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This extraordinary encyclopedia covers all aspects of traditional music song and dance in Ireland. Six-hundred thousand words in fourteen-hundred main topics explore people, tunes, aesthetics, ideology, gender balance, history, organisations and affiliations, linking all dance and recreational music forms to biographies of stylists and figureheads, to regional music associations and practices. Extensive specialist articles give the widest range of one-stop information to date on all aspects of the subjects of dance and song, and on instruments—especially harp, uilleann pipes, fiddle, flute, bodhran, concertina, banjo and accordions. This immense volume of biography, history, hard facts and opinion is diverse and comprehensive, a knowledge base that has been drawn from the expertises of some two hundred musicians, researchers and teachers in the field. Now in its third edition, the Companion also uniquely includes county by county, regional and gender analysis of all 70 years of All-Ireland fleadh prizewinners in dance music and song competitions. Other major awards are reported, as are the role of media, and the practice of the music not only in each county on the island of Ireland, but also in the major diaspora cities, and other countries where the music is also played. The book is a vital, grounded resource in an era where superficial and artificial-intelligence internet data can be false and misleading. It lays out the canon of the traditional music of Ireland, an essential asset and a core reference for all sociological and musicological research and analysis in Irish music and Irish studies.
Compánach - –
Compact Disc album with two CDs
Fintan Vallely, Gerry O'Connor, Tiarnan Ó Duinnchinn, Sibéal Davitt
€20 EUR
Back to the Starry Lane –
Remastered CD.
Fintan Vallely and Mark Simos
€15 EUR
Flute tutor
€33 EUR
Fintan Vallely - Traditional Irish Flute Music RE-MASTERED 28/5/2021 – Fintan Vallely - Traditional Irish Flute Music
€15 EUR
Big Guns and Hairy Drums –
Big guns and hairy drums
Tim Lyons and Fintan Vallely
€15 EUR
Limited edition DVD
€17 EUR
Turas - Virtual Ireland in Music - Online movie
€15 EUR
Merrijig Creek –
Compact Disc of new tunes and arrangements by Fintan Vallely
Fintan Vallely, Caoimhín Vallely, Sheena Vallely, Brian Morrissey
€15 EUR
Fintan Vallely Dublin, Ireland
Performer on flute, Ireland and world-wide since 1967
Workshop teacher on flute - Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy
since 1986, Cruinniú na Bhfliúit Ballyvourney, and Tocane, France; and Friday Harbor, Minneapolis and Catskills, USA.
• Five CD albums of solo and group music
• Written /edited 16 books
• Hundreds of reviews
• Three major conferences organised
• Scores of conference papers and articles
... more
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