Category: Ceol dem’ chuid /My music
Im Long Mé Measaim
| July 19, 2011 | Posted by peadar under Ceol dem' chuid /My music |
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This is based on a poem of my friend Donal O Liathain. I was very taken with the ideas in the poem and this I tried to reflect in the melody. I hope some of the strength that these ideas stir in me transfer to the music. Im Long Mé Measaim Cathal Coughlan, of […]
Three for Tunes
| July 19, 2011 | Posted by peadar under Ceol dem' chuid /My music, Scóir cheoil / Musical scores |
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This is a tune I put together for the Triúr project. In it there are three parts each one representing each player. It was interesting to see how Martin and Caoimhín gravitated towards different musical parts I had in mind for their tonality, as I perceived them. When things like that work it adds greatly […]
N’fheadar
| July 6, 2011 | Posted by peadar under Ceol dem' chuid /My music, Scóir cheoil / Musical scores |
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This was a tune composed for the TG4 awards ceremony as mentioned already in relation to the TG4 reel. At the press launch of the announcement of the awards we were all paraded out in Ennis in Clare. My wife is from Gleann Draoi between Tulla and Feakle and many of her family and our […]
John the Rookery
| July 6, 2011 | Posted by peadar under Ceol dem' chuid /My music, Scóir cheoil / Musical scores |
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John the Rookery Ó Ríordáin was an older friend of mine from Doirín Aluinn across the river from our house. He was from an old family stock, rich in indigenous knowledge and culture. He was a farmer with a great interest in breeding horses. Not alone was he a good historian but was also a […]
