Collectors of Irish Music

Irish music was an ______ tradition and hence the music was never written down

Oral

Instead it was passed on through generations and learnt ________

By ear

Irish collectors began to write Irish music down in the ______________ century

Eighteenth

Collectors

The people who helped preserve Irish music for future generations

_____________ was the first known collector

Edward Bunting

He was employed to notate the music that was played at the Belfast Harp Festival in ________

1792

Tunes that Bunting collected include

“Sí Bheag Sí Mhór”, “Fairy Queen” and “Lord Mayo”

After the festival he went around Ulster and ____________ collecting more tunes

Connaught

Bunting published almost _____ tunes in 3 volumes

300

He published “A General Collection of Ancient Irish Music” in _________ which contains 66 tunes adapted for piano

1796

The 1796 collection also contained the piece ____________ originally composed by Irish harper Turlough O’Carolan

“Carolan’s Concerto”

Bunting is very important as he was the first collector to gather the tunes in an informative and ____________ way

Systematic

However, since Bunting was also a classical musician, he sometimes added notes and features into his publications that were more suited to __________ piano playing

Classical

Another important collector is

Francis O’Neill

He emigrated to Chicago and collected tunes from the Irish __________ that otherwise may have become lost

Immigrants

O’Neill published _______________ in 1903 which has 1850 tunes

“The Music of Ireland”

O’Neill’s publication included jigs, hornpipes, airs and _________ tunes

O’Carolan

He also published “The Dance Music of Ireland” in 1907 which contains _______ dance tunes

1001

These collections of O’Neill’s were the first to be aimed at Irish __________

Musicians

Finally __________ helped to set up “The Society for the Preservation and Publications of the Melodies of Ireland“

George Petrie

Petrie published his book “The Ancient Music of Ireland” which contains nearly 200 ________ as well as song texts in both Irish and English and information about the sources of each song

Melodies

Petrie’s daughter composed the _______ versions of the songs in his book

Piano

Petrie’s book was republished in ______ without the piano versions so they were in their original format

2002

One notable song that Petrie collected was “The Londonderry Air” more commonly known as ______________

“Danny Boy“