Irish musical studies
By: edited by Gerard Gillen & Harry White.
Contributors: Gillen, Gerard.; White, Harry, 1958-
Publisher: Irish Academic Press; Four Courts Pr Ltd; Four Courts Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Blackrock, Co. Dublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
Subjects: Musicology.; Music -- Ireland -- History and criticism.
Description: "This book addresses the relationship between music and cultural history in Ireland. It variously identifies and examines the development of music as an outgrowth of extra-musical concepts and socio-cultural entities, including celticism (in pre-christian and early christian Ireland), the ideology of ethnic culture, education, nationalism, religion, the composer in modern Ireland and the impact of music on the Irish literary imagination. Throughout the book, an abiding concern with music as the expression of political, social and religious norms of cultural development in Ireland affords thematic coherence to the essays as a whole." "As with the preceding volumes in the series, Music and Irish Cultural History breaks new ground in the cultivation of musicology in Ireland. In particular, it serves as a stimulus to the better understanding of music as a vital preoccupation of the Irish Mind."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: 1. Musicology in Ireland; title: 2. Music and the church; title: 3. Music and Irish culture; title: 4-5. The Maynooth International Musicological Conference 1995; title: 6. A historical anthology of Irish church music; title: 7. Irish music in the twentieth century; title: 8. Bach studies from Dublin.