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Leaving Cert Music: Collectors & preservation

How often Collectors & preservation comes up on the Music papers, every year it was asked, and questions to try.

HL Asked on 3 of the last 9 Higher Level papers, most recently in 2023.

Collectors & preservation, Higher Level(7 marks)

Quick ones on Collectors & preservation.

(a)Francis O'Neill, who published large collections of Irish tunes in the early 1900s, worked in Chicago as what?
  1. A radio producer
  2. A police chief
  3. A church organist
(b)Breandán Breathnach is known for which collection?
  1. The Dance Music of Ireland
  2. The Ancient Music of Ireland
  3. Ceol Rince na hÉireann
(c)Which collector notated the tunes at the 1792 Belfast Harp Festival?
  1. Edward Bunting
  2. George Petrie
  3. Francis O'Neill
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(a) A police chief

(b) Ceol Rince na hÉireann

(c) Edward Bunting

Your turn: Higher Level questions on Collectors & preservation.

Higher Level

Asked on 3 of the last 9 Higher Level papers, most recently in 2023.

Every paper, year by year

YearWhere it came up
2025Not asked
2024Not asked
2023Q5Biii
2022Not asked
2021Q5Bii
2019Not asked
2018Q5Biv
2017Not asked
2016Not asked

Links open the State Examinations Commission’s paper for that year.

More Collectors & preservation questions

Collectors & preservation, 2 marks

P. W. Joyce (1827-1914) is best known in music as what?

  1. A céilí band leader and fiddle player
  2. A harp maker and teacher in Belfast
  3. A collector of Irish folk tunes and songs
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A collector of Irish folk tunes and songs

Joyce, from Co. Limerick, wrote down tunes and songs he heard in his youth and published them, e.g. Old Irish Folk Music and Songs (1909).

Collectors & preservation, 3 marks

What is a common criticism of Edward Bunting's published collections?

  1. He only collected songs in English, ignoring Irish
  2. He arranged tunes for piano and changed some features
  3. He invented most of the tunes himself and claimed they were old
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He arranged tunes for piano and changed some features

Bunting set the harpers' tunes with piano accompaniments for drawing-room players, sometimes altering them. His field notebooks are closer to what he heard.

Collectors & preservation, 2 marks

Ciarán Mac Mathúna is remembered for what?

  1. Recording and broadcasting traditional music on radio
  2. Founding the Kilfenora Céilí Band in County Clare
  3. Designing the modern uilleann pipes and regulators
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Recording and broadcasting traditional music on radio

From the 1950s Mac Mathúna travelled Ireland recording musicians and singers for Radio Éireann and brought their music to listeners across the country.

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