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In My Own Light: A Memoir - Raymond Deane cover

In My Own Light: A Memoir - Raymond Deane

Autobiography of composer Raymond Deane.

The Liffey Press
€ 17.95

Ina Boyle (1889-1967): A Composer's Life

The Irish composer, Ina Boyle (1889-1967), was born in Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow, where she enjoyed a sheltered childhood as a member of an Anglo-Irish family with roots in the medical, military and diplomatic professions. Her first music teacher was her clergyman father, who made violins for a hobby. She started to compose from an early age and soon found a passion for music that lasted a lifetime, spanning two world wars, the 1916 rebellion, the war of independence, the civil war and the economic war. Ina Boyle studied privately in Dublin with C.H. Kitson and Percy Buck, she had her first success in 1919 when her orchestral rhapsody, ‘The magic harp’, which was selected for publication by the prestigious Carnegie United Kingdom Trust and was performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Adrian Boult. From 1923, realising the need to expand her musical horizons, she visited London for composition lessons with Ralph Vaughan Williams whenever family duties allowed, until her travels were curtailed by the outbreak of the Second World War. Vaughan Williams thought highly of her works but, despite her best efforts to promote them, few were performed in public. During the 1940s some of her orchestral music was broadcast on Radio Éireann in a series of programmes on Irish composers. After the death of her father in 1951, she was again free to travel to London while devoting the rest of her life to composition. As one of twentieth-century Ireland’s most prolific composers and the first Irishwoman to undertake a symphony, a concerto and a ballet, this first book on the life and music of Ina Boyle is long overdue.

Cork University Press
€ 25.00
The Life and Music of James Wilson - Mark Fitzgerald cover

The Life and Music of James Wilson - Mark Fitzgerald

The book is the first study of James Wilson (1922–2005), a prolific and influential composer who was also one of the founding members of Aosdána, and a key figure in the Music Association of Ireland during the 1950s and 60s. As teacher of composition at the Royal Irish Academy of Music and the Ennis (later AIC) Composition Summer School he had an important influence on later generations of composers.

Cork University Press
€ 39.00
Frank Corcoran Festschrift At Seventy: Old and New - Sean agus Nua: An Irish Composer Invents Himself - ed. Hans-Dieter Grünefeld cover

Frank Corcoran Festschrift At Seventy: Old and New - Sean agus Nua: An Irish Composer Invents Himself - ed. Hans-Dieter Grünefeld

This book is edited by Hans-Dieter Grünefeld and brings together a range of interviews, articles and reflections on Frank Corcoran and his music from several authors. Also included in the book are some of the composer’s notes, memories and photos of his musical past, as well as paintings from Lazio, Italy by his wife Katharina Spitzer, an area where they spend several months each year.

€ 24.95
Different Voices: Irish Music and Music in Ireland - Benjamin Dwyer cover

Different Voices: Irish Music and Music in Ireland - Benjamin Dwyer

Different Voices: Irish Music and Music in Ireland provides new insight into contemporary music in Ireland. Through twelve interviews with Irish or Ireland-based composers ranging in age from 26 to 80, the book delves into the compositional and stylistic eclecticism of Irish music.

Wolke Verlag
€ 20.00
Field Day Music 2: Raymond Deane - Patrick Zuk cover

Field Day Music 2: Raymond Deane - Patrick Zuk

The second in a series of biographical books on composers in Ireland.

Field Day
€ 21.00
Field Day Music 1: Aloys Fleischmann - Séamas de Barra cover

Field Day Music 1: Aloys Fleischmann - Séamas de Barra

The first in a series of biographical books on composers in Ireland.

Field Day
€ 21.00
A Hazardous Melody of Being: Seóirse Bodley’s Song Cycles on the Poems of Michael O’Siadhail - ed. Lorraine Byrne Bodley cover

A Hazardous Melody of Being: Seóirse Bodley’s Song Cycles on the Poems of Michael O’Siadhail - ed. Lorraine Byrne Bodley

An analysis of Seóirse Bodley's Song Cycles on the Poems of Michael O’Siadhail.

Carysfort Press
€ 20.00
A Community of the Imagination: Seóirse Bodley’s Goethe Settings - ed. Lorraine Byrne Bodley cover

A Community of the Imagination: Seóirse Bodley’s Goethe Settings - ed. Lorraine Byrne Bodley

An analysis of Seóirse Bodley's musical settings of Goethe's poetry.

Carysfort Press
€ 20.00
Constellations: The Life and Music of John Buckley - Benjamin Dwyer cover

Constellations: The Life and Music of John Buckley - Benjamin Dwyer

Full-length musical biography of composer John Buckley.

Carysfort Press
€ 20.00

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