Irish Traditional Music Archive Launches P.W. Joyce Microsite
To mark the centenary of the death on 7 January 1914 of Patrick Weston Joyce, the Irish Traditional Music Archive has today launched a microsite dedicated to the Irish music collector.
Joyce (1827–1914) was a County Limerick educationalist, popular historian and writer on Irish placenames, and one of the great collectors of Irish traditional music. The site is being launched to make Joyce’s published and unpublished work on Irish music freely available and better known.
The microsite currently contains:
– Copies in facsimile of all Joyce’s published music and song collections, 1873–1909;
– Interactive music scores for audio playback and printing of the 969 melodies they contain;
– Copies in facsimile, with interactive music scores, of 182 Limerick melodies Joyce contributed in the 1850s to the Dublin collector George Petrie;
– Copies of the substantial manuscripts on which Joyce was working at the time of his death, which have been copied courtesy of the National Library of Ireland for facsimile publication on this microsite.
Further sections will be added during 2014.
