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Research Article 4 by David Speers - Thurot

29 Apr 2014

Histories and Mysteries – the secret life of traditional music in the Isle of Man by David Speers

This is the fourth in a series of articles that sets out to explore some of the links between the traditional music collected in the Isle of Man and that found in Ireland and Britain, to discover some of the hidden histories behind our traditional music, and to show that the Island has produced beautiful music to match any found elsewhere.

The full article can be read here

THUROT

The manuscript music books contain a group of six tunes, three of which are shown above, that have the title Thurot, a French naval officer and sometime smuggler. Two of these tunes are in a fourth manuscript music book in the Clague collection. Although the major part of the traditional music collection is in the three books looked at so far, there is a fourth book mainly containing 2 arrangements of collected tunes. However, it also contains some tunes in “fair copy” (those noted from informants and copied out, or inked over, in a neat hand).

 

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