Creative Impulses, Cultural Accents: Brian Boydell's Music, Advocacy, Painting and Legacy

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Barbara Dignam Barra Boydell

Creative Impulses, Cultural Accents

Brian Boydell's Music, Advocacy, Painting and Legacy

Barbara Dignam, Barra Boydell

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University College Dublin Press
18 August 2022

Music; Theory of music & musicology

Fifteen essays explore the life of an unparalleled figure in the musical and cultural life of twentieth-century Ireland.

Brian Boydell (1917–2000) was one of twentieth-century Ireland’s leading composers and something of a Renaissance man to boot. He became a household name not only for his music and outspoken support of the expansion of Irish cultural identity, but for the many hats he wore as a broadcaster, professor, performer, and long-term member of Ireland’s Arts Council. The recent centenary of his birth stimulated fresh interest in Boydell’s many compositions and his role as a multidimensional figure in Ireland’s musical and cultural life. The fifteen essays collected here focus both on his music—from his earliest orchestral works to his pioneering compositions for Irish and concert harp—and on his more varied contributions, including his musicological research, his involvement as a founding member of the Music Association of Ireland, his professorship at Trinity College Dublin, and his radio career. Creative Impulses, Cultural Accents also draws on Boydell’s private papers to illuminate little-known corners of his life, like his interest in painting. This essay collection is a celebratory salutation to an entirely fascinating figure who contributed immensely to the cultural evolution of a modern nation.

By: Barbara Dignam, Barra Boydell
Imprint: University College Dublin Press
Country of Publication: Ireland
ISBN: 9781910820940
ISBN 10: 1910820946
Pages: 300
Publication Date: 18 August 2022
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Barbara Dignam is Assistant Professor in Music at Dublin City University. Her research explores intersections of music, language, technology, and culture. She contributed to The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland (Dublin, 2013), and has published on contemporary Irish composer Roger Doyle in Irish Musical Analysis. Barra Boydell is Emeritus Professor of Musicology, Maynooth University, and Brian Boydell's son. Co-editor of The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland (Dublin, 2013), his other books include A History of Music at Christ Church Cathedral Dublin (Woodbridge, 2004).