The progress of music in Ireland
By: Harry White.
Publisher: Four Courts Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Dublin; Portland, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
Subjects: Music -- Ireland -- History and criticism.
Description: "This book collects a number of essays on the relationship between music, cultural history and musicology in Ireland which, taken together, comprise a natural progression from the author's widely acclaimed monograph, The Keeper's Recital (1998). The Progress of Music in Ireland contains essays on contemporary music and musical infrastructures in Ireland; on Irish musical nationalism in the context of German and Czech traditions; on the presence of music in the work of Brian Friel and Samuel Beckett; on Joyce and music; on university education and Irish musical education; on the discourse of musicology in Ireland; and on the work of Brian Boydell and Aloys Fleischmann as pioneers in Irish musical scholarship."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Collection of essays originally published 1998-2004.
Table of contents: title: The divided imagination : music in Ireland after Ó Riada; title: "The progress of music in Ireland" : Irish art music in a postcolonial world; title: Is this song about you? : music and nationalism in Germany and Ireland; title: Art music and the question of ethnicity : the Slavic dimension of Czech music from an Irish point of view; title: Brian Friel and the condition of music; title: "Something is taking its course" : dramatic exactitude and the paradigm of serialism in Samuel Beckett; title: James Joyce, music, and Dublin; title: "A book of manners in the wilderness" : university education and music education in Ireland; title: Variations on an air : the discourse of musicology in Ireland; title: "Our musical state became refined" : the musicology of Brian Boydell; title: Polite forms.