Celtic Woman -- Songs from the Heart

Author: Celtic Woman
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ISBN: 9780739067208
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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These piano/vocal/chord arrangements are based on Celtic Woman's PBS TV special and 2010 tour. This book showcases their unforgettable style and features four pages of color photos. Titles: Fields of Gold * Amazing Grace * Níl Sé'n Lá * My Lagan Love * When You Believe * The New Ground * Isle of Hope, Isle of Tears * The Coast of Galiçia * Non C'è Più * The Moon's a Harsh Mistress * You'll Be in My Heart * Goodnight My Angel * Galway Bay * The Lost Rose Fantasia * O, America! * The Call * Finale / Mo Ghile Mear * True Colors * Pie Jesu * Slumber My Darling / The Mason's Apron * Danny Boy * You Raise Me Up.

Songs from the Heart. [carillon Music].

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Languages : en
Pages : 4

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Celtic Women in Music

Author: Mairéid Sullivan
Publisher: Kingston, Ont. : Quarry Music Books
ISBN: 9781550822465
Category : Celtic music
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Celtic music and dance have taken North American culture by storm, becoming the soundtrack of our age. "Riverdance, Braveheart, Gael Force, and "Celtic Tides are just a few of the shows featuring Celtic music. Aside from such notable male acts as The Chieftains, this music has largely been written and performed by women, either as solo artists or as band leaders, whose work has been compiled, somewhat anonymously, on such "CDs as A Woman's Heart and "Women of the World: Celtic. But who are these women? What inspired them to perform? What do they feel about traditional and contemporary Celtic culture? Based on exclusive interviews, "Celtic Women in Music profiles the careers of 30 artists including Maire Brennan (Clannad), Dolores Keane, Eileen Ivers (Riverdance), Mary Jane Lamond, Karen Matheson (Capercaillie), Loreena McKennitt, Maddy Pryor, June Tabor, and Jean Ritchie. These musicians reveal the devotion to traditional Celtic culture that inspires their art and the sense of personal sovereignty that informs their lives as women.

Songs from the Heart

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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Neues Album der irischen Frauenband mit weiteren keltischen Klassikern. äSie sind zu sechst und spielen Stücke mit keltischer Tradition sowie Werke aus Musicals und der Pop- und Rockmusik - und das extrem erfolgreich. Seit 2004 verpacken Celtic Woman die irische Folklore in ein schön anzusehendes und hörbares Gewand und konnten bislang alle ihre Veröffentlichungen auf CD oder DVD in den internationalen Charts platzieren ... So viel steht fest: Mit diesen werden Chloë Agnew (Gesang), Lisa Kelly (Gesang), Méav Ni Mhaolchatha (Gesang), Orla Fallon (Harfe, Gesang), Mairead Nesbitt (Geige) und Neuzugang Hayley Westenra (Gesang) ihre eindrucksvolle Karriere fortsetzen. In den 15 Songs beleuchten sie die keltische Tradition in ihrer ganzen Vielfalt - und das grenzenlos. So ist nicht nur die irische Heimat Thema 'Songs from the Heart', sondern beispielsweise auch die galizische ... Auch das inzwischen 4. Album strahlt wieder einmal die einzigartige und typische Celtic Woman Magie und Atmosphäre ausä (www.scoteire.de). - Vlg. auch die gleichnamige DVD in dieser Nr.

Bright Star of the West

Author: Sean Williams
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199841020
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
Bright Star of the West examines the life, repertoire, and influence of Ireland's greatest sean-nos (old-style) singer, Joe Heaney (1919-1984). Best known for popularing this form of Gaelic a cappella folk song in the United States, authors Sean Williams and Lillis ? Laoire reveal the ways in which Heaney's life story demonstrates the intertwining of music with political memory and cultural understanding.

