By
William H. Grattan Flood
1905
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I.
Ancient Irish Music
CHAPTER II.
Irish Music from the Sixth to the Ninth Century
CHAPTER III.
Ancient Irish Musical Instruments
CHAPTER IV.
Ancient Irish Scales
CHAPTER V.
Irish Music before the Anglo-Norman Invasion
CHAPTER VI.
Irish Music before the Anglo-Norman Invasion (continued)
CHAPTER VII.
Irish Music before the Anglo-Norman Invasion (continued)
CHAPTER VIII.
Irish Music in the Middle Ages
CHAPTER IX.
Irish Music in the Fifteenth Century
CHAPTER X.
Anglo-Irish Music from 1200 to 1400
CHAPTER XI.
Anglo-Irish Music during the Fifteenth Century
CHAPTER XII.
Irish Music in the Sixteenth Century
CHAPTER XIII.
Irish Music in the Sixteenth Century (continued)
CHAPTER XIV.
Pre-Reformation Church Music in Ireland
CHAPTER XV.
Church Music--1538 to 1598
CHAPTER XVI.
Anglo-Irish Music in the Sixteenth Century
CHAPTER XVII.
Shakespeare and Irish Music
CHAPTER XVIII.
Irish Music in the Seventeenth Century
CHAPTER XIX.
Irish Music in the Seventeenth Century (continued)
CHAPTER XX.
Anglo-Irish Music in the Seventeenth Century
CHAPTER XXI.
O'Carolan and his Contemporaries
CHAPTER XXII.
The Jacobite Period (1705 to 1775)
CHAPTER XXIII.
Irish Pipers in the Eighteenth Century
CHAPTER XXIV.
Anglo-Irish Music from 1701 to 1741
CHAPTER XXV.
Handel and Arne in Ireland
CHAPTER XXVI.
Anglo-Irish Music from 1750 to 1800
CHAPTER XXVII.
Harp Festivals and Harp Societies
CHAPTER XXVIII.
Conclusion
APPENDICES
List of the Principal Collections of Irish Music (From 1725 to 1887)
Musical MSS. in Trinity College, Dublin
Dublin Musical Societies (From 1680 to 1880)
Corrigenda
The errors stated in the original book have all been corrected in this text