Renewal and Resistance

Paul Collins lectures in music at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland. His research interests embrace music theory during the Baroque, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century keyboard music, and nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Catholic church music. His first book, The Stylus Phantasticus and Free Keyboard Music of the North German Baroque, was published in 2005.

Contents: Thomas Day: Foreword - Eckhard Jaschinski: The Renewal of Catholic Church Music in Germany/Austria, France and Italy in the Nineteenth Century - Paul Collins: Emissaries to 'a believing and a singing land': Belgian and German organists in Ireland, 1859-1916 - Kieran Anthony Daly: The Dublin Eucharistic Congress: Tra le sollecitudini in the Phoenix Park - Helen Phelan: Ireland, Music, and the Modern Liturgical Movement - Bennett Zon: Victorian Anti-Semitism and the Origin of Gregorian Chant - Thomas E. Muir: Catholic Church Music in England: The 1950s - Keith F. Pecklers: The Evolution of Liturgical Music in the United States of America, 1850-1962 - Ann L. Silverberg: Cecilian Reform in Baltimore, 1868-1903 - Robert A. Skeris: Musica sacra in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, 1858-1958 - Susan Treacy: A Chronicle of Attitudes towards Gregorian Chant in Orate Fratres/Worship, 1926-1962 - John de Luca: Disputatur inter Doctores: A Disagreement between Two Australian Bishops on the Binding Nature of a Papal Motu Proprio - John Henry Byrne: Archbishop Daniel Mannix and Church Music in Melbourne, 1913-1963.