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Tape Cassettes

Commercial and non-commercial tape cassette. Includes recordings of Derek Bell and The Chieftains; a 3 tape cassette publication of The Chieftains: the authorized biography by John Glatt, narrated by Nanci Griffith (1999); various recordings relating to music and mysticism; recordings sent to Derek Bell of other artists including a recording of Irish fiddle player Sean Maguire in the Clare Folk Club (11 Jul 1978) and a recording of Sean Maguire and Josephine Keegan in the Shetlands (n.d.); radio interviews with Derek Bell and The Chieftains; demo tapes; recordings of lectures; recordings of various artists which have recorded with The Chieftains including Mark Knopfler, Van Morrison, Midge Ure; recordings of Derek Bell’s compositions; and recordings of folk music from around the world including Folksongs from Rumania (n.d.)

Compact discs (CD-Rs)

Commercial and non-commercial CDs. Includes recordings of The Chieftains albums and concerts; solo recordings of Derek Bell; recordings of his compositions including The violet flame symphony and ‘Come on, Northern Ireland’; recordings of radio interviews with Derek Bell; recordings of radio programmes about Derek Bell; and a small number of other musicians’ CDs including Raga Omar Khannam, Secret Garden and Béla Fleck.

Videos

Commercial and non-commercial VHS tapes. Copies of TV interviews with Derek Bell and The Chieftains including the Late Late Show (4 Mar 1988), (16 Dec 1988) and (20 Jan 1995), Ulster Television Kelly (14 Jan 1991) & (10 Jan 1997), ‘Chieftains TV: American music show, Nashville, [Tennessee, United States of America] (6 June 1992) 2. Jay Leno Show 3. This morning ’, CBS News (20 Aug 1997) and BBC Newsline (n.d.); concert recordings including ‘Cue the music: Chieftains in concert, Glastonbury, England’ [1982?], ‘The Chieftains USA Tour’ (March-July 1995), ‘Irish evening’, Baden Baden [Germany] (6 April 1995) and ‘A Capitol fourth 1995’, featuring Ricky Skaggs and The Chieftains (4 Jul 1995); copies of BBC recordings of Alan Tongue documentaries Derek Bell’s concert party (1977) and One man band (1988); other VHS tape recordings include ‘Music as experience’ Derek Bell and Donald Walters, Ananda Center (29 Feb 1996), Liam Ó Conchubhair singing Songs of the North of Ireland with Derek Bell (16 Dec 1996), ‘Derek Bell memorial service’, UTV Live (1 Nov 2002), ‘Great music experience’ (n.d.), BBC Golden voices (n.d.), ‘Musical traditions Northern song’ producer Ian Kirk-Smith, BBC, Belfast (n.d.), Liam Ó Conchubhair (30 May 2001); and two commercial Chieftains recordings Live over Ireland : waters from the well (1999) and The long black veil (1995).

Digital Audio Tapes

Non-commercial DAT recordings including ‘Music from Bulgaria, Abbey Road Recording Session’ (18 Nov 1994).

Music Education and Teaching

Includes student timetables from the Royal College of Music; a music catalogue ‘Selected Works from the Catalogues of the Universal Edition’ (Summer 1954); typed and handwritten music exam papers with annotated comments from examiners; lecture notes; model answers to exam questions; Derek Bell’s MusB degree parchment from Trinity College Dublin (29 Jul 1959); two photographs from the Ninth International Conference of the International Society for Music Education (ISME) which took place in Moscow (14 July 1970); articles about various aspects of musical composition; and newspaper clippings of obituaries of fellow students from Campbell College, Belfast.

Piano

Includes Irish times article by Charles Acton ‘A Schumann mystery’ (14 May 1979); concert programme for pianist Carlo Grante’s performance in Wigmore Hall, London, England (9 June 1996); copy of a drawing of pianist Leopold Godowsky; and photograph of concert pianist [Arthur Rubenstein].

Harp

Includes Irish times article about harpist Madame Maria Korchinska (5 Oct 1968); article about avant-garde harp music by Derek Bell ‘A field day for bluffers’ (June 1975); various newspaper clippings relating to harps and harpists; various articles about the Irish harp; concert programme for harpist Sidonie Goossens 100th birthday concert in Wigmore Hall, London (20 Oct 1999); booklet about the concert harp in Bulgarian signed by the author Maria Tutuvilova (August 2000); photocopy of handwritten list of 19th century harp music; photocopy of handwritten letter from harp teacher Alfred Holý to his pupil Artiss [de Volt] (6 July ?); folk and orchestral harp catalogues; photographs of Alfred Holý; and various photographs of harps.

Oboe, Cimbalom and Heckelphone

Includes original and photocopied letters from Liya and Elise ? to Derek Bell and John Leach about the manufacture and purchase of a cimbalom (2 May 1974); Hungarian cimbalom catalogue (27 Feb 1996); photograph of a cimbalom; typescript of an article ‘The heckelphones’ (Oct 1998); typescript of an article by Michael Finkelman ‘The bass oboe’ (Oct 1998); letter from Gildas Jaffrennou, Ploeren, France to Derek Bell which includes the article ‘The Celtic hammered dulcimer’ (22 July 1994); and a handwritten article by Derek Bell ‘The tiompán in ancient Ireland’.

Financial Documents

Includes original receipts relating to the purchase of music and musical instrument; includes letter from Paddy Moloney to Derek Bell referring to the payment of expenses incurred during a recent recording session, Moloney says that ‘this cheque does not include any work for the scoring you may do’ (20 March 1997); also includes ‘Chieftains tour expense report Scandanavia [Scandinavia] 1997’.

Gideon Fontalba

Original and photocopied seminar notes. Includes ‘Initiation - dances from the cosmic tradition by Gideon Fontalba’ (14 Apr 1989); ‘Notes from the seminar in Port Rush [Portrush] … with Gideon Fontalba’ (17 Nov 1989); copy of seminar notes sent to Derek Bell by Sally Duncan, Sussex taken at a seminar with Gideon Fontalba ‘Dynamiscke harmonie: heilung und einweihung’ (21 July 1989); and handwritten notes made by Bell about meditation, mysticism and music.
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