Professor Harry White; Barra Boydell EMIR sku-24637077

The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland (EMIR) is a hardcover Musical Instruction reference work listed under Professor Harry White; Barra Boydell, SKU sku-24637077. It surveys Irish musical life from the early Middle Ages to the present, including Ireland's musical relationships with Britain, continental Europe and North America.

Its 240 contributors cover secular and religious music to 1600; art music from 1600 to 2010; Roman Catholic and Protestant church music; popular and traditional music; organology and iconography; historical musicology and ethnomusicology; recorded sound; media; printing and publishing; and music as a trade, industry and profession.

An editorial and advisory board of specialists coordinated the research. About 2,000 entries examine musicians, performers, composers, teachers, collectors, scholars, ensembles, societies and institutions, along with the political, artistic, religious, educational and social contexts of their work.

Catalogues, discographies, source materials, worklists and short biographies serve both general readers and specialists, including material on performers and composers active in Ireland or of Irish extraction, particularly in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The work describes itself as the largest research project on music in Ireland undertaken to date.