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Add MS 70768
- Record Id:
- 040-001964584
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001964537
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- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000940.0x00014c
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- Add MS 70768
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CARDEW COLLECTION. Vol. xlii. Irish folksong notations and arrangements, without accompaniment unless otherwise stated; n.d.
ff. 108. Overall size 354 x 238mm.
1. ff. 1-4. Collection of 4 songs: ‘The Rising of the Moon’, ‘The Lark in the Clear Air’, ‘The Bold Fenian Men’, ‘The Wearing of the Green’, with words and harmonies. Pencil, with title-page in ink headed ‘8 Irish Songs’. Possibly imperfect. On verso of bifolium forming title-page and back cover (ff. 1v, 4r), pencil sketches for revised version of ‘Soon’ (see Add. 70747).
2. ff. 5-8. 4 photocopies of words and melody of ‘The Rising of the Moon’, each with different pencil annotations.
3. f. 9. ‘Ye Natives of this Nation’, words and melody. Ink, written on verso of photocopy of tunes nos. 34-37 from P. W. Joyce, Old Irish Folk Music and Songs (1909).
4. ff. 10-11. Sketches for ‘A Nation Once Again’, ‘The Old Man’s Tale’ (song from Durham by Ian Campbell), ‘Ludlow Massacre’. Pencil and ink.
5. f. 12. ‘Boolavogue’, with words and simple harmonies, and ‘A Nation once again’, with words, bass line and chord symbols. Pencil.
6. ff. 13-14. ‘A Nation Once Again’. f. 13. Melody and words with chord symbols, ink; – f. 14. Photocopy with pencil annotations.
7. f. 15. ‘Come to the Bower’, arranged for voice and unspecified instrumental accompaniment. Short score with words. Pencil and ink.
8. f. 16. ‘The Croppy Boy’, with piano accompaniment. Score with words. Pencil and ink.
9. f. 17. Ink sketches for ‘Rossa’s Farewell to Erin’ and ‘Manchester Martyrs’, here entitled ‘Smashing of the Van’.
10. ff. 18-19. Sketches of melodies, with a few words, of mainly Irish songs: ‘Memory of the Dead’, ‘Soldiers of ‘22’, ‘Ashtown Rd.’, ‘Bold Fenian Men’, ‘Galteemore Mountains’, ‘Hail Naxalbari’ (Indian) (bass line only), ‘Ireland’s Fight for Freedom’, ‘Irish Soldier Boy’, ‘Lonely Banna Strand’, ‘James Connolly’, ‘Arbur Hill’. Red ink. Written over pencil sketches for ‘Winning the World’ (see also Add. 70766, ff. 29-30).
11. f. 20. ‘A Song for the Irish Militia’ (words, Thomas Davis). Words only, ink.
12. ff. 21-104. Photocopies, with ink and pencil annotations, of sections from C. O Lochlainn, Irish Street Ballads, New York, 1960 (ff. 21-41), D. Behan, Ireland Sings (1965) (ff. 42-62) and P. W. Joyce, Old Irish Folk Music (1909) (ff. 63-104).
13. ff. 105-108. Irish country dances, partly copied from Joyce, Old Irish Folk Music. Pencil.
includes:
- f. 20 Thomas Osborne Davis, Irish poet and patriot: `A Song for the Irish Militia', words by Thomas Davis, in the hand of C. Cardew: n.d.
- ff. 105-108 Patrick Weston Joyce, collector of Irish folk music: Irish country dances in the hand of C. Cardew, partly copied from Joyce's Old Irish Folk Music: n.d.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001964537
036-001964581
040-001964584 - Is part of:
- Add MS 70727-70774 : CARDEW COLLECTION. Music manuscripts and papers of Cornelius Cardew (b.1936, d.1981); 1955-1981, n.d. Autograph except…
Add MS 70766-70772 : D. Political songs
Add MS 70768 : CARDEW COLLECTION. Vol. xlii. Irish folksong notations and arrangements, without accompaniment unless otherwise stated; n.d.ff.… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001964537[0004]/036-001964581[0003]/040-001964584
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 70727-70774
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1971
- End Date:
- 1981
- Date Range:
- [1971-1981]
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Names:
- Davis, Thomas Osborne, poet and Irish patriot, 1814-1845
Joyce, Patrick Weston, collector of Irish folk music