{"title":"Werktreue Ideology in Clara Schumann’s and Franz Liszt’s Piano Transcriptions","authors":"Deirdre Toh","doi":"10.35561/jsmi18237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35561/jsmi18237","url":null,"abstract":"The piano transcriptions of Clara Schumann (hereafter ‘Schumann’) and Franz Liszt capture the tensions surrounding the concepts of interiority and virtuosity in nineteenth-century Germany. The two composers’ transcriptions of Robert Schumann’s ‘Widmung’ could not be more different: one draws upon the faculty of the mind with its ‘spirit and depth’, the other prizes ‘spirit over the letter’ with its bodily engagement. Nonetheless, there is an important meeting point to be found between these two differing approaches in Liszt’s transcription of three Lieder by Schumann. In this article, I juxtapose Schumann and Liszt to demonstrate how their ideological differences concerning Werktreue, or ‘fidelity to the score’, problematize received notions of virtuosity and interiority. Alexander Stefaniak’s notion of elevated virtuosity, in which virtuosity can be legitimized with interiority for its attendant spirit and depth, offers a productive starting point to understanding Schumann’s and Liszt’s individual manner of transcription. Yet, it does not fully address how ideas of interiority and virtuosity depend upon ideological conceptions of the Work. To probe the interiority-virtuosity divide as it relates to the Work, I refer to the history of improvisation to nuance nineteenth-century attitudes towards virtuosity and to provide a critical discourse around mental and physical engagement with music. The categories of Work and improvisation prove to be much more separated for Schumann than for Liszt– a separation that is bound up with Schumann’s ideal of faithfulness to the Work.","PeriodicalId":145717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland","volume":"264 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139173219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"David J. Burn (ed.), The Book of Requiems: From the Earliest Ages to the Present Period, 1450–1550, (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2022). ISBN 978-9462703261, 208 pp, €70 (hardback).","authors":"Wolfgang Marx","doi":"10.35561/jsmi18234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35561/jsmi18234","url":null,"abstract":"A review of David J. Burn (ed.), The Book of Requiems: From the Earliest Ages to the Present Period, 1450–1550, (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2022). ISBN 978-9462703261, 208 pp, €70 (hardback).","PeriodicalId":145717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130883750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"P. Dickinson (ed.), 'Chamber Music (James Joyce). Thirty-two Songs for High Voice and Piano by G. Molyneux Palmer' (2020); 'James Joyce’s Favourite Songs: Chamber Music/The Joyce Book', M. Hill, P. Dickinson & M. Dickinson (Heritage Records, 2020)","authors":"A. Klein","doi":"10.35561/jsmi18201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35561/jsmi18201","url":null,"abstract":"A review of Peter Dickinson (ed.), Chamber Music (James Joyce). Thirty-two Songs for High Voice and Piano by G. Molyneux Palmer (Tewkesbury: Goodmusic Publishing, 2020). ISMN M-2223-1494-8; James Joyce’s Favourite Songs: Chamber Music / The Joyce Book; Martyn Hill, tenor & Peter Dickinson, piano (Chamber Music); Meriel Dickinson, mezzo & Peter Dickinson, piano (Joyce Book) (CD, Heritage Records HTGCD 175, 2020).","PeriodicalId":145717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122026779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Áine Mangaoang, John O’Flynn and Lonán Ó Briain (eds), Made in Ireland: Studies in Popular Music (2021)","authors":"Sean Williams","doi":"10.35561/jsmi17224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35561/jsmi17224","url":null,"abstract":"A review of Áine Mangaoang, John O’Flynn and Lonán Ó Briain (eds), Made in Ireland: Studies in Popular Music (New York: Routledge, 2021). ISBN 9781138336032","PeriodicalId":145717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116799700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“It’s always nice to head for home”: Music-Making, Sense of Place, and Corkonian Identity in the Rory Gallagher Irish Tour ’74 Documentary","authors":"L. O’Hagan","doi":"10.35561/jsmi17223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35561/jsmi17223","url":null,"abstract":"This paper builds upon the work of Hogan (2016, 2021) by casting a historical lens on the importance of emotional connectivity to place in Cork through a case study of the city’s most famous musician: the blues/rock guitarist Rory Gallagher. Specifically, it investigates how sense of place and Corkonian values are narratively produced and depicted in the Irish Tour ’74 documentary. It argues that the documentary portrays County Cork as a close-knit place with a deep sense of community and Gallagher as the physical representation of these values. Analysis of specific scenes also highlights the significance of localist expressions of identity and localised forms of prestige for Gallagher, as well as the way in which his songs can be