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PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS Skłodowska-Curie Fellow) are dependent on membership For the SMI/ICTM-IE and Treasa Harkin fees to support the exciting Postgraduate Meeting in (Governance & Images initiatives that you, our Maynooth University on 19–20 Officer). Following the keynote members, are continually January 2018 we have a address given by Professor developing. As a scholarly number of exciting events Amanda Bayley (Bath Spa society, our focus must stay planned. These include what University) on Saturday, 20 squarely on our stated have now become annual January, on ‘Creative and mission, to represent our events such as the Careers interactive processes in cross- discipline on behalf of our Forum (led by our student rep. cultural collaborations’, the members, on whose active Bláithín Duggan) which this Alison Dunlop Graduate Prize, participation we depend. Your year will consider careers in established by our council, will membership fees help support and beyond the Academy for be awarded at the closing the numerous services offered PhD students in musicology. reception. I encourage all who by the SMI and give you the To support our graduate come to the Maynooth opportunity to contribute to students’ professional conference to support our your discipline’s well-being. development, we are funding a students and attend as many We urge you both to continue special two-day workshop on of these special events as your membership and to public speaking on 8–9 possible. encourage colleagues and January that will help students to join our society. A graduates put into practice 2016–17 was a very busy year complete list of members’ new skills acquired. This for the SMI. The sheer number benefits can be found at: course, tailor-made for and variety of conferences and http://www.musicologyireland. musicologists, will be given by events that the SMI has com/membership-benefits-0 the award-winning teacher of promoted and supported this public speaking, Fiona year – which are documented I wish to acknowledge all that O’Meara. The course has in this newsletter – are proof has been achieved this year by generated much interest and positive of the vibrancy of the SMI council, which works places have been fully filled. musical research in Ireland. not for itself but for the entire Other highlights of the SMI/ SMI membership. The SMI is a ICTM-IE Postgraduate Apart from some external learned body, but it is also a Conference include a short 30- funding secured through an member-led body. The council, minute presentation on Friday Irish Research Council New elected by members, is a afternoon, 19 January, of The Foundations Scholarship (for dedicated, hard-working, Irish Traditional Music Archive: the Public Musicology event) creative team, which gives LITMUS Project and Research and Maynooth University freely of its time and expertise. Resources given by Dr Lynnsey Research Office (for the 2018 As a council we have a panel Weissenberger (Marie postgraduate conference), we of strengths and we have been working hard to position on by our student rep. We to restore, migrate the site to a ourselves as an innovative, and were delighted to receive such new server, update the site’s engaged society. positive feedback about the security with Captcha, and also inclusive nature of the society the e-commerce module Over the past year my time as at annual plenary conferences; Ubercart which governs the President and our time as a improvements to the website; setting up of new accounts. council has been occupied graduate events; and the The website is fully functioning with realising the aims of our establishment and – including enhanced online society, and establishing continuation of this annual payment facilities – and we are numerous initiatives. To quote SMI e-newsletter, on which its currently looking at a number our constitution, the main founder and editor, Majella of ways of optimising it for object for which the SMI is Boland, has worked tirelessly. future councils, including established is ‘for the video clips, and podcasts as advancement of education, We also take great pride in our suggested in the survey. specifically in the field of graduates who have musicology, and to promote committed themselves to We are also continuing to and foster musical scholarship musicology and many of the reach out to various learned in all its forms throughout initiatives we have introduced and scholarly societies in Ireland, north and south by – such as the Careers Forum, Ireland. In addition to the SMI organising annual conferences, Critical Skills Study Group, and Council’s Response to the generating publications, and Presentation Workshop – have National Council for maintaining a website which been founded with a view to Curriculum and Assessment contains relevant expert supporting them. Draft Document on Music for resources which are freely, and Junior Certificate, Laura publicly available’. In striving In addition to all the new links Watson was one of our to realise these aims, and which have been created on bridge-builders, attending a seeking new ways in which the our website – on Advertised one-day workshop in the SMI can expand and develop, Vacancies; Conference Hilton Hotel, Kilmainham in the length of our agendas of Chairing and Planning; last April. two-hour meetings has grown. Honorary and Corresponding I have been representing One of the first initiatives we Members; Members’ musicology on the RIA Culture discussed as a council was an Publications; Research and Heritage Committee, archives policy based on Networks, SMI Study Groups which is in direct discussion recommendations of good to name but a few – Barbara with the Creative Ireland practice. In addition to the Dignam has given hours of her Forum. I represented our existing paper archive, Michael time backing up the SMI discipline at the Creative Murphy has now created a website and databases and Ireland Forum in Dublin Castle valuable electronic archive of installing a new version of on 13 December 2017. SMI material to preserve the Drupal to ensure the site is Speakers included An activities of the society. performing more efficiently, Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, TD and is fully accessible. The and the EU Commissioner for We have also worked hard at latency issue – which arose last Education, Youth and Sport, enhanced communication with year through making so many Tibor Navracsics. In response you, our members, via relevant expert resources to the Creative Ireland Forum, I Facebook, Twitter, and annual freely and publicly available – have been invited to write a surveys. Many of the very has now been fully alleviated. short paper on music in helpful suggestions made We have changed our service collaboration with the SMI about the jobs vacancies page; provider DigiWeb to a Dublin- council, which will be one of a ways to represent graduate based provider, Spiral, and series of three papers on students, and increase their invested in the services of culture and heritage published participation have been acted Drupal Expert, Peter Lindstrom, by the Royal Irish Academy in 2 | P a g e Editor: Majella Boland 