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Research article 9 - Betsy Baker by David Speers

30 Oct 2014

Histories and Mysteries 9 - the secret life of traditional music in the Isle of Man by David Speers
 
Betsy Baker
 
The tunes in the three manuscript music books that are part of the Clague Collection, held in the Manx Museum Archive, form the bulk of the traditional music recorded in the Isle of Man in the 1890’s and earlier. They have not been arranged or changed in any way and are the best record of how the music sounded when it was collected.
 
This is the ninth 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.
 
Read the full article here
 
 
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