Scoil na gCláirseach
SUMMER SCHOOL OF EARLY IRISH HARP

TIMETABLE OF EVENTS

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Saturday 15th August 2009

2.00-4.00pm

Beginners’ introduction - Ann Heymann
An orientation session for any students new to the early Irish harp

4.30-5.30pm

Student Registration

5.45-6.45pm

Class Introduction and Orientation

7.00-8.00pm

Official Opening of Scoil na gCláirseach 2009
with a short presentation for its 200th anniversary: An introduction to Edward Bunting’s 1809 Collection of Ancient Irish Music - Ann Heymann & Simon Chadwick.

Sunday 16th August

10.30am-6pm

All Day Exhibition of Historical Harp Makers

9.30-10.45am

Class Tuition
10.45-11.15am Morning Coffee

11.15am-12.30

Class Tuition

12.30-1.45pm

Lunch

1.45-2.45pm

Workshop 1
Ann Heymann
Exercises to Develop Technique

Workshop 2
Siobhán Armstrong
A practical guide to Irish music modes

2.45-3.15pm Afternoon Tea
3.15-3.45pm Practice time in group classes

3.45-4.15pm

Tutor Concert - Andrew Lawrence-King

4.15-5.15pm

Talk -  Siobhán Armstrong
An Introduction to the Early Irish Harp Tradition
Its history and cultural background.

5.15-5.30pm

Short tea break
5.30-6.15pm Masterclass 1 Masterclass 2

8.00-9.30pm

Informal student platform

Monday 17th August

9.30-10.45am

Class Tuition
10.45-11.15am Morning Coffee

11.15am-12.30

Class Tuition

12.30-1.45pm

Lunch

1.45-2.45pm

Workshop 1
Ann Heymann
Exercises to Connect the Ear

Workshop 2
Andrew Lawrence-King
“Fiddle playing from Moravia”: medieval methods with a baroque beat

2.45-3.15pm Afternoon Tea
3.15-3.45pm Practice time in group classes

3.45-4.30pm

Masterclass 1 Masterclass 2

4.30-5.00pm

Tutor concert - Siobhán Armstrong

5.00-6.00pm

Lecture - Breandán Ó Madagáin
The supernatural functions of music, vocal and instrumental, in the native Irish tradition

6.00-6.15pm

Questions and discussion

Tuesday 18th August

9.30-10.45am

Class Tuition
10.45-11.15 Morning Coffee

11.15-12.30

Class Tuition
12.30-1.45 Lunch

1.45-2.45pm

Workshop 1
Siobhán Armstrong
A practical guide to Irish music modes
Workshop 2
Andrew Lawrence-King
“Vrai Mouvement”: 17th- century dances
2.45-3.15pm Afternoon Tea
3.15-3.45pm Practice time in group classes

3.45-4.30pm

Masterclass 1 Masterclass 2

4.30-5.00pm

Tutor concert - Ann Heymann

5.00-5.30pm

Lecture - Seán Donnelly
“Much Carressed at Calcutta”: Edward Bunting, an Irish piper and an Indian King

5.30-6.00pm

Lecture - Keith Sanger
Fresh leaves on the Tree of Strings
Research and discoveries since 1992

6.00-6.15pm

Questions and discussion

Wednesday 19th August

9.30-10.45am

Class Tuition
10.45-11.15 Morning Coffee

11.15-12.30

Class Tuition
12.30-1.45 Lunch

1.45-2.45pm

Workshop - Siobhán Armstrong
Learning to sing an 18th century song in Irish from the harpers’ repertory
2.45-3.15pm Afternoon Tea
3.15-3.45pm Practice time in class groups
3.45-4.30pm Masterclass 1 Masterclass 2

4.30-5.30pm

Talk - Simon Chadwick
Instrument design, morphology, & replicas

8.00-9.30pm

Public Concert in the Parade Tower, Kilkenny Castle:
The Ancient Music of Ireland - A celebration of the 200th anniversary of Edward Bunting’s landmark 1809 collection of early Irish harp music.
Andrew Lawrence-King
Ann Heymann
Siobhán Armstrong
Early Irish Harps
John Elwes Tenor
Malcolm Proud 19th century square piano
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Thursday 20th August

9.30-10.45am

Class Tuition
10.45-11.15am Morning Coffee

11.15am-12.30

Class Tuition

12.30-1.45pm

Lunch

1.45-2.45pm

Workshop 1
Andrew Lawrence-King
“Bon gout”: 17th-century ornamentation

Workshop 2
Ann Heymann
From Burns March to Piobaireachd - Bunting’s figures & terminology

2.45-3.15pm Afternoon Tea
3.15-3.45pm Practice time in class groups
3.45-4.30pm Talk - Simon Chadwick
“For the sake of the Whiskey, and to be as good as his word”
Discussing the old Irish harpers

4.30-5.00pm

Talk - Simon Chadwick
Discovering repertory & moving on

5.00pm

Closing Reception

Friday 21st August

Optional Field Trip to Dublin
(times are approximate)

8.00am

Dep. Kilkenny School of Music for Dublin

10.30-11.30am

Trinity College Dublin (Old Library; Book of Kells; Trinity College Harp; Otway Harp)

12.00-1.00pm

Arr. National Museum of Ireland, Kildare St (Ballinderry harp fragments; Breac Maedóic; Fiacail Phádraig; early Irish treasures)

Lunch break (at Collins Barracks)

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)

3.30-4.30pm

Guinness Brewery (Denis O’Hampsey’s Downhill harp).

4.30pm

Dep. to Kilkenny School of Music for anyone returning to Kilkenny arr. c.7.00pm

Associated concerts:
Kilkenny
  Wednesday 19th August 2009, 8pm

Town Hall Theater, Galway
  Sunday 23rd August 2009, 6pm

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Please note that this timetable is provisional and is subject to change. Updated 10th August 2009.

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Supported by Kilkenny County Council   Supported by the Arts Council