Excerpt from Songs of the Irish Harpers: Collected and Arranged for Harp or Piano A Harp Festival was held in Belfast in the year 1792, when Edward Bunting noted down the melodies which were rendered by the Harpers who attended. The airs played there, with hundreds of others collected through the country, were published by him at different periods. His collection was largely drawn on by Moore for his Irish melodies. The note books-and manuscripts of Edward Bunting came into my possession, and amongst them I discovered ...
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Excerpt from Songs of the Irish Harpers: Collected and Arranged for Harp or Piano A Harp Festival was held in Belfast in the year 1792, when Edward Bunting noted down the melodies which were rendered by the Harpers who attended. The airs played there, with hundreds of others collected through the country, were published by him at different periods. His collection was largely drawn on by Moore for his Irish melodies. The note books-and manuscripts of Edward Bunting came into my possession, and amongst them I discovered several beautiful melodies which he had not published. Five of these are included in this volume. Of the Harpers from whom Bunting gleaned his store, the name of Denis Hempson, who was ninety - seven at the date of the Belfast Harp Festival, deserves to be singled out. He was the exponent of the most ancient style of playing, and Na Cumun, or the Parting of Friends, may be pointed to as an example of a melody preserved by him. Hempson and all the Harpers who played at Belfast were merely performers. The race of composers had then died out; in most cases the names of the makers of these exquisite melodies have faded from memory, but the Harpers preserved a few of them. Turlogh O Carolan, an eighteenth century Harper and composer, sometimes called the Last of the Bards is still known to fame. Old Hempson looked on him as a modernist, who had corrupted the old style of Irish music. Amongst the harp composers of the ancient school I will give only one representative name, that of Rory Dall O Cuban, who. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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