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Dr. Andrew Johnstone

Assistant Professor Part-Time (Music)
HOUSE 5, COLLEGE

 Andrew.Johnstone@tcd.ie

 3531896 2458


Biography

Andrew Johnstone joined the staff of TCD music department in 1992. His research interests include church music of the English Reformation period, polyphonic composition techniques and performing pitch. He is a member of the editorial committee of Early English Church Music, and manages the committee's online database of primary sources (eecm.tcd.ie). His major study of the vernacular church music of William Byrd is shortly to be published by Boydell and Brewer. He has served as assistant organist of Dublin's two Anglican cathedrals, and since 2005 has been a regular contributor to the classical music review columns of The Irish Times. In 2010 he became the first person to publish a counterpoint and fugue textbook for the iPhone (Puncta, available from the iTunes app store).

Research Tags

  English church music of the Reformation period   Music manuscripts   Renaissance polyphonic modes   Theory and pedagogy of composition techniques

Representations

Details Date
Member of the editorial committee of Early English Church Music (published by The British Academy) 2011-
Member of the advisory board of Tudor Partbooks (project funded by AHRC) http://www.tudorpartbooks.ac.uk/ 2014-18
William Byrd: Eight Fragmentary Songs, Andrew Johnstone, (Fretwork Editions), London:, Fretwork Publishing, 2020, - xvii + 39 pp., Critical Edition (Book), PUBLISHED  URL
Andrew Johnstone, Thomas Tallis and the Five-Part Litany of 1544: Evidence of "The Notes Used in the King's Majesty's Chapel", Early Music, 44, (2), 2016, p219 - 232, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
Andrew Johnstone, Harmonic fuga in Byrd's Great Service, International Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Music, University of Utrecht, 1-4 July 2009, 2009, Conference Paper, PRESENTED
Andrew Johnstone, New Findings on the Chronology of Byrd's Great Service and Late Full Anthems, International Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Music, University of Bangor, 24-27 July 2008, 2008, Conference Paper, PRESENTED
Andrew Johnstone, Heaven, Earth and the Ineffable: Text and Music in William Byrd's Great Service, Third Interdisciplinary Conference of the Society for Renaissance Studies, Trinity College Dublin, 10-12 July 2008, 2008, Conference Paper, PRESENTED
Andrew Johnstone, Tallis's Service "Of Five Parts Two In One" Re-Evaluated, Canons and Canonic Techniques, 14th-16th Centuries, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 5-7 October 2005, edited by Katelijne Schiltz and Bonnie J. Blackburn , Peeters Publishers, 2007, pp375 - 399, Proceedings of a Conference, PUBLISHED
Andrew Johnstone, "High" Clefs in Composition and Performance, Early Music, 34, (1), 2006, p29 - 54, Notes: [Correspondence prompted by this article appeared in vol.35 p. 166], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
Andrew Johnstone, Rethinking the Gibbons Short Service, CAO Annual Conference, Manchester Cathedral, 16 November 2005, 2005, Cathedral Organists' Association, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Andrew Johnstone, "As it Was in the Beginning": Organ and Choir Pitch in Early Anglican Church Music, Early Music, 31, (4), 2003, p506 - 525, Notes: [Correspondence prompted by this article appeared in vol. 32 (2004), pp 348-9.], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
Andrew Johnstone, Techniques of Composition in the British and Irish University Curriculum, Techniques of Composition in the British and Irish University Curriculum, 12, 1995, p247 - 272, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
  

Andrew Johnstone, The Performing Pitch of William Byrd's Latin Liturgical Polyphony: A Guide for Historically Minded Interpreters, REA: Religion, Education and the Arts, 10, 2016, p79 - 107, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Andrew Johnstone, Songs by Byrd in the British Library, RECON I, University of Oxford, 6-8 March, 2015, The Tudor Partbooks Project, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Brian McIvor, 'Musica arcana: The Secret Life of Allegri's Miserere', RTÉ Lyric FM, 2014, -, Broadcast, RELEASED
Ralph Daniel, Peter le Huray, May Hofman, John Morehen, EECM Primary Source Database, The British Academy, 2014, Dataset, PUBLISHED
Andrew Johnstone, Interrogating the Organ-Books: A Preliminary Search for Rules, Exceptions and Changing Fashions in Pre-Restoration Choral Accompaniment, EECM Post-Reformation Research Symposium, The British Academy, 5 March, 2013, The Editorial Committee of Early English Church Music, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Andrew Johnstone, A Prayer Politicised: The Sub-Text of William Byrd's Anthem 'O Lord, make thy servant', International Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Music, University of Nottingham, July 2012, 2012, Conference Paper, PRESENTED
Andrew Johnstone, The post-Reformation use of the organ: Adaptation for accompaniment, A Medieval Organ in Wales: Inaugural Workshop, St Fagans National History Museum, Cardiff, 8 April, 2011, The Experience of Worship, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Andrew Johnstone, How Irish is the Music of the Church of Ireland?, Church of Ireland Historical Society Biannual Conference, Armagh Public Library, 2010, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Andrew Johnstone, Puncta, 2010, -, Notes: [Undergraduate online textbook on counterpoint and fugue], Miscellaneous, PUBLISHED
Andrew Johnstone, Handle with Care: The Institute of Historic Organs Oaxaca, Choir & Organ, 17, (4), 2009, p37 - 39, Journal Article, PUBLISHED

  

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Awards and Honours

Award Date
Worcester College Society Arts Prize 1988
Limpus Prize 1987
Silver Medal of The Worshipful Company of Musicians 1987