2018. It is an excellent SMI and SMA Presidents, international delegate. They opportunity to represent our Lorraine Byrne Bodley and are also willing to offer discipline. Julian Horton. The active practical support such as involvement of the Presidents introducing the conference While we are working hard for of the RMA, SMA, and SMT in organiser to a regional musicology in Ireland, we are SMI research-related activities convention bureau which also endeavouring to maintain is a rich reminder of how much offers a complimentary a more diverse, and globally we have to offer each other. accommodation and venue engaged society, and one of I am proud to represent the search. If any university or a the ways in which we have SMI in national and number of institutions are done this is through the international forums; it has interested in coming together establishment of been very rewarding to to host this landmark event in Corresponding Members, and witness the esteem in which Ireland, please contact me so Honorary Members who have international scholars hold the the SMI can support you, and I given an extraordinary SMI. We are an all-island can put you in direct contact contribution to the society, known for excellence with the relevant officers in development of musicology in and also the warmth of our Fáilte Ireland. More Ireland. This year we were welcome. We do great work, information can be found on: delighted to honour Larry and our activities – from https://www.meetinireland.co Todd (Duke University); publishing to stimulating m/conferences/ambassador- Katharina Udhe (Valparaiso debate – are highly programme University); Harald and Sharon appreciated worldwide. Krebs (University of Victoria); The guidelines and application John Rink (University of Over the past few weeks I have for Fáilte Ireland’s financial Cambridge); John Butt also been involved in talks support can be found on: (), all of with Fáilte Ireland about ways https://www.meetinireland.co whom have given so in which they can support our m/supports/financial-supports generously to the SMI on their international outreach many visits programme. In response to In the past year members of these discussions Fáilte the SMI council have engaged We were delighted to Ireland’s Business Tourism Unit in substantial and ongoing welcome to the Public has offered to support a discussion about how the Musicology International conference ambassador current climate has affected Symposium: Prof. Simon interested in making a bid to our discipline, and how we McVeigh, Professor of Music at host IMS 2027 Congress in might best respond in a way Goldsmiths, University of Ireland. Services they will that reaffirms our commitment London and incoming provide include site-inspection to music education, and President of the Royal Musical hosting as well as bid- scholarship. This is crucial in Association, and Prof. Julian documentation preparation, challenging times where the Horton, Professor of Music at and presentation (including perception of music and the Durham University and financial funding to cover any humanities in general has President of the Society for cost involved in producing changed within the Academy. Music Analysis. Prof. Robert such a bid, and travel incurred With falling numbers on music Hatten, President of the to present the bid overseas if courses, and increased Society for Music Theory, gave required). If Ireland is numbers enrolling on business his services to the Royal Irish successful in its bid to host and engineering programmes, Academy of Music as Extern IMS 2027, Fáilte Ireland will it is increasingly urgent to Examiner on the DMusPerf provide a financial articulate the importance of Programme and during his contribution towards the what we do both within and visit launched two publications operations/marketing of the beyond the Academy. One of in the Royal Irish Academy by conference of €20 per the steps we took towards 3 | P a g e Editor: Majella Boland addressing the public POSTGRADUATE CORNER internal selection and perception of our discipline in NEW SMI STUDENT submitted it in electronic 2017 was organising the Public REPRESENTATIVE format (PDF) to the prize Musicology International In April 2017, Bláithín Duggan committee. For the 2017–18 Symposium in the National was nominated SMI Student competition, the nominated Concert Hall, where each of Representative. Bláithín is a thesis must have been the 11 scholars gathered PhD student in Trinity College submitted for examination argued for the cultural Dublin and replaces Anja during either the 2015–16 or significance of musicology, Bunzel who served on council 2016–17 academic year. and for a more encompassing from 2014 to 2017; Anja Thanks to the generosity of and nuanced appreciation of graduated with a doctoral Walter and Rowena Dunlop, the musicologist’s role. The degree in September 2017. the prize money committed by symposium unveiled how The SMI council would like to the SMI has been doubled. The much work is being done by thank Anja for her work as results for the 2017–18 members in this area, and student rep. and to welcome competition are as follows: acted as a powerful reminder Bláithín Duggan for the final to us that we all have an year of our term. First prize (€350): Cathal abiding responsibility to Majella Boland Twomey (MU; supervisor: Dr actively involve ourselves in Estelle Murphy), ‘Musico- public understanding of our ALISON DUNLOP GRADUATE Poetic Structures and Vocal discipline, and to prepare for a PRIZE Style in William Boyce’s better future for musicology in The Alison Dunlop Graduate Solomon’. Ireland and internationally. Prize will be inaugurated at the SMI/ICTM-IE postgraduate Second prize (€150): Helen On that note I want to thank conference in January 2018. Gubbins (UCD; supervisor: Dr everyone who is doing such The prize is in memory of the Jaime Jones), ‘Encoding great work on behalf of the Irish musicologist Dr Alison Authenticity in Radio Music: SMI, and to each and every Dunlop (1985–2013), a gifted Renfro Valley Barn Dance and one of you for sharing your graduate of Queen’s University Kentucky Folk Music’. research at our conferences Belfast and author of The Life Christopher Morris and engaging with us. The and Works of Gottlieb Muffat, legacy of musicology in Ireland 1690–1770 . The SMI council SMI POSTGRADUATE is already profound and would like to express its CONFERENCE encouraging. We all have a gratitude to Alison’s parents Each year approximately forty duty to protect, nurture, and who will be in attendance for postgraduate music students develop it. this event. from all over Ireland and abroad present their research The prize will be awarded at the annual SMI biennially by the SMI for the postgraduate conference most distinguished master’s which joined forces with ICTM- thesis on any musicological IE in 2016. The programme topic submitted within the booklets bear testimony to the past two academic years as diverse range of research part of a taught-course interests within the SMI and master’s degree at an ICTM student community. Among others, these include institution in the Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland. historically informed analyses centring on biography,

