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New Dances set to Tunes by Turlough O’Carolan

July 25, 2020 By allisonmthompson Leave a Comment

carolanWe interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to announce that 15 years ago (!) I compiled and edited a book of modern English country dances set to tunes by the blind Irish Harper, Turlough O’Carolan. Since then, the repertoire has expanded. One of my lockdown projects has been to publish the new ones online, and so I am happy to announce that 19 new English country dances (and one strathspey—I love the idea of having a modern Scottish dance set to a tune by an 18th century Irish composer on an ECD-oriented site!) are now available on my website:  check out the page titled “Carolan” Both dance instructions and sheet music are available. [Read more…]

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