Music for Native American Flute (Volume 1)

Music for Native American Flute, Volume 1
Composed by Jessica Walsh
Published by ADG Productions
Includes book and mp3 audio files access

Music for Native American Flute, Volume One is a collection of 40 pieces from all over the world. The music is set in the Nakai system of tablature notation (Nakai TAB) and all of the pieces have fingering charts beneath the tablature. The book also includes notes about each piece as well as fingering charts for both pentatonic and extended scales.

It is not necessary to read music or TAB to play the tunes in this book. The accompanying audio files features all of the tunes in the same order in which they appear in the book. Those players who don’t read music or tablature can use the audio files to learn the rhythms of the pieces.

The music in this volume was thoughtfully — and joyfully — selected specifically for Native American Flute; wandering Kokopelli-style through a world of tunes, the author chose dances, lilts, and ancient songs, some as old as the rock art images of Kokopelli himself. A dance from the Greek islands, a rant from the Scottish highlands, a melody from the mountains of Peru, and an ancient song captured almost 800 years ago by the quill of a Castilian king are a few of the pieces collected.

Each tune has that inexplicable but necessary magic, the quality which draws the flutist to play it again, just one more time…

Contents:

1. Lady Laudian’s Lilt
2. Down by the Glenside
3. Bransle Charlotte
4. I Walk in Peace
5. Nanatsu no ko
6. Who’ll be King but Charlie
7. An Emigrant’s Daughter
8. I Serve an Worthie Ladie
9. Syrian Song
10. My Own True Love
11. Nigun Bialik
12. The Maiden’s Lament
13. Round Dance
14. To the Rising Sun
15. Os Sete Does (Cantiga 418)
16. Como Poden (Cantiga 166)
17. Yo Soy Indiecito
18. Muje Mukesin
19. Tordion
20. The Outpost
21. A Scots Tune
22. Suo Gan
23. Bonny Katherine Ogie
24. I Will Not Go to my Bed ‘Til I Should Die
25. Woe Betyd Thy Wearie Bodie
26. The Ranting Highlandman
27. A Virgen, Que de Deus (Cantiga 322)
28. De Mui Grandes Periglos (Cantiga 148)
29. Urubamba
30. Villancico Cuzqueño
31. Carolan’s Farewell
32. Pat’s Missing Finger
33. The Grinder
34. Ungaresca
35. Moravian Song
36. Rug Muire Mac do Dhia
37. Down by the Salley Gardens
38. The Meeting of the Waters
39. Karaguna
40. Go to Sleep My Baby Child
41. Fingering Chart for Nakai Tablature Notation