| The Wexford Carols Contributor(s): O. Muirithe, Diarmuid (Author) |
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ISBN: 0851053769 ISBN-13: 9780851053769 Publisher: Colin Smythe OUR PRICE: $10.13 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 1982 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | Printed Music - General - Music | Ethnic |
| Dewey: 781.621 |
| Physical Information: 96 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Ireland - Ethnic Orientation - Irish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The tradition of carol singing in County Wexford dates from the seventeenth century and continues as a living tradition today. The repertoire derives from a little book of songs published by Luke Wadding in Ghent in 1684 and from a manuscript collection compiled by Father William Devereux in County Wexford in 1734, which has been copied several times and is still circulated in manuscript copies. O Muirithe has assembled the twenty-one carols which exist in the Wadding book and later copies of the Devereux manuscript compiled by Michael Murphy and Richard Neil in the early nineteenth century; here he presents the first complete collection of these rare texts. The music is transcribed with a commentary by Seoirse Bodley. |