Carolan's Dream - played on celtic harp
Turlough O'Carolan was an irish harpist who lived in the mid-1600s and wrote pieces for the people he met and stayed with - playing music in exchange for hospitality. Tradition has it that the harp was played last thing at night, before people went to bed. The building I'm playing it in was a bakery built around 1790, serving the local houses. The bread oven is in the stone wall behind me, and the building has a new floor and triple-glazing on the windows. It's a great mixture of old and new and a great place to play this music. Appropriately, I recorded this piece very late one night, and just went with the first take so the playing has the odd rough bits. I like to think that's authentic - apparently Carolan never played the same way twice. Bet he never had as much trouble as I did finding DivX codecs, either!Only the melodies survive, so I've done this arrangement myself and I'm playing it here on a Pilgrim gut-strung harp. The arrangement and video is my copyright. You are welcome to learn and play the arrangement (by ear - I haven't written it down!) if you like it - but please credit me if you play it in public. If you like it, I'll post more music.To make the recording I used a Sony 3-CCD camera direct to hard disk, with one audio take, noise-reduced in Cool Edit Pro, with Adobe Premiere Pro to edit the visuals together. If you want a higher-quality file to download and keep on your computer, just send me a message.
Canal: Music
Añadido: December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm
Autor: MarkHarmer
Duración: 04:02
Puntuación: 4.87
Reproducciones: 198673
Etiquetas: Carolan Celtic Clarsach Harp Irish Music O'Carolan
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plaasjaapie (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)
Brilliant composition. Brilliant performance. Bravo! :-D
dinclo29100 (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)
bonsoir merci pour ce moment fabuleux de musique bravo a vous
lovelycelticopera (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)
I meant to say I can't quit playing this video over and over... typing too fast.
lovelycelticopera (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)
very beautiful arrangement. well done. I quit playing this video over and over.
metalhead410 (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)
does anyone know where i could find this music?
juvancu (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)
butiful soooo peacefull i love it
dolofonos (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)
You might well add to your description that O'Carolan was blind.
LipstickKitten (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)
this is awesome,I play harp as well,and I'll try to learn this song
thaliannavS (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)
Really a butiful arrangement of my favourite O-Carolan song!It was also the first song I taught myself on my celtic harp...I a very much easyer arrangement though :-)
welshboi82 (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)
This is a very beautiful arrangement!
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