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The Complete Carolan Songs & Airs: Arranged for the Irish Harp Paperback – December 1, 2012

by Caitriona Rowsome (Author)
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(Waltons Irish Music Books). This remarkable book is a valuable resource for those wishing to play and sing the music of this extraordinary 18th-century blind harper. This comprehensive collection combines Carolan's surviving airs with sensitive and appropriate harp settings, metrically matching them with Carolan's surviving lyrics for the airs. Many of the airs are not commonly known as songs, and some include lyrics published here for the first time. For each of Carolan's Irish songs, an English interpretation is also provided.
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    Waltons Irish Music
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    December 1, 2012
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    8.25 x 0.69 x 11.75 inches
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    9781857202182
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 185720218X
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Waltons Irish Music; Pap/Com edition (December 1, 2012)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 270 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781857202182
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1857202182
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.6 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.25 x 0.69 x 11.75 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 27 ratings

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Great product but book/cd packaged poorly.
Its a beautiful book but there were two problems. One is the packing for the four discs was insuficient. A single plastic envelope held four discs and it broke so the discs flopped out. Also the book itself was not shrink wrapped. It flopped around in the large envelope causing the discs to slide down out of the book.
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The Dude
5.0 out of 5 stars My Review For This Book
Reviewed in the United States on September 30, 2014
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I bought this book from Amazon. I got it used pretty cheap. It came with 4 CDs. It is a compilation of every Carolan piece (like 228 tunes or some such) with an arrangement for the harp...it is a nylon harp in the recordings...and every tune is on the CDs. It has a lot of detail about Carolan and his history as well. It is all interesting stuff. It is a monumental work in that every piece has a harp arrangement. The arrangements are pretty good, but it is straight out with no fluff. It takes very little license with the original tunes. I consider it to be a reference work more than anything. Caitriona Rowsome wrote the book, arranged the pieces, and played them...pretty impressive. She has a solid history in Irish music it seems and knows her subject well. I very much have enjoyed reading the book, listening to her arrangements and plucking some of them on my wire harp. If you like ancient Irish music this purchase should be a no brainer. My only complaint is that the Carolan in the picture has an awfully small harp...I sort of feel sorry for him. He probably wouldn't be able to play many of the tunes in the book...lol.
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Gloria O. Garcia
5.0 out of 5 stars Great music book to have!
Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2018
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This is a wonderful book for any musician/Harper to have in their collection, and I’m glad I had the opportunity to purchase it from Amazon, (great price too!)

All of Carolan’s Tunes are contained in this one book and it’s what I’ve been searching for!
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arthur
3.0 out of 5 stars Good, but not great.
Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2021
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Finally someone creates a book with O'Carolans lyrics. Unfortunately it has a glued spine rendering it pretty useless as a music book. Yet another music book that will need to have the spine sliced off and rebound spiral. Can't tell you how many times I have had to do this with other music books. A great idea - terrible execution. The music fonts suck as well.
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Mark
4.0 out of 5 stars Good book, bad binding.
Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2024
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Like others here, I have to make a trip to the book bindery before I can actually use this thing. But otherwise, great collection.
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Kris
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful book
Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2020
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It's so nice to have the complete O'Carolan book. Will keep me in new music for years.
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Einini
1.0 out of 5 stars No CDs!!!
Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2020
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The reason I chose this book over others was for the accompanying CDs. Guess what was missing? The CDs!!! I will be returning this book and purchasing it from a more reputable vendor who will be honest and will include CDs with editions that are clearly marked “CD Edition”.
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Birchman
5.0 out of 5 stars Get it while you can!!!
Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2016
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Excellent!!! As s Harper of over 35+years and a fan of O Carolan, this is the best collection for Harper's available. It's rare, so get it while you can!!!!!!
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HarpAndJoy
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful book and music!
Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2016
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Beautiful...wonderful source and inspiration!
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Br W.
5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 29, 2023
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There's a serious amount of work gone into this book. Congratulations Caitriona Rowsome.
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jjd
1.0 out of 5 stars quel truc incroyable
Reviewed in France on April 28, 2020
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la musique ok ...mais alors l'édition....complètement nul ....
le livre ne reste pas ouvert il faut carrément arracher la page....
pour une édition intégrale soit disant de référence...c'est inutilisable ....
il aurait suffit d'une reliure à spirale .......incroyable......au XXIième
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Calyptorhynchus
5.0 out of 5 stars Complete Carolan, What's Not to Like
Reviewed in Australia on September 20, 2023
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Excellent project—Caitríona Rowsome plays all of the songs and airs ascribed to O'Carolan and the book prints her harp arrangements (playable on the piano) for them. It also includes information about O'Caorlan and the Irish words of the songs with English translation. NB the CDs contain only instrumental versions of the pieces, with the songs the word are not sung.
Just two niggles, the book is perfect bound, which means it won't open flat. So how you're going to play the pieces is a good question, it should have been spirally bound. The storage for the four CDs in the back of the book is hair-raising, four CDs on top of each other in a flimsy plastic sleeve. Fortunately the ones in my copy were undamaged.
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JULIANTHEBARBARIAN
5.0 out of 5 stars A WORK OF FABULOUS BEAUTY AS WELL AS GREAT SCHOLARSHIP.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 18, 2018
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Some reviewers have focused on the scholarship that lies behind this major work, and we should not overlook that - but let's not forget the fabulous beauty that runs through the music on the CDs. I've recently also bought a CD of guitar players attempting Carolan's music and while they are skilful musicians doing their best, that CD is just going to gather dust now that I have such a skilful heartfelt musician as Ms Rowsome to lead me through Carolan's heritage. She has made my life richer in a way that few other musicians have managed. I feel real gratitude to her and I've just emailed her via her website to say so - not something I've ever done before.
It's true that to get all the tunes written by or attributed to Carolan on the CD she has left out the repeats on many of the tunes. I really hope that she does another CD soon featuring full versions of some of her favourites,perhaps duetting with a pipe or flute player on a few of the tracks.
If you're using windows media player to listen to the tracks be aware that on CD 3, from tune 155 onwards, the tune numbers showing on the screen and in the book are out of synch - for example, if you want to listen to Carolan's Receipt you would expect to click on tune number 161 but instead you need to click on tune 163 - or at any rate this is how it is on my machine. CDs 1, 2 and 4 are not effected by this. If you are listening through a CD player then I don't know if this will apply, and if you are simply listening for pleasure then it makes no difference at all.
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Mary Mc
5.0 out of 5 stars A great book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 11, 2019
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Love it
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