LISTINGS FROM THE IRISH TRADITIONAL MUSIC ARCHIVE

Continued from The Journal of Music April–May 2009

CDS PUBLISHED 2008–2009

Blackthorn Band, instrumental & vocal group, The River that Runs Below, Hobgoblin Records HOBCD1009, 2008

Burke, Kevin, fiddle, If the Cap Fits, Compass Records – Mulligan Records LUNCD3021, 2008. Reissue of LP

Geraghty, Holly, & Jonathan Roche, concertina & harp, & accordion, Ceolmhar, Geraghty & Roche CMPCD01, 2009

Harrington, Orla, fiddle, Melting Snow, Harrington n.n., 2008

Kelly, Alan, piano accordion, After the Morning, Black Box Music BBM004, 2009

Kilfenora Céilí Band, The, instrumental group, Century: A Celebration of One Hundred Years, Kilfenora Céilí Band KCB100, 2009

Klein, Ellery, & Ryan Lacey, fiddle & percussion, Kick into the Beat: Modern Irish Dance Music Vol. II, Rum & Raisin Records n.n., 2009

Liadan, instrumental & vocal group, Casadh na Taoide, Liadan LN002, 2009

Milner, Dan, singing in English, Irish Pirate Ballads, Smithsonian Folkways SFWCD40553, 2009

Mórga, instrumental group, Mórga, Pug Music n.n., 2009

Mulvey, Jenny, singing in English & Irish, Suirí, Jenny Mulvey n.n., 2009

Murphy, Donal, accordion, Happy Hour, Murphy DMR001, 2009

Ní Dhomhnaill, Tríona, singing in Irish & English, Tríona, Gael Linn CEFCD043, 2009. Reissue of LP

Ó Sé, Seán, & Turloughmore Céilí Band, singing in Irish & English, & instrumental group, The Green Road, Turloughmore Céilí Band TMCBCD001, 2008

Starr, Deirdre, singing in English, The Tree below the Road, Peregrine Music PM50552, 2009

Unwanted, The, vocal & instrumental group, The Unwanted, Whirling Discs WHRL013, 2009

Various, instrumental and vocal, Aoibhneas na Bealtaine. The Sweets of May, Ceol Camlocha n.n., 2009 (4 CDs, see also companion book & DVD)

Various, featuring the group Lúnasa, instrumental & vocal, The Leitrim Equation, Leitrim County Council n.n., 2009 (2 CDs)

Various, vocal & instrumental, Scoil Fhómhair 2008 Grand Concert of Traditional Irish Music, Craobh Naithí CCÉ n.n., 2009

BOOKS & ARTICLES PUBLISHED 2008–2009

Bates, John, Mining for Gold: A Usability Study of the Irish Traditional Music Archive and Interactive Music Archive Access System, MA thesis, University College Dublin. School of Information and Library Studies, 2008. 117 pp. (hb.)

Benini, Davide, ‘A Voice From the West: Rediscovering the Irish Oral Tradition in James Joyce’s “The Dead”’ in Anáil an Bhéil Bheo: Orality and Modern Irish Culture as below, pp. 205–216

Boydell, Barra, & Kerry Houston eds, Music, Ireland and the Seventeenth Century. Irish Musical Studies 10, Four Courts Press, Dublin 2009. 211 pp. ISBN 9781846821400 (hb.)

Boydell, Barra, ‘The Earl of Cork’s Musicians: Music and Patronage in Early Seventeenth-Century Anglo-Irish Society’ in Music, Ireland and the Seventeenth Century as above, pp. 81–94

Browne, Billy, ‘Memories of Tommy Kearney’, An Píobaire, vol. 5, no 2 (Apr. 2009), pp. 14–15

Buck, Trevor, ‘Why weren’t Lecturers in Our Time More like This?… Dr Liz Doherty Interviewed by Trevor Buck’, FiddleOn Magazine, issue 28 (Winter/Spring 2009), pp. 4–7

Carolan, Nicholas, ‘An Irish Piper 1899’, An Píobaire as above, pp. 26–27

Carson, Ciaran, ‘The Suffering Ducks: How has a Belfast Flute Sound Evolved in such a Short Time?’, The Journal of Music, vol. 1, no 1 (Apr./May 2009), pp. 18–19

Ceol Camlocha, Aoibhneas na Bealtaine. The Sweets of May: The Céilí Band Era, Music & Dance of South Armagh, Ceol Camlocha, 2009. 140 pp. (hb.). With 2 CDs, see also companion 2 CDs and DVD

Cronin, Nessa, Seán Crosson & John Eastlake eds., Anáil an Bhéil Bheo: Orality and Modern Irish Culture, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle 2009. 274 pp. ISBN 9781443801522 (hb.)

Cunningham, John, ‘‘Irish Harpers are Excellent, and their Solemn Music is Much Liked of Strangers’: The Irish Harp in Non-Irish Contexts in the Seventeenth Century’ in Music, Ireland and the Seventeenth Century as above, pp. 62–80

Curry, Frances, ed., Hyland’s Mammoth Hibernian Songster: A Collection of over 500 Songs that are Dear to the Irish Heart, Chelsea Books, Quebec, 2009. 355 pp. ISBN 9781926570013 (pb.) Facsimile of 1901 edition

Donnelly, Seán, ‘Faithful Harpers and Phantom Pipers: The Fate and Memory of the Last Earls of Desmond’, Bulletin of the Historical Harp Society, vol. 18, no 3 (July 2008), pp. 4–8

Donnelly, Seán, ‘Tall Tales from a Blind Piper: Charles Ferguson in the United States and Canada’, An Píobaire as above, pp. 20–25

Gillespie, Raymond, ‘Seventeenth-Century Irish Music and its Cultural Context’ in Music, Ireland and the Seventeenth Century as above, pp. 26–39

Henigan, Julie, ‘“Folk” Vs. “Literary” in Eighteenth-Century Irish Song’ in Anáil an Bhéil Bheo: Orality and Modern Irish Culture as above, pp. 41–50

Keane, Tommy, ‘Hornpipes from Tommy Reck’, An Píobaire as above, pp. 18–19

Keegan, Niall, ‘Colm Mac Con Iomaire, The Hare’s Corner – Cúinne an Ghiorria, Plateau Records’, The Journal of Music as above, p. 54. Review

Keegan, Niall, ‘Robbie Hannan, The Tempest, Na Píobairí Uilleann (NPU CD 016)’, The Journal of Music as above, p. 57. Review

Kelleher, Con, Arís! 2006 & 2007 san Ionad Cultúrtha: Portráidí, Onstream Publications for Ionad Cultúrtha, Baile Mhúirne, Co Cork, 2009. 126 pp. ISBN 9781897685662 (hb.). Photographs of traditional performers

Mackenzie, Bridget, ‘The MacCrimmons and their unproven links with Ireland’, Piping Times vol. 61, no 8 (May 2009), pp. 37–41

McCarthy, Jenny, ‘Jack B. Yeats’s A Broadside: Images of Orality’ in Anáil an Bhéil Bheo: Orality and Modern Irish Culture as above, pp. 87–97

McLaughlin, Dermot, ‘Liam O’Connor and Seán McKeon, Dublin Made Me, Na Píobairí Uilleann (NPU CD 017)’, The Journal of Music as above, p. 55. Review

Moulden, John, ‘Two Dimensions to Orality in Nineteenth-Century Ireland: A Discussion of the Functioning of Printed Ballads’ in Anáil an Bhéil Bheo: Orality and Modern Irish Culture as above, pp. 51-65

Ní Chonghaile, Deirdre, ‘Séamus Ennis, W.R. Rodgers and Sidney Robertson Cowell and the Traditional Music of the Aran Islands’ in Anáil an Bhéil Bheo: Orality and Modern Irish Culture as above, pp. 67–86

Ó Beaglaoich, Breanndán, & Niamh Ní Bhaoill eds, Ceol Duibhneach: Ceol agus Ceoltóirí ó Chorca Dhuibhne. Music and Musicians from West Kerry, Sibéal Teo., An Daingean, 2009. 50 pp. (pb.) With 2 CDs

Ó Cearbhaill, Pádraig, ‘Fin de Siècle Sean-Nós: Twenty-Five Years of Winners of the Corn Uí Riada Traditional Singing Competition Gathered on One Recording, Corn Uí Riada: Buaiteoirí, 1972–2007, Cló Iar-Chonnachta / RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta (CICD 177)’, The Journal of Music as above, p. 59. Review

O’Connell, Pat, ‘A Wind-Band in Cork in the First Decade of the 1800s’, Maynooth Musicology, vol. 2 (2009), pp. 102–118

O’Flynn, John, The Irishness of Irish Music, Ashgate, Aldershot, 2009. 256 pp. ISBN 9780754657149 (hb.)

