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Badness. Good, isn't it? A bit of badness : Frank McGuinness's dramaturgy of 'Deviance' and the Irish theatrical tradition
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2004)This thesis is a study of the original plays of the contemporary Irish dramatist Frank McGuinness. McGuinness was bom in Buncrana, County Donegal, Ireland in 1950. His first play, The Factory Girls, was produced in 1984. ... -
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 ... -
Beyond the trilogy : the urban repertoire of the Abbey Theatre (1904-1951)
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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 ... -
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 ... -
The Choral Foundation of the Chapel Royal, Dublin Castle, 1814?1922
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Music, 2019)The Chapel Royal of Dublin Castle, the household chapel of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, was opened for worship on Christmas Day 1814. It was established in imitation of the Chapel Royal of St James’s Palace, London, and ... -
Choreographing Ireland : resistive bodies and socially engaged dance theatre
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2011)This thesis provides a socio-pohtical and cuhural study of socially engaged dance theatre in the Republic of Ireland. It interrogates how the work of certain choreographers challenges the habitual primacy of the textual ... -
Commentary on the portfolio of compositions
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Music, 2016)The portfolio contains fourteen compositions with varying instrumentation, ranging from string quartet to laptop orchestra. Of the fourteen compositions, seven are acoustic, six are electroacoustic and one piece is for ... -
Commentary on the portfolio of compositions
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Music, 2016)The portfolio contains seven compositions with varying instrumentation, ranging from string quartet to computer processed voice ensemble to purely electronic forces. Fata Morgana is the largest work in the portfolio and ... -
Commentary on the Portfolio of Compositions
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Music, 2018)This thesis, comprised of a portfolio of compositions accompanied by media examples and commentary, traces the evolution of the author?s compositional approach in the search for a manner to present unstable sound that ... -
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 ... -
Community filmaking in Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Film, 2014)This thesis explores the state of the field of knowledge and looks at the limitations of current research. It identifies what the term community means and examines its importance for cinema. It defines community film and ... -
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 ... -
Composing the Uncertainty: Exploring Different Possibilities of Indeterminacy in Composition
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Music, 2021)This PhD project Composing the Uncertainty comprised of a portfolio of seven compositions - To Define is to Limit, The Ecstasy of Liberation, Oblivion, Caprice of the Cosmos, String Quartet Part 1, Defining Chaos, and ... -
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 ... -
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 ...