The Musicology Review is published annually in September and copies are available from the School of Music in UCD, or can be ordered here, priced €15 (including p&p).
The yearbook can also be viewed in selected libraries; single articles can be purchased for €2 and will be delivered by email in pdf form.
Issue 5
Issue 4
Issue 3
Issue 2
Inaugural Edition
UCD Musicology Prize Article
Imagined Histories, Real Presences: Interpreting L'Orfeo
Shane McMahon
Towards a Regional Understanding of Irish Traditional Music
Daithí Kearney
Music and Gender Performance in the Films of Baz Luhrmann
Mary Sharkey
Exploring Musical Narratives: Issues of Reception History in Schubert’s Piano Duets
Barbara Strahan
Wagner’s Anti-Semitism: A Critical Examination of Das Judenthum in der Musik
Rebecca Holohan
Benjamin Britten’s Art Song: A Direct Engagement with the Heritage of the German Lied
Tradition
Paul Higgins
The Origins of Minimalism in Music
Mark Rooney
Patterns of Temporal Relationships in Post-Minimalist Music: Vernacular Influences in the
Music of John Adams, Steve Reich and Philip Glass
Eoin Conway
The ‘Humoristic’ Intellectual Suicide of Erik Satie
Ann-Marie Hanlon
Review Colloquium
SMI Second Annual Postgraduate Students’ Conference
Music Department, NUI Maynooth, 24th January 2009
Wolfgang Marx
ICTM Ireland Annual Conference
School of Music, University College Dublin, 27th-28th February 2009
Helen Lawlor
UCD Musicology Prize Article
Kevin Volans and African Aesthetics: Cultural Representation through Music
Elaina Solon
French Influence on Pelham Humfrey’s Instrumental Verse Anthems
Laura Anderson
A Critique of Pure Feminism? Unveiling the Female Other in Seventeenth-Century Vocal Music
Pauline Graham
The Emancipation of Ambiguity: An Investigation into the Nature of Musical Notation
Aoife MacAlister
On Kevin O’Connell’s String Quartet
Peter Moran
Music and Intelligence – An Inherent Link?
Keelin Murray
The Symphony in Nineteenth-Century Russia: Towards the Adoption of a Hermeneutic Approach in Musicology
Ross Fortune
Structure and Meaning in Liszt’s Weinen, Klagen Variations for Organ
Carole O'Connor
Review Colloquium
‘Remembering Ligeti’ Festival 9th–11th November 2007
Liberty Hall and National Concert Hall, Dublin
Seán Clancy
15th Biennial International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music
University College Dublin, 25th–28th June 2008
Holger Stüwe
Annina Ahola
Articles
Music as Manipulation: A Critical Analysis of Adorno’s Philosophy of Musical Influence
Linda O’Halloran
The ‘Perfect Collaborator’: Ligeti and the Films of Stanley Kubrick
Ciarán Crilly
Roll Over Beethoven: New Musicology Aesthetics of Violence in the Ninth Symphony
Angela Moran
New England Artists: Charles Ives and E.E. Cummings
Adrienne Brown
Ruth Crawford Seeger, Palindromes, Parameters and the Piano
Johanne Heraty
‘Authenticity’ and Performance Practice: A Recovery Mission to Rescue a Violated Term
Fy Gadiot
The Mendelssohnian Engagement: Discontinuity, Society and Autobiography in the Lied ohne Worte, Op 35 No. 6
Brian Fahey
Irish Women and Traditional Music
Dara McGarrigle
A Mainlander’s Perspective: The Song and Dance Traditions of Tory Island
Con McFadden
Black and White Culture in reference to the African American Music Industry from Motown. Ray Charles’ I gotta woman, and Kanye West’s Gold digger
Sarah Murphy
The Use of Music as an Ideological Tool in Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket
Barry Shanahan
An Investigation of Text and Music in Shostakovich’s Fourteenth Symphony
Sheryl Lynch
UCD Musicology Prize
‘How could an English composer … be so utterly and entirely unEnglish?’ Elgar and The Dream of Gerontius
Maria McHale
Review Colloquium
K.D.Hartzell, Catalogue of Manuscripts Written or Owned in England up to 1200 Containing Music. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press in association with The Plainsong and Medieval Music Society, 2006
Frank Lawrence
Musical Journeys with the Flight of the Earls,
Conference, DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama
Wolfgang Marx
Articles
The ‘Ricercare a 6’ from Bach’s Musical Offering and the Musical Work
Liam Cagney
Canonic Devices and Techniques in the Orgelbüchlein
Colm Henry
The Duty of Words to Music: Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Riders to the Sea
Caireann Shannon
The Harmonic and Melodic Resources of Prokofiev’s Visions Fugitives, Op. 22
Thomas Kehoe
Ruth Crawford Seeger’s String Quartet (1931): An analysis of the Third and Fourth Movements
Johanne Heraty
Revealing Meaning in Music of Changes and Structures 1
Seán Clancy
Irish Harping: Styles, Repertoire and Technique
Helen Lyons
Idling on Some Compulsive Fantasy: Schubert’s Second Subjects and the String Quintet in C Major, D.956
Anne Hyland
Review Colloquium
Jane Glover, Mozart’s Women: His Family, His Friends, His Music. London: Macmillan, 2005.
Melanie Unseld, Mozarts Frauen: Begegnungen in Music und Liebe. Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 2005.
‘Mozart’s Women’ or ‘Mozart’s Women’?
Wolfgang Marx
Peter Hill and Nigel Simeone, Messiaen. London: Yale University Press, 2005
‘Discovering Messiaen…’
Anne Keeley
Mendelssohn in the Long Nineteenth Century
Trinity College Dublin, 15-17 July 2005
Brian Fahey
‘Such People come into the World Only Once in a Hundred Years’: Mozart in the
Twenty-first Century
University College Dublin, 3 February 2006
Julian Horton
Articles
Time and Technique: Illustrations of the Theology of Olivier Messiaen
John O’ Farrell
Formal Distortion and Social Context in the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Symphonies of Dmitri Shostakovich
Úna-Frances Clarke
The Heroism and Reification of Dmitri Shostakovich
Donal MacErlaine
The Relationship Between Music and Politics in Germany in the Advent of the Third Reich
Nicola Cullen
Music and the Hierarchy of the Arts: The Role of Music in the Philosophical Systems of Kant and Hegel
Cian O’ Reilly
Strategies of Vocal Composition in Schubert’s Winterreise
Johanne Heraty
The Life, Times and Dance Music of Johann Strauss the Younger, in Particular His impact on Waltz Compositions
Orla Molony
Musical and Extra-Musical Influences in Arnold Schoenberg’s Expressionist Pan-tonal Phase; as Exemplified in Die Glückliche Hand
Pádraig Meredith
Qui Tollis Cantabimus: Recusant Elements in William Byrds’s Latin Motets
Bláthnaid Healy