“CELTIC MUSIC” PROJECT

A- Listen to this video and translate the lyrics.

  All souls night - Loreena McKennitt 

All souls night

Hogueras salpican las colinas ondulantes
figuras bailan alrededor
A tambores que xpulsan los ecos de la oscuridad
Moviendo a los sonidos paganos 

En algún lugar en una memoria oculta
Imágenes flotan ante mis ojos
de fragantes noches de paja y hogeras
Y bailando hasta el siguiente amanecer

Puedo ver las luces en la distancia
Temblando en la oscuridad (manto de la noche)
velas y faroles están bailando ,
bailando un vals en la noche de todas las almas.

(musica)

Figuras de tallos de maíz se doblan en las sombras

se mantienen altas como las llamas llegan alto.

El caballero verde sostiene el arbusto de acebo

 para marcar donde pasa el año viejo. 

Puedo ver las luces en la distancia
Temblando en la oscuridad (manto de la noche)
velas y faroles están bailando ,
bailando un vals en la noche de todas las almas.

(musica)

Hogueras salpican las colinas ondulantes
figuras bailan alrededor
A tambores que xpulsan los ecos de la oscuridad
Moviendo a los sonidos paganos 

De pie en el puente que cruza

 el río que sale al mar.

El viento está lleno de mil voces 

pasan entre el puente y yo.

 

 Puedo ver las luces en la distancia
Temblando en la oscuridad (manto de la noche)
velas y faroles están bailando ,
bailando un vals en la noche de todas las almas.


Puedo ver las luces en la distancia
Temblando en la oscuridad (manto de la noche)
velas y faroles están bailando ,
bailando un vals en la noche de todas las almas.


B- Who is Loreena McKennitt? (2 or 3 lines are enough). 




Loreena McKennitt is a singer and also a piano and harp player.She was born on the 17th of february of 1957 in Canadá.She has published approximately 10 disks.she has also wrote and singes the soundtrack for Tinker Bell And The Lost Treasure in 2009.

C- Is it just “Celtic” Music or there are another music influences? Which ones?


D- Who is Pamela Wyn Shannon? (2 or 3 lines are enough).
E- Where does she come from?
 

Pamela Wyn Shannon is a professional musician, fibre artist, puppeteer and animator.She was born in the United States.She has published two albums ( Courting Autumn and  Nature's Bride ).Her singing style is usually folk; as a singer,songwriter and guitarist she has published three DC's and performed throughout the world.


F- In your own words, try to express the feeling you get listening to this music (2 or 3 lines are enough). 


Pamela Wyn Shannon - Cold Blows The Wind
 

I feel like i´m in a little old village in the middle of a mountain, with a lot of trees, flowers and a lake.When i listen to this music i feel relaxed because of the melody and I also feel happy.I feel like i´m laying in a long field of grass looking to the sky and listening to a little river.

G- Do some research about the poem The Unquiet Grave which this song is based on, and answer these questions: what is the main topic of the song? Do you like the story? Why or why not? 

This poem is among the most beautiful "Child" ballads.

Constructed around a conversation between a young man and the ghost of his beloved.

The first two stanzas are spoken by the young man, at first, it seems he directly addresses the dead woman.

At first, the woman's death seems recent. But the pledged period of mourning ("a twelvemonth and a day") passes between stanzas two and three. 

The belief that graves become "unquiet", and the restless ghosts enact an angry or violent haunting because excessive grief prevents their leaving the earth, is an ancient one, far older than the poem.

I don't like much this poem , not because the lyrics, it is only that I prefer happy stories about  fairies and  things like that , I don't like dead people and graves...etc.

H- Where do they (Gwendal) come from?

Gwendal is a Breton and Celtic music instrumental group formed in 1972
From the first moment you can see that this group has a great multiplicity of influences,from traditional Irish music , to rock, jazz ...etc
The first album was published in 1974 with the name of "Irish Jig".

  I- Open your mind and let your imagination fly free!! : what does this music (Gwendal) transmit to you? (3 or 4 lines are enough). 

 

 
 

 It transmit happiness and energy.When i listen to it I feel like i am watching a lot of irish  dancers dancing on a town's square an there's a lot of musicians playing for them. the landscape that I imagine is a field full of flowers an people dancing around.

F- This is the song we are playing together (O Son do Ar).


Luar Na Lubre - O Son do Ar