A Hazardous Melody of Being: Seóirse Bodley's Song Cycles on the Poems of Micheal O'Siadhail

by Byrne Bodley and Mícheál Ó Siadhail

Sedirse Bodley is one of the best-known senior figures of contemporary music in Ireland. This book seeks to examine his engagement with the poetry of Micheal O'Siadhail and the making of these song cycles. It assesses the joint contribution to Irish art song and seeks to understand its roots in and departure from European tradition.

This apograph is the first publication of Bodley's O'Siadhail song cycles and is the first book to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 178997089X
• ISBN13: 9781789970890
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis
• Length: 92 Pages
• Weight: 0.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"