Each institution nominated performance, and

one master’s thesis based on compositional aesthetics; music and music-making as 4 | P a g e Editor: Majella Boland socio-cultural practice all over Academy of Music. The RIAM part of the Annual SMI the world; the intersections have kindly continued to Postgraduate Conference, between music and society, facilitate the SMI meetings for jointly organised with the culture, politics, media, 2018. The dates are 7 February ICTM Ireland branch. The aim community, and disability and 7 March (18:30–20:30); 4 of the forum was to shed light studies; cross- and inter- April, 2 May, and 6 June on thesis completion and disciplinary projects (18:00–20:00). publication procedures within incorporating gender studies, the broad fields of music sports, philosophy, literary and To support these meetings studies. A summary of the key sound studies, economy, further, a Facebook group has points is available here: ecology, and theology, been set up which will act as a http://www.musicologyireland. technology, organology; and platform for sharing ideas and com/careers-forum empirical approaches to music following up on the programming, broadcasting, discussions: marketing, and music in the https://www.facebook.com/gr public sphere. The topics listed oups/178384566067905/ here reflect an almost unlimited range of individual It will also ensure that those expertise nurtured within our who cannot attend all group student community. They also meetings will be able to allude to the possibility of partake in, and follow the generating a fascinating pool discussions remotely, as well of collective wisdom when as get access to suggested Careers Forum discussion UCD students come together and secondary literature around December 2016. From left to right, exchange ideas. We encourage the topics discussed. Last Stephanie Ford, Jaime Jones, Áine Mangaoang, Christopher Morris, and all postgraduate students to year’s study group facilitated Paul Everett. join the SMI community. interesting and dynamic Bláithín Duggan discussions, and we look The 2018 forum, entitled ‘Post- forward to seeing you all at PhD: Career Opportunities CRITICAL TEXTS STUDY GROUP the 2018 study group Inside and Outside the In order to enable a more meetings. Academy,’ intends to build frequent exchange of ideas Anja Bunzel & Bláithín Duggan upon the 2016 discussions between students across the (January 2016 TCD, December colleges and sub-disciplines CAREERS FORUM 2016 UCD). Speakers have outside of the context of a The interest in music studies been invited from both conference, the SMI has increased immensely in academic and professional Postgraduate Study Group was recent years, while academic careers and will include: formed in the spring term job opportunities have Patricia Flynn (DCU), John 2017. The first semester saw remained as scarce as ever. O’Flynn (DCU), Kevin O’Brien interesting discussions of key Thus, career perspectives for (Music Generation), Orlaith texts on musical performance, music graduates go far Tunney (Careers Advisory and the media, music as beyond the areas of academia Service, TCD), and Anaïs cultural practice, popular and research in traditional Verhulst (Resonant Centre for music, musicology, and fields. In order to shed light on Musical Heritage, Belgium). cultural theory. possible career paths for music We hope that the forum will graduates a careers forum was provide a brief insight into the We are delighted to announce established in January 2016. many different career paths that the next series of Critical that a music degree offers to Text Study Group meetings The Second SMI Careers students. will commence in February Forum, hosted by UCD, took Anja Bunzel & Bláithín Duggan 2018, in the Royal Irish place on 10 December 2016 as 5 | P a g e Editor: Majella Boland THE MUSICOLOGY REVIEW Music), and J. Griffith Rollefson locking the lecture room door In December 2016, the (University College Cork). as she commenced her postgraduate journal, The The prize-winners have been presentation so that Musicology Review, changed invited to present papers at latecomers did not disturb its forum from a printed the joint SMI/ ICTM-IE those who had wisely arrived journal to an online open- Postgraduate Conference at on time. Students knew that access resource. All nine issues Maynooth University, 19–20 they had to earn Anne's can be found here: January 2018. respect. It took some a little https://www.themusicologyreview.com/ Adèle Commins while to realise that but when they had convinced her of CHMHE UNDERGRADUATE AN APPRECIATION their good intent and industry, MUSICOLOGY COMPETITION The world of musicology in they received the most RESULTS Ireland suffered a painful blow generous attention of a strict The results of the Eleventh on 5 October 2007 with the but kindly tutor – there are CHMHE Undergraduate untimely passing of Dr Anne echoes of Bach in that. Musicology Competition are as Leahy. A performance of follows: Bach’s B Minor Mass took Anne was well known to

place just one month after that musicians and concert-goers First place: James McGlynn, at a symposium on the Mass through her involvement in so University College Cork, with a held at Queen’s University many ventures in Dublin and thesis entitled ‘Scoring Belfast. The first anniversary further afield. Her very Realities: Sonically Conveying was marked by another individualistic and challenging Narrative, Temporality and performance and a further programme notes for the Characterisation in performance in her memory annual Bach cantata series at HBO’s Westworld (2016)’, took place on 19 November St Ann's Church, Dawson supervised by Danijela Kulezic- 2017. The proceeds of the Street, her stewardship of the Wilson. concert on her first organ in St Michael's Church,

anniversary, and the royalties Dún Laoghaire and its long- Second place: Ellie McGinley, from her book on the running recital series and her Dundalk Institute of Chorales, have established a participation in many national Technology, with a thesis scholarship fund to enable and international academic entitled ‘From the Periphery to postgraduate students at the conferences are still the Forefront: an Investigation DIT Conservatory to undertake remembered. Anne’s of the Processes of Revival in travel to pursue their research boundless energy and the Donegal Fiddle Tradition – this is exactly what she enthusiasm live on through and its impact on perception’, would have wanted. Anne's the careers of her numerous supervised by Sean Keegan. next project was to have been students.

