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The Ancient Music of Ireland Arranged for Piano

The Ancient Music of Ireland Arranged for Piano

Bunting, Edward

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Series: Dover Classical Piano Music

Country & FolkMusic Instruction: PianoPiano Songbooks

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ISBN10: 0486482324
ISBN13: 9780486482323
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: Apr 20 2011
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.30 Width: 8.30 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
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.

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