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Creative Impulses, Cultural Accents
  • Language: en

Creative Impulses, Cultural Accents

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-02-24
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Fifteen essays explore the life of an unparalleled figure in the musical and cultural life of twentieth-century Ireland. Brian Boydell (1917-2000) was one of twentieth-century Ireland's leading composers and something of a Renaissance man to boot. He became a household name not only for his music and outspoken support of the expansion of Irish cultural identity, but for the many hats he wore as a broadcaster, professor, performer, and long-term member of Ireland's Arts Council. The recent centenary of his birth stimulated fresh interest in Boydell's many compositions and his role as a multidimensional figure in Ireland's musical and cultural life. The fifteen essays collected here focus both...

Rebellious Ferment
  • Language: en

Rebellious Ferment

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018
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  • Publisher: Attic Press

One of Ireland's foremost twentieth-century composers and musicians, Brian Boydell (1917-2000) was an enthusiastic communicator. His memoir Rebellious Ferment was written during the anal decade of his life. Informative, entertaining and with an engaging combination of passion and elegance, it focuses in particular on the 1940s and early 1950s when Brian Boydell was closely involved in what he describes as the rebellious ferment' of artistic development during that period. Ireland had become a haven for artists and intellectuals fleeing from countries engaged in the Second World War. As a young, emerging composer who rejected the narrow nationalism of 1940s' Ireland, Brian Boydell connected w...

A History of Music at Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 250

A History of Music at Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin

Christ Church cathedral is an Anglican cathedral in a catholic country. Musical and archival sources (the most extensive for any Irish cathedral) provide a unique perspective on the history of music in Ireland. Christ Church has had a complex and varied history as the cathedral church of Dublin, one of two Anglican cathedrals in the capital of a predominantly Catholic country and the church of the British administration in Ireland before1922. An Irish cathedral within the English tradition, yet through much of its history it was essentially an English cathedral in a foreign land. With close musical links to cathedrals in England, to St Patrick's cathedral in Dublin, and to the city's wider p...

Music and Paintings in the National Gallery of Ireland
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 120
Music, Ireland and the Seventeenth Century
  • Language: en

Music, Ireland and the Seventeenth Century

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Publisher and editors change over the course of the series.

Music at Christ Church Before 1800
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 294

Music at Christ Church Before 1800

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1999
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This volume gathers together for the first time the deeds, chapter acts and other documents relating to the choir, the organ and organists, and the provision of music, from the deed providing for choir boys to sing in the cathedral in 1480, up to 1800.

The Choral Foundation of the Chapel Royal, Dublin Castle
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 307

The Choral Foundation of the Chapel Royal, Dublin Castle

The first investigation into the choral foundation of the Chapel Royal, Dublin Castle. The Chapel Royal, Dublin Castle, was the place of worship of the British monarch's representative in Ireland from 1814 until the inception of the Irish Free State in 1922. It was founded and maintained by the joint efforts of church and state, and thus its history provides valuable insights into how the relationship between religion and politics shaped Irish society and identity. The Dublin Chapel was established in imitation of the Chapel Royal of St James's Palace, London, and was served by a staff of clergy and musicians. Its musical foundation was a formal and independent entity, with its own personnel...

Hallelujah – The story of a musical genius and the city that brought his masterpiece to life
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 360

Hallelujah – The story of a musical genius and the city that brought his masterpiece to life

18 November, 1741. George Frideric Handel, one of the world's greatest composers, arrives in Dublin – the second city of the Empire – to prepare his masterpiece, Messiah, for its maiden performance the following spring ...In Hallelujah, Jonathan Bardon, one of Ireland's leading historians, explores the remarkable circumstances surrounding the first performance of Handel's now iconic oratorio in Dublin, providing a panoramic view of a city in flux – at once struggling to contain the chaos unleashed by the catastrophic famine of the preceding year while striving to become a vibrant centre of European culture and commerce.Brimming with drama, curiosity and intrigue, and populated by an unforgettable cast of characters, Hallelujah tells of how one charitable performance wove itself into the fabric of Ireland's capital, changing the course of musical history and the lives of those who called the city home.

The Musical Life of Nineteenth-Century Belfast
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 353

The Musical Life of Nineteenth-Century Belfast

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-07-05
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  • Publisher: Routledge

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 Belfasts thriving musical life. Largely without the participation and example of local aristocracy, nobility and gentry, Belfasts 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 i...

Rebellious Ferment
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 194

Rebellious Ferment

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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