a book addressing the B Minor Third place: Marie Edmonds, Mass. Even after ten years many of Mary Immaculate College, with us think of Anne almost every a thesis entitled ‘The Anne's insatiable enthusiasm day. When I am attending Significance of Traditional for music in general, and the meetings at the Conservatory I Music to the Ewe Community music of Bach in particular, frequently quip ‘What would of South-Eastern Ghana’, inspired many classes of Anne have to say about that?’ supervised by Paul Collins. students at the Conservatory – I often dread to think what

and at Maynooth University. the answer might be! Many congratulations to these Only the very brave dared miss students and their supervisors. her meticulously prepared As we celebrate and remember CHMHE is particularly grateful lectures. Her direct approach Anne's life, we can best to this year’s jury, Denise to student discipline included commemorate her by Neary (Royal Irish Academy of emulating her endless 6 | P a g e Editor: Majella Boland one years after her death the Boydell’s numerous music of a forgotten woman contributions as composer, composer will be heard at last musicologist, broadcaster, when the CD is launched in the performer, adjudicator, public Wigmore Hall on International lecturer, singing teacher, and Women’s Day, 8 March 2018, agitator for music with a varied which also happens to be Ina programme including a

Boyle’s birthday. The scores lunchtime recital by the DIT generosity and enthusiasm in and parts, which were typeset Harp Ensemble, lecture-recitals the promotion of all aspects of and edited by Sarah Burn and on Boydell’s writing for both art and music. Those of us who Emma O’Keeffe, will be solo harp and voice, papers on had the privilege of knowing available for future Boydell’s contributions to Anne will continue to be performance from the musicology, composition, enriched by that experience Contemporary Music Centre. advocacy, and education, a until we join her again. Thanks to all in SMI who roundtable discussion of Kerry Houston supported the project. Boydell’s legacy, a guest Ita Beausang lecture on Boydell’s own paintings of the 1940s IRISH COMPOSERS presented by Peter Murray, a REMEMBERED video message from former DISCOVERING INA BOYLE President Mary Robinson, a Less than a month after the keynote address delivered by successful crowdfunding Brian’s son Prof. Barra Boydell, project, ‘Discovering Ina a score launch, a special Boyle’, seven of her orchestral screening of Anne Makower’s works were recorded for a CD 1997 documentary All My by the BBC Concert Orchestra, Enthusiasms, and a celebratory conducted by Ronald Corp, concert featuring some of with two young soloists, Benjamin Baker (violin), and Nadège Rochat (cello).

The recording was held over three days in the BBC studio at Ina Boyle (1889–1967) Watford. It included the

‘Glencree’ symphony, the BOYDELL CENTENARY violin concerto, Overture for March 2017 marked the orchestra, Colin Clout and centenary of the birth of one Wildgeese. Two other works, A of Ireland’s major twentieth- Sea Song (1919) and Psalm century composers, Brian (1927), had never been Boydell. In celebration of the 2017 is the centenary of the birth of performed. The orchestra significant role he played in composer Brian Boydell. obviously loved the various Irish musical and cultural life, works and wondered why they the Brian Boydell Centenary Ireland’s most distinguished had never heard of Ina Boyle Conference was held on 23 performers including before. In fact, it was not the and 24 June in the Royal Irish ConTempo Quartet, John first time that her music was Academy of Music and Trinity Feeley, Sylvia O’Brien, Martin played by a BBC orchestra. In Long Room Hub Arts & O’Leary, William Dowdall, and 1935 her violin concerto was Humanities Research Institute. Clíona Doris. rehearsed in BBC London but The conference reappraised Barbara Dignam it was never broadcast. Fifty-

