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‘THE BRIGHT PLACES OF LIFE AS CLEARLY AS THE DARK’: THE MUSIC OF LINDA BUCKLEY

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 March 2018

Christopher Fox
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Abstract

Linda Buckley is one of the leading figures in the thriving Irish new music scene, a composer whose work draws together many different elements, from spectralism, to ambient electronica, to minimalism and Irish traditional music. This article uses five works created in the last decade as lenses through which to examine a creative practice in which these apparently disparate elements have become increasingly integrated. From the 2008 string trio, Fiol, to the orchestral work Chiyo (2011), to Torann for large ensemble and electronics (2015), and finally to two works with string quartet, ó íochtar mara (2015) and Haza (2016), these works represent stages within the evolution of a highly distinctive musical language.

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RESEARCH ARTICLE
Information
Tempo , Volume 72 , Issue 284 , April 2018 , pp. 22 - 34
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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References

1 For example, Buckley cites the Cocteau Twins ‘Great Spangled Fritillary’ (1985) as ‘having a great impact on me as a kid’ (email to Christopher Fox, 26 November 2017).

2 Bob Gilmore, ‘All Collisions End as Static: the Music of Linda Buckley’, Journal of Music (September 2008), http://journalofmusic.com/focus/all-collisions-end-static-music-linda-buckley.

3 Lina Buckley, Fiol (2008), p. 1.

4 Buckley, Fiol, programme note.

5 Buckley, Fiol (2008), violin, bar 27.

6 Linda Buckley, Torann, p. 3.

7 Buckley, Torann, p. 3.

8 Buckley, Torann, p. 3.

9 Ó Lionáird appears on the title track of Dennehy's Grá agus Bás CD (Nonesuch, 2011).

10 Mac Murchaidh, Ciarán, Filíocht ghrá na Gaeilge [Love poems in Irish] (Dublin: Cois Life, 2008)Google Scholar.

11 Linda Buckley, email to Christopher Fox, 21 September 2017.

12 Linda Buckley, ó íochtar mara, p. 3.

13 See, for example, Darach Ó Catháin, Gael Linn CEFCD 040 (1975, 2004).

14 Linda Buckley, email to Christopher Fox, 21 September 2017.

15 Buckley, ó íochtar mara, p. 3.

16 Linda Buckley, email to Christopher Fox, 21 September 2017.

17 Buckley, ó íochtar mara, p. 26.

18 Linda Buckley, email to Christopher Fox, 21 September 2017.

19 Linda Buckley, Haza, p. 3.