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Book Description: Read Books, United Kingdom, 2007. Paperback. Book Condition: New. 216 x 140 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery ***** Print on Demand *****. IRISH MELODIES - 1854 - CONTENTS - PREFACE - Originully yrejxed to the fifelodies h the collected edition of afoores Works. THE recollections connected, in my mind, with that early period of my life, when I first thought of interpreting in verse the touching language of rny countrys music, tempt me again to advert t o those long past day6 and even at the risk of being thought to indulge overmuch in what Colley Cibber calls the great ppleasure of writing about ones self all day, to notice briefly some of those impressions and influences under which the attempt to adapt words to our ancient Melodies was for some time meditated by me, and, at last, undertaken. There can be no doubt that to the zeal and industry of Mr. Bunting his country is indebted for the preservation of her old national airs. During the prevalence of the Penal Code, the music of Ireland was made to share in the fate of its people. Both were alike shut out from the pale of civilized life and seldom any where but in the huts of the proscribed race could the sweet voice of the songs of other days be heard. Even of that class, the itinerant harpers, among whom for R, long period our ancient music had been kept alive, there remained but few to continue the precioue tradition and a great music-meeting held at Belfast in the year 1792, at which the two or three still remaining of the old race of wandering harpers assisted, exhibited the last public effort made by the lovers of Irish music to preserve to their country the only grace or ornament left to her, out of the wreck of all her liberties and hopes. Thus what the fierce legislature of the Pale had endeavoured vainly through so many centuries to effect, - the utterextinction of Irelands Minstrels-, t he deadly pressure of the Penal Laws had nearly, at the close of the eighteenth century, accomplished and, but for the zeal and intelligent research of Mr. Bunting, at that crisis, the greater part of our musical treasures would probably have been lost to the, world. I t was in the year 1796 that this gentleman published his first volume and the national spirit and hope then wakened in Ireland, by the rapid spread of the democratic principle throughout Europe, could not but insure a most cordial reception for such a work - flattering as it was to the fond dreams of Erins early days, and containing in itself, indeed, remarkable testimony to the truth of her claims to an early date of civilization. It was in the year 1797 that, through the medium of Mr. Buntings book, I was firat made acquainted with the beauties of our native music. A young friend of our family, Edward Hudson, the nephew of. Bookseller Inventory # AAV9781408626054

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Book Description: Furnas Press. Paperback / softback. Book Condition: new. BRAND NEW PRINT ON DEMAND., Irish Melodies, Thomas Moore, IRISH MELODIES - 1854 - CONTENTS - PREFACE - Originully yrejxed to the fifelodies h the collected edition of afoores Works. THE recollections connected, in my mind, with that early period of my life, when I first thought of interpreting in verse the touching language of rny countrys music, tempt me again to advert t o those long past day6 and even at the risk of being thought to indulge overmuch in what Colley Cibber calls the great ppleasure of writing about ones self all day, to notice briefly some of those impressions and influences under which the attempt to adapt words to our ancient Melodies was for some time meditated by me, and, at last, undertaken. There can be no doubt that to the zeal and industry of Mr. Bunting his country is indebted for the preservation of her old national airs. During the prevalence of the Penal Code, the music of Ireland was made to share in the fate of its people. Both were alike shut out from the pale of civilized life and seldom any where but in the huts of the proscribed race could the sweet voice of the songs of other days be heard. Even of that class, the itinerant harpers, among whom for R, long period our ancient music had been kept alive, there remained but few to continue the precioue tradition and a great music-meeting held at Belfast in the year 1792, at which the two or three still remaining of the old race of wandering harpers assisted, exhibited the last public effort made by the lovers of Irish music to preserve to their country the only grace or ornament left to her, out of the wreck of all her liberties and hopes. Thus what the fierce legislature of the Pale had endeavoured vainly through so many centuries to effect, - the utterextinction of Irelands Minstrels-, t he deadly pressure of the Penal Laws had nearly, at the close of the eighteenth century, accomplished and, but for the zeal and intelligent research of Mr. Bunting, at that crisis, the greater part of our musical treasures would probably have been lost to the, world. I t was in the year 1796 that this gentleman published his first volume and the national spirit and hope then wakened in Ireland, by the rapid spread of the democratic principle throughout Europe, could not but insure a most cordial reception for such a work - flattering as it was to the fond dreams of Erins early days, and containing in itself, indeed, remarkable testimony to the truth of her claims to an early date of civilization. It was in the year 1797 that, through the medium of Mr. Buntings book, I was firat made acquainted with the beauties of our native music. A young friend of our family, Edward Hudson, the nephew of. Bookseller Inventory # B9781408626054

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