Documents of Irish music history in the long nineteenth century

Kerry Houston, Maria McHale, Michael Murphy

• Publisher: Four Courts Press
• Year: 2019
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781846828324
• Subtopic: Irish History
• Index: History

This volume presents extracts from a number of documents from the long nineteenth century that pertain to the history of music in Ireland. The documents fall into one of three categories: musical notation, text, image. Each chapter contains a copy of a document (or an extract) along with an essay that provides context, explanation and interpretation. The editors have sought to represent a broad range of documents that address aspects of the history of music in Ireland: social history; the economics of musical life; performance practice; musical taste and repertoire; theory and aesthetics; the historiography of Irish music history; national identity, the traditional repertoire. The Irish Musical Studies series is published in association with the Society for Musicology in Ireland.

Table of contents

• Cover
• The Irish Musical Studies series
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of contents
• Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Introduction: Documents of Irish music history inthe long nineteenth century
• Thomas Moore, ‘Letter on Music’ (1810)
• Newspapers, music and politics in 1840s Dublin: a case study in bias, editorial style and selective reporting
• ‘An Apology for Harmony’ (1841): context and authorship
• Richard Michael Levey, 'Annals of the Theatre Royal, Dublin' (1880)
• James Cooksey Culwick, 'The Rudiments of Music' (1882)
• Transformations of performance and participation inthe early céilí, 1897–8
• Four part-books of the Galway Regiment of Militia,1793–1816
• Ignaz Moscheles’ 'The Recollections of Ireland' (1826): a virtuoso’s souvenir
• The Irish music manuscripts of Henry Hudson
• Heinrich Bewerunge and the art of plainchant accompaniment
• The musical manuscripts of Michele Esposito: some new evidence
• ‘for the support of decayed musicians and their families’: the papers of the Irish Musical Fund Society, 1787–1979
• ‘Music masters’ and ‘musicianers’: census records and Irish music history, 1821–1911
• ‘Mad[am]e Stockhausen was not at Rehearsal – but why not?!’: Sir George Smart’s perspective on theDublin Grand Musical Festival of 1831
• ‘Dublin can still justly boast of being a music-loving city’: Joseph Holloway and operain Dublin, 1880–1922
• Sir Hamilton Harty: a nineteenth-century Irish musician in twentieth-century Britain
• Index