Music, Ireland and the seventeenth century /
Music, Ireland and the seventeenth century /
edited by Barra Boydell and Kerry Houston.
- 211 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Irish musical studies ; 10 .
- Irish musical studies 10 .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The seventeenth century century and the history of music in Ireland -- Seventeenth-century Irish music and its cultural context -- Irish traditional music and the seventeenth century -- 'Irish harpers are excellent, and their solemn music is much liked of strangers' : the Irish harp in non-Irish contexts in the seventeenth century -- The earl of Cork's musicians : music and patronage in early seventeenth-century Anglo-Irish society -- An early seventeenth-century library from Ulster : books on music in the library of Lord Edward Conway (1602-55) -- Birchensha's 'Mathematical way of composure' -- Narcissus Marsh : groundbreaking bishop -- Music fit for a king : the restoration of Charles II and the Dublin cathedral repertoire -- Seventeenth-century Irish parish church music -- Purcell's 'curiously poor and perfunctory piece of work' : critical reflections on Purcell via his music for the centenary of Trinity College Dublin..
9781846821400 (hardback)
Music--History and criticism.--Ireland--17th century
780.941509032
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The seventeenth century century and the history of music in Ireland -- Seventeenth-century Irish music and its cultural context -- Irish traditional music and the seventeenth century -- 'Irish harpers are excellent, and their solemn music is much liked of strangers' : the Irish harp in non-Irish contexts in the seventeenth century -- The earl of Cork's musicians : music and patronage in early seventeenth-century Anglo-Irish society -- An early seventeenth-century library from Ulster : books on music in the library of Lord Edward Conway (1602-55) -- Birchensha's 'Mathematical way of composure' -- Narcissus Marsh : groundbreaking bishop -- Music fit for a king : the restoration of Charles II and the Dublin cathedral repertoire -- Seventeenth-century Irish parish church music -- Purcell's 'curiously poor and perfunctory piece of work' : critical reflections on Purcell via his music for the centenary of Trinity College Dublin..
9781846821400 (hardback)
Music--History and criticism.--Ireland--17th century
780.941509032