Yeah, I agree with Peter... as for me, I am not very accomplished on the harp but composing my own tunes is all that I do and it is all I am really interested...
OK perhaps I'm thinking more along the lines of what is a composition, what is a named piece of music, how stable or fluid might it be, and ultimately, what is...
I once had a sort of "ah-ha" moment about classical composition. I had been listening to so much orchestral music that I started to hear it in my mind but it...
Hi Simon, Regarding composition I have made up a few tunes in my time, but I actually have consigned more to the bin than i have put out. However, I must have...
... all sorts of reasons. I concur. I've a strong feeling that new musical directions are as essential as the preservation of established traditions of an...
Ah thanks Simon, that clarifies things! The ability to improvise variations or more accurately spontaneously compose variations of tunes using traditional...
Thanks Chad that is exactly the kind of direction I was looking for. Spot on. 'A good phrase' Brendan, you are better placed there with your deep knowledge of...
Hi all, I'm glad you brought this up, Gorwell. This is a question that has been on my mind recently. Thank you for posting this here, Simon. Is there a long...
It just strikes me that this is the case with the Ap Huw which is the oldest genuine harp music of all, there's no mention of left or right in there....
Hi, This is my current thinking (please chime in if I'm mistaken on some of the facts) The Welsh triple harp has a longstanding tradition dating back to Robert...
That's possible I guess. Thinking out loud now: The Welsh triple harpers also passed off fairly recent compositions, a great deal of them actually not Welsh in...
A bit of info for you .... In Charles Burney's A General History of Music, in the 1935 Dover reprint, Volume 1 pages 481 to 488 Richard Morris, Robert ap Haw...
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A' chàirdean chòir, Dìreach airson fios a leigeil dhuibh uile gu bheil www.calumcille.com air ais air an lìon a-rithist. Feuch gun tadhail sibh. Beannachdan, ...
Simon, In relation to variation, I sometimes think about how words affect tunes or even bass. I wonder to what degree a relatively fixed bass (at least...
A chàirdean, I'm going to stick out my neck here and suggest that the 2nd 'Air by Fingal' is a tune for Laoidh an Amadain Mhóir (Lay of the Great Fool) - not...
Dear Friends, Just a quick note to let you know that preparations are well under way for this year's Scoil na gCláirseach, which will be held in Kilkenny,...
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hi folks for anyone interested i have just got my new website up and running, with info on some of the harps i've made, contact details, video and downloads...
Hi Davy I tried, but I could not display your website, maybe too soon, because my browser got the MS could not find it when I tried to follow your URL. Joe ......
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Dear Davy, Just to let you know it worked just fine for me. Brilliant. Fair play to ye. All the best, Brenda Malloy To: clairseach@...:...
Very,very nice! Really glad to see other makers getting off the ground!!! Inspires the rest of us to work harder! I also admire your chair you have pictured it...
Davy - that's super. Nice work - Love the close up photos. Best of luck, Karen ... of us to work harder! I also admire your chair you have pictured it your...
http://www.kilroygallery.com/painting.asp?paint_num=48&coll=sceil2 Just been shown this - Peter's daughter, a few of her paintings feature her dad's harps. ...
Dear friends, Scoil na gClairseach–Summer School of Early Irish Harp will begin next Wednesday, 20th August in Kilkenny School of Music, Ormonde Rd, ...
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-- Siobhán Armstrong Chair - Historical Harp Society of Ireland www.irishharp.org info@... +353 (0)51 646286 Kilballyquilty Carrick-on-Suir Co....
