FILM Archives — Terre Celtiche Blog

Prima di tutto un grazie a Julie Fowlis che ha riesumato questo vecchio canto dagli archivi (polverosi anche…

FILM, FOLK BALLAD/Ballate popolari, Musica irlandese/ Irish music

Well below the Valley (The Maid and the Palmer)

Cattia Salto 8 Aprile 20209 Aprile 2020

Leggi in italiano Child #21The Maid and the Palmer The Well Below the Valley “The Maid and the…

FILM, MUSICA CELTICA/ Celtic music, Musica scozzese/ Scottish music, STORIA IRLANDESE/ Irish history

The Wind that Shakes the Barley

Cattia Salto 20 Febbraio 202020 Febbraio 2020

Leggi in italiano The phrase “The Wind that Shakes the Barley” can cause some confusion as it has…

FILM, gaelico irlandese/ Irish Gaelic, MITI/Mythology, MUSICA CELTICA/ Celtic music, Musica irlandese/ Irish music

The Secret of Roan Inish

Cattia Salto 11 Luglio 201931 Agosto 2019

Cinematic transposition of the novel “Secret of the Ron Mor Skerry” by Rosalie K. Fry (1959) it tells…

FILM, FOLK BALLAD/Ballate popolari, FOLK INGLESE/English Folk, FOLK-ROCK

Tam Lin Movie 1972

Cattia Salto 10 Marzo 201911 Marzo 2019

Amazing movie by Roddy McDowall who in 1960's decided to make a modern interpretation of Ballade of Tam…

FILM, FOLK BALLAD/Ballate popolari, FOLK INGLESE/English Folk, MITI/Mythology, MUSICA CELTICA/ Celtic music

“What women really want” /“King Henry”

Cattia Salto 2 Marzo 20193 Marzo 2019

This ballad to ask the question and give the answer, however, recalls the language of the fairy tale…

FILM, Gaelico scozzese/ SCOTTISH GAELIC, MUSICA CELTICA/ Celtic music, Musica scozzese/ Scottish music

Tha Mo Ghaol Air Àird A’ Chuain vs Jamie’s on the stormy sea

Cattia Salto 9 Febbraio 20199 Febbraio 2019

We find ourselves in the umpteenth case of similarity between Gaelic song and English song in which (wrongly)…

FILM, MITI/Mythology, MUSICA CELTICA/ Celtic music

Amhrán Na Farraige (Song of the Sea)

Cattia Salto 21 Gennaio 201921 Giugno 2019

"Song of the Sea" (La canzone del Mare) è un film d'animazione del regista irlandese Tomm Moore uscito…

CHRISTMAS TIME/Natale, FILM, MUSICA CELTICA/ Celtic music, Musica scozzese/ Scottish music, Usanze e tradizioni/ Folklore

Auld Lang Syne: melodies in search of an author

Cattia Salto 28 Dicembre 201816 Gennaio 2019

This is an old song that Robert Burns says he heard from an elderly singer. The song includes…

FILM, Gaelico scozzese/ SCOTTISH GAELIC, MUSICA CELTICA/ Celtic music

Bidh clann Ulaidh versus Song of the Exile (We will go home)

Cattia Salto 4 Novembre 20189 Novembre 2018

Bidh clann Ulaidh (in English "The Clan of Ulster") is a lullaby from the Hebrides, where the mother…

FILM, FOLK BALLAD/Ballate popolari, MITI/Mythology, MUSICA CELTICA/ Celtic music

Belle Dame sans Merci, by John Keats in music and film

Cattia Salto 7 Ottobre 201826 Marzo 2019

In 1819 the English poet John Keats reworked the figure of the "Queen of Faerie" of Scottish ballads…

FILM, FOLK AMERICANO/ American Folk, FOLK BALLAD/Ballate popolari, FOLK INGLESE/English Folk

Hanging Johnny : hang, boys, hang

Cattia Salto 19 Agosto 20185 Settembre 2018

"Hanging Johnny" is an halyard shanty in which we talk about the hangman who hangs all those who…

