Digitisation project
Fleischmann scores on the internet
During the Fleischmann centenary year, the composer’s works will be made available on the internet.
Cork City Library has organised the scanning of all the Fleischmann manuscript scores –scores in his own hand or transcribed by his copyists – and is placing them on the Fleischmann website in pdf format.
New digital editions of Fleischmann’s works are being created. Cork City Council funded the digital typesetting of five Fleischmann compositions due for performance the scores or orchestral parts of which were in poor condition.
Digital files of scores are essential for performances, being much easier to read than the manuscripts. Expertise in music and in typesetting is required for the creation of these files; the process requires much time, skill and care; commissioning such work is therefore expensive. 22 musicians have volunteered their skills and to date (December 2009) 33 of Fleischmann’s 55 works either have been or are being digitally typeset. 22 works remain to be done.
Compositions for orchestra alone
Digitisation needed:
• An Cóitín Dearg: Ballet in Three Acts (30 min)
• The Táin, Ballet in Three Acts
• Macha Ruadh: Ballet in Two Scenes (20 min)
• Song for a Festive Occasion, with audience participation, text O’Shaughnessy (6 m)
• Tableau for An Tóstal (7 min)
Digitisation in progress:
• An Cóitín Dearg Ballet Suite in 8 Movements
by Ita McMahon
• Sinfonia Votiva
by Elaine Campbell
Digital file available:
• Prelude and Dance
by Sarah Burn
• The Four Masters by Fergus O’Carroll
• The Humours of Carolan Suite for String Orchestra
by Sarah Burn
Compositions for orchestra with soloist
Digitisation needed:
• Song Cycle from ‘Tides’, mezzo soprano, text John Montague
• Song Cycle from ‘The Fountain of Magic,‘ high voice, text Frank O’Connor 12 min
• Ómós don Phiarsach (Homage to Pearse), mezzo-soprano, speaker, text Pearse
• Four Old Italian Songs, arrangements for mezzo soprano (Scarlatti, Pergolesi, Paisiello)
14 min
Digitisation in progress:
• Cornucopia - Prelude and Rondo for horn (10 min)
by Emma O'Halloran for Geoffrey Spratt
• Tri hAmhráin (Three Songs) high voice, text Carolan (11 min)
by Anne-Marie Higgins
Compositions for orchestra with choir
Digitisation urgently needed for performance:
• Time’s Offspring, Cantata with speaker, text Bishop Berkeley
Digitisation needed:
• Clonmacnoise, SATB with audience participation, text Frank O’Connor (15 min)
• Magnificat for Knock, SATB, text liturgical English (4 min)
• Mass for Peace for unison choir and orchestra, Latin liturgical text
Digitisation in progress:
• Song of the Provinces, SATB with audience participation, text Mangan (14 min)
by Patrick Killeen
• Festival Song, SATB, text John Montague (5 min)
by Dick Shanahan
• Songs of Colmcille, SATB with speaker, text Robert Farren
by Ita McMahon
• Song for a Festive Occasion, orchestra with audience participation (5 min)
text O'Shaugnessy 'We are the Music Makers' (Written for the 50th anniversary of the Cork
Symphony Orchestra)
Digital file available:
• The Golden Bell of Ko, Ballet in Three Scenes
by Sarah Burn
• The Planting Stick for Irish dance group, SATB choir, string ensemble, harp, flute,
percussion
by Alan Cutts
• Clare’s Dragoons with Warpipes, orchestra, SATB choir. baritone, war pipes,
text Thomas Davis
by Aidan O'Carroll
Compositions for chamber recital
Digitisation needed:
• Movement for String Quartet
• The Fool, medium voice and piano, text Pádraig Mac Piarais (5 min)
• Suite for Piano
Digitisation in progress:
• Piano Quintet by Allin Gray
• Songs of Affection Five Irish Folk Songs arranged for medium voice and piano/harp
by David Wallace
• Toccata and Nochtraí for Carillon
by Aidan O’Carroll
• Trí hAmhráin for high voice and piano
by Ciarán McManus
Digital file available:
• An Cóitín Dearg for Irish harp
by David Wallace
• Ballinderry for Irish harp
by David Wallace
• Cornucopia Prelude and Rondo for horn and piano (10 min)
by Trudy Fahy, Frances and Eoin Jermyn, and Sam Perkins
• Four Fanfares for An Tóstal
by Brendan Power
• Song Cycle from ‘Tides’, mezzo soprano, text John Montague
by Aylish Kerrigan and Aidan O’Carroll
• The Poet’s Circuits for soprano and Irish harp
by David Wallace
• Song Cycle from ‘The Fountain of Magic’, high voice, piano,
text Frank O’Connor (10 min)
by Dick Shanahan
Compositions for choir without orchestra
Digitisation urgently needed for performance:
• Hymns and Magnificats for Knock, SATB choir, unison choir and piano / organ,
texts by Tom Hamill, Michael Hodgetts and English liturgical texts (14 min)
• Poet in the Suburbs, SATB choir, text Thomas Kinsella (6 min)
• Games, SATB choir, harp and percussion, text Vasko Popa (16 min)
Digitisation needed:
• Two Antiphons for unison choir and organ (5 min)
• Where Finbarr Taught, SATB choir and piano, text J.J. Horgan
Digitisation in progress:
• Mass for juvenile or female SSA choir and organ, English liturgical text
by Allin Gray
• Six Folk Song Arrangements SSA/TTB choir (16 min)
by Jean Downey and Mark Keane
• Na Trí Captaení Loinge (The Three Sea Captains) Choral Dance Suite, SATB, text Pilib Ó
Laoghaire and Diarmuid O’Driscoll (15 min)
by Anne Grennan
• Mass for Peace, Unison voices and organ
by Allin Gray
Digital file available:
• Cathal Mór of the Wine-Red Hand, SATB choir, piano, text Mangan (6 min)
by Dick Shanahan
• Confirma hoc Deus, motet for SATB choir with organ, Latin liturgical text
edited by Séamas de Barra
• Confirma hoc Deus, motet for SATB choir, Latin liturgical text
edited by Séamas de Barra
• Illumina Occulos Meos, motet for SATB choir, Latin liturgical text
by Aidan O'Carroll
Work for Fleischmann’s parents
Aloys Fleischmann senior
Digitisation in progress:
• 8 part songs for male-voice choir
by Mary O'Brien
Digital file available:
• Nativity Play: The Night of Wonders (Nacht der Wunder)
by Liz O'Connor
Liz O'Connor - Typesetting and Music Engraving Service (PDF)
• Das Schifflein by Fleischmann senior TTBB: song of farewell written before the internees’
release from the Isle of Man POW Camp, January 1919, text Eduard Mörike
by Allin Gray
• Tower music: arrangement of six old carols for wind ensemble
by Aidan O'Carroll
• St FinBarr’s Mass
by Allin Gray
• Vier Geistliche Gesänge by Fleischmann senior SATB, text Eduard Mörike
by Allin Gray
Tilly Fleischmann
Typesetting of the ca. 600 short piano illustrations (Chopin, Liszt et al) in Tilly Fleischmann’s book:
Tradition and Craft in Piano Playing:
to be published as a multi-media book (with the illustrations played by Patrick Zuk and the playing filmed) in the Bavarian State Library’s online publication series.
The project co-ordinator is Aidan O'Carroll at kerrymusicschool@eircom.net
Please contact: ruth.fleischmann@uni-bielefeld.de
annefleischmann@eircom.net
maevefleischmann@eircom.net