Old Irish Folk Music and Songs: A Collection of 842 Irish Airs and Songs Hitherto Unpublished (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Old Irish Folk Music and Songs: A Collection of 842 Irish Airs and Songs Hitherto Unpublished<br><br>If the names have survived in the two branches why not the airs? And I thought it just possible - indeed I half hoped - that in Danish collections of popular music I might light on versions of our Molly Astore Garryowen The Boyne Water Patrick''s Day The Groves of Blarney &c.<br><br>In order'' to hunt this matter up I procured from a well-known publisher in Copenhagen three fine collections of Scandinavian popular traditional music mostly with words - Danish Swedish and Norwegian containing 294 Danish melodies (including twelve of the Faroe Islands) 223 Swedish and 161 Norwegian. All are accompanied with elaborate notes; but it was tantalizing that I could not read one word of them; for they are all - as well as the songs - in Danish.<br><br>The music I could read however and I went over the three collections air by air. In general character and structure the Danish airs approach nearer to Irish than do the Swedish and Norwegian; but I may say at once that on the whole the result of my search was disappointing. I could find no considerable number of Danish airs either identical with or closely resembling those of Ireland. Yet I found a few.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.