Vydáno dne 05.08.2006
Přečtete si článek o muži, který ‚zachránil keltskou hudbu‘, a doplňte 15 chybějících slov do textu.
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Familiar with the name “Francis O'Neill”? The current wave of
interest in Celtic music owes him a great debt – he's the person
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collected
and published the music for thousands of Celtic tunes, making
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available to
musicians all
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the world. O'Neill was born in 1848 in Ireland. When he was 16,
he
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to the United States.
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his life, he was a rancher, a teacher, a Chicago
policeman, and fathered ten children. He also
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the flute!
O'Neill (also known as “Chief O'Neill”) loved Celtic music. At that time, the music ___________________________(7) passed downtune at a time from one musician to ___________________________(8) .
O'Neill did not read music – he played ___________________________(9) ear – but he became convinced ___________________________(10) the value of saving Celtic tunes for prosperity by transcribing them into musical notation for ___________________________(11) generations. With the help of a fiddling sergeant in the Chicago police department who did read music, he managed to do so. He would play the tunes ___________________________(12) had learned ___________________________(13) other musicians; the sergeant would transcribe them into musical notation.
By the time O'Neill died in 1936, he ___________________________(14) collected and transcribed nearly 3,500 tunes – ___________________________(15) of them dating back hundreds and hundreds of years!
article written by Joey Robichaux
About the author:
Joey Robichaux rides the Road Warrior circuit and has been playing some musical
instrument for the past way-too-many years! He maintains the Free Sheet Music
Downloads website offering thousands of free sheet music downloads at www.freesheetmusic.net