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The Royal Irish Academy of Music (RIAM) is a home of musical excellence and innovation. Founded in 1848, the Academy is Ireland’s oldest musical institution and is a place of teaching and learning which consistently achieves its objective of maintaining and sharing the highest standards of music performance, composition and research. The RIAM plays a central role in the development, delivery and promotion of Ireland’s cultural and educational agenda, contributing to a dynamic, innovative society for which the Performing Arts are a source of inspiration and value.
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A study of Teatro de los Caños del Peral within the European framework (1787-1799) : performing conditions of Italian opera and ballet d'action in late eighteenth-century Madrid
(Royal Irish Academy of Music, 2022-12)The Teatro de los Caños del Peral remains one of the most understudied and overlooked theatres in Spain. Despite the efforts of Emilio Cotarelo y Mori and Xoán M. Carreira among other scholars, their studies seem to have ... -
Communicating meaning in Petr Eben's Písně nelaskavé : a performance perspective
(Royal Irish Academy of Music, 2023-04)Czech composer Petr Eben (1929-2007) was an important contributor to art music of the Czech Republic. He was sent to Buchenwald concentration camp during World War II and lived under an oppressive Communist government ... -
An Investigation of Jānis Mediņš’s Piano Sonata (1946): historical context, analysis, editing and performance
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Aspects of a late-developing repertoire: the string quartet in Ireland 1916-2016
(Royal Irish Academy of Music, 2023-03)This thesis explores aspects of a hundred-year history of the string quartet in Ireland. It takes the year of the Easter Rising as its starting point. During the period covered by the thesis, the string quartet in Ireland ... -
'Connecting abstract values to artistic choices' : memory, metaphor and interpretation in Ravel's Miroirs
(Royal Irish Academy of Music, 2023-03)This investigation is concerned with the construction of an aesthetic understanding of Miroirs by Maurice Ravel, approaching the work from several scholarly perspectives, as well as that of pianist. While significant ...