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Since its foundation in 1875, the activities of St Patrick's
College Drumcondra and its graduates have been closely woven into
the educational and cultural fabric of Irish society. This volume
charts how music and music education have fulfilled a major role
throughout the history of the Dublin-based establishment that began
as a teacher training college and later evolved into a college of
education and liberal arts. Graduates of St Patrick's College have
taught hundreds of thousands, if not millions of pupils across the
country, have made significant contributions to various facets of
professional and amateur music activity, and have had an invaluable
influence on the wellbeing of individuals, the development of
communities and the advancement of the nation as a whole. The book
records and interprets key musical developments, appraises the work
of major contributors, and captures the activities of students,
staff and visiting musicians at St Patrick's College up to its
incorporation into Dublin City University in 2016. It represents a
major scholarly work that details the progress of music at a
university college in Ireland, and it is envisaged that its varied
chapters and themes will evoke further memories and discussions
among graduates of the College and others.
The Irish songwriter, Thomas Moore (1779-1852) enjoyed enormous
popularity during and after his lifetime and his celebrity was
summed up by his friend, Lord Byron, who declared him: "The poet of
all circles and the idol of his own". Yet, despite his seminal role
in the development of Irish national song, few modern editions have
been made available and none focus on the earliest piano
arrangements published during Moore's lifetime and the decades
following his death. This new critical edition collects together
for the first time in one volume selected original arrangements of
the world-famous Irish Melodies for solo voice and duet along with
other successful English-language songs to texts by Moore and
foreign-language settings by Schumann, Mendelssohn, Berlioz and
Duparc. Several aspects were considered in choosing songs such as
their historical significance as well as their usefulness to the
performer and impact in performance and the beauty of the vocal
content and the partnering accompaniments. The Thomas Moore
Songbook will appeal to a broad spectrum of academics,
practitioners and teachers of singing as well as those with a deep
interest in Irish history, culture and heritage.
The Elusive Celt departs from previous work in the wider
ethnomusicological field about traditional Irish music within its
home contexts and the English-speaking main destination countries
of Irish emigration, by adding a central and eastern European
perspective on perceptions of Irish musical culture and images of
"the Celtic" Specific attention is given to influences of recent
European history on these perceptions. Detailed ethnographies of
community music-making contexts in six different countries from the
Baltic to the Bosphorus, along both sides of the former Iron
Curtain, introduce the reader to cultural intimacies of local
community musicians with a long-term dedication to playing
traditional Irish music. The emerging images differ widely from
common stereotypes. The reader gains an insight into processes of
how musical and extra-musical detail is communicated between local
native Irish and non-Irish musicians at these locations, for which
Rina was able to draw on her knowledge of different European
languages.
Since its foundation in 1875, the activities of St Patrick's
College Drumcondra and its graduates have been closely woven into
the educational and cultural fabric of Irish society. This volume
charts how music and music education have fulfilled a major role
throughout the history of the Dublin-based establishment that began
as a teacher training college and later evolved into a college of
education and liberal arts. Graduates of St Patrick's College have
taught hundreds of thousands, if not millions of pupils across the
country, have made significant contributions to various facets of
professional and amateur music activity, and have had an invaluable
influence on the wellbeing of individuals, the development of
communities and the advancement of the nation as a whole. The book
records and interprets key musical developments, appraises the work
of major contributors, and captures the activities of students,
staff and visiting musicians at St Patrick's College up to its
incorporation into Dublin City University in 2016. It represents a
major scholarly work that details the progress of music at a
university college in Ireland, and it is envisaged that its varied
chapters and themes will evoke further memories and discussions
among graduates of the College and others.
The Gate Theatre is one of Ireland's major theatres. It has
produced important new plays by such figures as Brian Friel, Conor
McPherson, and Denis Johnston - while also premiering significant
works by other writers, including unjustly neglected women
dramatists such as Mary Manning, Christine Longford, and Maura
Laverty. It has made huge contributions to the art of theatre in
Ireland, not only in relation to acting (launching the careers of
Orson Welles, James Mason, and Michael Gambon) but also in terms of
direction and design. And it has made a major contribution to the
world's understanding of Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, and others.
Despite these incredible achievements, the theatre has been the
subject of very little critical attention to date. This book
redresses this problem; it is, in fact, the very first scholarly
essay collection devoted entirely to the theatre. It gathers
together leading academics and critics who explore the Gate's
achievements in relation to the development of new Irish writing
and new Irish theatre practices. The book is written with scholarly
rigour but also in accessible language and would therefore be of
interest to anyone with a passion for Irish theatre.
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