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Lorraine Bodley
A Community of the Imagination: Seóirse Bodley’s Goethe Settings
Carysfort Press, 2013
How do Goethe’s characters – Mignon, the Harper and Gretchen – illuminate questions which are important for us today? And how has Bodley’s reading of Goethe filtered into his own artistic consciousness?
A Hazardous Melody of Being: Seóirse Bodley’s Song Cycles on the Poems of Micheal O’Siadhail
Carysfort Press, 2008
Seóirse Bodley is one of the best-known composers of contemporary music in Ireland. This book seeks to examine his engagement with the poetry of Michael O’Siadhail and the making of these song cycles. It assesses the joint contribution to Irish art song, and seeks to understand its roots and departure from European tradition.
Seóirse Bodley: Three Congregational Masses
Carysfort Press, 2005
This book is a critical edition of Bodley’s three congregational masses – Mass of Glory, Mass of Joy and Mass of Peace. It provides revised performance editions of each of the three masses, which were long out of print. It also provides a scholarly introduction to Bodley’s congregational masses, including an informed reading of the structures of liturgical rites, the resources of musical liturgiology and aesthetics, compositional challenges posed by the mass text, analytical readings of each of Bodley’s three masses and performance practice guidelines for each score.
Bodley wrote numerous works for his second wife including In Quiet Celebration (2000) for her PhD conferring; An Exchange of Letters (2002); ‘Wandrers Nachtlied’ (2003); Mignon und der Harfner (2004); Zeiten des Jahres (2004); String Quartet no.4 (2007); Gretchen (2012); The Song of Wandering Aengus (2017) and Love after Chagall (2018)