product id: 38124
Arrangement: piano
Product type: Instrumental Album
Media: Sheet Music
Pages: 112
Author: Bunting, Edward
Language: English
Expected shipping time: 14 days
Price: 22.95 euro Edward Bunting, the first systematic collector of Irish folksongs, was educated as an organ and piano player in Belfast. This collection, the last of three is enriched by an invaluable 100-page preface "A Dissertation on the Irish Harp and Harpers, including an Account of the Old Melodies of Ireland"- and followed by 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. Song list
Anecdotes Of The More Distinguished Harpers Of The Last Two Centuries
Index To The Airs
Notices Of The More Remarkable Melodies And Pieces Of The Collection
Of The Antiquity Of The Harp And Bagpipe In Ireland
Of The Characteristics Of Irish Melody
Of The Method Of Playing, And Musical Vocabulary Of The Old Irish Harpes
Of The Various Efforts To Revive The Irish Harp |
Larger image
|
