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Olagón : a cantata in doublespeak

Title
Olagón : a cantata in doublespeak / Eighth Blackbird ; music by Dan Trueman, with Iarla Ó Lionáird ; text by Paul Muldoon.
Author
Trueman, Dan, 1968-
Publication
  • Chicago, IL : Cedille, [2017]
  • ℗2017

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Additional Authors
  • Ó Lionáird, Iarla
  • Ó Lionáird, Seán
  • Ó Lionáird, Peadar
  • Ó Lionáird, Páidí
  • McDonagh, Michaela
  • Gill, Laura (Singer)
  • Ní Mhiolláin, Treasa
  • Muldoon, Paul
  • Eighth Blackbird (Musical group), performer. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf
  • Gallicantus (Musical group), singer. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/sng
Description
2 audio discs (91 min., 09 sec. ) : CD audio, digital; 4 3/4 in.
Uniform Title
Táin bó Cúailnge.
Subject
  • Cantatas, Secular
  • Electronic music
Genre/Form
Cantatas.
Note
  • Cantata, based on the legendary Irish tale Taìin boì Cuìailnge.
  • Title from disc label.
  • Duration: 91:09.
  • Irish translations in Pillow talk by Iarla Ó Lionáird; English translations in Marbhan and Guaire by Paul Muldoon.
  • "World premiere recording"--Container.
  • Compact discs.
  • Program and biographical notes in English (13 pages), and text (19 pages) inserted in container.
Credits (note)
  • Producer, Jesse Lewis ; engineers, Bill Maylone (Chicago sessions), Andrés Villalta (Princeton University sessions), Dan Trueman (Galway sessions).
Language (note)
  • Macaronic text; sung in English and Irish.
Contents
Part I. Pillow talk (8:20) ; Introductions (7:22) ; Marbhan's shadow (3:28) ; Being only a dame (4:59) ; A queen bee (with Gallicantus, Seán Ó Lionáird, Peadar Ó Lionáird, Páidí Ó Lionáird, vocals) (6:30) -- Part II. Stirrings I (3:50) ; For eons and eons (2:08) ; Stirrings II (:57) ; Motet for Medhbh (with Gallicantus, vocals) (5:36) ; Níl aon ton-ton (2:24) ; Stirrings III (1:27) ; You know its a salmagundi (4:07) ; Stirrings IV (1:19) ; Marbhan and Guaire (Nathalie Joachim, vocals) (9:34) -- Part III. Pillow talk reprise (4:12) ; Restless rest (2:09) ; Ululations I (1:27) ; Zeus to my Demeter (1:41) ; Only on Medhbh (3:42) ; Ululations II (1:09) ; Reeling reels (with Michaela McDonagh, Laura Gill, vocals) (4:11) ; Ailíll (with Treasa Ní Mhiolláin, Michaela McDonagh, Laura Gill, vocals) (3:13) ; The book of lamentations (with Treasa Ní Mhiolláin, Michaela McDonagh, Laura Gill, vocals) (7:34).
LCCN
735131917421
OCLC
  • on1011631713
  • 1011631713
  • SCSB-14004825
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries