Music, Ireland and the seventeenth century
By: edited by Barra Boydell & Kerry Houston
Series: Irish musical studies -- 10
Publisher: Four Courts Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9781846821400
Subjects: History and criticism; Music
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The seventeenth century and the history of music in Ireland / Barra Boydell & Kerry Houston; title: Seventeenth-century Irish music and its cultural context / Raymond Gillespie; title: Irish traditional music and the seventeenth century / Adrian Scahill; title: "Irish harpers are excellent, and their solemn music is much liked of strangers" : the Irish harp in non-Irish contexts in the seventeenth century / John Cunningham; title: The earl of Cork's musicians : music and patronage in early seventeenth-century Anglo-Irish society / Barra Boydell; title: An early seventeenth-century library from Ulster : books on music in the collection of Lord Edward Conway (1602-55) / Barra Boydell & Máire Egan-Buffet; title: Birchensha's "Mathematical way of composure" / Christopher D.S. Field; title: Narcissus Marsh : ground-breaking bishop / Andrew Robinson; title: Music fit for a king : the Restoration of Charles II and the Dublin cathedral repertoire / Kerry Houston; title: Seventeenth-century Irish parish church music / Denise Neary; title: Purcell's "curiously poor and perfunctory piece of work" : critical reflections on Purcell via his music for the centenary of Trinity College Dublin / Martin Adams.