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Ancient Irish Airs and Dances.(Book Review)
edited by George Petrie. Dover Publications, Inc. (31 E. 2nd St., Mineola, NY 11501), 2002. 137 pp., $12.95. Intermediate.
Ancient Irish Airs and Dances is a collection of 201 traditional Irish folk tunes, airs, reels, jigs and laments, often with descriptive and humorous titles such as "Biddy, I'm Not Jesting" and "Hag, You've Killed Me." While the tides are not the popular titles we recognize today, playing through these delightful pieces gives an immediate sense of familiarity, brought on by their lyrical tunes and upbeat dance rhythms. Each selection has been arranged as a piano solo with melody and accompaniment. All the material comes from an out-of-print work from the nineteenth century, The Petrie Collection of the Ancient Music of Ireland. The present Dover edition offers both the music scholar and the lover of Irish music a rare look at a large sampling of this historical musical genre.
Set in traditional keyboard notation, the melodies are presented in the right hand in single-note, parallel thirds and chordal textures. ...
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