Bibliography

Ann
Buckley
s. xx–xxi

6 publications between 1977 and 2017 indexed
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Buckley, Ann (ed.), Music, liturgy, and the veneration of saints of the medieval Irish church in a European context, Turnhout: Brepols, 2017.  
abstract:
This book challenges existing notions of an idiosyncratic 'Celtic Rite' through a multidisciplinary, European perspective.

This book opens up discussion on the liturgical music of medieval Ireland by approaching it from a multidisciplinary, European perspective. In so doing, it challenges received notions of an idiosyncratic ‘Celtic Rite’, and of the prevailing view that no manuscripts with music notation have survived from the medieval Irish Church. This is due largely to a preoccupation by earlier scholars with pre-Norman Gaelic culture, to the neglect of wider networks of engagement between Ireland, Britain, and continental Europe. In adopting a more inclusive approach, a different view emerges which demonstrates the diversity and international connectedness of Irish ecclesiastical culture throughout the long Middle Ages, in both musico-liturgical and other respects.

The contributors represent a variety of specialisms, including musicology, liturgiology, palaeography, hagiology, theology, church history, Celtic studies, French studies, and Latin. From this rich range of perspectives they investigate the evidence for Irish musical and liturgical practices from the earliest surviving sources with chant texts to later manuscripts with music notation, as well as exploring the far-reaching cultural impact of the Irish church in medieval Europe through case studies of liturgical offices in honour of Irish saints, and of saints traditionally associated with Ireland in different parts of Europe.
abstract:
This book challenges existing notions of an idiosyncratic 'Celtic Rite' through a multidisciplinary, European perspective.

This book opens up discussion on the liturgical music of medieval Ireland by approaching it from a multidisciplinary, European perspective. In so doing, it challenges received notions of an idiosyncratic ‘Celtic Rite’, and of the prevailing view that no manuscripts with music notation have survived from the medieval Irish Church. This is due largely to a preoccupation by earlier scholars with pre-Norman Gaelic culture, to the neglect of wider networks of engagement between Ireland, Britain, and continental Europe. In adopting a more inclusive approach, a different view emerges which demonstrates the diversity and international connectedness of Irish ecclesiastical culture throughout the long Middle Ages, in both musico-liturgical and other respects.

The contributors represent a variety of specialisms, including musicology, liturgiology, palaeography, hagiology, theology, church history, Celtic studies, French studies, and Latin. From this rich range of perspectives they investigate the evidence for Irish musical and liturgical practices from the earliest surviving sources with chant texts to later manuscripts with music notation, as well as exploring the far-reaching cultural impact of the Irish church in medieval Europe through case studies of liturgical offices in honour of Irish saints, and of saints traditionally associated with Ireland in different parts of Europe.

Contributions to journals

Buckley, Ann, “‘Peregrini pro Christo’: the Irish Church in medieval Europe as reflected in liturgical sources for the veneration of its missionary saints”, Chronicon 4 (2008).
Buckley, Ann, “Peregrini pro Christo: the Irish Church in medieval Europe as reflected in liturgical sources for the veneration of its missionary saints”, De musica disserenda 4:1 (2008): 93–105.  
abstract:
The Irish saints, many of whom were important figures in continental-European ecclesiastical and cultural history, figure prominently in European liturgical manuscripts. According to a research (still in progress), they make their appearance in more than 300 medieval manuscripts from nearly all the European countries. In many cases, the feasts of the Irish saints were celebrated by proper newly composed offices, which include, as far as is known, more than 150 proper chants.
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abstract:
The Irish saints, many of whom were important figures in continental-European ecclesiastical and cultural history, figure prominently in European liturgical manuscripts. According to a research (still in progress), they make their appearance in more than 300 medieval manuscripts from nearly all the European countries. In many cases, the feasts of the Irish saints were celebrated by proper newly composed offices, which include, as far as is known, more than 150 proper chants.
Buckley, Ann, “Music and musicians in medieval Irish society”, Early Music 28:2 (2000): 165–192.
Buckley, Ann, “What was the tiompán? A study in ethnohistorical organology: evidence in Irish literature”, Jahrbuch für musikalische Volks- und Völkerkunde 9 (1977): 53–88.

Contributions to edited collections or authored works

Buckley, Ann, “Music in Ireland to c.1500”, in: Dáibhí Ó Cróinín (ed.), A new history of Ireland, vol. 1: Prehistoric and early Ireland, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. 744–813.