A Musical Offering: Essays in Honour of Gerard Gillen

Author:   Kerry Houston ,  Professor Harry White
Publisher:   Four Courts Press Ltd
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9781846826580


Pages:   288
Publication Date:   31 October 2017
Format:   Hardback
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Professor Gerard Gillen will celebrate his 75th birthday on 16 August 2017. Many of his friends and colleagues mark that occasion here with a collection of essays that reflects the stellar contribution that he has made to music and musicology in Ireland. Contents: Foreword by Professor emeritus T.P. Dolan (University College Dublin); David Adams (Royal Irish Academy of Music), From pp to ff: a German organ crescendo; Lorraine Byrne Bodley (Maynooth U), Schubert's sacred music; Paul Collins (Mary I, U Limerick), Catholic church music in Limerick, c.1860-1965; R.V. Comerford (Maynooth U), The historiographical significance of The encyclopaedia of music in Ireland (2013); David Connolly (DkIT and St Michael's, Dun Laoghaire), Church music education and the organ in France, 1800-1900; Kieran A. Daly (ind.), St Mary's Guild, Dublin: a parish choir in times of trouble; Patrick F. Devine (ind.), Organ transcriptions of the music of Anton Bruckner; Kerry Houston, From Marchant to Grieg: a seamless thread through an uncertain terrain; Frank Lawrence (University College Dublin), Alessandro Cellini (1830-88), a Roman in Dublin; Darina McCarthy (Maynooth U), Leading from behind? St Patrick's College, Maynooth, and the development of church music in Ireland, 1800-1914; David Mooney (Dublin Institute of Technology), The Feis Ceoil and the evolution of twentieth-century organ music in Ireland; Carole O'Connor (Dublin Institute of Technology), Remembering Jehan Alain (1911-40); Ite O'Donovan (Lassus Scholars), A school of church music in Ireland; Jan Smaczny (Queen's U, Belfast), Dvor k the performer; Yo Tomita (Queen's U, Belfast), The well-tempered clavier in pre-classical Vienna: a new source and its implication; Liam Tracey (St Patrick's College, Maynooth), Lament: a lost liturgical category? Harry White (University College Dublin), 'A priest of eternal imagination': Joyce, music and Roman Catholicism.

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Author:   Kerry Houston ,  Professor Harry White
Publisher:   Four Courts Press Ltd
Imprint:   Four Courts Press Ltd
Weight:   0.367kg
ISBN:  

9781846826580


ISBN 10:   1846826586
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   31 October 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

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