study from 58 Esercizi per flauto (a.k.a. First Exercises for Flute, or Die ersten Übungen für Flöte) by Italian Romantic flutist and composer Giuseppe Gariboldi.
The earliest appearance of this jig is in Francis O'Neill's celebrated 1903 collection Music of Ireland. The title honors O'Neill's first-born grandson. When he retired from office in 1905 at the age of 57, there remained only four surviving daughters of his large family of five boys and five girls. Julia Ann O'Neill (1879-1971) married James Mooney in 1900. O'Neill delighted in his “stalwart grandsons,” as he wrote, “the Mooney brothers, Francis, James, William and Phillip, who have made their mark in the field of college athletics”.
This is the central movement of Johann Joachim Quantz's Sonata in E minor for flute and continuo, QV 1:70. It is one of many works for flute that Quantz composed for his student and patron Frederick II, King of Prussia.
This arrangement for two C flutes, alto flute, and bass flute of J.S. Bach's Contrapunctus V from The Art of Fugue was kindly contributed to our collection by flutist and composer Yulia Musayelyan.
Written during the 1740s, the last decade of Bach's life, The Art of Fugue (Die Kunst der Fuge) is one of the most complex masterpieces left to us by the great German composer. It consists of 14 fugues (each called a “contrapunctus”) and 4 canons, all in D minor, each using some variation of a single principal subject. Bach did not indicate which instruments were to be used to perform the work, but most scholars would probably argue that it was intended for the harpsichord. Nonetheless, the work has been performed on a wide variety of instruments, ranging from the piano, to chamber orchestras, to saxophone ensembles.
This is the forty-seventh study from 58 Esercizi per flauto (a.k.a. First Exercises for Flute, or Die ersten Übungen für Flöte) by Italian Romantic flutist and composer Giuseppe Gariboldi.
This march was kindly contributed to our collection by its composer, piper Roddy Campbell from the Outer Hebrides, Scotland.
Thomas Aikenhead (or Aitkenhead) was a student at Edinburgh University who in 1697, at the age of twenty, was the last person in Great Britain to be executed for blasphemy.
Today we present the last of 12 caprices included in French flutist and composer Charles de Lusse's L'art de la flûte traversière, first published in Paris in 1760.
Today we propose the seventeenth piece from François Devienne's XXIV Duos faciles pour deux flutes à l'usage des commençans (24 Easy Duets for two flutes for use by beginners). It was first published in Leipzig around 1800.
This highly-syncopated study is the forty-eighth piece from 58 Esercizi per flauto (a.k.a. First Exercises for Flute, or Die ersten Übungen für Flöte) by Italian Romantic flutist and composer Giuseppe Gariboldi.
This jig is seemingly unique to Francis O'Neill's tune collections, having first appeared in his Music of Ireland, published in Chicago in 1903.
This is the third and final movement of Johann Joachim Quantz's Sonata in E minor for flute and continuo, QV 1:70. It is one of many works for flute that Quantz composed for his student and patron Frederick II, King of Prussia.
This “Affettuoso” is the opening movement of a duet for two flutes or violins by Baroque composer Georg Philipp Telemann, first published in 1728 as part of Der getreue Musikmeister (“the faithful music master”), a musical journal aimed at amateurs.
This study is the forty-ninth piece from 58 Esercizi per flauto (a.k.a. First Exercises for Flute, or Die ersten Übungen für Flöte) by Italian Romantic flutist and composer Giuseppe Gariboldi.
This march was kindly contributed to our collection by its composer, piper Roddy Campbell from the Outer Hebrides, Scotland.
Hiort is the Scottish Gaelic name of Hirta, the largest island in the St Kilda archipelago, on the western edge of Scotland. Although inhabited for over 2000 years, this isolated archipelago has had no permanent residents since 1930. One of Scotland's six World Heritage Sites, it is one of the few in the world to hold mixed status for both its natural and cultural qualities.
We all know this famous carol, and yet the identity of the author and composer of “We Wish You a Merry Christmas” remains a total mystery to date. That said, its origins are widely believed to be in 16th-century England, where it was performed by carolers for the entertainment of the rich and powerful.
Thanks to Anne McKennon for contributing this arrangement for two flutes!
Having served as both lead trombonist and assistant conductor in John Philip Sousa's band, Arthur Pryor became so well known as a virtuoso that some started referring to him as the “Paganini of the trombone”. He was also a prolific composer, and besides marches and trombone solos he wrote many dances and novelty pieces, among which “The Whistler and his Dog” (1905) has proved the most enduring.
The piece featured a remarkably catchy solo for the piccolo in D-flat, the most common version of the instrument at the time. It was recorded by many musicians during the first half of the 20th century, and was further popularized by its inclusion in an Our Gang/The Little Rascals episode (“The Pitch Singer”, 1936).
Thanks to Greg for suggesting this tune!
This Vivace for two flutes is the last piece from Twelve Divertimentos for Two German Flutes by Matthias von Holst (1767–1854), the great-grandfather of Gustav Holst (of The Planets fame).
This study is the fiftieth piece from 58 Esercizi per flauto (a.k.a. First Exercises for Flute, or Die ersten Übungen für Flöte) by Italian Romantic flutist and composer Giuseppe Gariboldi.
The first known appearance of this jig is in Francis O'Neill's celebrated tune collection Music of Ireland, published in Chicago in 1903.
This is the opening movement of Johann Joachim Quantz's Sonata in E-flat major for flute and continuo, QV 1:54. It is one of many works for flute that Quantz composed for his student and patron Frederick II, King of Prussia.
Today we propose the eighteenth piece from François Devienne's XXIV Duos faciles pour deux flutes à l'usage des commençans (24 Easy Duets for two flutes for use by beginners). It was first published in Leipzig around 1800.
This study is the fifty-first piece from 58 Esercizi per flauto (a.k.a. First Exercises for Flute, or Die ersten Übungen für Flöte) by Italian Romantic flutist and composer Giuseppe Gariboldi.
This tune was kindly contributed to our collection by its composer, piper Roddy Campbell from the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, who notes that “West Highland fiddler Angus Grant makes a mean soda bread loaf!”