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100 òran le Rob Donn MacAoidh = 100 songs of Rob Donn Mackay

Beard, Ellen L. [ed.], 100 òran le Rob Donn MacAoidh = 100 songs of Rob Donn Mackay, Isle of Skye: Taigh na Teud Music Publishers, 2018.  

abstract:

This is a songbook for both singers and scholars, intended to serve as a resource for anyone interested in eighteenth-century Gaelic song, including singers, music teachers and Mòd participants, professional historians and Gaelic scholars, heritage groups and libraries, current residents of the Highlands, and members of the Scottish diaspora.

The composer of these songs (words and often music) was Rob Donn MacAoidh (Robert MacKay), an oral poet and songmaker who lived from 1714 to 1778 in northwest Sutherland. He was a prolific bard who left over 220 poems and songs, published in Gaelic in the nineteenth century but most never previously translated into English or published in full with their musical settings.

This volume, based on research undertaken for a PhD in Celtic at the University of Edinburgh by Dr Ellen Beard, includes all the songs for which music could be located, with complete texts and translations, footnotes on sources, and suggestions for further reading. Its publication coincides with the opening of the Rob Donn Trail, a community heritage project in MacKay Country.

abstract:

This is a songbook for both singers and scholars, intended to serve as a resource for anyone interested in eighteenth-century Gaelic song, including singers, music teachers and Mòd participants, professional historians and Gaelic scholars, heritage groups and libraries, current residents of the Highlands, and members of the Scottish diaspora.

The composer of these songs (words and often music) was Rob Donn MacAoidh (Robert MacKay), an oral poet and songmaker who lived from 1714 to 1778 in northwest Sutherland. He was a prolific bard who left over 220 poems and songs, published in Gaelic in the nineteenth century but most never previously translated into English or published in full with their musical settings.

This volume, based on research undertaken for a PhD in Celtic at the University of Edinburgh by Dr Ellen Beard, includes all the songs for which music could be located, with complete texts and translations, footnotes on sources, and suggestions for further reading. Its publication coincides with the opening of the Rob Donn Trail, a community heritage project in MacKay Country.