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Ancient Music of Ireland Arranged for Piano by Edward Bunting (2011, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherDover Publications, Incorporated

ISBN-100486482324

ISBN-139780486482323

eBay Product ID (ePID)99366335

Product Key Features

Book TitleAncient Music of Ireland Arranged for Piano

Number of Pages128 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2011

TopicGenres & Styles / Folk & Traditional, Genres & Styles / International, Printed Music / Piano & Keyboard Repertoire, Ethnic, Genres & Styles / Jazz

GenreMusic

AuthorEdward Bunting

Book SeriesDover Classical Piano Music Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Weight10.9 Oz

Item Length11.2 in

Item Width8.4 in

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SynopsisAssembled by the first collector of Irish songs, this compilation contains 151 traditional airs arranged for piano, including the Irish names of the melodies, the composers, and dates of composition., Edward Bunting (1773-1843), the first systematic collector of Irish folksongs, was educated as an organ and piano player in Belfast. His life's work fell upon him at nineteen years old, when he was commissioned as a scribe to notate performances at a gathering of traditional harp players in Belfast in July 1792. He was so inspired by the music that, aided by some of the harpers, he embarked immediately upon travels around northwest Ireland to collect some of the old songs already close to disappearing. He published his first collection of Irish music four years later. In that volume and two later ones, he published almost 300 airs--some of them, according to tradition, dating as far back as the tenth century--and practically single-handedly rescued his country's ancient music from oblivion. The present collection, the last of Bunting's three such gatherings, contains 151 Irish airs arranged for piano, with the Irish names of the airs, their authors, and (where known) their dates of composition. Hard to find elsewhere, this is an indispensable book not only for students or lovers of Irish music, but also for students of general music history.