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Irish music in the twentieth century / edited by Gareth Cox & Axel Klein.

Contributor(s): Cox, Gareth, 1958- | Klein, Axel.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Irish musical studies ; 7.Publisher: Dublin ; Portland, OR : Four Courts Press, c2003Description: 208 p. ; music ; 25 cm.ISBN: 1851826475.Subject(s): Music -- Ireland -- 20th century -- History and criticism | MusicologyDDC classification: 780.720415
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The seventh volume in the series, this collection of essays examines the development of art music in Ireland from three different perspectives. The book includes historical assessments of genre in Irish music, analyses of individual composers and compositions, and essays in cultural history. (Series: Irish Musical Studies)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-204) and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Contributors (p. 7)
  • Preface (p. 9)
  • Acknowledgements (p. 10)
  • 1 The divided imagination: music in Ireland after O Riada (p. 11)
  • 2 The development of electroacoustic music in Ireland (p. 29)
  • 3 Opera in Ireland before 1925 (p. 39)
  • 4 Modernism in Ireland and its cultural context in the music of Frederick May, Brian Boydell and Aloys Fleischmann (p. 56)
  • 5 Interval cycles and inversional axes in Frederick May's String Quartet in C Minor (p. 80)
  • 6 An Irishman in Darmstadt: Seoirse Bodley's String Quartet no. 1 (1968) (p. 94)
  • 7 Some observations on form-building processes in twentieth-century music: shaping time in Ian Wilson's Rich Harbour: Concerto for Organ and Orchestra (p. 109)
  • 8 A post-war 'Irish' symphony: Frank Corcoran's Symphony No. 2 (p. 134)
  • 9 Passion, painting, poetry, pessimism: extra-musical themes in the string quartets of Ian Wilson (p. 150)
  • 10 Roots and directions in twentieth-century Irish art music (p. 168)
  • 11 A twentieth-century Irish music bibliography (p. 183)
  • Index (p. 205)

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