Irish Musical Studies: Music in nineteenth-century Ireland
Author : Harry White
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Page : pages
File Size : 42,24 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Music
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Author : Harry White
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 42,24 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Music
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Author : Michael Murphy
Publisher :
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 38,9 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN :
This book, the 9th volume in the Irish Musical Studies Series, collects 15 essays on various aspects of musical life in Ireland in the 19th century, including sacred and secular musical life in various centres; collections of Irish traditional music, the reception of Irish traditional music in literature, painting and Victorian society; music education; issues concerning opera; the nature of the musical press; the use of music for social altruism; the music of R.P. Stewart; the dialogue between Germany and Ireland; the Czechs and Irish music. Contributors: Paul Rodmell (U. Birmingham), Anne Dempsey (ind.), Roy Johnston (ind.), Paul Collins (Mary I.), Marie McCarthy (U. Maryland), Maria McHale (ind.), Jimmy O'Brien Moran (U. Limerick), Barra Boydell (NUIM), David Cooper (U. Leeds), Ita Beausang (ind.), Michael Murphy (Mary I.), Lisa Parker (Mary I.), Harry White (UCD), Joachim Fischer (U. Limerick), Jan Smaczny (QUB), Axel Klein (ind.). (Series: Irish Musical Studies)
Author : Kerry Houston
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 35,87 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781846828324
Author : Kerry Houston
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,98 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781846827242
This volume presents extracts from a number of documents from the long nineteenth century that pertain to the history of music in Ireland. The documents fall into one of three categories: musical notation, text, image. Each chapter contains a copy of a document (or an extract) along with an essay that provides context, explanation and interpretation. The editors have sought to represent a broad range of documents that address aspects of the history of music in Ireland: social history; the economics of musical life; performance practice; musical taste and repertoire; theory and aesthetics; the historiography of Irish music history; national identity, the traditional repertoire. The Irish Musical Studies series is published in association with the Society for Musicology in Ireland.
Author : Gerard Gillen
Publisher : Irish Musical Studies
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 14,73 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
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Publisher and editors change over the course of the series.
Author : Laura Watson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 34,36 MB
Release : 2022-12-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 1783277556
Explores the world of women's professional and amateur musical activity as it developed on and beyond the island of Ireland.
Author : Harry White
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 18,81 MB
Release : 2008-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0191563161
Harry White examines the influence of music in the development of the Irish literary imagination from 1800 to the present day. He identifies music as a preoccupation which originated in the poetry of Thomas Moore early in the nineteenth century. He argues that this preoccupation decisively influenced Moore's attempt to translate the 'meaning' of Irish music into verse, and that it also informed Moore's considerable impact on the development of European musical romanticism, as in the music of Berlioz and Schumann. White then examines how this preoccupation was later recovered by W.B. Yeats, whose poetry is imbued with music as a rival presence to language. In its readings of Yeats, Synge, Shaw and Joyce, the book argues that this striking musical awareness had a profound influence on the Irish literary imagination, to the extent that poetry, fiction and drama could function as correlatives of musical genres. Although Yeats insisted on the synonymous condition of speech and song in his poetry, Synge, Shaw and Joyce explicitly identified opera in particular as a generic prototype for their own work. Synge's formal musical training and early inclinations as a composer, Shaw's perception of himself as the natural successor to Wagner, and Joyce's no less striking absorption of a host of musical techniques in his fiction are advanced in this study as formative (rather than incidental) elements in the development of modern Irish writing. Music and the Irish Literary Imagination also considers Beckett's emancipation from the oppressive condition of words in general (and Joyce in particular) through the agency of music, and argues that the strong presence of Mendelssohn, Chopin and Janácek in the works of Brian Friel is correspondingly essential to Friel's dramatisation of Irish experience in the aftermath of Beckett. The book closes with a reading of Seamus Heaney, in which the poet's own preoccupation with the currency of established literary forms is enlisted to illuminate Heaney's abiding sense of poetry as music.
Author : Barra Boydell
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,39 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781846821400
Publisher and editors change over the course of the series.
Author : Harry White
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 49,29 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Music
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Author : Roy Johnston
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 50,90 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 1351542109
Roy Johnston and Declan Plummer provide a refreshing portrait of Belfast in the nineteenth century. Before his death Roy Johnston, had written a full draft, based on an impressive array of contemporary sources, with deep and detailed attention especially to contemporary newspapers. With the deft and sensitive contribution of Declan Plummer the finished book offers a telling view of Belfast?s thriving musical life. Largely without the participation and example of local aristocracy, nobility and gentry, Belfast?s musical society was formed largely by the townspeople themselves in the eighteenth century and by several instrumental and choral societies in the nineteenth century. As the town grew in size and developed an industrial character, its townspeople identified increasingly with the large industrial towns and cities of the British mainland. Efforts to place themselves on the principal touring circuit of the great nineteenth-century concert artists led them to build a concert hall not in emulation of Dublin but of the British industrial towns. Belfast audiences had experienced English opera in the eighteenth century, and in due course in the nineteenth century they found themselves receiving the touring opera companies, in theatres newly built to accommodate them. Through an energetic groundwork revision of contemporary sources, Johnston and Plummer reveal a picture of sustained vitality and development that justifies Belfast?s prominent place the history of nineteenth-century musical culture in Ireland and more broadly in the British Isles.