Ó hEaghra, Breandán, ‘Slán le Ciarán: Remembering the Young Traditional Singer and Scholar Ciarán Ó Con Cheanainn, who Died in February’, The Journal of Music as above, p. 32

Ó Laoire, Lillis, ‘Parallel Songlines: James Joyce’s “The Dead” and Tomás Ó Criomhthain’s An tOileánach’ in Anáil an Bhéil Bheo: Orality and Modern Irish Culture as above, pp. 189-203

Ó Maoláin, Aengus, ‘Maighréad Ní Dhomhnaill, Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill, Moya Brennan and Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh, Temple Bar Trad: T with the Maggies Button Factory, Dublin, 31 January 2009’, The Journal of Music as above, p. 49. Review

O’Shea, Helen, ‘”Good Man, Mary!” Women Musicians and the Fraternity of Irish Traditional Music’, Journal of Gender Studies, vol. 17, no 1 (Mar. 2008), pp. 55–70

Ó Tuairisg, Lochlainn, ‘History, Seanchas and Memory in “Cath Chéim an Fhia”’ in Anáil an Bhéil Bheo: Orality and Modern Irish Culture as above, pp. 27-40

Quinn, Michael, ‘Seóirse Bodley (RTE Lyric FM CD121)’, The Journal of Music as above, p. 57. Review

Quinn, Toner, ‘Music That’s Good Value: What Values are Inherent in Traditional Irish Music’ The Journal of Music as above, pp. 22–23

Rossney, Jonathan, ‘Shaun Davey and Rita Connolly, St. Mary’s Church, New Ross, Co. Wexford, 8 February 2009’ The Journal of Music, as above p. 53. Review

Scahill, Adrian, ‘Irish Traditional Music and the Seventeenth Century’, Music, Ireland and the Seventeenth Century as above, pp. 40–61

Tuohy, John, ‘Tommy Kearney, 1917–2008’, An Píobaire as above, pp. 10–13

SERIALS PUBLISHED 2009

Dance Ireland News (Apr.–May 2009), Dublin

Hornpipe vol. 11, no 1 (Mar.–Apr. 2009), Austin, USA. ISSN 15269078

Irish Dancing vol. 12, no 4 (Apr. 2009), Bristol. ISSN 17519470

Irish Music vol. 15, nos 7–9 (Apr.–June 2009), Dublin. ISSN 1393211X

The Journal of Music vol. 1, no 1 (Apr.–May 2009), An Spidéal, Conamara. ISSN 20092059

Musical Traditions vol. 10 (2009), Stroud, Glos., UK. CD-ROM containing 26 years (1983–2008) of print and web magazine with Irish material

An Píobaire vol. 5, no 2 (Apr. 2009), Na Píobairí Uilleann, Dublin

Set Dancing News (Apr.–May. 2009), Clare

DVDS PUBLISHED 2009

Various, uilleann pipes, etc., Traveller Piper: A Celebration of the Piping Tradition of Johnny and Felix Doran. Doran Centenary Tionól, Spanish Point, 2008, Na Píobairí Uilleann NPU DVD 008

Various, dance, instrumental & vocal, Aoibhneas na Bealtaine. The Sweets of May: Traditional Dance of South Armagh, Ceol Camlocha n.n. (DVD with 2 CDs, see also companion book and 2 CDs)

Compiled by staff of the Irish Traditional Music Archive. All items are available for reference listening, reading and viewing in the premises of the Archive at 73 Merrion Square, Dublin 2 (for details consult itma.ie or phone +353-(0)1-661 9699).

LISTINGS FROM THE CONTEMPORARY MUSIC CENTRE

Continued from The Journal of Music April–May 2009

WORKS RECEIVED, FEBRUARY–MARCH 2009

Bates, Enda, Sea Swell [2007], satb x 4, tape [optional]. String Quartet No.1 [2008], 2 vn va vc, electronics.

Bell, Derek F., Three Transcendental Concert Studies [2000], ob+ca, pf.

Carroll, Fergal, A New Song’s Measure [2008], ssatb, picc, 2 fl, ob, bn, 3 cl, bcl, asax, tsax, bsax, 4 hn, 3 tpt, 2 trb, btrb, tuba, timp, 3 perc.

Doherty, Michael, String Quartet No. 2 [2005], 2 vn va vc. 3 Nocturnes [2008], vc pf.

Harbison, Janet, Carillon [1992], hrp [Irish]. Earth Water Wind and Fire [1992], 2 hrp-solos, 6+ hrp [Irish]. Bright New Morning [1995], 3 hrp [Irish]. Walk in Belfast [1996], hrp-solo, 1–2 hrp [Irish].

Martin, Philip, Broadway Rhythms [2005 – 2006], pf.

McAuliffe, Mary, Magnificat [1991 rev. 1997], satb org str. Báidín Fheilimí [1997], ssa, 2 fl, vn, hammer dulcimer, bodh, pf. All Awake! [2003], sa [children’s], pf. Songs [2006], satb [div.]. Ever Free [2009], T-solo, ttbb.

McGlynn, Michael, Geantraí [1995], ssa [div.].

