The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland (EMIR) is the first
comprehensive attempt to chart Irish musical life across recorded
history. It also documents Ireland's musical relations with the
world at large, notably in Britain, continental Europe and North
America, and it seeks to identify the agencies through which music
has become an enduring expression of Irish political, social,
religious and cultural life. In these respects, EMIR is the
collective work of 240 contributors whose research has been
marshalled by an editorial and advisory board of specialists in the
following domains of Irish musical experience: secular and
religious music to 1600; art music, 1600-2010; Roman catholic
church music; Protestant church music; popular music; traditional
music; organology and iconography; historical musicology;
ethnomusicology; the history of recorded sound; music and media;
music printing and publishing; and, music in Ireland as trade,
industry and profession. EMIR contains some 2,000 individual
entries which collectively afford an unprecedented survey of the
fabric of music in Ireland. It records and evaluates the work of
hundreds of individual musicians, performers, composers, teachers,
collectors, scholars, ensembles, societies and institutions
throughout Irish musical history, and it comprehends the
relationship between music and its political, artistic, religious,
educational and social contexts in Ireland from the early middle
ages to the present day. In its extensive catalogues, discographies
and source materials, EMIR sets in order, often for the first time,
the legacy and worklists of performers and composers active in
Ireland (or of Irish extraction), notably (but not exclusively) in
the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It offers to the
general reader a regiment of 'brief lives' of Irish musicians
throughout history, and it affords the specialist a detailed
retrieval of information on music in Ireland hitherto unavailable
or difficult to access. Above all, it is (proverbially)
encyclopaedic in its address on the plurality and diversity of
Irish musical experience. To this end, EMIR represents the single
largest research project on music in Ireland to have been
undertaken to date.
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