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Píobaire, An, Volume 8, Issue 2, Page 8

Píobaire, An, Volume 8, Issue 2, Page 8
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Na Píobairí Uilleann
periodical Editor
Chairman, NPU
periodical Title
An Píobaire
volume Number
2
issue Content
Píobaire, An 8 2 8 20120411 8 CEOL AN PHÍOBAIRE EDITED BY TERRY MOYLAN (Na Píobairí Uilleann ISBN 978 1 906628 42 0) Available from NPU at €22.75 (Members: €15.00) + post. C EOL AN PHÍOBAIRE - MUSIC OF THE PIPERS is a collection of traditional Irish dance tunes and piping pieces notated from the play- ing of famous players of the uilleann pipes. It includes informative notes on the music, and pictures of the two dozen pipers covered by the collection. The collection consists of the piping transcrip- tiosn published in the first series of An Píobaire, from issue 7 in May 1971 to issue 34 in May 1978. The music and commentary was prepared for publication by Breandán Breath- nach and Pat Mitchell, both authorities in the field of Irish music. The collection was first issued in 1981, with the music hand-written by Terry Moylan, in response to a demand from members for the music content of back issues of the newslet- ter. Given the shortage of resources at the time, the notes accompanying the music were not included, to save on costs. This defect has been corrected for the new edition, and the opportunity has also been taken to include pictures of all the pipers from whose playing the music was originally noted. Included are masters of the instrument who are celebrated worldwide – players like Séa- mus Ennis and Willie Clancy; the traveller brothers Johnny and Felix Doran; and Patsy Touhey and Barney Delaney, who each achieved celebrity status in early twentieth- century America. Along with these are many other top-rank players known only to the en- thusiast, but deserving of investigation by all lovers of traditional music. The music includes all manner of dance tunes, as well as several ‘pieces’ – items that pipers played just for listening, including the well-known “Fox Chase” which describes mu- sically the progress of a foxhunt and the death of the fox, and the descriptive piece “Gol na mBan san Ár” (“The weeping of the women amid the slaughter”), which describes the af- termath of the Battle of Knockanuss (1647) and which, having been recorded on cylinder from a Kerry piper in 1899 is the oldest sur- viving recording of Irish traditional music. ~ NEW PUBLICATIONS ~
issue Number
8
page Number
8
periodical Author
[Periodical]
issue Publication Date
2012-04-21T00:00:00
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An Píobaire, Volume 8, Issue 2

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