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16 Cards in this Set
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When and where was Bunting Born? |
He was born in 1773 in County Armagh. |
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Where was he sent at age 7 and who was he apprenticed to? |
Drogheda, apprenticed to William Ware, organist. |
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Did he stay truthful to the tunes he collected (ie accurate)? |
No, as he was a classicaly trained musician, he didn't understand features like modes, and often "corrected"what he deemed to be wrong. |
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How do we know he "corrected" music? |
What he published was often in impossible keys for the harpists. |
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How was his work important if he did not stay truthful to the music? |
His notes on the harpists, how they played and the terminology they used is however invaluable, and also many tunes would have been lost if he had not collected them. |
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When did he go on his collecting tours and what was remarkable about them? |
He went on several between 1792 and 1807, and was the first to transcribe music 'in the field' as played by the musicians. |
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Who had he employed to correct the Irish words? |
Patrick Lynch. |
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Who did he live with until 1819 and why did he move out? |
The McCrackens of Belfast. Also, he got married and moved to Dublin where he held the post of organist at St. John's Church. |
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When did he did, and where is he buried? |
21 December 1843 and is buried at the Cemetery of Mount Jerome, Dublin |
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When and where were his papers rediscovered? Where do they reside? |
Bunting's papers were lost for many years, but were rediscovered in 1907 and currently reside in the library of Queen's University of Belfast. (Donal O Sullivan has restored the original words to the airs that Bunting published without the words.) |
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Name his 3 publications of Irish music and the year of publication. |
-]A General Collection of the Ancient Irish Music (1796), 66 tunes -A General Collection of the Ancient Music of Ireland (1809) -The Ancient Music of Ireland (1840), 165 airs |
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The final book was the most important. What was included in this book, and what had he hoped to achieve with this volume? |
A Dissertation on the Irish Harp andHarpers, Including an Account of the Old Melodies of Ireland" of about ninety pages is included. He hoped to promote the antiquity not only of the Irish music he had collected, but also of the Irish harp. He also wished to provide "the remaining airs of the collection arranged in true harp style. |
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Details of his personality? |
Petted and painpered, he grew peevish and indolent, and like many another genius of brilliant prospects, Bunting may have disappointed the expectations of his early years, had not the event which laid the foundation of his fame occurred, when he was but a rosy-cheeked blue-eyed boy of nineteen. |
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Who was the Belfast Harp Festical of 1792 organized by? |
Dr. McDonnell. |
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What happened that his first volume undersold? |
When Tom Moore - at the suggestion of W. Power, his publisher, commenced his renowned Irish Melodies he found Bunting's volume of garnered airs ready at hand for his purpose. |
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Why is the last volum so invaluable? |
This last and in many respects his greatest work contained in addition to its hundred and a half airs and musical examples, much valuable information relating to the characteristics of Irish melody, ancient musical terms, notices of remarkable airs and sketches of famous harpers. |
