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Anyone online now, in about 1 1/2 hours from posting this message I think, Ann Heymann is on internet radio with a performance of Abbi Bettinis' composition...
Hello all, There is some video of Bill Taylor performing music from the Robert ap Huw manuscript, and also Dr. Meredydd Evans reciting some of the poetry of...
Dear all, Something I hadn't come across before from the Tain Bo Fliodhaise which concerns the term ceis. I don't have the precise quotation details and I...
Dear friends, I'll be participating in a concert at the National Gallery in Washington DC this Sunday, July 8. The music will reflect the current exhibit...
Dear Simon, Well, that's just the thing. The number of explanations given in the Amhra glosses seem to indicate that the glossers themselves didn't know what...
'The glossers themselves didn't know' seems a rather mild statement for you Alasdair ? Does the fact that they 'glossed' in the first place not show that they...
Dear Keith, I think you're saying roughly what I was trying to say. However, it relates to our previous posts about transmission. Verbal glossing is...
A' chairdean, Does everybody know about this? One Greek word for a companion, parastatis (companion, helper, lit. one who stands beside), was used to mean...
We agree Alasdair ? I am perforce tempted to stop there, but of course we are talking relativity here, the survival and consistency of the Gaelic material both...
Dear Keith, I was actually trying to articulate views held by non-Gaelic experts about Gaelic transmission which was a comparative view related to quality and...
Dear Keith, Just found those last two verses: Iain Og Ile had them. Beannachd, Alasdair ... experts ... cultures. ... historical ... question ... woman ... an ...
Dear Alasdair Agreeing is getting monotonous, so having reached that difficult age I would pedantically point out that your example from the BoD is just an...
Dear Keith, Ahem, ahem, I did that editorialised version myself, the orthography being so difficult. The orthography is only difficult when the text is unknown...
Dear Alasdair The operative word in my text was pedantic,the orthography I was refering to was the original script,but your immpressive examples seem to be...
Dear Keith, The crucial point that I was making that, when you know a text already, the problems of understanding the orthography pale significantly when you...
A' chairdean, The Heymanns went over their research into the word ceis with me a long time ago, but it's taken until now for me to hammer away at it myself,...
Sat 14th July 13:00 The Early Music Show The Masque of Moments Lucie Skeaping is joined by lutenist Elizabeth Kenny in two programmes recorded at Blythburgh...
A' chairdean, I've just been advised that the word ceis, as transmitted by tradition, must have a long vowel because it exists in TWO quatrains where the vowel...
Dear Simon, Thanks for that! All the best, Brenda Malloy ... _________________________________________________________________ See their smiles, hear their...
... Yes indeed, Alasdair! Ann introduced me to the Welsh music and took the time to patiently sit down with me and teach me to play Caniad San Silin. I can...
"fewer than one hundred Scottish musicians..." "It is part of our culture yet we are in danger of losing it," http://tinyurl.com/yw6prv Very interesting, what...
How many wire harpers are out there, do you think? My harp teacher told me that she was fearing it was dying out alltogehter, and yet she said that whereas in...
Okay Simon, I will take the bait and play devils advocate, but personaly I much prefer the greater note articulation of the button as apposed to the more mushy...
Well Keith you have a point there, perhaps that is the thing, peoplein general prefer mushy power rather than subtle articulation. I was just taken by the tone...
A' chairdean, A series of concerts are taking place as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, one of which features Gaelic harp as yours truly will kicking...
Hope Thursday's film show went well Alasdair. And best wishes for next Monday. Some of us are on the way to Kilkenny so won't be able to come... Best wishes ...
The Historical Harp Society of Ireland presents three concerts: Harp Music of the Old Gaelic World at Rothe House, Parliament St, Kilkenny on Saturday 25th...
