Irish Musical Studies 1: Musicology in Ireland.
Author: GILLEN, Gerard & WHITE, Harry (Editors).
Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1990. 312 pages. Illustrated. Hardback.
This first volume of Irish Musical Studies offers a conspectus of work which demonstrates the breadth and scope of musicology in Ireland as a discipline which has taken firm root in this country within the past twenty years. This work includes aspects of medieval and baroque organology, source studies, notation, music theory and analysis, as well as a host of historical topics. The volume features essays on Purcell, Goudimel, Faure, Vivaldi, Hamilton Harty and Bartok: it also contains studies of eighteenth-century music in Dublin and of the theoretical and historical aspects of Irish folk music.
ISBN: 0716524562
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