Sources of Irish Traditional Music c. 1600-1855
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Dance Tune
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Double Jig
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early Irish music manuscripts
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favorite
folk song analysis
Harp
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historical musicology
Irish instrumental repertoire
jig
JO
Man
March
melodic incipit index
NCCD
NLS
Piano Forte
Port
provenance studies
Scot
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Single Jig
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Slip Jig
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Vocal Tune
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- ISBN 9780824069483
- Weight: 1732g
- Dimensions: 210 x 280mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jun 1998
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