renarrativised to create new meanings that either accentuate his yearning for home or promote a form of hybridised parochialism that centres around Belfast as his 'second home'.","PeriodicalId":145717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124706001","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Melodic Structures in the Double Jigs of O’Neill’s The Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems (1907)","authors":"S. Doherty","doi":"10.35561/jsmi17222","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35561/jsmi17222","url":null,"abstract":"O’Neill’s The Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems (1907) is a collection of foundational importance for the modern performance practice of Irish traditional music. This article examines the 365 double jigs of this collection in terms of their patterns of motivic repetition using an analytical methodology devised to explicate and compare the melodic structures of each part. This dataset demonstrates the prevalence of four standard melodic structures: period (39%), sentence (11%), hybrid (35%), and allied (2%). This survey considers the repetition of motives both within their originating part (internal repetition) and outside their originating part (external repetition) and shows that as the number of parts increases, so too does the amount of average overall repetition. These findings may provide a baseline to assess other tune classifications (reel, hornpipe, etc.), historical tune collections, regional repertoires, and the output of individual tune composers.","PeriodicalId":145717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129041866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Archaism, Antiphony and the Music of the Book of Common Prayer: A Mythical Amalgam","authors":"I. Sexton","doi":"10.35561/jsmi17221","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35561/jsmi17221","url":null,"abstract":"The Book of Common Prayer (BCP) is more than four hundred and fifty years old and part of the very fabric of Anglicanism throughout the world. It has a vast catalogue of musical repertory, both in the form of settings of the text of the BCP, but also settings of other sacred texts that might be used at BCP services. This music achieved an archaic personality from the early days of the BCP, but many later periods in the life of the Anglican Church have engendered and even promoted an archaic personality quite conspicuously. Musical archaism, in turn, has supported the formal, conservative and archaic personality of the BCP and its practice more generally. The music of the BCP has also engendered a patriarchal, hierarchical and antiphonal identity, all of which have strong connexions with archaism. Additionally, the Ecclesiological Movement (or the Cambridge Camden Movement) and the Tractarian Movement (or the Oxford Movement) and their systematic archaic and antiphonal schemes have also brought archaism into the company of the music of the BCP. Finally, the archaic nature of the Tudor words of the BCP is a continuous and increasing feature from about the time of the Restoration onwards. Yet the archaic identity, or ethos, spirit, or myth, that is provoked by all these ingredients may well, at times, have been a work of fantasy rather than fact.","PeriodicalId":145717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115002802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tes Slominski, Trad Nation: Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Irish Traditional Music (2020)","authors":"Annmarie Hanlon","doi":"10.35561/jsmi16215","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35561/jsmi16215","url":null,"abstract":"A review of Tes Slominski, Trad Nation: Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Irish Traditional Music (Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2020). ISBN 9780819579287, 244pp, £19.95 (Hardback). ","PeriodicalId":145717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130210341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Charles Rosen and Catherine Temerson, The Joy of Playing, the Joy of Thinking: Conversations About Art and Performance (2020)","authors":"H. Tinney","doi":"10.35561/jsmi16214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35561/jsmi16214","url":null,"abstract":"A review of Charles Rosen and Catherine Temerson, The Joy of Playing, the Joy of Thinking: Conversations about Art and Performance, translated by Catherine Zerner (Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020). ISBN: 9780674988460, 160 pp, €20 (hardback).","PeriodicalId":145717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134217022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Carina Drury, iIrlandiani (Penny Fiddle Records, 2020)","authors":"J. Cunningham","doi":"10.35561/jsmi16213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35561/jsmi16213","url":null,"abstract":"A review of Carina Drury, Irlandiani: Carina Drury, Eimear McGeown, Nathaniel Mander, Aileen Henry, Poppy Walshaw, Penny Fiddle Records (2020), (CD and Digital Album) PFR2005CD.","PeriodicalId":145717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125081135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}