Module Code - Title:
MD6161
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IRISH TRADITIONAL MUSIC PERFORMANCE RESEARCH SEMINAR
Year Last Offered:
2025/6
Hours Per Week:
Grading Type:
N
Prerequisite Modules:
Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
This module will introduce students to current research in the area of traditional music studies. This research will be engaged through the critical assessment of current publications in the field, examining developments in the epistemology and phenomenology of current critical academic engagement with this historical artistic practice. The module will particularly examine the impact, real and potential, of these developments on the performance practice.
Syllabus:
In this module students will study the history, theory and practice of Irish traditional music. They will be encouraged to use theoretical tools from a number of disciplines to enhance their understanding of this practice. They will examine publications and resources that examine Irish traditional music in an exemplary and innovative fashion.
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
- Students will critically examine literature and sources of Irish traditional music.
- Students will identify trends in traditional music studies.
- Students will contrast approaches to the understanding of traditional music practice.
- Students will comprehend and deconstruct the transfer of theoretical paradigms into the understanding of their performance practices.
- Students will recognise and critique trends in traditional music studies.
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
- Students will be able to examine how performance practices challenge and/or conform to trends in traditional music studies.
- Students will be able to relate and synthesise academic and performance practices.
Psychomotor (Physical Skills)
N/A
How the Module will be Taught and what will be the Learning Experiences of the Students:
The module will be taught in a series of seminars, reading groups and performance laboratories. It will be delivered in a creative and proactive synthesis of performance and academic practices, developing articulation of knowledge in both areas through collaborative, creative work.
Research Findings Incorporated in to the Syllabus (If Relevant):
Prime Texts:
Dowling, Martin (2014)
Traditional Music and Irish Society: Historical Perspectives
, Ashgate
O'Shea, Helen (2008)
The Making of Irish Traditional Music
, Cork University Press
Motherway, Susan (2013)
The Globalisation of Irish Traditional Song Performance
, Ashgate
Ó Laoire, Lillis & Williams, Sean (2011)
Bright Star of the West: Joe Heaney, Irish Song Man
, Oxford University Press
O'Flynn, John (2009)
The Irishness of Irish Music
, Farmgate
Other Relevant Texts:
Vallely, Fintan, ed. (2011)
The Companion to Irish Traditional Music
, Cork University Press
Kaul, Adam (2009)
Turning a Tune: Traditional Music, Tourism, and Social Change in an Irish Village, New York
, Berghahn Books
Ó Canainn, Tomás (1993)
Traditional Music in Ireland
, Ossian
Breathnach, Breandán (1993)
Folk Music and Dances of Ireland
, Ossian
Programme(s) in which this Module is Offered:
MAITMPTFA - IRISH TRADITIONAL MUSIC PERFORMANCE
MADAPETFA - DANCE PERFORMANCE
MAETCHTFA - ETHNOCHOREOLOGY
MAETMUTFA - ETHNOMUSICOLOGY
Semester(s) Module is Offered:
Autumn
Module Leader:
Conor.Caldwell@ul.ie