{"id":506,"date":"2015-10-06T14:06:16","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T13:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/singing-6\/"},"modified":"2016-01-25T14:53:48","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T14:53:48","slug":"singing-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/singing-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Singing (6)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"t:seinnteoirin1\">Play recording: Singing (6)<\/h2>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-506-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/singing-6.mp3?_=1\" \/><source type=\"audio\/ogg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/singing-6.ogg?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/singing-6.mp3\">https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/singing-6.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<div class=\"dmeite\">\n<p><span id=\"neasc-nocht-ceilth\" class=\"nmeite\">view \/ hide recording details [+\/-]<\/span><\/p>\n<ul id=\"clarMeiteashonrai\" class=\"meiteashonrai\">\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Teideal <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Title)<\/span>:<\/span> Singing (6).<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Chatal\u00f3ige Ollscoil Washington <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(University of Washington Catalogue Number)<\/span>:<\/span> 781510.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Chnuasach Bh\u00e9aloideas \u00c9ireann <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(National Folklore of Ireland Number)<\/span>:<\/span> none.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Roud <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Roud Number)<\/span>:<\/span> none.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Laws <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Laws Number)<\/span>:<\/span> none.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Child <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Child Number)<\/span>:<\/span> none.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Cnuasach <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Collection)<\/span>:<\/span> Joe Heaney Collection, University of Washington, Seattle.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Teanga na Cro\u00edmh\u00edre <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Core-Item Language)<\/span>:<\/span> English.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Catag\u00f3ir <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Category)<\/span>:<\/span> singing style.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Ainm an t\u00e9 a thug <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Name of Informant)<\/span>:<\/span> Joe Heaney.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Ainm an t\u00e9 a th\u00f3g <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Name of Collector)<\/span>:<\/span> unavailable.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">D\u00e1ta an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Date)<\/span>:<\/span> 28\/02\/1978.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Su\u00edomh an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Location)<\/span>:<\/span> University of Washington, United States of America.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Oc\u00e1id an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Occasion)<\/span>:<\/span> lecture\/demonstration.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Daoine eile a bh\u00ed i l\u00e1thair <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Others present)<\/span>:<\/span> Mike Seeger.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">St\u00e1das ch\u00f3ipcheart an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording copyright status)<\/span>:<\/span> unavailable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Ornamentation and &#8216;Pulse&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p>A questioner asks about the &#8216;shading notes&#8217;. Joe then talks about &#8216;pulse&#8217; and &#8216;saying a song&#8217; &#8211; telling a story in the song. Mike Seeger tries to help bring the questioner and Joe together with a few follow-up questions. Finally someone asks Joe to sing an example of an unornamented stanza and then an ornamented one. In response, Joe tries to sing a stanza of &#8216;The Rocks of Bawn&#8217; without ornamentation, and then with ornamentation, to demonstrate what the addition of ornamentation adds in depth of feeling.<\/p>\n<p>In the first, &#8216;you&#8217;re in a hurry to go somewhere; and in the other one you&#8217;re playing the act-you&#8217;re working exactly what Sweeney was doing, you&#8217;re going through the same thing he was going through before the song was ever made. You have the picture before you of the man going through this agony; and if he stops for one minute, somebody else will get his job. And that&#8217;s exactly the picture you must follow when you&#8217;re singing an old song, especially if it&#8217;s a sad one&hellip; You&#8217;ve got to have the picture before you, and you&#8217;ll do the song properly then.<\/p>\n<p>With regard to &#8216;pulse&#8217;, a questioner observes that in some of Joe&#8217;s songs there&#8217;s a good deal of variability in tempo. Sometimes he will sing a verse, where there seems to be a pulse; then he&#8217;ll come to a section with nonsense syllables, where things will speed up; and then the whole thing will come to a stop<sup class=\"tagairt-n\u00f3ta-bun-leathanaigh\">1<\/sup>. Joe responds with two things he&#8217;s said many times: (1) you should start slowly, build up to a climax, and then go back down again towards the end; and (2) the story about the lilting composition. In other words, he doesn&#8217;t answer the question at all.<\/p>\n<div class=\"n\u00f3ta\u00ed-bun-leathanaigh\">\n<h2 id=\"t:notai\">Notes<\/h2>\n<p class=\"n\u00f3ta-bun-leathanaigh\">1. The question of &#8216;pulse&#8217; is easily confused with &#8216;beat&#8217;, as this question makes clear. What Joe means by &#8216;pulse&#8217; is probably something like &#8216;impulse&#8217; or &#8216;energy&#8217; or &#8216;forward motion.<\/p>\n<p>This was recorded when Joe Heaney was Artist-in-Residence at the University of Washington.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"templates\/template-full-width.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stil-amhranaiochta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1634,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions\/1634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}