Sheet Music – £ – The old Irish song Londonderry Air arranged for Violin and Piano by Fritz Kreisler. Contributor(s). Fritz Kreisler ( – ) – Composer. Primary Item Type: Musical Score. Identifiers: LCSH Violin and piano music – Scores.
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As with a good lomdonderry folk tunesLondonderry Air is also used as a hymn tune ; most notably for “I cannot tell” by William Young Fullerton. The descendants of blind fiddler Jimmy McCurry assert that he is the musician from whom Miss Ross transcribed the tune but there is no historical evidence to support this speculation. In other projects Wikimedia Commons Wikisource.
For the following beautiful air I have to express my very grateful acknowledgement to Miss J. Piano Arrangement of Londonderry Air file help. The first lyrics to be sung to the music were, “The Confession of Devorgilla”, otherwise known kreislr “Oh! A similar claim has been made regarding the tune’s ‘coming’ to the blind itinerant harpist Rory Dall O’Cahan in a dream. Journal of the Royal Musical Association.
Farewell to Cucullain (Kreisler, Fritz)
Please obey the copyright laws of your country. Carl Fischer Retrieved 11 September Work Title Farewell to Cucullain Alt ernative. The Petrie collection of the ancient music of Ireland: Archived from the original on 3 February Long Room the journal of the library of Trinity College, Dublin.
As this work was first published before or failed to meet notice or renewal requirements to secure statutory copyright with no “restoration” under the GATT amendments, it is very likely to be public domain in the USA as well. None [ force assignment ] Key C major First Pub lication. Views Read Edit View history. The first writer, after Petrie’s publication, to set verses to the tune was Alfred Perceval Gravesin the late s.
The tune is played as the victory sporting anthem of Northern Ireland at the Commonwealth Games. Contents 1 Performances 1. Hempson died in Naxos Javascript not enabled.
Unofficial regional anthem of Northern Ireland. For the film, see The Londonderry Air film. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. A Thematic Catalogue, — It is very unlikely that this work is public domain in londondderry EU, or in any country where the copyright term is life-plus years. Londohderry also discovered the original words to the tune as we now know it, which were written by Edward Fitzsimmons and published in ; his song is “The Confession of Devorgilla”, otherwise known by its first line “Oh Shrive Me Father”.
Rothery, a British lyricist who wrote the English lyrics for songs such as Handel’s “Art Thou Troubled,” wrote the following lyrics to the tune of “The Londonderry Air”:. By using this site, you agree to the Kresiler of Use and Privacy Policy.
Ross submitted the tune to music collector George Petrieand it was then published by the Society for the Preservation and Publication of the Melodies of Ireland in the book The Ancient Music of Irelandwhich Petrie edited. This page was last edited on 28 Decemberat However, it is in the public domain in Canada where IMSLP is hosted and other countries where the term is life-plus years kreisle as China, Japan, Korea and many others llondonderry.
Fritz Kreisler – Londonderry Air (Violin & Piano)t
The title of the air came from the name of County Londonderryand was collected by Jane Ross of Limavady in the county. Gilchrist asserted that adjusting the rhythm of the piece as she proposed produced a tune more typical of Irish folk music.
Javascript is required for this feature. Farewell to Cucullain Kreisler, Fritz It is very unlikely that this work is public domain in the EU, or in any country where the copyright term is life-plus years. Retrieved 11 December Retrieved from ” https: The song ” Danny Boy ” uses the tune, with a set of lyrics written in the early 20th century. Graves later stated “that setting was, to my mind, too much in the style of church music, and was not, I believe, a success in consequence.
He showed how the distinctive high section of the tune had derived from a refrain in “The Young Man’s Dream” which, over time, crept into the body of the music. George Sigerson wrote lyrics arranged by T. Bunting published it in Retrieved from ” http: The most popular lyrics for the tune are ” Danny Boy ” “Oh Danny Boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling”written by English lawyer Frederic Edward Weatherly inand set to the tune in IMSLP does not assume any sort of legal responsibility or liability for the consequences of downloading files that are not in the public domain in your country.
Ross, of New Town, Limavady, in the County of Londonderry—a lady who has made a large collection of the popular unpublished melodies of the county, which she has very kindly placed at my disposal, and which has added very considerably to the stock of tunes which I had previously acquired from that still very Irish county.
I say still very Irish, for though it has been planted for more than two centuries by English and Scottish settlers, the old Irish race still forms the great majority of its peasant inhabitants; and there are few, if any counties in which, with less foreign admixture, the ancient melodies of the country have been so extensively preserved.
It is popular among lonodnderry American Irish diaspora and is well known throughout the world. The origin of the tune was for a long time somewhat mysterious, as no other collector of folk tunes encountered it, and all known examples are descended from Ross’s submission to Petrie’s collection.
Airs ; Folksongs ; Songs ; For violin, cello, piano arr ; For 3 players ; Scores featuring the violin ; Scores featuring the cello ; Scores featuring the piano. Webarchive template wayback links Articles with hAudio microformats Use dmy dates lomdonderry June Retrieved 4 January InHugh Shields found a long-forgotten traditional song which was very similar to Gilchrist’s modified version of the melody.