UNCG - MLS610C Global Arts Unit 5 - Ireland

This time responses required in Unit 5 are in the comments section of the Text post. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Ancient Music of Ireland

Counties of Ireland - Interactive map

Sumerian Harp, Iraq, 2500 BCE
by Beverly Jones, '97

"This is a recreation of Queen Shub-Ad's harp, an artifact unearthed early this century from the Sumerian Royal Cemetery at Ur. It is the oldest known example of the true triangular harp, which evolved directly from the hunting bow" (Smith College Museum of Ancient Inventions)

Sumerian Bull Lyre, Iraq, 3200 BCE by Stacey Rolland, '00 (Smith College Museum of Ancient Inventions)

Boyne Valley Mounds at Newgrange, Knowth and Dowth, Ireland. Built circa 3200 B.C.E. They predate Stonehenge in England and the Great Pyramid in Egypt.

Megalithic Passage Tomb - Newgrange Mound (from Knowth Website)

UNCG - MLS610C Global Arts Unit 5 - Texts

Comments to this blog entry are my discussion about Unit 5 texts.
(Note: Chicago citation format for bibliographies)

Listed in the order texts were read.

"The King of Ireland's Son." In Irish Folktales, edited by Henry Glassie,

39-47. New York: Pantheon, 1985.

"Dreams of Gold." In Irish Folktales, edited by Henry Glassie, 171.

New York: Pantheon, 1985.

"The Birth of Finn McCumhail." In Irish Folktales, edited by Henry Glassie,

237-244. New York: Pantheon, 1985.

"Usheen's Return to Ireland," In Irish Folktales, edited by Henry Glassie,

256-257. New York: Pantheon, 1985.

"The Man Who had no Story." In Irish Folktales, edited by Henry Glassie,

319-323. New York: Pantheon, 1985.


O'Connor, Nuala. "Chapters 5-10." Bringing It All Back Home: The

Influence of Irish Music.

2nd ed. Dublin: Merlin Publishing, 2001.

Dordan. 4th CD review:

http://www.folkmusic.net/htmfiles/webrevs/vndcd52.htm

Dordan CDs

http://www.amazon.com/Dordan/artist/B000APWD3M


Who were the Fins?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fianna

Cahill, Thomas. How the Irish Saved Civilization. Wilmington, N.C.: Anchor

Publishing, 1996.

Uris, Jill and Leon Uris. Ireland a Terrible Beauty. New York: Bantam

Books, 1982.


O’Connor, Sinéad. Universal Mother. CD Track #12

---. Sean Nós Nua – Track #7

http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,1726615,00.html
"Sean Nós in Donegal: In Search of a Definition."

http://www.mustrad.org.uk/articles/sean-nos.htm

O'Connor, Sinéad. Sean Nós Nua (Hummingbird Records, 2002)

http://www.greenmanreview.com/cd/cd_sean_nos_nua.html

Paludan, Marsha. Conversation with Rhiannin [Gibbon]with performance

of Sean Nόs songs.

ASP file,

http://web.uncg.edu/dcl/courses/globalArts/u5/IrishSinging.asp

From a Whisper to a Scream, DVD. Produced and directed by David

Heffernan. New York: Winstar TV & Video, 2001.

Paludan, Marsha. Interview with Scott Walker [fiddle player]. ASP file,

http://web.uncg.edu/dcl/courses/globalArts/u5/IrelandInterview.asp

Paludan, Marsha. Podcast #8


Blog assignments:

(1) Write your personal response to each of the Irish Fairytales for this

lesson’s reading.

2) What do the Irish fairytales tell you about the Irish view of space and

time?

3) Write your reaction to "From a Whisper to a Scream."

4) Write a fairy tale about how the Irish learned to sing.