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Research article no. 10 - Kiark Katreeney Marroo by David Speers

26 Nov 2014

Histories and Mysteries 10 - the secret life of traditional music in the Isle of Man
by David Speers
 
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. There are other records of the tunes collected by Dr John Clague, W H Gill, Deemster Fred Gill, and others, in music books that appear to be mostly copies of the collections.
 
One of the tunes in a copy owned by Deemster Gill is ‘Kiark Catreeney Marroo’.
 
This is the tenth in this 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.
 
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