SUMMER SCHOOL OF EARLY
IRISH HARP
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TIMETABLE OF EVENTS |
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Wednesday 22nd August 2007
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4.30-5.30pm |
Student Registration |
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5.45-6.45pm |
Class Introduction and Orientation |
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7.00-8.00pm |
Official Opening of Scoil na
gCláirseach 2007 |
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Thursday 23rd August
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9.30-10.45am |
Class Tuition | |
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10.45-11.15am |
Morning Coffee | |
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11.15am-12.30 |
Class Tuition | |
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12.30-1.45pm |
Lunch | |
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1.45-2.40pm |
Beg./Int Seminar - Siobhán Armstrong |
Adv. Seminar - Ann Heymann |
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Two parallel seminars on the same subject. |
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2.40-3.00pm |
Seminar
- Siobhán
Armstrong Irish Names and Titles: A Quick Pronounciation guide |
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3.00-3.30pm |
Afternoon Tea | |
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3.30-4.30pm |
Lecture - Simon Chadwick An Introduction to the Early Irish Harp Tradition |
Adv. Practice Time |
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4.30-5.00pm |
Tutor Concert - Ann Heymann | |
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5.00-6.00pm |
Beg./Int. Practice Time | Lecture - Keith Sanger A Harper, some Young Ladies and a Minister: the Background to the MacLean Clephane MS |
Friday 24th August
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9.30-10.45am |
Class Tuition | |
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10.45-11.15am |
Morning Coffee | |
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11.15-12.30 |
Class Tuition | |
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12.30-1.45pm |
Lunch | |
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1.45-3.00pm |
Seminar
- Ann Heymann
& Simon Chadwick The Life and Music of Denis O'Hampsey |
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3.00-3.30pm |
Afternoon Tea | |
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3.30-4.30pm |
Lecture - Simon Chadwick What is an Early Irish Harp? |
Adv. Practice Time |
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4.30-5.00pm |
Tutor Concert - Javier Sáinz | |
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5.00-6.00pm |
Beg./Int. Practice Time | Lecture -
Simon Chadwick
The 'Downhill' and the Morphology of Early Irish Harps |
Saturday 25th August
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10.30am-6pm |
All Day Exhibition of Historical Harp Makers | |
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9.30-10.45am |
Class Tuition | |
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10.45-11.15am |
Morning Coffee | |
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11.15-12.30 |
Class Tuition | |
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12.30-1.45pm |
Lunch | |
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1.45-3.00pm |
Seminar
- Ann Heymann Three Key O'Hampsey Tunes & Their Interpretation |
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3.00-3.30pm |
Afternoon Tea | |
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3.30-4.00pm |
Lecture -
Simon Chadwick
Harpers, Characters and Anecdotes |
Adv. Practice Time |
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4.00-4.30pm |
Seminar - Simon Chadwick Replacing a String: What To Do When One Breaks | |
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4.30-5.30pm |
Beg./Int. Practice Time | Lecture -
Javier Sáinz A Parallel Music: Scottish Lute Repertoire as a Source of Harp Music |
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8.00-9.30pm |
Public
Concert in Rothe House, Kilkenny Harp Music of the Old Gaelic World featuring historical harpers Ann Heymann (USA), Javier Sáinz (Spain), Siobhán Armstrong (Irl) and special guests, Róisín Elsafty, sean-nós singer, and Jimmy O’Brien-Moran, uilleann pipes |
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Sunday 26th August
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9.30-10.45am |
Class Tuition | |
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10.45-11.15am |
Morning Coffee | |
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11.15-12.30 |
Class Tuition | |
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12.30-1.45pm |
Lunch | |
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1.45-2.30pm |
Song Workshop - Róisín
Elsafty Learning a harpers’ song in the Irish language |
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2.30-3.00pm |
Seminar - Siobhán
Armstrong Fingernail Care |
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3.00-3.30pm |
Afternoon Tea | |
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3.30-4.30pm |
Lecture - Simon Chadwick Repertoire: What There Is and Where To Find It |
Adv. Practice Time |
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4.30-5.00pm |
Tutor concert - Siobhán Armstrong | |
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5.00-6.00pm |
Beg./Int. Practice Time | Lecture
- Ann Heymann Theme and Variation: Gaelic and Baroque |
Monday 27th August
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9.30-10.45am |
Class Tuition | |
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10.45-11.15am |
Morning Coffee | |
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11.15-12.30 |
Class Tuition | |
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12.30-1.45pm |
Lunch | |
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1.45-2.20pm |
Seminar
- Siobhán
Armstrong and Javier
Sáinz Other Renaissance and Baroque Harps: a Presentation of Instruments Contemporaneous to the Early Irish Harp |
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2.20-3.10pm |
Workshop
- Siobhán Armstrong Improvising over a Renaissance Ground Bass: an Introduction |
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3.10-3.30pm |
Afternoon Tea | |
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3.30-4.00pm |
Discussion What next? Resources and Strategies to Keep you Going until Scoil 08 |
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4.00pm |
Final Student Concert and Open Platform | |
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5.00pm |
Closing Reception | |
Tuesday 28th August
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Optional Field Trip to Dublin |
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8.00am |
Dep. Kilkenny School of Music for Dublin |
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10.30-11.30am |
Trinity College Dublin (Old Library; Book of Kells; Trinity College Harp; Otway Harp) |
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12.00-1.00pm |
Arr. National Museum of Ireland, Kildare St (Ballinderry harp fragments; Breac Maedóic; Fiacail Phádraig; early Irish treasures) |
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Lunch break (at Collins Barracks) |
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2.00-3.00pm |
National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks (Kildare harp, Mullagh Mast harp, Sirr harp, "Carolan" (Rose Mooney's) harp, Hollybrook harp, Cloyne harp fragments, and Cloyne reconstruction) |
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3.30-4.30pm |
Guinness Brewery (Denis O'Hampsey's Downhill harp). |
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4.30pm |
Dep. to Kilkenny School of Music for anyone returning to Kilkenny arr. c.19.00 |
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CONCERTS
As well as the tutor concert in Rothe House, Kilkenny, on Saturday 25th August 2007, there are two other concerts associated with Scoil na gCláirseach:
Harp Music of the Old Gaelic World
Thursday
30th August 2007, 8.00 pm
Galway Arts Centre, Nun’s Island, Galway.
Saturday
1st September 2007, 8.00pm
St. Ann’s Church, Dawson St, Dublin
The programme of these unique concerts features traditional, Renaissance and Baroque harp music from Ireland and Scotland together with traditional Irish song sung by Connemara’s prizewinning young sean-nós singer, Róisín Elsafty and the unique uilleann pipes playing of historical piper Jimmy O’Brien-Moran.
Beg., Int. and Adv. on the timetable refer to beginners, intermediate and advanced. Please note that this timetable is provisional and is subject to change. Updated 13th August 2007.
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to view the 2006 timetable.
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to view the 2005 timetable.
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view the 2004 timetable.
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view the 2003 timetable.