Handbook of Irish Music

By Richard Henebry

Book on CD-ROM or downloadable pdf. Originally published 1928. 330 pages.

This is one of the most original studies of Celtic music ever attempted. It is complicated in terms of the music presented and in terms of the analysis made of that music. It is a study not only of the music that had survived in Ireland by the time of the First World War, but also of the evolution of Irish Celtic music over the centuries. Henebry presents original ways of analyzing that music, as well as the melody lines for hundreds of tunes gathered from throughout the Irish world. This is a scholarly work of musicology.