7 | P a g e Editor: Majella Boland 2016/17 SMI EVENTS both nationally and THE PUBLIC MUSICOLOGY internationally INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM Barbara Strahan The Public Musicology International Symposium, FIFTEENTH ANNUAL PLENARY organised by the SMI and in CONFERENCE, QUB association with the Society for The Fifteenth Annual Plenary Keynote speaker Christopher H. Gibbs Music Analysis, took place in Conference of the Society for (r) and founding president of the SMI Musicology in Ireland was held The Kevin Barry Recital Room Harry White (l) at the reception. in the National Concert Hall, at Queen’s University Belfast Dublin on 26 April 2017. This The location of the symposium on 16–18 June 2017. one-day symposium featured in the National Concert Hall 92 delegates attended, and a eleven international guest was key in attracting an total of 75 papers were speakers, who explored a eclectic audience, where the presented in 26 sessions. diverse range of public relationship between Encouragingly, about a third of musicology topics: concert musicology and wider musical the papers were given by curation, public musicology in life could be explored in a new delegates who had not Ireland, music theory, milieu. The symposium previously spoken at an SMI community-based projects provided the opportunity for conference, many of whom are and musicology in the media. new discourses between based in the US. The keynote musicologists, performers, lecture, ‘Playing with History The symposium programme, academics in the humanities, Yet Again’, was given by John which commenced with a composers, students, music Butt (Gardiner Professor of welcome address from the SMI pedagogues, media Music, University of Glasgow), president, Dr Lorraine Byrne professionals, and members of whose support throughout the Bodley, comprised three the music industry. conference was greatly sessions and concluded with a appreciated. The conference round-table session. also featured a plenary lecture by Dr Sarah McCleave and Dr Tríona O’Hanlon (both Queen’s University Belfast), titled ‘The European Response to Thomas Moore’s Lalla Rookh ‘, and a concert of Thomas Moore settings and Audience members at the Public Musicology International Symposium, other music inspired by Deirdre Ní Chonghaile speaking at April 2017. Moore, which featured the Symposium: fellow speakers students and staff from Aidan Thomson and Alexandra Buckle Queen’s University Belfast, and also in the photo. We were delighted to welcome to the symposium: the DIT Conservatory of Music Our keynote speaker, Prof. Prof. Simon McVeigh, and Drama. Both this lecture Christopher H. Gibbs, James H. professor of Music at and the concert formed part of Ottaway Junior Professor of Goldsmiths, University of the EU Horizon 2020-funded Music and Co-Artistic Director London, incoming President of project, ERIN (Europe’s of Bard Music Festival, the RMA. The active Reception of the Irish discussed the nature and involvement of the Presidents Melodies and National Airs: evolution of concert of the RMA and SMA in the Thomas Moore in Europe). I programming from the SMI Public Musicology am grateful for the hard work nineteenth century through to symposium is an example of of the conference and the present day. how the SMI has reached out programme committees, and to other scholarly societies for the committed team of 8 | P a g e Editor: Majella Boland postgraduate students who of Leuven, Belgium, as the Proposals from all areas of assisted during the conference keynote speaker. His keynote musicology and related music itself. address, entitled ‘A New studies are invited for the Aidan Thomson Fifteenth-Century Songbook’, following: individual papers; shed light on a previously themed-panel sessions FIRST SMI/ICTM-IE unknown French chansonnier (comprising 3 individual POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE that was discovered in its papers); roundtable sessions 2016 original condition in December (up to 6 people, each The first joint-postgraduate 2015. Highlighting the presenting a position paper, conference of the Irish uniqueness of such a followed by a discussion); National Committee of the discovery, Prof. Burn discussed lecture recitals; and poster International Council for the methods involved in presentations. Traditional Music and the coming to terms with such a Society for Musicology in new musical source and the Individual papers and papers Ireland took place on 9–10 consequent remapping of the in themed-panel sessions will December 2016 in University known repertoire of the music be 20 minutes in length, College Dublin. Without a of that period. He concluded followed by 10 minutes of specific theme, the conference the presentation with some discussion. Roundtable provided all postgraduate general remarks concerning sessions should not exceed 90 students – regardless of their the relationship between minutes, including time for research topic – the historical knowledge and discussion. Lecture recitals opportunity to present their surviving source materials, and should be 30 minutes in work amongst peers. The call how these two may inform length, including time for for papers received an each other; a valuable remark discussion. The programme enthusiastic response from for all researchers in both the committee welcomes poster students from Ireland, the disciplines of musicology and presentations, and aims to United Kingdom, Germany, ethnomusicology. We look include scheduled question- and Canada. This resulted in forward to continuing this answer sessions on current the selection of 36 speakers, interdisciplinary dialogue projects (postgraduate grouped into 12 sessions, on during the second Joint research, collaborative versatile topics ranging from SMI/ICTM-IE Annual research projects or other cultural representation and Postgraduate Conference in research projects) in its overall identity in music, musical Maynooth University in programme. instruments, and new January 2018. theoretical approaches, to Anaïs Verhulst Abstracts for all individual music and technology, song, papers should not exceed 300 and musical analysis. To CALL FOR PAPERS words. In the case of themed- encourage interdisciplinary CIT CORK SCHOOL OF MUSIC, panel sessions and roundtable thinking and the interaction 15–17 JUNE 2018 sessions, there should be an between musicologists and The Sixteenth Annual Plenary abstract for the whole session ethnomusicologists, papers Conference of the Society for (maximum 300 words) plus an were grouped together Musicology in Ireland/Aontas abstract for each individual according to common themes, Ceoleolaíochta na hÉireann, speaker (maximum 300 words while consciously combining will be hosted by Cork Institute each), and should be the different disciplines. of Technology, Cork School of submitted as a single Music, on 15–17 June 2018. document. With this interdisciplinary Prof. Peter Franklin (Emeritus discussion in mind, the Fellow, St Catherine's College, Proposals for poster conference team welcomed University of Oxford) will presentations should contain the early music scholar, Prof. deliver the keynote lecture. an outline of the project David Burn from the University (maximum 300 words), and 9 | P a g e Editor: Majella Boland there should be an indication Conference of the Society for biennial event of music of who would represent the Musicology in Ireland, 15–17 performance and artistic project at the conference. June 2018, Cork School of research which attracts Music; Second Symposium of scholars from around the Abstracts should include: title the LGBTQ+ Music Study world. The meeting presented of the paper and/or session; Group: ‘Queerness, Voice 2 keynote performances, 13 name, contact details, and Embodiment’, 20–21 April recitals, 20 lecture recitals, and affiliation of the speaker(s) 2018, Maynooth University. 10 paper presentations, and (and, in the case of themed- was attended by 105 delegates panel sessions and roundtable RECENT EVENTS from 14 countries. Several sessions, the panel convener); SMI/ASSOCIATED SMI contributions made by brief biography of the CONFERENCES/SYMPOSIA SINCE members of the SMI included speaker(s) (maximum 100 NOVEMBER 2016 the keynote lecture recitals on words per speaker); and an ‘Sounding Out the Space: An ‘Bach’s Well‐Tempered Clavier indication of equipment that is International Conference on – adding the temperament of required. the Spatiality of Sound’, 2–4 time’ presented by honorary November 2017; members, Prof. John Butt OBE The deadline for receipt of Brian Boydell Centenary (Gardiner Professor of Music, abstracts is Monday, 19 Conference, 23–24 June 2017; University of Glasgow) and February 2018. These should Fifteenth Annual Plenary ‘Humour and Tragedy in the be sent as a Word file to the Conference of the Society for Beethoven Piano Sonatas' by conference email address: Musicology in Ireland’, 16–18 John O’Conor (Shenandoah [email protected] June 2017; University, Virginia, USA). The programme committee SMI Public Musicology Further events embracing will endeavour to notify all International Symposium, 26 musicology and performance proposers of abstracts of their April 2017; included the Stanford Festival, decision by Monday, 5 March Embodied Monologues, 31 7–9 October 2017 organised 2018. Any queries regarding March 2017; by Adèle Commins with the submission process should International Guitar lectures given by Jeremy be sent to the above email Symposium, 27 January 2017; Dibble (University of Durham) address. SMI/ICTM-IE, Postgraduate and Colleen Ferguson Conference, 9–10 December (University of Eastern Programme Committee: 2016; Kentucky) on Stanford’s String Róisín Maher (CIT Cork School LGBTQ+ Music Study Group Quartets and Stanford’s Irish of Music); established 2016; Politics; Sean Hanily on Susan O’Regan (CIT Cork Harrison Medal Award, Stanford’s ‘Irish’ Music and School of Music); November 2016. Adèle Commins on Stanford’s Ruth Stanley (CIT Cork School involvement with the Feis of Music); Last September the Royal Irish Ceoil. All events took place in Aidan Thomson (Queen’s Academy of Music hosted the St Stephen’s Church – Pepper University Belfast). second Doctors in Canister Church, St Patrick’s Ruth Stanley Performance Conference, Cathedral, Christ Church organised by Denise Neary, as Cathedral, and Trinity College FORTHCOMING EVENTS part of an ongoing Chapel. While the SMI/ ASSOCIATED SMI collaboration between the performances primarily CONFERENCES/ SYMPOSIA RIAM, the Sibelius Academy at included Stanford’s works for SMI/ICTM-IE Postgraduate the University of the Arts organ, choral music, and Conference, 19–20 January Helsinki, and the Lithuanian sacred music, the weekend 2018, Maynooth University; Academy of Music and also featured performances of Sixteenth Annual Plenary Theatre. The conference is a works for violin and piano by

