Forde Collection - Irish Traditional Music from William Forde Manuscripts
The Forde Collection - Irish Traditional Music from the William Forde Manuscripts
It is an understatement to say that for those of us with personal and professional interest in this material this volume has been ‘long awaited’ -Martin Dowling, The Journal of Music
A beautiful hardback collection of 922 pieces of pre-Famine Irish traditional music noted in the 1840s by the Cork classical musician William Forde. With essays on the collector and the editorial procedures of the edition, appendices and indexes.
William Forde (1797–1850), a native of Cork city, divided his professional life between Cork and London. As a performer he specialised in concert flute and piano, and he was also a composer and arranger, a promoter and musical director of concerts and festivals, a