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Ceol na hÉireann / Irish Music, Volume 1, Issue 3, Page 69

Ceol na hÉireann / Irish Music, Volume 1, Issue 3, Page 69
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Na Píobairí Uilleann
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Chairman, NPU
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Ceol na hÉireann / Irish Music
volume Number
1
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130Ceol na hEireann Irish Music 131source to aspirants who may only have access to the traditional music through RISE UPON THE SUGAWN, SINK UPON THE GAD:the more popular commercial recordings. Breandn Breathnach had RECENT SET DANCE BOOKScommenced a collection of Johnnys music but following his death Moylanassumed the responsibility. In his introduction to this work he expresses hishopes that he has discharged the duty adequately. Of this there is no doubt.Sean PottsWilliam Hammond (ed.), Call the Set III. Cork Folk Publications, Cork1994.46 pp. [ no price given]. Pat Murphy (ed.), Toss the Feathers: Irish SetDancing. Mercier Press, Cork, 1995. 222 pp. 8.99. Eileen ODoherty (ed.),The Walking Polka: a collection of sets. Na PIobairi Uilleann, Dublin, 1995.xiii+161 pp. [ no price given] Tom Quin, Irish Dancing: a guide to ceili, setand countly dancing. Collins Pocket Reference. Harper Collins Publishers,Glasgow, 1997. 479 pp. 6.99.To say that set dancing during the last fifteen or twenty years has becometremendously popular, particularly in urban areas, is to state the blindinglyobvious. But as recently as 1979, Breandn Breathnach, while noting that setdancing was still an important element in the social life of places such as WestClare and Sliabh Luachra, could not see these dances recolonising, as it were,the rest of the country. But time has proved him very wrong. And many atraditional musician and follower of the music now laments that he cannotindulge in his favourite pastime without having to suffer the racket of a le(a)percolony in full cry! Others have been known to classify set dancers as being onlyslightly further up the evolutionary scale than bad bodhrn players.The upsurge of interest in set dancing has led to the publication of quite anumber of books on the subject during the last ten years or so. Of the fourcollections here, William Hammonds is the proverbial slim volume, containingonly three sets (one in two versions); Eileen ODoherty presents twenty five, PatMurphy sixty four, and Tom Quin seventy seven, plus thirty three cil( andcouple-dances.The three sets in Call the Set III from the Cork/Kerry area: The Televara Jig Set,The Ardgroom Polka Set, and The Mealagh Valley Jig Set. These are precededby a page of Irish terms for use in calling sets (marred, unfortunately, by anumber of misprints and errors), and a section headed Notes on the history ofset dancing. A brief bibliography, discography and a list of set dance videos
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3
page Number
69
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[Various]
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2001-01-01T00:00:00
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Ceol na hÉireann / Irish Music, Volume 1, Issue 3

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