Collection Summary
Collection Title
Joly Music
Description
The Joly collection spans music written during the latter years of the 18th century and the early years of the 19th century. Much of the earlier part of the collection is vocal music, songs with keyboard accompaniment, sometimes with obbligato for flute, oboe etc., and the occasional country dance. The vocal pieces are popular songs of the era, taken from operas and entertainments which were all the rage during the 18th and early 19th centuries. The collection reflects the prevailing fashion of setting Irish tunes or using fanciful romantic Irish ideas in song, often by by composers who had no connections with Ireland at all.
Format
- Printed music
Strength(s)
late 18th and early 19th century composers of Irish interest
Date range of collection
1760 - 1860
Accumulation Dates
-
Suggested Audience
Not Specific
Associated People or Organisations
- Balfe, Michael -
- Dibdin, Charles -
- Arne, Michael -
- Arnold, Samuel -
- Bianchi, Francesco -
- Clifton. John Charles -
- Conran, D -
- Cooke, Thomas Simpson -
- Crouch, F W N -
- Delemain, Henry -
- Fallon, John -
- Geary, Timothy -
- Geminiani, Francesco -
- Giordani, Tomasso -
- Glover, C W -
- Hodson, George Alexander -
- Holden, Francis -
- Horn, Charles Edward -
- Kelly, Michael -
- Lover, Samuel -
- Mazzinghi, Joseph -
- Moore, Thomas -
- Moorehead, John -
- Moran, P K -
- Mornington (Garrett Colley Wellesley, Earl of Mornington) -
- Osborne, George Alexander -
- Panormo, Francis -
- Smith, John -
- Southwell, F W -
- Stevenson, John Andrew -
Associated Times
This collection is about
Location Details
National Library of Ireland
Kildare Street
Dublin
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Website
Email
cfahy@nli.ie
Telephone
+ 353 1 6030 200
Fax
+ 353 1 676 6690
Visiting Information
Reading Rooms Opening Hours
Main Reading Room Manuscripts Reading Room Information/Readers Ticket Desk
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2pm-5pm
Thurs-Fri: 10am-5pm Thurs-Fri: 10am-4.30pm Thurs-Fri: 10am-12.30pm
2pm-4.30pm
Saturday: 10am-1pm Saturday: 10am-12.30pm Saturday: 10am-1pm
Manuscripts are not issued to readers during these hours:
Mon-Fri: 12.30pm to 2pm
Mon-Wed: 5pm to 6pm & after 7pm
The Library’s main Reading Room, exhibition area, seminar room, shop and café are all wheelchair accessible.
The Reading Room, the exhibition area and the shop in the National Photographic Archive are also wheelchair accessible.
Collections Overview
The National Library of Ireland has two collections consisting mainly of printed sheet music from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century. These include much material from the mainsteam western classical music tradition, but also material relating to little known Irish composers. The names of the two collections are the Joly Music Collection and the Additional Music collection. In addition the Library has a small but significant collection of music manuscripts. The general printed collections include some Irish ballad, folk-music and popular song collections.
For details of other collections held at the same location: See the location record
Additional Collection Information
Custodial History
Various - gift to and purchase by NLI
Related Publications
- Una Hunt 'The music collection at the National Library of Ireland', Brio 39/2 (2002), 3-10.
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