Exam 3 Listening Guide Ireland Planxty Colonel Irwin a harp piece composed by TURLOUGH O CAROLAN the last of the great Irish harpers A PLANXTY is a tune composed in honor of a respected person O Carolan composed some 200 pieces still in common repertoire Londonderry Air the original tune for Oh Danny Boy a NOSTALGIC song that represents the loss experienced by families fractured by emigration This version is performed by the violinist Fritz Kreisler accompanied by piano The PIANO is also representative of the immigration experience Danny Boy A sung version by the Irish punk singer Shane McGowan His band the Pogues combined traditional Irish sounds with punk The hybrid is sometimes called CELTIC ROCK Paddy Ryan s Dream Michael Coleman was the great virtuoso fiddler of the early 20th century He made 80 records in the 1920s and established the SLIGO STYLE among Irish American fiddlers Five Reels by the New York Ceili Band This is the BIG BAND IRISH SOUND of the 1940s Irish musicians had to compete with big swing bands so they combined drums bass accordions flutes and other instruments to make large powerful stage bands They often played in Irish Social Clubs in the Irish cities of NY Boston and Chicago How Are Things in Glockamorra A song from the 1950s Hollywood film Finian s Rainbow In the 1940s and 50s Hollywood filmmakers created MOVIE STEREOTYPES of the Irish leprechauns four leaf clovers rainbows and pots of gold became America s images of Ireland This song was reputed to be a favorite of America s first Irish Catholic president John Kennedy The Ronan Boys medley a medly of tunes played by the great CHICAGO IRISH fiddler Liz Carroll accompanied by Johnny Doyle an extraordinary left handed guitarist Liz is a former winner of THE ALL IRELAND FIDDLE CHAMPIONSHIP Reel Around The Sun Riverdance Riverdance is a PRESENTATIONAL display of Irish music and dance Professional dancing choreography costumes and music put together into a spectacular staged event by the Chicago Irish dancer Michael Flatley Riverdance won the Eurovision talent contest in the 1990s and became a worldwide sensation Unlike traditional Irish music this is not PARTICIPATORY Tessie Celtic rock song and theme song of the Boston Red Sox played by the celebrated Cuba Habanera from Carmen Carmen is an opera composed by the FRENCH composer Georges Bizet in 1875 It tells the story of a Spanish Gypsy woman but the music employs Cuban rhythms In the late 19th century Cuba was an extremely wealthy colony and Cuban culture captured the imagination of Europeans Las Alturas de Simpson this is a famous DANZON a Euro Cuban dance music style popular in Cuban high society at the end of the 19th C The instrumentation was European strings brass woodwinds but the underlying rhythm has influences of Afro Cuban music of the era Cuban music and culture is a complex syncretic blend of European mainly Spanish and West African mainly Yoruba influences Bat drumming this recording is from Nigeria where the bat DRUM TRIO is still an important everyday ensemble In Cuba the bat are primarily SACRED DRUMS used in SANTER A ceremonies The rhythms and sounds of the bat drums dictate the dancers movements and different bat drums correspond to different areas of the body Rhythms communicated through the large and medium drums relate to the shoulders and chest while rhythms communicated by the smallest drum signal dancers to move their waist hips and feet Guantanamera Guajira is an early 20th century Cuban country music style It emerged in the southeastern Ori nte region among Hispanic farmers in the late 19th century Features the tres and percussion as well as very poetic language sung in couplets There are competitions among guajiros musicians who play the style to outdo each other in improvising rhymes Guantanamera Girl from Guantanamo is perhaps the most internationally famous Cuban song It was originally composed by Jos Diaz in 1929 but is usually sung with lyrics by the Cuban nationalist hero and poet Jos Mart Yo soy un hombre sincero De donde crece la palma Y antes de morime quiero Echar mis versos del alma Mi verso es de una verde claro Y de un carm n encendido Mi verso es un ciervo herido Que busca en el monte amparo Qultivo la rosa blanca En junio como en enero Para el amigo sincero Que me da su mano franca Con los pobres de la tierra Quiero yo mi suerte echar Con los pobres de la tierra Quiero yo mi suerte echar El arroyo de la sierra Me complace mas que el mar I am a sincere man From where the palm tree grows And before dying I want To let out the verses of my soul My verse is light green And it is flaming red My verse is a wounded stag Who seeks refuge on the mountain I grow a white rose In July just as in January For the honest friend Who gives me his open hand With the poor people of the earth I want to cast my lot The brook of the mountains Gives me more pleasure than the sea Rumba A performance by the touring group Los Mu akitos De Matanzas Rumba is an Afro Cuban street dance style that emerged in Havana around 1900 it is performed with VOCALS AND PERCUSSION including three congas and a pair of clav s Rumba is the grandparent of modern Cuban dance music Listen for the characteristic rhythm of the clav and the shift between the canto sung in Spanish and the intensified call and response montuno section 3 part form Diana canto and most important montuno Qu Bonito Es Ignacio Pi eiro and His Septeto Nacional In the late 1920s and early 30s the SEPTETO became the standard six piece Cuban popular son band Sextetos had included bongos clav tres bass guitar and maracas Under the influence of jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong the SEPTETOS added TRUMPET Listen for the repeating three note bass line intersecting with the clave beat Listen to the trumpet Para Bailar El Montuno Arsenio Rodriguez and his conjunto group In the 1940s a blind tres player from Havana revolutionized Cuban son by 1 doubling the trumpets 2 adding piano 3 emphasizing CONGA drums 4 emphasizing the MONTUNO 5 electrifying the guitar El Congo Celia Cruz The 1950s were a golden age for Cuban music Cuban was controlled by a corrupt government that catered to the wealthy and money drugs alcohol prostitution and the Mafia dominated Havana culture What was bad for ordinary Cubans could be good for musicians though Bandleaders were well paid musicians were professionalized and played on lavish hotel stages Celia Cruz was one of the best unusual for her talent and for being a