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Harry Wood's Selection on Manx Airs - article by M Powell

19 Dec 2014


Harry Wood’s Selection on Manx National Melodies

Manx Airs by Harry Wood (1920) is essentially a skilfully composed medley of twenty-one well-loved Manx National Airs adapted, with three exceptions, from Manx National Songs, transposed into suitable keys, with an introduction, appropriate modulating linking passages between many of the melodies, and a stirring finale. 

Read the whole article by Maurice Powell here

 

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