Recorded November 24th, 2025.

An evening of celebration as we award the Research Ireland - Harrison Medal to Philip V. Bohlman. Following the presentation of the medal, Bohlman will deliver the 2025 Harrison Lecture, "On Goodness".

About the Research Ireland - Harrison Medal

In 2004 the Harrison Medal was inaugurated by the Society for Musicology in Ireland in honour of Frank Llewellyn Harrison (1905–1987), the Irish musicologist who made a seminal contribution to the study of medieval music (especially music in medieval Britain) and to the study of ethnomusicology. Harrison held positions in Canada and the United States before being appointed to a Lectureship in Music at Oxford in 1952; he was appointed Reader in the History of Music there in 1962. Harrison subsequently became Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Amsterdam in 1970. A detailed account of his career and publications by Robin Elliott is available in EMIR, Vol. 1, pp. 469–471.

In 2018 the award was renamed the Irish Research Council - Harrison Medal in recognition of the longstanding contribution towards the funding of the award by the Irish Research Council (IRC). After the IRC had been incorporated into Taighde Éireann / Research Ireland in 2024 the name was adapted to Research Ireland - Harrison Medal. The SMI gratefully acknowledges the support of both the IRC and Taighde Éireann / Research Ireland.

The Medal is awarded by the President and Council of the SMI to recognize outstanding achievements and excellence in research in musicology.

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