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Category : Celtic music
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
The Gesto collection of Highland music
Author: The Celtic Monthly
Author: The Highland Bagpipe
Author: Wiliam Laird MansonPublisher:
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Category : Bagpipe
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
The Old Songs of Skye
Author: Ethel BassinPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317311140
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Originally published in 1977. Frances Tolmie (1840-1926) was one of the foremost Gaelic folklore and folksong experts. This account of her life and work places her unique contribution to human song against a full personal, historical and cultural background. The book includes a selection of the songs she heard and wrote down, together with the part they played in her life and that of her circle and the larger community. Moving in a variety of circles, Frances Tolmie experienced the warm domesticity of an enlightened Skye manse, the cultural bustle of upper middle-class Edinburgh ‘entrepreneurs’, the romantic serious-mindedness of the first Cambridge women students, the sensitive nature-loving community round Ruskin at Coniston, and spent her later sociable years back in Scotland. This book, with its historical introduction by Flora MacLeod and musical introduction by Frank Howes along with Ethel Bassin's own detailed introduction, reflects her profound study of the song and folklore of her people, and describes how she recorded a precious part of British traditional culture, catching it alive and sharing it as truly as possible.
Airs and Dances
Author: Mara SheaPublisher: Mel Bay Publications
ISBN: 161065966X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
Compiled by Mara Shea, a Scottish dance fiddler with a classical violin background, this book will appeal to the classically-trained violinist or musician, intermediate to advanced, who would like to learn something about the type of music unique to Scotland-the strathspey. It will also appeal to Scottish dance musicians who would like to know a little about the history of some of the tunes and their composers. Each of the strathspeys is recorded by Mara Shea and accessible online for listening. Chords are provided by Julie Gorka. Sketches and illustrations are by Lisa McDonald.
Brigh an Òrain - A Story in Every Song
Author: Lauchie MacLellanPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773568514
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
Few published collections of Gaelic song place the songs or their singers and communities in context. Brìgh an Òrain - A Story in Every Song corrects this, showing how the inherited art of a fourth-generation Canadian Gael fits within biographical, social, and historical contexts. It is the first major study of its kind to be undertaken for a Scottish Gaelic singer. The forty-eight songs and nine folktales in the collection are transcribed from field recordings and presented as the singer performed them, with an English translation provided. All the songs are accompanied by musical transcriptions. The book also includes a brief autobiography in Lauchie MacLellan's entertaining narrative style. John Shaw has added extensive notes and references, as well as photos and maps. In an era of growing appreciation of Celtic cultures, Brìgh an Òrain - A Story in Every Song makes an important Gaelic tradition available to the general reader. The materials also serve as a unique, adaptable resource for those with more specialized research or teaching interests in ethnology/folklore, Canadian studies, Gaelic language, ethnomusicology, Celtic studies, anthropology, and social history.
Celtic Monthly
Author: The Skye collection of the best reels & strathspeys extant
Author: Macdonald bards from mediæval times
Author: Keith Norman MacdonaldPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Monthly Bulletin
Author: St. Louis Public LibraryPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
"Teachers' bulletin", vol. 4- issued as part of v. 23, no. 9-