Constellations: The Life and Music of John Buckley
Publication Date 9th, May, 2011
ISBN 978-1-904505-52-5
Cost €20.00
John Buckley is fortunate that in Benjamin Dwyer’s Constellations: The Life and Music of John Buckley, he has found a combination of sympathetic understanding and critical distance that illuminates both individual works and the overall shape of the career. When executed with style and conviction, the study of a composer can remain a work of reference for many years.
The primary audience for such a work is among performers, listeners, academics and students who wish to deepen their understanding of the composer. However, at a time when music is increasingly taking its place alongside literature and the other arts in Irish Studies, Constellations is also open to those with a less technical grasp of music.
The book is organised in such a way that sections devoted to the broad shape of the composer’s career alternate with detailed analysis and illustration of style and technique.
[From the Foreword by Barra Ó Séaghdha]
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About the Author(s)
Benjamin Dwyer
As one of the leading figures from the younger generation of Irish composers, a virtuoso guitarist and an innovative musicologist and curator, Benjamin Dwyer is one of the most multifaceted artists working today. He is a regular contributor to Irish national radio and television, and he is currently at work on a book surveying the guitar music of Benjamin Britten. He is an elected a member of Aosdána and in 2009, the Royal Academy of Music (London) awarded Dwyer with the Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM), an honor bestowed upon those former students deemed 'to have made a significant contribution to the music profession'. Dwyer is at the forefront of promoting and engaging critically with contemporary music. He is Founder and Director of Ireland's leading contemporary music event MUSIC21, which has been running for almost two decades, and the new music ensemble VOX21. Benjamin Dwyer earned a PhD in Composition from Queen's University (Belfast), an MMus in Performance from the Royal Academy of Music (London), and a BMus Hons from Trinity College Dublin. He is on the faculty of the Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin. www.benjamindwyer.com
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