A Musical Offering ─ Essays in Honour of Gerard Gillen

Professor Gerard Gillen celebrates his 75th birthday on August 16, 2017. In this volume, friends and colleagues of the esteemed professor honor his work with a collection of essays reflecting the stellar contribution that he has made to music and musicology in Ireland. Contents include: Foreword by Prof. Emeritus T.P. Dolan (U College Dublin); David Adams (Royal Irish Academy of Music) From pp to ff: a German organ crescendo; Lorraine Byrne Bodley (Maynooth U), Schubert's sacred music; Paul Collins (Mary I, U Limerick), Catholic church music in Limerick, c.1860-1965; R.V. Comerford (Maynooth U), The historiographical significance of The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland (2013); David Connolly (DkIT and St Michael's, Dun Laoghaire), Church music education and the organ in France, 1800-1900; Kieran A. Daly (ind.), St. Mary's Guild, Dublin: a parish choir in times of trouble; Frank Lawrence (U College Dublin), Alessandro Cellini (1830-88), a Roman in Dublin; Darina McCarthy (Maynooth U), Leading from behind? St Patrick's College, Maynooth, and the development of church music in Ireland, 1800-1914; David Mooney (Dublin Institute of Technology), The Feis Ceoil and the evolution of twentieth-century organ music in Ireland; Carole O'Connor (Dublin Institute of Technology), Remembering Jehan Alain (1911-40); Ite O'Donovan (Lassus Scholars), A school of church music in Ireland; Jan Smaczny (Queen's U, Belfast), Dvorák the performer; Yo Tomita (Queen's U, Belfast), The well-tempered clavier in pre-classical Vienna: a new source and its implication; Liam Tracey (St Patrick's College, Maynooth), Lament: a lost liturgical category; and Harry White (U College Dublin), 'A priest of eternal imagination': Joyce, music and Roman Catholicism; and more. [Subject: Musical Studies, Dvorák, Schubert, Cellini, Marchant, Grieg, Feis Ceoil, Irish Studies]