The Music of John Ireland by Fiona Richards Anglo-Catholic composer biography

Description: The Music of John Ireland by Fiona Richards Anglo-Catholic composer biography Click images to enlarge Description The Music of John Ireland. by Fiona Richards Pub. Ashgate, 2000. First edition. Hardcover in dustjacket. xiv, 282 pages, illustrated John Ireland (1879-1962) was as elusive as the music that he composed. His music resists easy categorization, in part because it is linked so closely to specific events, places and people in Ireland's personal life. This text explores the expressive and extra-musical qualities of Ireland's compositions and their complex system of personal musical symbols, images and ideas. Fiona Richards interweaves biography and musical analysis in a series of chapters that take their themes from the significant influences in Ireland's life: Anglo-Catholicism, paganism, the countryside, the city, love and war. Ireland emerges as highly individual, struggling with his religious beliefs, his sexuality, and an uncertainty as to his success. His music, often an expression of a state of mind, is given, for the first time, the close investigation that it merits. Ireland preferred to compose on a small scale, showing a masterful command of form and a gift for melody. Richards's reveals how the essence of the man shines through in the miniatures that he wrote. Condition: very good+.  Pictures sell! Auctiva offers Free Image Hosting and Editing.300+ Listing Templates! Auctiva gets you noticed! The complete eBay Selling Solution. Track Page Views WithAuctiva's Counter

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Binding: Hardback

Non-Fiction Subject: Music

Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket, Illustrated

Year Printed: 2000

Language: English