lyrics and pronunciation guide needed!

Subject: lyrics and pronunciation guide needed!
From: GUEST,Troy Banarzi
Date: 11 Jul 01 - 01:55 PM

Hi all - I wonder if anyone could help me out.

I'm a composer specialising in world fusion music. I am currently working on a track that needs some simple Gaelic lyrics. This is an area that I am totally unfamiliar with. Ideally I'd like to use an excerpt from an old text, which means that I need to know where to look for texts that are traditional and out of copyright.

Secondly I need to know who to pronounce the words correctly. Are there any sites that contain downloadable recordings, or recordings I can buy, or is there a site or perhaps a book that I can get the pronunciation from?

Thanking you for your time,

Troy Banarzi

Subject: RE: lyrics and pronunciation guide needed!
From:
Date: 11 Jul 01 - 05:38 PM

There are a number of Gaelic recordings out there. You can probably pick something from one of those.

Without knowing more about what you are looking for, it's difficult to give you some lines of Gaelic.

Are you looking for a verse from a song? IS it to be slow or fast, or just a monologue?

Subject: RE: lyrics and pronunciation guide needed!
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
Date: 11 Jul 01 - 06:11 PM

Just got Idir an Da Sholas, by Maighread & Triona Ni Dhomhnaill (Green Linnet). The booklet has both the Gaelic and English. If your local library has cds to loan, you will probably find some that would help, without paying for them.

Subject: RE: lyrics and pronunciation guide needed!
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 11 Jul 01 - 06:27 PM

Imagine someone saying "I want a text in the English language that I can use in a track I am working on"!

Anyway, you could have a great time searching.

Subject: RE: lyrics and pronunciation guide needed!
From: Grab
Date: 12 Jul 01 - 12:43 PM

Why Gaelic in particular?

Can someone supply Gaelic lyrics which mean "I'm a wooly-jumpered singer with a finger in my ear", or "sod the lot of you, I'm off to the pub to get wasted"? ;-)

I know a bloke who sings something that sounds very like a Russian folk song/dance. It took some time b4 I found out it was complete nonsense, and he'd invented it himself - the fun bit is though that he sings the same words every time, and puts expression into it so that it sounds like it's a genuine thing!

Graham.

Subject: RE: lyrics and pronunciation guide needed!
From: MMario
Date: 12 Jul 01 - 01:01 PM

We have a CD of the Red Army Chorus doing various songs - I listened to Shenandoah four times before I realized they were singing it in English, not Russian.