Celtic Canada, FILM

Row me bullies boys row (Alan Doyle)

Cattia Salto 10 Luglio 201827 Luglio 2018

The most recent version of this popular sea shanty comes from the movie "Robin Hood Prince of Thieves"…

FILM, FOLK AMERICANO/ American Folk, FOLK INGLESE/English Folk

Row, bullies, row Liverpool Judies to Frisco

Cattia Salto 10 Luglio 201825 Luglio 2018

"Liverpool Judies" is a popular sea shanty which is divided into two main versions: one in which our…

Celtic Canada, FILM, LIBRI/Book

Banks of Newfoundland: an offshore bank fishery

Cattia Salto 2 Luglio 201810 Luglio 2018

"The Banks of Newfoundland" collected by Kenneth Peacock in 1952 from James (Jim) Rice [1879-1958] of Cape Broyle,…

Celtic Canada, FILM, LIBRI/Book

Banks of Newfoundland: once more we must away

Cattia Salto 2 Luglio 20186 Luglio 2018

La canzone "The Banks of Newfoundland" raccolta da Kenneth Peacock nel 1952 da James (Jim) Rice [1879-1958] di…

FILM, Gaelico scozzese/ SCOTTISH GAELIC, LIBRI/Book, TURISMO IN SCOZIA/ Scotland travelling

Outlander book: giving a new wife a fish

Cattia Salto 19 Giugno 201812 Giugno 2019

A fragment of a poem in Scottish Gaelic dating from at least to the eighteenth century from "Carmina…

FILM, Gaelico scozzese/ SCOTTISH GAELIC, LIBRI/Book, TURISMO IN SCOZIA/ Scotland travelling

Outlander: i regali dello sposo

Cattia Salto 19 Giugno 201819 Giugno 2018

Un frammento di una poesia in gaelico scozzese risalente quantomeno al Settecento da "Carmina Gadelica" di Carmichael diventa…

FILM, FOLK AMERICANO/ American Folk, FOLK INGLESE/English Folk

Heave away, my Johnny sea shanty

Cattia Salto 15 Giugno 201830 Giugno 2018

The second sea shanty sung by A.L. Lloyd in the film Moby Dick, shot by John Huston in…

FILM, FOLK AMERICANO/ American Folk, FOLK INGLESE/English Folk, LIBRI/Book

Blood Red Roses, a whale shanty

Cattia Salto 14 Giugno 201825 Giugno 2018

To introduce two new sea shanties in the archive of Terre Celtiche blog I start from Moby Dick…

Categoria: FILM

Dh’èirich mi moch madainn cheòthar

Well below the Valley (The Maid and the Palmer)

The Wind that Shakes the Barley

The Secret of Roan Inish

Tam Lin Movie 1972

“What women really want” /“King Henry”

Tha Mo Ghaol Air Àird A’ Chuain vs Jamie’s on the stormy sea

Amhrán Na Farraige (Song of the Sea)

Auld Lang Syne: melodies in search of an author

Bidh clann Ulaidh versus Song of the Exile (We will go home)

Belle Dame sans Merci, by John Keats in music and film

Hanging Johnny : hang, boys, hang

Row me bullies boys row (Alan Doyle)

Row, bullies, row Liverpool Judies to Frisco

Banks of Newfoundland: an offshore bank fishery

Banks of Newfoundland: once more we must away

Outlander book: giving a new wife a fish

Outlander: i regali dello sposo

Heave away, my Johnny sea shanty

Blood Red Roses, a whale shanty

The Laily Worm and the Machrel of the Sea, Child #36

Kemp Owyne, Child N° 34

Three Tests of Chastity: The Boy and the Mantle Child n° 29

Son David, Child ballad #13A

Willie's Lyke-Wake, Child n° 25

Bonnie Annie

Bonnie Annie -Banks of Green Willow, Child n° 24

The Fair Flower of Northumberland -Child #9

Gil Brenton n° 5: La certezza della stirpe

The Fause Knight Upon the Road (Child #3)