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Brenda Malloy
dublinharper
Feb 4, 2009 2:56 pm
TA SIMON.... brilliant!!!!! Brenda To: clairseach@... From: simon@... Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 14:53:04 +0000 Subject: [clairseach]...
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Alasdair Codona
calumcille
Feb 16, 2009 2:49 pm
A chàirdean, To celebrate Mr Cready's Irish Tune availability online, I've posted a copy of Mrs O'Donnel from John Lee p15. Beannachdan, Alasdair...
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simon@...
simonchadwick
Feb 16, 2009 3:33 pm
Well Alasdair we learn a new thing every day, I did not know that Seabhac na hÉirne / the Hawk of Ballyshannon / Katherine O'Moore / Port Atholl by Rory Dall...
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Alasdair Codona
calumcille
Feb 16, 2009 6:21 pm
Dear Simon, I certainly do find Arthur O'Neill's version is a lot more suited to the kind of fingering I'm used to doing on the harp than the Thumoth version;...
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simon@...
simonchadwick
Feb 17, 2009 12:27 pm
... Really, I am dividing them into 2 separate camps, one is Oswald - Dow - Bunting and the other is Balcarres - Bowie. Am I missing some deep structural...
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Alasdair Codona
calumcille
Feb 17, 2009 6:33 pm
Dear Simon, Very little information about that wedding survives. Mr Creagh isn't mentioned in connection with the wedding in the song lyric or anywhere else...
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simon@...
simonchadwick
Feb 17, 2009 7:10 pm
... Yes... it's in 2 flats, 'b mode', g final. 2 bars in the B section followed by 16 in the A section. Thanks for this analysis Alasdair. I will have to do...
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simon@...
simonchadwick
Feb 17, 2009 7:37 pm
... I'll call A since that is the version I play on my CD (straight from Bowie). Also that's the version in Balcarres which would be the earliest by over 50...
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simon@...
simonchadwick
Feb 17, 2009 7:41 pm
So how does the Port Atholl in Balcarres, Dow & Bowie relate to the one Carolan used?...
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simon@...
simonchadwick
Feb 17, 2009 7:48 pm
Here's my index so far http://www.earlygaelicharp.info/rorydall/rory-dall-tune-list.pdf All additions & corrections gratefully recieved...
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tro_tant
Feb 18, 2009 4:23 am
Thanks for this, Simon. Super. - Karen...
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Alasdair Codona
calumcille
Feb 18, 2009 3:01 pm
Dear Simon, What a lovely chart. Thanks for that. I notice a couple of things. Concerning the Ballyhaunis attribution:- a folder of my material mysteriously...
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tro_tant
Feb 18, 2009 6:00 pm
something interesting - http://www.archive.org/details/distinctivechara00culw The pdf version is in the left hand window on the web page. - Karen...
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Alasdair Codona
calumcille
Feb 18, 2009 6:55 pm
A chàirdean, I've uploaded a piece I transcribed from the Torloisk photocopy in the National Library of Scotland, box (a), ff10-11 (pp9-10). I transcribed it...
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Alasdair Codona
calumcille
Feb 18, 2009 7:12 pm
A chàirdean, In tandem with 'buail teud', I just thought I'd mention that MacPherson uses the word 'triobualadh' in his Gaelic in relation to 'touching' the...
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sanger_keith
Feb 19, 2009 2:05 pm
Simon, Does the entry in the M-C column ' Ancient Harp Air (3) Cannot Locate' refer to you having mislaid your files or that you have not been able to find it...
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Chad McAnally
irish_harper
Feb 19, 2009 10:28 pm
I thought Dr. Purser had identified "Da Mihi Manum", tune and title, in a 17th cen. lute (c. 1640) MS? I am think of just the tune? CM To:...
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Alasdair Codona
calumcille
Feb 19, 2009 10:32 pm
Dear Simon, Just noticed: don't forget to add that Port Gordon is also identified as Ruaidhrí Dall by Arthur O'Neill. Beannachdan, Alasdair ... title, in a...
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Alasdair Codona
calumcille
Feb 19, 2009 11:24 pm
Dear Simon, Another thing! 'Bacach buí na léimní' uses the tune most noted in Scotland for the 'Òran Cumhaidh' of Uilleam Ros (which recites the story of...
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paul best
hempson1
Feb 20, 2009 4:59 pm
Hi Folks, I want to explore Pentatonic tunes - could you give me examples I could learn from the Irish and Scottish traditions ?? Paul ...
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Alasdair Codona
calumcille
Feb 20, 2009 9:47 pm
Dear Paul, You could start by looking at Carolan's John Hart / John Jones / Robert Jordan complex which is pentatonic. Miss Crofton (25) is also an almost...
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Alasdair Codona
calumcille
Feb 21, 2009 6:09 pm
Dear Paul, I've just had a quick look for other pentatonic harp items for you. Port 8th in the Torloisk MS Airs by Fingal, I & III, in Bowie Gràdh Dhùghaill...
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Alasdair Codona
calumcille
Feb 22, 2009 10:49 am
Dear Paul, Sorry, wrong pairing - Airs by Fingal I and III are in common time. The first one only is pentatonic. Airs by Fingal II & III are hexatonic. ...
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sanger_keith
Feb 22, 2009 1:01 pm
Dear Alasdair Your comments on Feill nan Crann are certainly on the right lines, but I don't think the blame can be solely laid at Willie Mathesons door as in...
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Alasdair Codona
calumcille
Feb 22, 2009 9:12 pm
Dear Keith, I don't feel I have the information to assess why Willie Mathieson went with this idea: in publication, he only credits Francis Collinson with...
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sanger_keith
Feb 23, 2009 2:24 pm
Dear Alasdair Rolling back the tide of conventional wisdom can be a never ending exercise, for example a recently published academic tome continued to peddle...
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Alasdair Codona
calumcille
Feb 23, 2009 10:27 pm
Dear Keith, I'm not quite sure of your argument here. As far as I'm aware, Angus Fraser didn't claim to have done anything with the title and basic tune as...
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sanger_keith
Feb 24, 2009 9:17 pm
Dear Alasdair I don't think I was trying to construct an argument, but simply to clarify Angus Fraser's part in it, or not as the case really seems to be, and...
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Peter Wilson
harpharpharp
Feb 27, 2009 10:52 pm
I just found this at Library Ireland, from the Dublin Penny Journal, April 13, 1833: I shall now conclude with a brief memoir of one ancient and truly ...
