A History of Music at Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin

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Boydell Press, 2004 - 218 Seiten
Christ Church cathedral is an Anglican cathedral in a catholic country. Musical and archival sources (the most extensive for any Irish cathedral) provide a unique perspective on the history of music in Ireland.

Christ Church has had a complex and varied history as the cathedral church of Dublin, one of two Anglican cathedrals in the capital of a predominantly Catholic country and the church of the British administration in Ireland before1922. An Irish cathedral within the English tradition, yet through much of its history it was essentially an English cathedral in a foreign land. With close musical links to cathedrals in England, to St Patrick's cathedral in Dublin, and to the city's wider political and cultural life, Christ Church has the longest documented music history of any Irish institution, providing a unique perspective on the history of music in Ireland.
Barra Boydell, a leading authority on Irish music history, has written a detailed study drawing on the most extensive musical and archival sources existing for any Irish cathedral. The choir, its composers and musicians, repertoire and organs are discussed within the wider context of city and state, and of the religious and political dynamics which have shaped Anglo-Irish relationships since medieval times. More than just a history of music at one cathedral, this book makesan important contribution to English cathedral music studies as well as to Irish musical and cultural history.

BARRA BOYDELL is Senior Lecturer in Music, National University of Ireland, Maynooth.

 

Inhalt

The modern cathedral from the southwest as restored by George
1
Sources
6
Church Cathedral Dublin London 1882
9
Musical sources associated with Christ Church
14
Romanesque capital depicting musicians and dancers c 1200
15
Polyphony
20
the Reformation
32
The conditions and duties of the choirmen
38
The choirboys and their master
109
The state cathedral
119
The purchase and copying of music
125
Opening of Ralph Roseingrave Bow down thine ear O Lord copied
130
Music composed by Christ Church musicians
131
The choral repertoire
146
elled 183033 looking west The view includes Telfords organ
152
The conditions standards and duties of the choir
153

Music and the state
44
Organs and organists
52
The cessation of cathedral services
61
Sketch map of Dublin c 1680 by Thomas Dineley National Library
66
The reestablishment and duties of the choir
69
Choirmens incomes and the augmentation estate
76
State occasions and the use of instruments
82
The Hosier MS Durham Dean and Chapter Library MS B
94
the Eighteenth
101
Christ Church cathedral from the southwest c 1815 Watercolour
103
Organs and organists
159
The interior of the nave in 1835 as illustrated in the Dublin Penny
160
The repertoire and the nineteenthcentury choral revival
166
Disestablishment
172
Organs and organists
179
The phoenix rises
186
Succession list of masters of the boysmusic
193
Index
205
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