Creative impulses, cultural accents: Brian Boydell's music, advocacy, painting and legacy / edited by Barbara Dignam and Bara Boydell.
Contributor(s): Dignam, Barbara [editor]
| Boydell, Barra [editor].
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BookPublisher: Dublin : University College Dublin Press, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: xvi, 249 pages : color illustrations, music ; 25 cm.Content type: text | notated music Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781910820940 (hardback).Subject(s): Boydell, Brian | Cultural policy -- Ireland | Music -- Ireland -- History and criticism | Ireland -- MusicDDC classification: 780.9415 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Cork School of Music Library Lending | 780.9415 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 00197282 |
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Fifteen essays explore the life of an unparalleled figure in the musical and cultural life of twentieth-century Ireland.
Brian Boydell (1917-2000) was one of twentieth-century Ireland's leading composers and something of a Renaissance man to boot. He became a household name not only for his music and outspoken support of the expansion of Irish cultural identity, but for the many hats he wore as a broadcaster, professor, performer, and long-term member of Ireland's Arts Council. The recent centenary of his birth stimulated fresh interest in Boydell's many compositions and his role as a multidimensional figure in Ireland's musical and cultural life. The fifteen essays collected here focus both on his music--from his earliest orchestral works to his pioneering compositions for Irish and concert harp--and on his more varied contributions, including his musicological research, his involvement as a founding member of the Music Association of Ireland, his professorship at Trinity College Dublin, and his radio career. Creative Impulses, Cultural Accents also draws on Boydell's private papers to illuminate little-known corners of his life, like his interest in painting. This essay collection is a celebratory salutation to an entirely fascinating figure who contributed immensely to the cultural evolution of a modern nation.
Includes bibliography and index.
Must not make his nationality an excuse for his behaviour: Brian Boydell, creative impulse and access / Joseph J. Ryan -- Musical inscapes: an appreciation of Brian Boydell's orchestral music / Axel Klein -- 'Avert thy smitings': a study of Magh Sleacht (1947) / Shauna Louise Caffrey -- Sounding Irish landscape and life: Brian Boydell's scores for documentary films / Laura Anderson -- Brian Boydell's early songs for low voices / Aylish E. Kerrigan -- 'White stag' embodied: The Feather of Death, op. 22 (1943) / Philip Graydon -- A pack of fancies for a travelling harper (1970): context, performance and reception / Cliona Doris -- Heavenly harps, heavenly cloths: the musical collaborations of Brian Boydell and Grainne Yeats for Irish harp / Mary Louise O Donnell -- Music at Trinity College Chapel: the innovations and legacy of Brian Boydell / Kerry Houston -- Bringing to life the spirit of an age: Brian Boydell and music life in Eighteenth-Century Dublin / Ita Beausang -- A voice for Irish art music: Brian Boydell and the Music Association of Ireland / Teresa O Donnell -- Everyone's music: the rhetoric of advocacy in Brian Boydell's early broadcasts for RTE radio / Barbara Dignam -- Racing demons: Brian Boydell as painter / Peter Murray -- Listing the papers of Brian Boydell (TCD MS III28): an archivist's perspective / Eileen O Flaherty -- Authority, advocacy and activism: music in Irish life and culture / Niall Doyle.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Contributors (p. ix)
- Acknowledgements (p. xiii)
- Abbreviations and Acronyms (p. xv)
- Introduction (p. 1)
- Part I Boydell as Composer
- 1 Must Not Make His Nationality an Excuse for His Behaviour: Brian Boydell, Creative Impulse and Accent (p. 14)
- 2 Musical Inscapes: An Appreciation of Brian Boydell's Orchestral Music (p. 24)
- 3 'Avert Thy Smitings': A Study of Magh Sleacht (1947) (p. 58)
- 4 Sounding Irish Landscape and Life: Brian Boydell's Scores for Documentary Films (p. 71)
- 5 Brian Boydell's Early Songs for Low Voice (p. 87)
- 6 'White Stag' Embodied: The Feather of Death, op. 22 (1943) (p. 98)
- 7 A Pack of Fancies for a Travelling Harper(1970): Context, Performance and Reception (p. 108)
- 8 Heavenly Harps, Heavenly Cloths: The Musical Collaborations of Brian Boydell and Gráinne Yeats for Irish Harp (p. 121)
- Part II Boydell as Contributor to Irish Musical and Cultural Life
- 9 Music at Trinity College Chapel: The Innovations and Legacy of Brian Boydell (p. 139)
- 10 Bringing to Life the Spirit of an Age: Brian Boydell and Musical Life in Eighteenth-Century Dublin (p. 149)
- 11 A Voice for Irish Art Music: Brian Boydell and the Music Association of Ireland (p. 155)
- 12 Everyone's Music: The Rhetoric of Advocacy in Brian Boydell's Early Broadcasts for RTÉ Radio (p. 169)
- 13 Racing Demons: Brian Boydell as Painter (p. 185)
- 14 Listing the Papers of Brian Boydell (TCD MS 11128): An Archivist's Perspective (p. 193)
- 15 Authority, Advocacy and Activism: Music in Irish Life and Culture (p. 199)
- Notes (p. 208)
- Chronology with Cited Works (p. 233)
- Discography (p. 237)
- Bibliography (p. 240)
- Index (p. 242)