The Ancient Music of Ireland Arranged for Piano offer a rare excursion into

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The Ancient Music of Ireland Arranged for Piano offer a rare excursion intoEdward Bunting (17731843), the first systematic collector of Irish folksongs, was educated as an organ and piano player in Belfast. His life's work fell upon him at nineteen years old, when he was commissioned as a scribe to notate performances at a gathering of traditional harp players in Belfast in July 1792. He was so inspired by the music that, aided by some of the harpers, he embarked immediately upon travels around northwest Ireland to collect