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The Accompaniment of Plainchant in France, Belgium and Certain Other Catholic Regions: A Chronological Study of Theory and Practice from the French Revolution to the Second Vatican Council
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Music, 2022)This dissertation establishes the techniques employed in the organ accompaniment of plainchant, determines whether consensus was reached on the adoption of such techniques, and illustrates the musical and commercial factors ... -
Acoustic interculturalism : the performativity of sound and hermeneutic of listening in / to intercultural performance
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2010)Studies of intercultural performance have been very much concerned with the politics of cultural practice, the authority of cultural traditions, the location of culture(s) in the interstices of exchange, and the theorising ... -
Affective Encounters: A Study of Immersive Performance and Digital Culture
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Drama, 2019)This thesis presents a study of immersive performance and digital culture. As a whole, the thesis considers the aesthetic experience offered by a certain strand of contemporary immersive theatre which I have identified and ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Cinematic Verbalists : Dialogue Integration in the Work of Selected Contemporary American Writer-Directors
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Film, 2015)This thesis contributes to the study of dialogue in cinema, an area that remains critically under-developed within film studies. In general, scholarly references to speech tend to be made in passing, disregarding dialogue's ... -
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, 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. 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 ...