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Olagón : a cantata in doublespeak

Title
  1. Olagón : a cantata in doublespeak / Eighth Blackbird ; music by Dan Trueman, with Iarla Ó Lionáird ; text by Paul Muldoon.
Published by
  1. Chicago, IL : Cedille, [2017]
  2. ℗2017
Author
  1. Trueman, Dan, 1968-

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Additional authors
  1. Ó Lionáird, Iarla
  2. Ó Lionáird, Seán
  3. Ó Lionáird, Peadar
  4. Ó Lionáird, Páidí
  5. McDonagh, Michaela
  6. Gill, Laura (Singer)
  7. Ní Mhiolláin, Treasa
  8. Muldoon, Paul
  9. Eighth Blackbird (Musical group), performer. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf
  10. Gallicantus (Musical group), singer. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/sng
Description
  1. 2 audio discs (91 min., 09 sec. ) : CD audio, digital; 4 3/4 in.
Uniform title
  1. Táin bó Cúailnge.
Subject
  1. Cantatas, Secular
  2. Electronic music
Genre/Form
  1. Cantatas.
Contents
  1. 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).
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Note
  1. Cantata, based on the legendary Irish tale Taìin boì Cuìailnge.
  2. Title from disc label.
  3. Duration: 91:09.
  4. Irish translations in Pillow talk by Iarla Ó Lionáird; English translations in Marbhan and Guaire by Paul Muldoon.
  5. "World premiere recording"--Container.
  6. Compact discs.
  7. Program and biographical notes in English (13 pages), and text (19 pages) inserted in container.
Credits (note)
  1. Producer, Jesse Lewis ; engineers, Bill Maylone (Chicago sessions), Andrés Villalta (Princeton University sessions), Dan Trueman (Galway sessions).
Language (note)
  1. Macaronic text; sung in English and Irish.