Scoil na gCláirseach

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SUMMER SCHOOL OF EARLY IRISH HARP

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Wednesday 17th August 2011

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 session

7.00-8.00pm

Official opening of Scoil na gCláirseach 2011
Guest speaker - Professor Dáibhí Ó Chróinín

Thursday 18th 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
Siobhán Armstrong
Uncovering the Magic of Medieval Music:
A Practical Guide to Irish Music Modes
Workshop 2
Andrew Lawrence-King
“When Love on Time and Measure makes his Ground”
Rhythm in 17th-century music

2.45-3.15pm Afternoon tea

3.15-3.45pm Practice time in class groups

3.45-4.30pm Masterclass 1 Masterclass 2

4.30-5.00pm
Tutor Concert - Ann Heymann

5.00-6.00pm
Talk - Simon Chadwick
An Introduction to the Early Gaelic Harp Traditions
their history and cultural background.

6.00-6.15pm
Questions and discussion

8.00-9.30pm
Informal student platform

Friday 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 1
Andrew Lawrence-King
“The Harper’s Humours”
Authentic Passions in Early Music
Workshop 2
Ann Heymann
An Introduction to Ceòl Mór

2.45-3.15pm Afternoon tea

3.15-3.45pm Practice time in class groups

3.45-4.30pm Masterclass 1 Masterclass 2

4.30-5.00pm
Tutor Concert -Siobhán Armstrong

5.00-6.00pm
Lecture - Barnaby Brown
The Canntaireachd Sources of Ceòl Mór
Full immersion in the historical mode of transmission: singing

6.00-6.15pm
Questions and discussion

Saturday 20th August

10.30am-6pm
All Day Exhibition of Historical Harp Makers

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 - Barnaby Brown
How to study, how to practice
Training mind and fingers: lessons from the ceòl mór tradition

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
Talk - Griogair Labhruidh
Harping in Scotland
from a piper’s perspective.

5.00-5.30pm
Talk - Simon Chadwick
Ireland and Scotland
An overview of the connections, similarities and differences between Gaelic harp traditions across Ireland and Scotland.

8.30pm
Public Concert
St Patricks Church, Kilkenny
Mac-talla nan Dun: Echoes of a Gaelic Chieftains’s Castle
An Evening of 16th-18th Century Gaelic Harp and Vocal Music
Ann Heymann, Andrew Lawrence-King and Siobhán Armstrong Early Irish harps
Griogair Labhruidh, Gaelic song
Barnaby Brown, Highland bagpipes

Sunday 21st August

9.15-9.30am
Group photograph with all students and staff

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 - Griogair Labhruidh
Learning to sing a song in Gaelic from the early Gaelic harpers’ repertory

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 - Andrew Lawrence-King

5.00-6.00pm
Lecture - Karen Loomis
The Brave New World of the Old Gaelic Harps: How CT scanning has transformed our understanding of these iconic instruments
The latest discoveries and more astonishing images of the Queen Mary and Lamont harps

6.00-6.15pm
Questions and discussion

Monday 22nd 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
An Introduction to ‘Figures’ from Historical Sources
Workshop 2
Siobhán Armstrong & Barnaby Brown
The Inchcolm Antiphoner c.1340:
Learn to read and perform plain chant from one of the earliest surviving Scottish music manuscripts

2.45-3.15pm Afternoon tea

3.15-3.45pm Practice time in class groups

3.45-4.45pm Talk - Simon Chadwick
Understanding the Scottish sources
Comparing Scots and Gaelic; vocal, pipe and fiddle; 17th, 18th and 19th century.

4.45-5.00pm
Discussion

5.00pm
Closing Reception & Student Platform

Tuesday 23rd 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:
• Trinity College harp
• Otway harp

12.00-1.00pm

National Museum of Ireland, Kildare St:
• Ballinderry harp fragments
• (we will not be able to view the Breac Maedóic as it is currently out on loan)
• 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
• Cloyne reconstruction

3.30-4.30pm

Guinness Storehouse Museum:
• Denis O’Hampsey’s Downhill harp

4.30pm

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

Please note that this timetable is provisional and is subject to change. Updated 14th August 2011.

Public Concerts
Friday, 19th August, 8 pm, the medieval Holy Trinity Church, Fethard.
Saturday 20th August, 8.30 pm, St. Patrick’s Church, Ormonde Rd, Kilkenny.
Friday, 26th August, 7.30pm, St. Audoen’s Church, Dublin.
Mac-talla nan Dun: Echoes of a Gaelic Chieftains’s Castle
An Evening of 16th-18th Century Gaelic Harp and Vocal Music
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