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MUSICOLOGY TODAY: 17th Annual Plenary Conference of the Society for Musicology in Ireland 28–30 June 2019 Maynooth University MUSICOLOGY TODAY: 17th Annual Plenary Conference of the Society for Musicology in Ireland 28–30 June 2019 Maynooth University MUSICOLOGY TODAY: 17TH ANNUAL PLENARY CONFERENCE OF THE SOCIETY FOR MUSICOLOGY IN IRELAND Programme Committee Organising Committee Dr Anja Bunzel (Chair) Dr Anja Bunzel (Chair) Dr Patrick Devine Dr Patrick Devine Dr Darina McCarthy Dr Darina McCarthy Dr John O’Flynn Dr Adrian Scahill Dr Adrian Scahill Conference Assistants Technical Support Fintan Farrelly David Dunne Niamh Rita Keane Frank C. O’Donnell Conor Lawrence Power Geke Remerie Cathal Twomey The conference organisers would like to extend their sincere thanks to the following individuals and institutions for their support of this event: • Brepols Publishing • Contemporary Music Centre, Dublin • Prof. Lorraine Byrne Bodley, President of the Society for Musicology in Ireland • Dún Laoghaire Organ Concerts • Fáilte Ireland • Four Courts Press • Galway Cathedral Recitals • Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences • Kildare County Council • Maynooth Conference and Accommodation Centre: Katja Nolan, Fiona Smith, all receptionists and administrative staff • Maynooth University Bookshop John and Cian Byrne • Maynooth University Music Department: all teaching and administrative staff as well as students • Maynooth University Research Development Office • Prof. Christopher Morris, Head of Music, Maynooth University • Reverend Professor Michael Mullaney, President, St Patrick’s College, Maynooth • Prof. Philip Nolan, President of Maynooth University • Prof. Thomas O’Connor, Maynooth University Arts and Humanities Institute • Pugin Hall staff • Prof. Ray O’Neill, Vice-President for Research, Maynooth University • Prof. Maria Pramaggiore, Maynooth University Graduate Studies Office • Thomas Ryan, Maynooth University IT Services (Shop Cart) • Prof. Arnd Witte, German Department, School of Modern Languages • Society for Musicology in Ireland • Technological University Dublin — 4 — MUSICOLOGY TODAY: 17TH ANNUAL PLENARY CONFERENCE OF THE SOCIETY FOR MUSICOLOGY IN IRELAND We thank the following institutions and businesses for supporting various elements of this event: Brepols Publishing Kildare County Council Contemporary Music Centre, Dublin Maynooth University Research Development Office Maynooth University Graduate Studies Office Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Art History Maynooth University German Department, School of Modern Languages Maynooth University Music Dún Laoghaire Organ Concerts Department Maynooth University Arts and Humanities Institute Fáilte Ireland Four Courts Press Society for Musicology in Ireland Galway Cathedral Recitals Technological University Dublin — 5 — MUSICOLOGY TODAY: 17TH ANNUAL PLENARY CONFERENCE OF THE SOCIETY FOR MUSICOLOGY IN IRELAND WELCOME The Department of Music is proud and honoured to host the 17th Annual Plenary Conference of the Society for Musicology in Ireland. Musicology is fundamental to our research and teaching here in Maynooth. I am delighted to see this focus so well reflected in the number of our staff and students presenting this weekend and in the books being launched during the conference. I am proud, too, that our distinguished colleague, Professor Lorraine Byrne Bodley, has so ably led the society as president over the past four years. The diversity of expertise and methodology represented by my colleagues is characteristic of contemporary musicology, as vividly demonstrated in the rich and varied conference programme. Taken as a measure of the state of the discipline, the breadth – not to mention quality – of the sessions and papers surely responds to the conference theme, ‘musicology today’, with a confident affirmation. It asserts the value of what we do as scholars and augurs well for the future of music scholarship in Ireland and beyond. I am very pleased to welcome you to the Department of Music and to Maynooth University. A particularly warm welcome to our many international visitors: I hope you enjoy your stay in Ireland. May the conference prove provocative and enriching for all delegates. Professor Christopher Morris Head, Department of Music, Maynooth University It is a great pleasure to welcome all of you gathering at Maynooth for the 17th Annual Plenary Conference of the Society for Musicology in Ireland. It is a particular pleasure to welcome so many international contributors to our beautiful country and university. Maynooth University prides itself on the quality and compass of its scholarship which has spanned the arts and humanities, social sciences, and natural and technological sciences for