The Lost Words

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Publisher: Edition Peters
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 68

Book Description
The Lost Words by composer James Burton takes its inspiration and text from the award-winning 'cultural phenomenon' and book of the same name by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris: a book that was, in turn, a creative response to the removal of everyday nature words like acorn, newt and otter from a new edition of a widely used children's dictionary. Both the book and Burton's 32-minute work, which is written in 12 short movements for upper-voice choir in up to 3 voice parts (with either orchestral or piano accompaniment), celebrates each lost word with a beautiful poem or 'spell', magically brought to life in Burton's music. At its heart, the work delivers a powerful message about the need to close the gap between childhood and the natural world. Burton's piece was co-commissioned by the Hallé Concerts Society for the Hallé Children's Choir and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The piano accompaniment version was premiered at the Tanglewood Festival in 2019 by the Boston Symphony Children's Choir, of which Burton is founder and director. The Hallé Children's Choir will premiere the orchestral version of the full work in Manchester, UK, post-pandemic. Vocal Score Co-commission by Boston Symphony and Hallé Concerts Society for their respective Children's Choirs. Two versions - with orchestral or with piano accompaniment. The vocal score is the same for both versions. James Burton is a composer but also a conductor. He is conductor of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus and choral director of the Boston Symphony. The book The Lost Words, exquisitely designed, has won multiple awards and is an international best-seller. The vocal score includes Jackie Morris's beautiful imagery in its cover design.

Unlikely Angel

Author: Lydia R. Hamessley
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252052404
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280

Book Description
Dolly Parton's success as a performer and pop culture phenomenon has overshadowed her achievements as a songwriter. But she sees herself as a songwriter first, and with good reason. Parton's compositions like "I Will Always Love You" and "Jolene" have become American standards with an impact far beyond country music. Lydia R. Hamessley's expert analysis and Parton’s characteristically straightforward input inform this comprehensive look at the process, influences, and themes that have shaped the superstar's songwriting artistry. Hamessley reveals how Parton’s loving, hardscrabble childhood in the Smoky Mountains provided the musical language, rhythms, and memories of old-time music that resonate in so many of her songs. Hamessley further provides an understanding of how Parton combines her cultural and musical heritage with an artisan’s sense of craft and design to compose eloquent, painfully honest, and gripping songs about women's lives, poverty, heartbreak, inspiration, and love. Filled with insights on hit songs and less familiar gems, Unlikely Angel covers the full arc of Dolly Parton's career and offers an unprecedented look at the creative force behind the image.

Medieval Woman's Song

Author: Anne L. Klinck
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812236246
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
The number of surviving medieval secular poems attributed to named female authors is small, some of the best known being those of the trobairitz the female troubadours of southern France. However, there is a large body of poetry that constructs a particular textual femininity through the use of the female voice. Some of these poems are by men and a few by women (including the trobairitz); many are anonymous, and often the gender of the poet is unresolvable. A "woman's song" in this sense can be defined as a female-voice poem on the subject of love, typically characterized by simple language, sexual candor, and apparent artlessness. The chapters in Medieval Woman's Song bring together scholars in a range of disciplines to examine how both men and women contributed to this art form. Without eschewing consideration of authorship, the collection deliberately overturns the long-standing scholarly practice of treating as separate and distinct entities female-voice lyrics composed by men and those composed by women. What is at stake here is less the voice of women themselves than its cultural and generic construction.

Ah, Those Irish Colleens!

Author: Helen Walsh Folsom
Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing
ISBN: 9781581823554
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324

Book Description
While women in modern Western society have spent the last century fighting for equal rights, women in ancient Ireland were accorded legal equality with men. Under the Brehon Laws women had the right to own property, rule territories, seek an education, and sue for divorce. Celtic women were also warriors, frequently taking up arms and marching into battle with their brothers and husbands.

Dear Harp of My Country

Author: James W. Flannery
Publisher: J. S. Sanders
ISBN:
Category : Folk music
Languages : en
Pages : 190

Book Description
Best friend to Lord Byron; famous throughout Europe and America as a poet, composer, singer, wit, and polemicist; Thomas Moore (1779-1852) was the embodiment of Romanticism. It is said he was often moved to tears by his own songs, and so were his audiences. Servants lined up behind closed doors to hear him; women swooned, wrote him notes in verse, and treasured locks of his hair. The first in a long line of Irish poet-performers who combined personal expression with a zeal for political and social reform, Moore formed a vital link between the old Gaelic bardic tradition -- nearly extinct in his day -- and the popular songs in English that fueled the flames of nationalism in early nineteenth century Ireland.Including Moore's lyrics to accompany the songs recorded here, James Flannery's book is part biography, part music history, and part history of a nation. It presents the story of Thomas Moore in the context of the Irish nationalist movement and explains the lasting influence the songs of Moore have had on the lives of countless millions of Irish emigrants, who found in them a symbolic link with their homeland.