Mulvey, Gráinne, entropy [2009], 2 vn va vc.

O’Connell, Kevin, ‘Where should this music be?’ [2008], 2 vn va vc.

O’Leary, Jane, riverrun [2008], ssax asax tsax barsax.

Williams, Gareth, Truck [2004], 2 vn va vc; ‘Ness [2004], vn pf; Love in the Blue Corner [2006], T-solo, tb, ob+ca cl bcl barsax hn trb btrb perc ehpd str [2.0.2.2.2], actor; Ursula [2007], vc pf; Black Marks on White Paper [2007], va-solo, pf [4 hands]; The King’s Conjecture [2008], S-solo [boy], S-solo, T-solo, Bar-solo, 1110 1110 perc pf str, actor.

Wilson, Ian, Across a clear blue sky [2009], 2vn va vc.

CDS, FEBRUARY–MARCH 2009

Doyle, Roger, Cool Steel Army, Psychonavigation Records, 419CD. [features recordings of three new works by Doyle, including Adolf Gebler, Clarinettist, the first in a series of planned ‘cinema for the ear’ projects.]

Harbison, Janet, The Irish Harp Orchestra: The Belfast Years 1992–2002, 416CD. [Includes traditional works and works by Carolan, arranged by Janet Harbison]

Harbison, Janet, Colmcille, 417CD. [Featuring soprano Mairead Healy, St Killian’s Choir, harpists Janet Harbison and Gráinne Hambly, percussionists Michael Hambly and Pauline Rooney, and the Belfast Harp Orchestra]
Books & Articles, February–March 2009

Doyle, Roger, Operating Theatre 1980 – 2008, 2008, ZERO-G, ISBN 978-0-9560439-0-0.

Walshe, Jennifer, ‘Grupat’, CMC Website (cmc.ie).

Walshe, Jennifer, ‘What’s it Like to Be Ukeoirn O’Connor?’, CMC Website (cmc.ie).

The sixteenth edition of the CMC publication Irish Composers: A Directory is also now available. Listings provided by the Contemporary Music Centre. All materials are available to browse or listen to in the centre’s library at 19 Fishamble St, Temple Bar, Dublin 8 (for details see cmc.ie or phone 01-6731922).

LISTINGS FROM THE SCOTTISH MUSIC CENTRE

Continued from The Journal of Music April–May 2009

Bogle, Eric, The Dreamer, Greentrax Recordings Ltd, CDTRAX337

Boys of the Lough, Wish You Were Here, Transatlantic Records, TRA359

Campbell, James, James Campbell of Kintail, Scottish Tradition vol. 8, Tangent Records, TNGM 140

Carmichael, George & Irene Sharp, Ballads of Robert Burns, Bluebell Records, BBR LP 139

Forman, Robert, The Bard – A Eulogy Spoken, Grampian Records, SK 2013

Glasgow Islay Gaelic Choir, It’s Goodbye to Care, LOCHSHORE, LOCLP 1025

Hughes, Tom, Tom Hughes and his Border Fiddle, Springthyme, SPR1005

Jackson, George, & Maggie MacInnes, Cairistiona, Iona Records, IR006

Kinnaird, Alison, The Harp Key, Temple, SH001

MacInnes, Mairi, Causeway, LISMOR, LIDL 6026

McKellar, Kenneth, To Robert Burns, A Tribute, Lismor Recordings, LIDL 6019 MacLeod, Margaret, West of West – A New Sound to Gaelic, EMI, GLN 1002

MacNeil, Flora, Craobh Nan Ubhal, Tangent Records, TGS 124

McCue, Bill & George MacIlwham, Bearsden Burgh Choir, Tam O’Shanter and Songs by Robert Burns, Lismor Recordings, RB LP 1790

Morrison, Peter & Bill McCue, David Solley, Helen McArthur, The Robert Burns Songbook, Lismor Recordings, LILP 5092

Various Artists, Gaelic Psalms from Lewis, Scottish Tradition Vol 6, Tangent Records, TNGM 120

Various Artists, Waulking Songs from Barra, Scottish Tradition Vol. 3, Tangent Records, TNGM 111

Various Artists, Music from the Western Isles, Scottish Tradition Vol. 2, Tangent Records

Various Artists, Beannachdan Bho Eilean Leodhais –Greeting From The Isle of Lewis, Grampian Records, SK 2006

Various Artists, Falite Do’n Oban, Sentinel-Scottish Records, SENS 5001

Sample listings only. All materials are available to browse or listen to at the Scottish Music Centre, City Halls, Candleriggs, Glasgow, G1 1NQ. Tel +44 (0) 141 552 5222 or visit scottishmusiccentre.com