Music (Theses and Dissertations): Recent submissions
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Dylan in cinema
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Music, 2014)[Exerpt from the final paragraph of the summary, page vi] In broad terms, the thesis shows Dylan as highly attuned to the language and construction of film as a means of structuring songs and composing lyrics. Also ... -
Debussy's forms of deception : toward a theory of implication, attraction, and tension in the Préludes
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Music, 2011)This thesis examines the role of process in Debussy’s music through analyses of melodic implication, rhythmic projection, and harmonic attraction in the Preludes. It traces the evolution of analytical methodologies that ... -
Compositional technique in Henry Purcell's consort music
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Music, 2011)The research question: Most of the empirical evidence regarding Purcell's compositional process has not survived. The present study will seek to extract, using internal evidence in the music itself, information regarding ... -
An algorithmic approach to the generation of non-developing musical structures
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Music, 2011)It has been the goal of the author to develop an individual style of musical composition that reflects the personal tastes and convictions of the composer while maintaining relevance to contemporary, recent historical, and ... -
Communication and control : issues and aesthetics associated with writing for graphic and traditional notation and the influences of both notational systems on the compositional process
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Music, 2011)This dissertation investigates such processes along and addresses the separate methodologies involved in the composition of music using graphical or traditional notation. The impact of either notational system upon ... -
Seek : composition portfolio and commentaries
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Music, 2010)This thesis serves as an accompanying commentary for a portfolio of ten musical compositions composed between 2005 and 2009. The works presented incorporate a broad range of forces and performance contexts, from live ... -
Toward perpetual peace
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Music, 2012)This is a thesis for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in music composition. In the opening part (A), 1 comment on my musical background, environment and influences, including a shorter comment on the orchestra piece ... -
Beyond the 'Gothic' : Havergal Brian and his orchestral music of the 1930s
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Music, 2004)This thesis presents the most detailed study yet of the music of the English composer William Havergal Brian (1876-1972). It concentrates on the orchestral music written in a single decade — the 1930s — at a time when he ... -
Determinism, aleatorism and tradition : the relationship between the analysis and compositional technique of selected music from 1945-64
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Music, 2001)During the period under consideration in this study, serious music was concerned with a fundamental reassessment of compositional technique and aesthetics. Various different and sometimes opposing techniques were developed ... -
Brahms's critics : continuity and discontinuity in the critical reception of Johannes Brahms
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Music, 2008)This thesis draws on the writings of a number of nineteenth-century musical commentators, including Richard Pohl, Hermann Deiters, Selmar Bagge, Adolf Schubring, Franz Brendel, and Eduard Hanslick. These critics were writing ... -
Reflections in a Panopticon : a reassessment of the music of Pierre Boulez in comparison with John Cage (1951-52), through analysis of their music and chart material
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Music, 2009)This thesis reassesses works by Pierre Boulez, both individually, and in comparison with John Cage during the peak of their correspondence, 1951-52. Chart material for the works by Pierre Boulez— Structures, Book 1 and ... -
Chopin's strategic integration of rhythm and pitch : a Schenkerian perspective
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Music, 2003)This thesis synthesises significant aspects of recent analytical approaches and applies that synthetic method to selected works by Chopin. While the method may be regarded as an extension of Heinrich Schenker’s analytical ... -
Tradition as muse : Schoenberg's musical morphology and nascent dodecaphony
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Music, 2006)This study reappraises the evolution of Arnold Schoenberg's method of composing with twelve tones by examining the interrelationship of his theoretical writings and compositional practice. Premised on the idea that theory ... -
The role of rhythm in the construction and articulation of form in the late works of Alban Berg
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Music, 2004)This thesis examines rhythmic construction in the works composed by Alban Berg between the years 1923 and 1935. It begins by discussing the type of rhythmic and motivic development which was an intrinsic part of the technique ... -
Template morphology and serial invariants : compositional procedures in Stravinsky's late sketch collections, 1958-66
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Music, 2001)This thesis employs unpublished holograph sketch and draft material now in the possession of the Paul Sacher Stiflung, Basel, to investigate how serial deployment and the exploitation of row properties in the later works ... -
Paul Dukas's music-text aesthetic : a study of its sources, theory and practice, 1891-1907
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Violin Teaching in the New Millennium: In Search of the Lost Instructions of Great Masters - an Examination of Similarities and Differences Between Schools of Playing and How These Have Evolved, or Remembering the Future of Violin Performance
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Drama, Film & Music. MUSIC, Trinity College Dublin. School of Drama, Film & Music. Music, 2012)This thesis addresses a number of issues that have developed in the concepts and practices of violin pedagogy and performance since World War II. In particular it identifies the ways in which cultural transnationality ... -
The eighteenth-century music manuscripts at St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin: sources, lineage, and relationship to other collections
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Drama, Film and Music., 2002)This thesis examines the music manuscripts copied before 1800 that survive in the music library at St Patrick?s Cathedral, Dublin. Prior to this study, these manuscripts had not been investigated in a comprehensive way. ...