over 220 years, and music scholarship occupies a particularly special place within the humanities for Maynooth and Ireland. While there are currently challenges faced by the humanities in universities, in Ireland and internationally, there is no doubt but that there will always be a need in our society for the highest levels of scholarly thinking and artistic creativity. The variety of presentations at this meeting, encompassing, to take just two examples, musicology and politics or twentieth- century music and visual culture, is emblematic of a cross-disciplinary approach to scholarship which this university embraces and which, I believe, will answer some of the challenges. Likewise the span of genres across classical, popular, traditional and jazz, and wide range of topics, should make for an extremely open and stimulating atmosphere – which is exactly as the organisers intend. I wish all participants every intellectual satisfaction and a very enjoyable conference. Professor Ray O’Neill Vice-President for Research and Innovation, Maynooth University — 6 — MUSICOLOGY TODAY: 17TH ANNUAL PLENARY CONFERENCE OF THE SOCIETY FOR MUSICOLOGY IN IRELAND Welcome to the Department of Music, Maynooth University, Ireland, and to the international conference Musicology Today, the 17th Annual Plenary Conference of the Society for Musicology in Ireland. I should like to extend our warm appreciation for your participation in this event and a very special welcome to those who have travelled far to share your research. We are honoured by your presence, and our hope for you in the next three days is that each of you will enjoy the extraordinary range of papers presented at the conference and that you will have ample opportunity for meaningful engagement and exchange. The aim of this conference is to embrace the broad range of subject specialisms which musicology enjoys today and to address topical issues in our discipline both in academia and in the public domain. It is our hope that this conference will make an important contribution to current debates surrounding musicology today while searching for new ways in which musicology can illuminate our lives both privately and professionally. One of the aims of our society is to foster a culture of inquiry, collegiality and collaboration among our members. On behalf of the SMI council and my colleagues in Maynooth I offer you a traditional warm Irish welcome: céad míle fáilte - 100,000 welcomes. Thank you for your vital contribution to our conference and for your engagement with our society. Professor Lorraine Byrne Bodley, DMUS, PHD, MRIA President, Society for Musicology in Ireland Professor of Musicology, Maynooth University On behalf of the organising committee I am honoured to welcome you to the 17th Annual Plenary Conference of the Society for Musicology in Ireland. In the conception and planning of this conference two aspects featured prominently in discussions within both SMI Council and the conference organising committee. Firstly, musicology in Ireland transcends Ireland’s borders geographically, methodologically and intellectually. Secondly, musicology in Ireland unites a wide range of topics, schools of thought, age groups and career stages. It is those two aspects which led to the seemingly unspecific (yet hopefully encouraging and open) title of this year’s conference, Musicology Today. It is our hope to unveil, question and further develop current tendencies in musicology in its broadest sense, and we are very much looking forward to a lively exchange of ideas. We wish to extend our sincere thanks to all attendees for their interest in our conference, for their invariably open-hearted and reliable cooperation in the lead-up to this event, and for all the administrative efforts and spatial (de)tours they have taken in order to be in Maynooth from 28 to 30 June 2019. I wish us all an inspirational weekend full of interesting lectures, lecture recitals, discussions and concerts as well as stimulating conversations, happy reunions with old friends and fruitful new acquaintanceships in musicological research. Dr Anja Bunzel Chair of Conference Committee, Czech Academy of Sciences — 7 — Musicology Today: 17th Annual Plenary Conference of the Society for Musicology in Ireland CONFERENCE SCHEDULE Friday 28 June 2019 09:00 Registration (foyer, Music Department, Logic House, South Campus, Maynooth University) 09:30 Opening & Welcome (Bewerunge Room, Music Department) Session 1 bewerunge room o’callaghan room gillen room 10:00– 1a: Music-Cultural Practice and Popular Culture 1b: Glances into Archives and Transcriptions 1c: Irish and British Twentieth-Century Art 12:00 Then and Now Chair: Dr Kerry Houston (TU Dublin, Ireland) Music Chair: Professor Lorraine Byrne Bodley Chair: Dr Martin O’Leary (Maynooth University,