Browsing School of Creative Arts by Title
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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 ... -
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 development of Comic Stage Persona (CSP) in stand-up comedy: An interdisciplinary approach to an intersubjective performance phenomenon
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Drama, 2018)Comedians learn how and who to be on stage. Writing and performing stand-up comedy entails complex social and professional challenges. Facing these challenges, stand-up comedians adapt personae. Via a critical analysis of ... -
Dream Country : the Ireland text in French cinema, 1937 to 1978
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2002)This thesis is an exploration of the Ireland text in French cinema, 1937-1977. Less than one hundred feature films have been made by Irish film-makers in Ireland in cinema’s first century but more than two thousand fiction ... -
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 ... -
The Early Cultural Contexts of Shakespearean Stage Music: Vocality, Circulation and Representation
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Music, 2021)The aim of this thesis is twofold: 1. To investigate the cultural significance of Shakespearean theatre music with specific focus on the use of boys voices on the stage, depictions of the supernatural world, and musical ... -
Evolving Sounds
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Music, 2018)Abstract This work concerns the role of musical time and space in relation to the body of compositions that form part of this research. Although these two areas are immense, they are nonetheless unavoidable in music ... -
Female performances and representation in the Hollywood musical, 1929 - 1940
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Film, 2015)This thesis explores the evolution of female performance paradigms and representation in Hollywood musicals from 1929 to 1940. In particular, it considers how the paradigmatic representation of femininity within the musical ... -
The Fourth Wave fights back: Deconstructing the Performativity of rape culture through contemporary Irish theatre, performance and society
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Drama, 2019)This dissertation seeks to examine and deconstruct contemporary rape culture. It explores, and builds on, the three preceding waves of the feminist movement, and contextualises established theories of hegemonic masculinity. ... -
From avant-garde to negentropy : an aesthetic deployment of Bernard Stiegler's genealogy of the sensible
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2016)This thesis mobilises Bernard Stiegler’s call for a genealogy of the sensible in order to elucidate a peculiar phenomenon in art, which is the increase in the autonomy and efficacy of technology in the making and production ... -
Hacking Jeff Minter's Virtual Light Machine: Unpacking the code and community behind an early software-based music visualizer
(2019)Foreshadowing in purpose and execution the music visualizers that were widely distributed with software media players during the early 2000s, Jeff Minter’s Virtual Light Machine (VLM) was distributed in the firmware of the ... -
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 ... -
The Histories of Charles Burney and John Hawkins: A Cultural Context
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Music, 2018)The Histories of Charles Burney and John Hawkins are examined with reference to the observation by Carl Dahlhaus (1983) and Warren Dwight Allen (1939/62) that written history reflects the culture of the age in which it is ... -
"Impossible Speech" - Monologue Drama in Ireland from 1964 - 2016: Form and Per(form)ativity
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Drama, 2018)The aim of this thesis is to critique a body of monologue drama by Irish playwrights during the period 1964 to 2016. Building on the recent work of Irish and international scholars on monologue drama and performance, it ... -
An Intercultural Theory of the Comic Spirit: Insider/Outsider Dynamics and Representation in Theatre and Performance
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Drama, 2022)This dissertation commences with an enquiry into the origins of comedy in Greek fertility rituals and nature, drawing upon theories of play, ritual, and community to explicate case studies that have been decidedly sourced ... -
Interleaving as Cultural Technique in the Audio CD and the End of Archaeophonography
(2021)This article discusses a significant if imperceptible feature of how audio compact discs (CDs) inscribe sound: interleaving. It shows how CDs materialize interleaving—the microtemporal re-ordering of data—as a cultural ... -
Issues of gender in the texts of Ulster theatre
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2001)This thesis is neither a history nor an exact socio/political documentary of Ulster Theatre. However, within textual readings, both discourses are employed to examine issues of gender within a context of more familiar ...