Ars Lyrica Celtica in print

[Paul-Andre Bempechat]

Fellow Celticists,

The Lyrica Society for Word-Music Relations is delighted to announce the
imminent publication of its volume 17, Ars Lyrica Celtica, In Memoriam Bernard
Le Nail; Timothy P. Bridgman (SUNY Albany), Guest Editor; Christopher Williams,
Editor-in-Chief.  Subscriptions and special orders may be purchased directly
through the Society: lyricasociety at aol.com

Table of Contents:

Ríonach uí Ógáin (University College Dublin)
In Search of Music and Song: The Field Diary of Séamus Ennis, 1942-1946

Natalie Kirschstein (Regis University, Colorado)
Two Magical Arts: Music and Poetry in Irish and Welsh Mythology, and Their
21st-Century Reinterpretation

Benjamin Bruch (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn)
    Word and Music in Medieval Cornish Drama

Michael Newton (St. Francis Xavier University, Canada) and Hugh Cheape
(University of the Highlands and the Isles)
The Keening of Women and the Roar of the Pipe: From Clàrsach to Bagpipe,
1600-1782

Paul-André Bempéchat (Harvard University)
Rekindling Celtic Solidarity: The Abergavenny Eisteddfod of 1838 and the Birth
of Barzaz Breiz

Daniel Albright (Harvard University)
    A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Toward a Hermeneutic Understanding

REVIEWS

Simon O’Dwyer:
    Prehistoric Music of Ireland
    (Sharon Paice MacLeod)

Alejandro Enrique Planchart:
    Embellishing the Liturgy: Tropes and Polyphony
    (Katarina Livljanic, Université de Paris-Sorbonne)

Barbara Newman:
    Frauenlob’s Song of Songs: A Medieval German Poet and His Masterpiece
    (Julia Haag, Harvard University)

Anne Bagnall Yardley:
    Performing Piety: Musical Culture in Medieval English Nunneries
    (Steven Rozenski, Jr., Harvard University)

Philip Brett:
    William Byrd and His Contemporaries: Essays and a Monograph
    (Teresa Aynes Batterson, Bowling Green State University)

Philip Brett:
    Music and Sexuality in Britten: Selected Essays
    (Gail Lowther, Bowling Green State University)

Cordially,

Paul-Andre Bempechat, President
Lyrica Society for Word-Music Relations
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Harvard University
http://www.ces.fas.harvard.edu/people/p8.html