10 | P a g e Editor: Majella Boland Stanford, and a number of his Nocturnal after John Dowland Ireland branch of contemporaries. to ‘The guitar in Restoration the International Association Britain, 1660–1690’, from John for the Study of Popular Music The Spring Series Recollections Buckley’s Guitar Sonata No. 1 (IASPM). The group’s mission of Ireland offered a similar to African influence on Leo is to promote academic symbiosis of scholarship and Brouwer’s guitar studies, the inquiry into issues of gender performance, and showcased conference was a good omen and sexuality in the study of the research and publications of more to follow. music, and to support scholars of SMI members, Una Hunt, who research such issues Jennifer O’Connor, Axel Klein, Francesca Placanica, chair of across disciplinary and and Clare McCague along with one of our research networks, national boundaries. Through the world premières of music Embodied Monologues, symposia, regular reading recovered from the collections organised a series of research group meetings, online at the National Library of events concluding with a networks, and an active Ireland, and The National symposium on 31 March 2017 presence at international Archive of Irish Composers. at Maynooth University. In conferences, they seek to addition to individual advance academic and public The first SMI/ICTM-IE presentations, multimedia understanding of issues Postgraduate Conference posters, and lecture-recitals, including, but not limited to, organised by Anaïs Verhulst the event featured those surrounding gender, and Nicholas Cooper, at the a performance keynote sexuality, queer theory, and UCD School of Music, 9–10 address by Catherine Laws feminism in the study of December 2016, was a (University of York, Orpheus music. Among the many collaboration of two societies Institute), and an interactive activities the group hosted this spearheaded by Wolfgang keynote talk and workshop on year was a symposium ‘Music, Marx. Among the highlights of somatics and breathing by Queer, Intersections’ at Edge the conference were a keynote Róisín O'Gorman (University Hill University (nr. Liverpool) address by Prof. David Burn College Cork). The conference 26–27 May 2017, in (Leuven), ‘A New Fifteenth- was one of the first to explore collaboration with the Century Songbook’ and the solo performance in Liverpool Sound City Music launch of the first online performing arts, dance, and Festival. The group has plans edition of Musicology Review music theatre as an to begin a mentoring (Issue 9) edited by John Millar independent field of inquiry, programme that will pair more and Simon Nugent (UCD embracing perspectives as experienced scholars with School of Music). diverse as psychoanalysis and scholars earlier in their career anthropology. or studies. Six weeks later the DIT International Guitar The new LGBTQ+ Music Study One week after our very Symposium on 27 January Group is one of many research successful plenary conference, 2017, organised by Eoin Flood, projects the SMI has the Brian Boydell Centenary was a rich reflection of the supported this year. It was Conference, organised by growing interest in guitar established by Danielle Sofer Barbara Dignam took place on performance and new research in 2016 with the support of 23–24 June 2017 at Trinity in the classical guitar professional bodies Long Room Hub in community in Ireland. With throughout the UK and collaboration with the RIAM. guests including keynote Ireland, including the Royal The conference featured speaker Prof. Christopher Page Musical Association (RMA), the numerous paper presentations (), British Forum for and lecture recitals on various international performer Craig Ethnomusicology (BFE), the aspects of Boydell’s Ogden, and a treasure trove of Society for Musicology in contributions to musical life in topics explored, from Britten’s Ireland (SMI), and the UK & Ireland, many of which will be 11 | P a g e Editor: Majella Boland developed in a volume of concepts of musicology and for his research on spectralist centenary essays for music analysis. By providing a composer Tristan Murail; David publication. detailed introduction to both Rhodes (independent scholar) subjects through Bach, for his research on eighteenth- Most recently, ‘Sounding Out followed by a workshop century Dublin royal court the Space: an International component which focused on odes; Maria Byrne (Maynooth Conference on the Spatiality of three case studies (Bach, University) for an international Sound’, took place on 2–4 Scarlatti, Ives), a template for conference presentation on November 2017, in DIT subaltern musicology, a term Harry Hardy and the Royal Grangegorman Campus, coined by Karishmeh, was Irish Constabulary Band; chaired by Adrian Smith. The provided to describe the usage Damian Evans (DIT) to conference brought together of first-world (in this case, undertake research at the sound artists, visual artists, Irish-British) music academic British National Jazz composers, and academic knowledge to empower and Archives for a postdoctoral researchers in an enable third-world musicians project on Irish jazz in both its interdisciplinary environment trained in Western classical contemporaneous and to investigate this concept music so that they may one historical settings; and across different fields of day be able to be a part of Judith Wiemers (QUB) for her artistic practice, and 120 Irish/British academia, and conference presentation at the submissions were received. organisations like the SMI. RMA Twentieth-Century American artist and composer, Karishmeh Felfeli-Crawford Operetta Study Day. Her talk Bill Fontana, and Belgian artist, was titled 'American Motifs in writer, and theorist, Brandon CORRESPONDING MEMBERS the Operettas of Paul LaBelle, delivered the keynote Abraham.' 2016–17 speeches. The conference Larry Todd (Duke University); featured two concerts in Katharian Udhe (Valparaiso The Grants Committee is collaboration with the Spatial University); Harald Krebs delighted to support Music Collective. (University of Victoria); Sharon postgraduates and Lorraine Byrne Bodley Krebs (University of Victoria); independent scholars in their John Rink (University of research endeavours. We SEMINAR AND WORKSHOP IN Cambridge); John Butt encourage all eligible SMI MUSIC THEORY AND ANALYSIS (University of Glasgow). members to note the March IN INDIA and September deadlines –

