A musical offering : essays in honour of Gerard Gillen

This gathering of seventeen specially commissioned essays and two original editions of music honours the manifold achievements of Gerard Gillen as organist, church musician, university professor and scholar. 'A musical offering' includes new research on the history of church music in Ireland, a sequence of organ studies devoted to the instrument, its repertoire and its practitioners, essays on European sacred music, liturgy and performance, and essays in textual transmission history and cultural history. The contributors to this volume are friends, colleagues or former students of Professor Gillen's (many are all three), and the topics they engage reflect the breadth of his own interest in the vast domain of European church music and beyond. The prominence afforded in this book to composers such as Jehan Alain, J.S. Bach, Anton Bruckner, Allesandro Cellini, Anton�n Dvor�k, Andr� Fleury, Jean Langlais, Gaston Litaize, Se�n � Riada and Franz Schubert is richly contextualized in a host of different settings. These include the Roman Catholic liturgy, cultural nationalism as a preoccupation of Irish musicology, the narrative of church music from 1800 to the present day, church music and Irish traditional music, the organ in Irish music festivals, church music education in France, the technical development of the organ in Germany and the work of individual organists and church musicians in Ireland and continental Europe. [Subject: Musical Studies, Dvor�k, Schubert, Cellini, Marchant, Grieg, Feis Ceoil, Irish Studies] Cover Frontispiece Title page Copyright Contents Contributors Acknowledgments Foreword Introduction 1 Catholic church music in Limerick, c.1860–1965 2 Leading from behind? St Patrick’s College, Maynooth and thedevelopment of church music in Ireland, 1800–1914 3 A school for church music in Ireland: the evidence of Irishperiodical literature 4 Alessandro Cellini (1830–88) and Catholic church music inDublin: a preliminary assessment 5 A parish choir in times of reformation 6 Towards a reconsideration of the place of traditional music in theCatholic church 7 Seán Ó Riada’s Requiem do shaighdiúir 8 From Marchant to Greig: a seamless thread through anuncertain terrain 9 From p to ff: a German organ crescendo 10 Remembering Jehan Alain (1911–40) 11 the organ in Feis Ceoil, 1897–1985 12 Bruckner, One second for the king 13 Schubert’s sacred music: influence, anxiety, myth 14 Church music education and the organ in France, 1800–1900 15 ‘... playing with our bandmaster in sextet performances at alunatic asylum, where in time I became organist also’: Dvořákthe performer 16 Lament: a lost liturgical category? 17 Revisiting the reception of J.S. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier IIin pre-Classical Vienna 18 Conundrums of national musicology: an appreciation ofthe Encyclopaedia of music in Ireland (2013) 19 ‘A priest of eternal imagination’: Joyce, music and RomanCatholicism Gerard Gillen: select bibliography Index Professor Gerard Gillen will celebrate his 75th birthday on 16 August 2017. Many of his friends and colleagues mark that occasion here with a collection of essays that reflects the stellar contribution that he has made to music and musicology in Ireland