Who is the Workshop for? If you have ever wondered, n d World of th — what is it that makes Celtic Music so distinctive, spellbinding and enchanting? Sou e C — e what the aural equivalent is of the Book of Kells, with its extraordinary spiralic Celtic Knots? he Explore lt — what the early Celtic sacred music of St.Columba sounded like? T s then COME and SING YOUR HEART OUT on this weekend of UNFORGETTABLE MUSIC. the Uni que Sou ndscapes This workshop is appropriate for people with ALL levels of musical/vocal experience. Michael brings the message that everyone has a singer and a musician inside them and o f IRELAND, SCOTLAND & THE HEBRIDES looks forward to sharing his passion for singing Celtic Music with you. A BOOKSHOP OF RESOURCES will be for sale at the workshop, including Michael’s book of folk song arrangements,‘The Magic & Mysteries of Celtic Folk Songs’. Workshop Leader Michael Deason-Barrow Director of Tonalis Music Centre - runs inspirational courses all over the world connected to Choir Leading. He performed for a number of years in a folk/early music group called, ‘The Chanters of Taliesin’, regularly leads folk music in community choirs and specialises in creating distinctive arrangements of folk songs for choirs. This workshop is the culmination of 30 years research into Celtic Music, from: the mysteries of Irish folk singing (Sean Nós), to improvisatory Gaelic Psalm singing and the music of Scottish Travellers. Fees Early Bird Fees £75 (for booking by Aug. 1st) £80 (by Sept. 1st) £85 (thereafter) Couples, OAPs & Group Bookings (3+): £70/ £75/ £80 (see date deadlines above) from Saturday only fee: £45 (for booking by Aug. 1st) £50 (thereafter) Weave Spellbinding Times: Saturday 10:30am - 6pm, Sunday 10am - 5pm Early Celtic Chant, A Registration Letter incl. Travel directions will be sent on receipt of your application. Tapestries of Sound Mouth Music, Keening TONALIS, 4 Castle Farm Close, Leighterton, GLOS, GL8 8UY into Enchanting & Sean Nós Irish Airs to New Celtic Music Application Form - The Sound World of the Celts SONGS Please complete & send to the above address with your cheque payable to - ‘Tonalis’ or pay into the Tonalis account: Sort Code 08-92-50 , Account # 68684633. Led by Michael Deason-Barrow

Name: email: SEPT. 30th - OCT. 1st 2017 Address: Postcode: Tel: Mobile: VENUE - St.Clements Hall, Mousehole, CORNWALL Enquiries: Tel. 01666-890460 [email protected] www.tonalismusic.co.uk As a backdrop to this workshop The Sound World of the Celts Michael will introduce you to some of the key themes of Celtic peoples often say that the world is made out of music. CELTIC CONSCIOUSNESS And what a different kind of music it is! that Underlie this Beguiling Music. (Even the Gaelic word for music, ‘ceol’ - meaning ‘sounds like birds’ - suggests how unique it is.) You’ll find one element, in particular, characterises so much Celtic Art & Music - This ground-breaking workshop will vividly evoke for you METAMORPHOSIS. CELTIC SOUNDSCAPES Here one thing is literally transformed into another in an astonishingly fluid way. from the mountains and glens of Scotland, Vegetation, animals, birds and humans all intertwine in a SHAPE SHIFTING WORLD. to the Hebridean Islands & the Celtic Otherworld of Ireland. So come and enjoy singing Celtic melodies that are full of this incredible flexibility, On this workshop you’ll have the chance to sing and explore: with their slides, subtle inflections, ‘wandering pitches’ and elemental life forces. — EARLY CELTIC PLAINCHANT & the BALLADS OF THE BARDS The workshop will also tune into the way — NEW ARRANGEMENTS OF IRISH & SCOTTISH FOLK MUSIC CELTIC SPIRITUALITY by Michael Deason-Barrow perceives the natural world as divine and so dissolves any duality between heaven and earth. Thus in many of the songs you’ll sing you’ll hear this veneration of nature woven into them. — CONTEMPORARY SCOTTISH MUSIC by James MacMillan — the laments of IRISH KEENING & Ÿ the VISION SONGS known as AISLINGS. You’ll find it’s a workshop full of songs of enchantment. Explore the Distinctive Musical Elements Supernatural and spiritual dimensions abound, & Deep Roots of Celtic Soundscapes alongside mythic figures, shape-shifters and magical love songs. So much of this music is the aural equivalent of all the Celtic knotwork you see in illuminated bibles such as the ‘Book of the Kells’. This is a musical world that is overflowing You’ll sing the RISE and FALL of the SEA in a Hebridean waulking song and a carol. with life and ornamentation. This is a unique way of viewing the world - and a unique way of You’ll be invited into the unique world of Gaelic Psalm Singing where CELTIC KNOTS are making music - that developed away from the influence of Roman organisation. woven around a tune created by everyone improvising their own individual act of worship. So on this workshop we’ll explore together: There’ll be lots of joy as you sing the celebrated ‘MOUTH MUSIC’ of both Ireland and — how THE OPEN SPACES and ELEMENTAL LANDSCAPES of SCOTLAND and Scotland (which the locals say is all ‘hidderom hodderom’). IRELAND are evoked in the openness of ‘pentatonic’ and ‘hexatonic’ scales. — the ancient language of music the Celts used, called the ‘modes’, and how the harmonies are You’ll have the chance to live into the special world of CELTIC ORNAMENTATION frequently left open so the free kinetic life of the melody is not impeded. (e.g. the Scottish ‘Pibroch’ tradition) through singing: i) an extraordinary bird song called ‘Pillililiu’, and You’ll find the beguiling melodies you’ll sing have a matching SENSE OF SPACE with their ii) a song composed by Michael about sounding standing stones called ‘The Blind Fiddler’. extraordinary wide range and spacious intervals, from octaves, sevenths and sixths, to fifths. You’ll also have the opportunity to listen into: You’ll also have the chance to discover how CELTIC RHYTHMS are kinetic and often — the sound worlds of extraordinary CELTIC INSTRUMENTS like the ‘Carnyx’ - an free of the kind of measured time and fixed beats that characterise so much western music. elemental iron-age trumpet replete with a boar’s head and fiery red tongue. HERE TIME EXPANDS and CONTRACTS or evokes THE REALM OF ETERNITY. — NEW IMAGINATIONS of CELTIC CONSCIOUSNESS To get inside this special sound world in the music of contemporary composers. we’ll explore together the unique style of Irish folk singing called ‘SEAN NÓS’.