Irish and Ireland-based SMI please check the SMI website members may be interested to GRANTS AND AWARDS for up-do-date information on learn of Karishmeh Felfeli- RECIPIENTS submission deadlines – and to Crawford’s education and Since 2016 there have been apply for funding where outreach project at the seven recipients of the SMI appropriate. Applications Cantabile Institute in Pune, postgraduate should be submitted to Laura India which is also the centre student/independent scholars Watson via email: for Trinity College London grants: Aoife Ní Drisceoil [email protected] grade and diploma (Maynooth University) for her Laura Watson examinations. The seminar and research on presence and spectatorship in mediatised workshop featured the SMI LIBRARY transmission of high-level opera; Sarah Busfield (Trinity College Dublin) to deliver a The library of the Society for music theoretical knowledge Musicology in Ireland is (especially Schenkerian presentation on musical representation of death on the housed in the library of the analysis) to a large group of DIT Conservatory of Music & talented pianists from various Shakespearean stage at an international conference; Liam Drama Rathmines, and parts of India who were represents the initial stages in unfamiliar with the very Cagney (independent scholar) 12 | P a g e Editor: Majella Boland development of a reference The SMI council would like to at the National Concert Hall as library for musicologists in welcome Michael Liam Gorry part of the Composing the Ireland. It was inaugurated in who will take over the Island Festival in September 2012 with the donation by technical role of maintaining 2016. Mark’s edition was Prof. Barra Boydell of part of the JSMI from Paul Everett. We swiftly followed by the launch his personal collection, and would like to thank Paul for his of Harp Studies. Perspectives continuously receives dedication to maintaining the on the Irish Harp edited by donations from other SMI JSMI, and for his collaboration Sandra Joyce and Helen Lawlor members. with the SMI. (Dublin: Four Courts Press, November 2016). Lorraine This reference collection is DISCOUNTS Byrne Bodley and Julian open for consultation by SMI members are entitled to Horton celebrated two members of the SMI. For more reduced rates at annual volumes in Schubert studies at information, please follow: plenary and postgraduate the Royal Irish Academy in http://library.dit.ie/search/?searchtyp student conferences as well as November 2016. The books, e=d&SORT=D&searcharg=society+f Schubert’s Late Music: History, or+musicology other SMI associated events. Theory, Style (Cambridge, SMI members also benefit 2016) and Rethinking Schubert ONLINE SERVICES from reduced rates at (Oxford University Press, 2016) SMI MUSIC THESES REGISTER conferences hosted by were launched by SMT The SMI Music Theses the Royal Musical Association. President, Prof. Robert Hatten. Register is a fully searchable SMI members are equally register of completed, and in- eligible for 20% discounts on progress Irish postgraduate music publications with theses, in the fields of Ashgate and Routledge. To musicology, ethnomusicology, avail of this discount, the SMI music education, music members’ code is AF042. technology, music therapy, Denise Neary performance, analysis, and composition: For more PUBLIC SEMINARS information please follow: Throughout the island of http://smimusicthesesregister.com/ Ireland, third-level institutions host free public seminars in The SMI council would like to musicology. The SMI express its gratitude to encourages all members to Catherine Ferris, the editor consult frequently the relevant since its inception, for her websites of your nearest work on the Register for over a university for more Anne-Marie O'Farrell's edition decade, including maintaining information. of Boydell’s harp the site. The council would work, Confrontations in a also like to welcome the new Cathedral, and her own NEW PUBLICATIONS editor Tríona O’Hanlon. composition, The Lauding Ear, One of the many new website were launched at the Boydell links celebrates new JSMI conference. Lorraine Byrne publications by members. For The JSMI is a peer-reviewed Bodley’s edited collection, example, Mark Fitzgerald The open-access journal Music in Goethe’s Faust: Songs of Frederick May, with established in 2005, published Goethe’s Faust in Music, and accompanying CD featuring exclusively online: Fiona Palmer’s monograph Owen Gilhooly, the Vanbrugh https://www.musicologyireland.com/j Conductors in Britain, 1870– smi/index.php/journal Quartet, and the staff and 1914: Wielding the Baton at students of DIT Conservatory the Height of Empire were The SMI council would like to of Music and Drama, launched 13 | P a g e Editor: Majella Boland both published by Boydell & On 15 November 2017 Brewer in the Summer of 2017. A Musical Offering: Essays in honour of Gerard Gillen was launched in The Oak Room of The Mansion House by Don Thornhill MRIA with Prof. Philip Nolan, President, Maynooth University, and Revd Prof. Michael Mullaney, President, St Patrick’s College Maynooth.

