The Ancient Music of Ireland (Bunting, Edward)

Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 3 volumes
First Publication 1796, 1809, 1840
Genre Categories Airs; Dances; Folksongs; Songs; Music history; Writings; Organology; For harp; Scores featuring the harp; For 1 player; For piano; Scores featuring the piano; For voice, piano; For voices with keyboard; Scores featuring the voice; English language; Irish language; Gaelic language

Sheet Music

Scores

Volume 1: A General Collection of the Ancient Irish Music

 Complete Score
#32835 - 1.61MB, 37 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 8434×⇩ - Fynnjamin

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Fynnjamin (2009/6/17)

Publisher. Info. Dublin: W. Power & Co., 1796.
Copyright
Public Domain [tag/del]
Misc. Notes Full descriptive title: A General Collection of the Ancient Irish Music, Containing a Variety of Admired Airs never before Published and also the Compositions of Conolan and Carolan, Collected from the Harpers &c. in the different Provinces of Ireland, and adapted for the Piano-Forte
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 Complete Score
#368009 - 12.78MB, 42 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 479×⇩ - Fynnjamin

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Fynnjamin (2015/3/4)

Editor New edition
Publisher. Info. Dublin: I. Willis, n.d.
Copyright
Public Domain [tag/del]
Misc. Notes New engraved plates.
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 Complete Score
#59387 - 3.16MB, 42 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 2975×⇩ - Fynnjamin

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Fynnjamin (2010/3/19)

 Complete Score
#191783 - 5.04MB, 50 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 1528×⇩ - Fynnjamin

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Fynnjamin (2012/3/23)

Engraver Thomas Straight
Publisher. Info. London: Preston & Son, n.d.
Copyright
Public Domain [tag/del/mrg]
Misc. Notes Later edition, with the notable addition of a liberal sprinkling of dynamic markings.

From the International Harp Archives at Brigham Young University
(as digitally mirrored at archive.org).

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Volume 2: A General Collection of the Ancient Music of Ireland

 Complete Score
#32836 - 4.35MB, 109 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 3319×⇩ - Fynnjamin

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Fynnjamin (2009/6/17)

 Complete Score
#322286 - 12.73MB, 124 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 577×⇩ - Fynnjamin

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Fynnjamin (2014/4/18)

Engraver Williamson
Publisher. Info. London: Clementi & Co., n.d.[1809]. (for the editor)
Copyright
Public Domain [tag/del/mrg]
Misc. Notes Full descriptive title: A General Collection of the Ancient Music of Ireland, Arranged for the Piano Forte. some of the most admired Melodies are adapted for the Voice To Poetry chiefly translated from the Original Irish Songs by Thomas Campbell Esq. and other Eminent Poets: To which is prefixed a Historical & Critical Dissertation on The Egyptian, British and Irish Harp ... Vol. 1st [sic]
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Volume 3: The Ancient Music of Ireland

 Complete Score
#32839 - 7.64MB, 220 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 3290×⇩ - Fynnjamin

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Fynnjamin (2009/6/17)

 Complete Score
#322288 - 19.19MB, 244 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 596×⇩ - Fynnjamin

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Fynnjamin (2014/4/18)

 Complete Score
#759879 - 94.87MB, 246 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 33×⇩ - Fynnjamin

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Fynnjamin (2022/1/25)

Publisher. Info. Dublin: Hodges and Smith, 1840.
Copyright
Public Domain [tag/del/mrg]
Misc. Notes Full descriptive title: The Ancient Music of Ireland, Arranged for the Piano Forte, To which is prefixed a Dissertation on the Irish Harp and Harpers, Including an Account of the Old Melodies of Ireland
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General Information

Work Title The Ancient Music of Ireland
Alternative. Title A General Collection of the Ancient Irish Music, Containing a Variety of Admired Airs never before Published and also the Compositions of Conolan and Carolan, Collected from the Harpers &c. in the different Provinces of Ireland
Composer Bunting, Edward
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. None [force assignment]
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 3 volumes
First Publication. 1796, 1809, 1840
Librettist traditional
Thomas Campbell (1777-1844)
Mary Balfour (1775?-1819?)
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
William Robert Spencer (1769-1834)
Hector Macneill (1746-1818)
William Drennan (1754-1820)
John Brown,, Esq. [of Great Yarmouth?]
"Baron Dawson"
Language English, Irish Gaelic
Dedication 3. The Queen (Victoria)
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period Classical
Piece Style Baroque
Instrumentation voice, piano (harp, clarsach)

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Although these pieces have been adapted for the piano, they were taken down from harpers, pipers, fiddlers, singers etc., so could be re-adapted for harp and other instruments. Harp has been tagged due to the organological discussion of the instrument.

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