Scoil na gCláirseach
SUMMER SCHOOL OF EARLY IRISH HARP

TIMETABLE OF EVENTS

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Wednesday 18th August 2010

2.00-4.00pm

Beginners’ Introduction - Ann Heymann
An orientation session for any students new to the early Irish harp

4.30-5.30pm

Student Registration

5.45-6.45pm

Class introduction and orientation session

7.00-8.00pm

Official opening of Scoil na gCláirseach 2010

Thursday 19th August

9.30-10.45am

Class Tuition
10.45-11.15am Morning coffee

11.15am-12.30

Class Tuition

12.30-1.45pm

Lunch

1.45-2.45pm

Workshop 1
Neal & Carrolini classes
 Siobhán Armstrong
An introduction to 18th century music manuscripts:
With particular reference to Bunting MS 29, Edward Bunting’s notebook at the 1792 harpers’ meeting in Belfast

Workshop 2
Bocchi class
Andrew Lawrence-King
“The Grand Secret”: in search of 18th century Irish harp technique

2.45-3.15pm Afternoon tea
3.15-3.45pm Practice time in class groups

3.45-4.15pm

Tutor Concert - Ann Heymann

4.15-5.15pm

Talk -  Siobhán Armstrong
An Introduction to the Early Irish Harp Tradition
Its history and cultural background.

5.15-5.30pm

Short tea break
5.30-6.15pm Masterclass 1 Masterclass 2

8.00-9.30pm

Informal student platform

Friday 20th August

9.30-10.45am

Class Tuition
10.45-11.15 Morning coffee

11.15-12.30

Class Tuition
12.30-1.45 Lunch

1.45-2.45pm

Workshop 1
Neal & Carrolini classes
Andrew Lawrence-King
Mary Maguire’s Notebook: Minuets Step by Step 

Workshop 2
Bocchi class
Ann Heymann
Binary Music Systems and Stirling Head 20

2.45-3.15pm Afternoon tea
3.15-3.45pm Practice time in class groups
3.45-4.30pm Masterclass 1 Masterclass 2

4.30-5.40pm

Illustrated Lecture - Nicholas Carolan
with Siobhán Armstrong
‘A Collection of the Most Celebrated Irish Tunes’
John & William Neal, Dublin 1724: The earliest Irish publication of Irish music.

5.40-6.15pm

Q & A session with Seán Donnelly
Scoil na gCláirseach’s scholar-in-residence 

Saturday 21st August

10.30am-6pm

All Day Exhibition of Historical Harp Makers

9.30-10.45am

Class Tuition
10.45-11.15 Morning coffee

11.15-12.30

Class Tuition
12.30-1.45 Lunch

1.45-2.45pm

Workshop 1
Neal & Carrolini classes
Ann Heymann
Bunting's Irish Harp Techniques: in Theory & Practice
Workshop 2
Bocchi class
Andrew Lawrence-King
“The True Art”: 18th century style and aesthetics
2.45-3.15pm Afternoon tea
3.15-3.45pm Practice time in group classes

3.45-4.30pm

Masterclass 1 Masterclass 2

4.30-5.30pm

Talk - Simon Chadwick
Styles & Genres; Patrons & Fashions:
A look at early Irish harp repertory, those who played it and the people who listened.

8.30pm

Public Concert
Irish and Baroque music from 18th century Dublin
‘The Most Celebrated Irish Tunes’:
Haunting Airs of the Old Harpers and Exquisite Arias by Mr. Handel
Ann Heymann, Andrew Lawrence-King and Siobhán Armstrong  Early Irish harps and Italian baroque harp
John Elwes Tenor
St. Patrick’s Church, College Rd, Kilkenny

Sunday 22nd August

9.15-9.30am

Group photograph with all students and staff

9.30-10.45am

Class Tuition
10.45-11.15am Morning coffee

11.15am-12.30

Class Tuition

12.30-1.45pm

Lunch

1.45-2.45pm

Workshop - Siobhán Armstrong
Learning to sing a song in Irish from the early Irish harpers’ repertory
 ‘Molly Halfpenny’ by William Connellan
From Neal’s A Collection of the Most Celebrated Irish Tunes, Dublin 1724
2.45-3.15pm Afternoon tea
3.15-3.45pm Practice time in group classes

3.45-4.30pm

Masterclass 1 Masterclass 2

4.30-5.00pm

Tutor concert - Andrew Lawrence-King

5.00-5.30pm

Lecture - Mary O'Donnell
John Egan: Inventor and Innovator

5.30-6.00pm

Lecture - Karen Loomis
A new look at two ancient harps: the Lamont and Queen Mary give up their secrets.
Images and results revealed for the first time at Scoil na gCláirseach

6.00-6.15pm

Questions and discussion

Monday 23rd August

9.30-10.45am

Class Tuition
10.45-11.15am Morning coffee

11.15am-12.30

Class Tuition

12.30-1.45pm

Lunch

1.45-2.45pm

Workshop 1
Neal & Carrolini classes
Ann Heymann
Exercises on 1s & 0s using Stirling Head 20

Workshop 2
Bocchi class
Siobhán Armstrong 
‘faithfully Corrected by the best Masters here’
Editorial intervention in Neal’s A Collection of the Most Celebrated Irish Tunes, Dublin 1724: issues of pulse, metre, structure, mode and phrasing.

2.45-3.15pm Afternoon tea
3.15-3.45pm Practice time in class groups
3.45-4.30pm Talk - Simon Chadwick
Instruments, Replicas and Terminology

4.30-5.00pm

Discussion - Simon Chadwick
What are we doing and why?
A discussion of issues relating to historical music and modern performance

5.00pm

Closing Reception & Student Platform

Tuesday 24th August

Optional Field Trip to Dublin
(times are approximate)

8.00am

Dep. Kilkenny School of Music for Dublin

10.30-11.30am

Trinity College Dublin:
 • Trinity College harp
 • Otway harp

12.00-1.00pm

National Museum of Ireland, Kildare St:
 • Ballinderry harp fragments
 • Breac Maedóic
 • Fiacail Phádraig
 • early Irish treasures

Lunch break (at Collins Barracks)

2.00-3.00pm

National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks:
 • Kildare harp
 • Mullagh Mast harp
 • Sirr harp
 • “Carolan” (Rose Mooney’s) harp
 • Hollybrook harp
 • Cloyne harp fragments
 • Cloyne reconstruction

3.30-4.30pm

Guinness Storehouse Museum:
 • Denis O’Hampsey’s Downhill harp

4.30pm

Dep. to Kilkenny School of Music for anyone returning to Kilkenny arr. c. 7.00pm

Please note that this timetable is provisional and is subject to change. Updated 15th August 2010.

Previous years’ timetables are archived here:
2009 - 2008 - 2007 - 2006 - 2005 - 2004 - 2003

Supported by Kilkenny County Council   Supported by the Arts Council