Please forward details of your publications (dating from 2015) for inclusion on the dedicated section for In 2017, the first analytical monograph on Brahms’ Op. 83 in the members’ publications on the English language was published. The SMI website author is SMI member Julian Horton to [email protected] who contextulaises analysis of Op. 83

For further information, please in relation to Brahms’ concept of the Helen Phelan’s Singing the concerto. consult the following link:

Rite to Belong: Music, Ritual, http://musicologyireland.com/smi- and the New Irish, published members%E2%80%99-publications by Oxford University Press, was OBITUARY OF ROHAN launched in October 2017 by STEWART-MACDONALD Prof. Declan Kilberd at the On 13 December 2017, SMI Royal Irish Academy. John member Rohan Stewart- O’Keeffe’s The Masses of Seán MacDonald, was tragically and Peadar Ó’Riada: killed in an accident near his Explorations in Vernacular home in Stratford-upon-Avon. Chant was published by Cork Rohan was born in Solihull, University Press in October England. In 1993, he 2017. matriculated as a Choral Scholar at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge. Between 2004 and 2009 he was Director of Music, Director of Studies in Music, and Bye-Fellow of Murray Edwards College, Cambridge. After leaving

A Musical Offering: Essays in honour Cambridge in 2009 he became of Gerard Gillen was published in an Independent Scholar. 2017 by Four Courts Press, and was edited by two former SMI presidents, Initially specialising in British Kerry Houston and Harry White. music of the eighteenth and

nineteenth centuries, his research interests expanded in the last few years to include topics like mid-eighteenth- century Italian symphonism

and the early nineteenth-

14 | P a g e Editor: Majella Boland century virtuoso concerto Clementi and British Musical range of concerti by Hummel, (both piano and violin). Culture: Sources, Performance Moscheles, Kalkbrenner, Ries, Rohan served on the scientific Practice, Style (Routledge, and Herz, in which he committee of the Italian 2018), and the critical edition considered notated cadenzas, National Edition of the works of Clementi's Viennese imitations of bel canto in slow of Muzio Clementi and was an Sonatas Opp. 7–10 (Ut movements and third-related honorary member of Orpheus, 2018), both of which and occasionally chromatic the Centro Studi Opera Omnia will now be dedicated to his relationships deployed as Luigi Boccherini (Lucca). memory. large-scale key schemes, and Rohan was a member of the as harmonic digressions within Rohan was also an active SMI since 2014, read papers movements. musician performing as a and engaged so generously regular choral singer, solo with fellow colleagues, and The last time I heard Rohan pianist, and accompanist, with formed friendships through his speak was at a conference in programmes that combined many visits here. honour of Susan Wollenberg ‘Classical’ repertory with his on 2 September 2016 in Lady own arrangements of mid- Margaret Hall in Oxford where twentieth-century American he again read a marvellous popular music. paper – illustrated at the piano – in which he traced He was also a regular reviewer Mozartian models and for academic journals cosmopolitan influences in the including Early three unpublished concertos Music, Eighteenth-Century of Cipriani Potter, and spoke Music, Ad Parnassum, and The so knowledgeably about the British Journal for Eighteenth- Rohan Stewart-MacDonald (1975– British piano concerto in the Century Studies. His generosity 2017) 1830s’. was again evident in the number of CD liners, Lorraine Byrne Bodley, Rohan’s intentions were to programme notes, and articles President of the SMI, partake in the forthcoming he wrote for festival booklets. remembers: ‘The first time I SMI plenary conference in heard Rohan speak was when I Cork in June, and we will miss Rohan was the author of over had the pleasure of chairing him greatly. sixty publications. Since his SMI paper ‘The Early- Majella Boland & Lorraine completing his PhD in 2001, Romantic Piano Concerto as Byrne Bodley major publications include Cultural Mediator: Elements of New Perspectives on the Bel Canto and Fantasia Keyboard Sonatas of Muzio Improvisation’ in St Patrick’s Clementi (2006). He co-edited College DCU in 2015. His with Roberto Illiano and paper argued for the centrality contributed to the multi- of improvisatory skill in the author, multi-lingual volume success of pianistic and Jan Ladislav Dussek: A operatic careers in the early Bohemian Composer “en nineteenth century, and voyage” through Europe focussed on the early- (2012), which was followed by Romantic piano concerto as a his monograph The Early mediator of dissipating Keyboard Sonata in Italy and traditions of improvisation and Beyond (2016). He had embellishment, both pianistic recently completed co-editing and operatic. Characteristically, with Luca Lévi Sala, Muzio his paper drew on a wide 15 | P a g e Editor: Majella Boland