School of Creative Arts: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Historically revealing : a cultural analysis of four recovered plays by Irish women, 1900-1925
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2012)This thesis concerns the retrieval and analysis of four plays written in two distinct collaborative configurations by early twentieth-century Irish women, Geraldine Cummins (1890-1968), Susanne Day (1876-1964) and Hester ... -
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 ... -
Complexity, post-coloniality, transculturality : the birth of Wole Soyinka's Yoruba tragedy in Nigeria and its intercultural presentation in Britain
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2013)In 1986, Wole Soyinka made history when he became the first African ever to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Soyinka is a Yoruba man from western Nigeria and he began to write seriously and professionally in 1959 less ... -
Present laughter : humour at the site of impact in theatre performance
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2000)This dissertation examines the implications for the humorous transaction at its immediate site of impact within mimetic theatre performance, as given to the bodied subjects involved. The thesis establishes its theoretical ... -
Robert Serumaga and the golden age of Uganda's theatre : solipsism, activism, innovation (1968-1978)
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2008)The theoretical methodology employed in the research and writing of this thesis is primarily postcolonial. Though comparatively nuanced, poststructuralism is also employed. The emphasis in the latter is on the Foucaldian ... -
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 ... -
Deconstructing the nation : the Abbey Theatre and stage-Irishness on screen, 1930-1960
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Film, 2004)This thesis examines the consequences for representations of the national through national discourses of the increasing artistic and technical collaboration that occurred between the Abbey Theatre and a number of film ... -
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 ... -
The past is myself : constructions of history and memory in the Abbey 2004 Centenary
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2008)The purpose of this thesis is to position the events of the 2004 centenary of the Irish National Theatre Society, known as abbeyonehundred, within the context of Irish institutional and cultural history. Interdisciplinary ... -
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 ... -
The Irish Catholic family in exile : ideological narratives and the uncanny home
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2006)This thesis uses the dramatic model of the Irish Catholic family as a microcosm through which to examine the ways in which cultural and political ideologies have shaped a particular value-determined narrative of Irish ... -
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 ... -
Trangression and the sacred : the body as seen through Hijikata Tatsumi's 'Dance of Darkness' and two of his critical Western influences, Georges Bataille and Antonin Artaud
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2008)This dissertation examines the body in Butoh performance. The transgressive and sacred potential present within Hijikata Tatsumi’s dance is considered within a post-structuralist conceptual framework. The cultural and ... -
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 ...
