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Gerard Michael O’Connor, Luke Donnellan's Dance Music of Oriel: A graphic and aural interpretation, realisation and critical representation of the work of an early-twentieth century music collector
Volumes, pp.: 2 + 4 CD-ROM
Repository (hard copy): Dundalk Institute of Technology Library
General specialism: Ethnomusicology
Abstract:
The South Ulster area has a significant local repertoire of instrumental music and song, most of hwich has not been highlighted during the revival of Traditional music since the 1950s. This dissertation visits the hand-scribed Oriel Songs and Dances, music which was collected by Luke Donnellan and partially published as hand transcription in the Louth Archaeological Journal in 1909. The material is represented in modern, standard graphic format in print, and digitally on CD as performed by the researcher on the fiddle. In these accessible media it is here made available to music scholars in Ireland and its Diaspora, performers of Irish music in the South Ulster area, in neighbouring regions and within the Irish music genre as a whole. This unique body of music represents a repertory of music which was familiar to the population of South Ulster/North Leinster at the turn of the 20th century. The music and tune titles have been cross referenced with contemporaneous collections of music and the genesis of the collection has been researched from different sources. An analysis of the life and associations of Luke Donnellan places the two hundred and seventy-eight tunes in the sociological context of pre-independence Ireland. The music has been transcribed in two ways: first, exactly as Donnellan notated it and then, where appropriate, each tune is also notated in a contemporary playing format. These amendments to the scribe's original inaccuracies and shortcuts are informed by the researcher's insider knowledge of Traditional music style of the area, and of the aesthetics span of contemporary local Traditional music style. The performable manuscript is complemented by CD recordings of all the tunes; an auditory realisation which makes them available to be heard for the first time since the collector's original project began over a century ago.
Gerard Michael O’Connor, Luke Donnellan's Dance Music of Oriel: A graphic and aural interpretation, realisation and critical representation of the work of an early-twentieth century music collector
MA, Dundalk Institute of Technology, 2008
Volumes, pp.: 2 + 4 CD-ROM
Repository (hard copy): Dundalk Institute of Technology Library
General specialism: Ethnomusicology
Abstract:
The South Ulster area has a significant local repertoire of instrumental music and song, most of hwich has not been highlighted during the revival of Traditional music since the 1950s. This dissertation visits the hand-scribed Oriel Songs and Dances, music which was collected by Luke Donnellan and partially published as hand transcription in the Louth Archaeological Journal in 1909. The material is represented in modern, standard graphic format in print, and digitally on CD as performed by the researcher on the fiddle. In these accessible media it is here made available to music scholars in Ireland and its Diaspora, performers of Irish music in the South Ulster area, in neighbouring regions and within the Irish music genre as a whole. This unique body of music represents a repertory of music which was familiar to the population of South Ulster/North Leinster at the turn of the 20th century. The music and tune titles have been cross referenced with contemporaneous collections of music and the genesis of the collection has been researched from different sources. An analysis of the life and associations of Luke Donnellan places the two hundred and seventy-eight tunes in the sociological context of pre-independence Ireland. The music has been transcribed in two ways: first, exactly as Donnellan notated it and then, where appropriate, each tune is also notated in a contemporary playing format. These amendments to the scribe's original inaccuracies and shortcuts are informed by the researcher's insider knowledge of Traditional music style of the area, and of the aesthetics span of contemporary local Traditional music style. The performable manuscript is complemented by CD recordings of all the tunes; an auditory realisation which makes them available to be heard for the first time since the collector's original project began over a century ago.
Thesis submission ID 634