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Music and Poetry
On the meeting of music and words in In the Ranelagh Gardens, the collaborative project of poet Macdara Woods and composer Benjamin Dwyer.
Turtles All the Way Down: The Axial Role of Improvisation in Music
Is there a connection between improvisation in music-making and the exploratory babbling of an infant? Why is improvisation more often than not group-based rather than solo? Why are improvisational musical therapies so successful? Organist Andrew Cyprian Love explores improvisation as a ‘musical universal’.
Redefining 'Irish Music' in America: Making the Case for Irish Classical Music
Fed up with the international notion of ‘Irish Music’ as simply ‘Irish traditional music’, musicologist Axel Klein travelled from Bonn to the USA last October to try and change some American minds. He tells JMI readers how he fared.
The History of Modern Germany in Sound
The ideas behind the programming of the third RTÉ Living Music Festival.
From 2RN to International Meta-Community: Irish National Radio and Traditional Music
Selecting from such a rich body of music and song, and imposing an order on what is by nature chaotic, broadcasters of traditional music have always presented a varied cavalcade of programmes and performers. 
Music and Economic Development: A Common Purpose
Music produces wealth, but has music education been reluctant to use economic arguments to obtain additional funding from Government?
Nósanna Nua de Dhith don Sean-nós
Bhíodh Eamon Dunphy ag tabairt amach faoi ghné de shaol na hÉireann ar ar thug sé ‘official Ireland’. Séard a bhí i gceist aige leis an téarma seo ná na daoine a cheap iad féin mar...
Recent Publications in Irish Traditional Music
Listings from the Irish Traditional Music ArchiveContinued from JMI Nov-Dec 2004CDS PUBLISHED IN 2004Anúna, vocal group, Deep Dead Blue, Danú 020. Reissue of CD with new catalogue noArmstrong, Siobhán, harp, Cláirseach na hÉireann:...
Recent Publications in Contemporary Music
Listings from the Contemporary Music CentreContinued from JMI Nov-Dec 2004NEW WORKS RECEIVED, OCT-DEC 2004Corcoran, Frank, Quasi un Amore [2002]. fl, gui; Variations on ‘A Mháirín de Bharra’ [2004], va.Cullivan, Tom, Lullaby [1984],...
Generation Gap
Understanding the decline in the standard of traditional music CDs.