The Bunting collection of Irish folk music and songs
Author : Donal Joseph O'Sullivan
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 43,92 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Folk music
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Author : Donal Joseph O'Sullivan
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 43,92 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Folk music
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Author : Edward Bunting
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 21,46 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780486413761
This invaluable collection of Irish song is enriched by a 100-page preface and followed by 151 Irish airs arranged for piano, with songs' Irish names, authors, and dates of composition.
Author : Edward Bunting
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 27,44 MB
Release : 2011-04-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 0486482324
Edward Bunting (1773–1843), the first systematic collector of Irish folksongs, was educated as an organ and piano player in Belfast. His life's work fell upon him at nineteen years old, when he was commissioned as a scribe to notate performances at a gathering of traditional harp players in Belfast in July 1792. He was so inspired by the music that, aided by some of the harpers, he embarked immediately upon travels around northwest Ireland to collect some of the old songs already close to disappearing. He published his first collection of Irish music four years later. In that volume and two later ones, he published almost 300 airs—some of them, according to tradition, dating as far back as the tenth century—and practically single-handedly rescued his country's ancient music from oblivion. The present collection, the last of Bunting's three such gatherings, contains 151 Irish airs arranged for piano, with the Irish names of the airs, their authors, and (where known) their dates of composition. Hard to find elsewhere, this is an indispensable book not only for students or lovers of Irish music, but also for students of general music history.
Author : Aloys Fleischman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 40,49 MB
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 1135810257
First Published in 1998. Irish traditional music is one of the richest treasuries of folk music in the world. Being an oral tradition, much of it has already been lost, and what has been recorded is only partially available in isolated collections. Until now, no composite picture has yet been presented, showing its remarkable range and diversity over four centuries. This volume covers Irish materials in general collections up to 1800 and in Irish collections up to and including Petrie's Ancient Music of Ireland (1855).The purposes of the project are to identify Irish dance tunes and songs; to present the scholar with a mass of material showing the evolution of the Irish vocal and instrumental folk style, period by period, from the earliest recorded tune up to the middle of the last century; to put into circulation many of the splendid airs which were lost but have now been located. Some 6,000 songs and dance tunes are presented, also including Scottish and English tunes. Included are Scottish tunes that were used by 18th-century Irish poets for their verses, and both English and Scottish tunes that are still current among Irish traditional musicians. Tunes of present-day currency which do not seem to be included may still be located by comparing their first 12 notes in the thematic index at the end of the volume.To make the vast array of material readily available, an index allows readers to locate a tune by its melodic incipit, by any of its titles, or by the first line of its text. Unfortunately, the vast majority of Irish songs noted up to the end of the last century lack texts, since the collectors were ignorant of the Irish language. But almost every other facet is covered-provenance, tonality structure, and variants.
Author : George Petrie
Publisher : Stylus Publishing, LLC.
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 50,99 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9781859183014
Contains all of Petrie's original text, including song texts in Irish and English; the melodies; and his introduction. The text is prefaced with a biographical essay, which positions the collection in the context of Petrie's life and work, and within the broader field of Irish traditional music. The piano accompaniments written by Petrie's daughter, which were included in the original collection have been removed; instead melodies have been restored back to the form in which Petrie originally notated them.
Author : George Petrie
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 50,93 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 048642426X
From the hopeful anticipation of Mary, do you fancy me? to the bitterness of Hag, you've killed me, this extraordinary compilation of Irish melodies runs the emotional gamut, with melancholy airs and sprightly reels aplenty. Its source material, The Petrie Collection of the Ancient Music of Ireland, ranks among the most important 19th-century collections of traditional Irish music, with its song texts in both Irish and English, plus George Petrie's detailed notes about the music's origins. Out of print for many years, the Petrie Collection became an extremely rare and much sought-after collector's item; this new edition will bring the cherished old songs into the repertoire of any student or performer of traditional Irish music.
Author : Denis Florence MacCarthy
Publisher :
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 32,45 MB
Release : 1846
Category : Irish ballads and songs (English)
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Author : William Henry Grattan Flood
Publisher :
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 21,17 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Music
ISBN :
Author : Patrick Weston Joyce
Publisher :
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 17,82 MB
Release : 1873
Category : Folk songs, English
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Author : Patrick W. Joyce
Publisher : New York : Cooper Square Publishers
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 15,47 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Folk dance music
ISBN :