The JMI : March/April 2007 : Volume 7, Number 2
The Journal of Music in Ireland: Ireland's Bi-Monthly Music Magazine
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March/April 2007
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  • Editorial: Territorial
    Toner Quinn
    Talk about ‘music education’ in Ireland is actually about classical music education.
  • The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland
    Barra Ó Séaghdha
    The very first Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland, the most comprehensive publication on music ever to have been undertaken in Ireland, is currently in preparation and scheduled to be published in 2009. Including over 2,500 articles reflecting Ireland’s musical culture, it will be the standard work of reference on musical life in this country for many years to come. Given the controversial views on Irish musical culture of one of the two principal editors, and the lack of debate surrounding them, Barra Ó Séaghdha asks questions about the encyclopaedia’s coverage of classical and contemporary Irish music.
  • Honouring Deane
    Barra Boydell
    A review of a new book by Patrick Zuk on composer Raymond Deane, part of the new Field Day Music series, and the first biography to be published in an Irish composer's lifetime.
  • Dublin Style
    Toner Quinn
    A review of the recent Temple Bar Trad traditional music festival in Dublin.
  • Changing our in-tune
    Benedict Schlepper-Connolly
    A review of Ross W. Duffin's new book on tuning, How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and why you should care).
  • What's wrong with the RIAM?
    Richard Pine
    If we cared as much about our musical life as we do about our national theatre we would already have seen the Royal Irish Academy of Music discussed in the same terms as the Abbey, argues former RIAM Governor Richard Pine. But can a way forward now be found, one that involves the creation of an Irish Academy for the Performing Arts?