Music: Recent submissions
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Theatrical Elements and Musical Dramaturgy: Exploring the Use of Literary Texts to Develop Narrative Features, Theatricality, and Symbolism in Music Composition
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Music, 2023)This dissertation features a portfolio of seven original compositions of experimental music theatre (Voices, The Chariot, The Masque of the Red Death, The Night Journey, Sea Holly, Cassandra, and Epiclesis), exploring the ... -
The Worship Music of Dublin's Church of Ireland Parishes and Other Protestant Denominations in the Long Eighteenth Century: Sources, Repertoire and Cultural Context
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Music, 2022)Studies of music in eighteenth-century Dublin have, to date, typically focussed on the musical culture of the upper-class Protestant Ascendancy, and even more specifically, on secular music. Research into sacred music has ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
On the Move: Incorporating movement, visuals, and compositional techniques derived from the marching arts into non-marching contemporary solos and ensembles
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Music, 2021)Marching band has a rich history. It was the original mode of communication and transportation for the military, has shown respect or support for a political stance, and has provided entertainment value. Since the 1970s, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Melting the Boundaries: The integration of ethnic instruments into western art music
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Music, 2021)Melting the Boundaries: The Integration of Ethnic Instruments into Western Art Music Margaret Collins Stoop PhD Dissertation, Music Composition Trinity College Dublin Abstract This dissertation presents eight original ... -
Reflections on the Financial and Ethical Implications of Music Generated by Artificial Intelligence
This work analyses the financial and ethical implications of music generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI). The primary concern of this work relates to issues of employment in the music industry challenged by AI ... -
Paralanguage and The Beatles
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Music, 2020)Scholarship concerning popular song has lent itself to studies throughout the arts and humanities, but it has not received a close study oriented through paralanguage. That is the nonverbal characteristics of speech that ... -
The vernacular church music of William Byrd : a reappraisal of chronology, authenticity and context
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Music, 2014)This aim of this thesis is a unified reappraisal of the vernacular church music of William Byrd (c.1540-1623). Specific objectives include the elimination of opera dubia, the distinguishing of adapted consort works from ... -
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 ... -
Premise and compositional working-out : an examination through analysis of Ligeti's changing style
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Music, 2002)In many of his interviews and writings from the mid-eighties, Ligeti talks of a crisis in his compositional output, and his move to a simpler style. This thesis takes the form of three detailed analyses of works which span ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...