Three Fantasies on Irish Folk Melodies for solo bass flute (1998) available from SheetMusicPlus.

My wife is a harpist. She became interested in Irish music because it helps her students to learn to play more naturally and freely. Through working with Irish musicians she also came to have an appreciation for the beauty of traditional Irish melodies. Because my wife teaches in our home, I have inadvertently become extremely familiar with many of these melodies and have grown to love them. While this music is playable on the flute, I really believe that it sounds better on the bass flute. The bass flute is not simply a larger version of the "soprano" flute, it does in fact have different acoustical properties. While the low register of the bass flute has a rich focused sound, the sound becomes increasingly thin as one ascends into the upper register. Many people believe that this limits the artistic value of the instrument, that the bass flute is only useful in its lowest register. The thinness of the sound of the bass flute's high register is not unlike the sound produced by ethnic flutes. Performers on these instruments take advantage of the variety of colors available on their instruments. If a particular pitch is weak or thin, the player uses that pitch for musically expressive purposes. I wanted to use the bass flute for this composition because it is capable of producing a variety of timbres much like those associated with traditional Irish flute playing. The very fact that the bass flute is different from the "soprano" flute, that it has uneven registers, makes it ideal for this piece.

Three Fantasies appears on the CD Music for Flutes and Guitar.