Browsing RIAM Theses & Dissertations by Date of Publication
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Implicit curriculum : improvisation pedagogy in guitar methods 1760-1860
(Royal Irish Academy of Music, 2021-10)Between 1760 and 1860 the guitar was in a fervent state of metamorphosis and experienced an unprecedented rise in popularity among lower- and middle-class learners. In this period of popularity, a strong community of ... -
Implications of collaboration : the recreative artist and autoethnographic research in Seóirse Bodley's Never to have lived is best (1965)
(Royal Irish Academy of Music, 2022)Since 1953 Seóirse Bodley has been a prominent composer, lecturer, academic, conductor and pianist in Irish classical music. Much has been written about Seóirse Bodley and his compositions. Axel Klein, Gareth Cox, Lorraine ... -
The influence of the Cork International Choral Festival on choral singing, choral conducting and choral composition in Ireland (1954-2021)
(Royal Irish Academy of Music, 2022-04)The Cork International Choral Festival was established in 1954 as part of the Tóstal festival – a festival that sought to celebrate and showcase Irish traditions on an international stage. Over time (1954-2021), the Festival ... -
From ancient to avant-garde: The evolution of the organ in Ireland and a performer's analysis of five Irish contemporary pieces for solo organ
(Royal Irish Academy of Music, 2022-06)The organ is an instrument with a lengthy and diverse history. Woven into the very fabric of the venues in which they are situated, organs envelop listeners in a world of sound and resonance. Much has been written on the ... -
Interpretation and performance: a comparative study of artistic interpretations of performances of Beethoven's Eroica Piano Variations and Fugue in E flat major, op 35
(Royal Irish Academy of Music, 2022-09)Once music is created, the music may be played repeatedly by numerous performers for a long time and this custom has created the tradition of performances of Western classical music. Although the same music is played more ... -
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 ... -
An Investigation of Jānis Mediņš’s Piano Sonata (1946): historical context, analysis, editing and performance
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Alan Louis Smith's Vignettes: Covered Wagon Woman : a historical and musical analysis from a performer's perspective
(Royal Irish Academy of Music, 2023-01)The history of art song in the United States is a varied and unique blend of differing styles and cultures. Previous research includes the histories of Native American music, the influence of mass immigration on American ... -
'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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Composition Portfolio
The following is a descriptive analysis and interpretation of a body of work spanning two years during my Masters of Music postgraduate course in the Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin. I will endeavor to give a broad ... -
The Process of Preparing Irish Cello Sonatas (1968-1996) for Performance
This dissertation focuses on all the sonatas for cello and piano by Irish composers in the second half of the twentieth century. The sonatas, seven in total, were composed between 1968 and 1996 and show little similarity ... -
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Considerations for a modern performance of John Field's Piano Sonata op. 1 no. 1 in E flat Major
The wish to prepare John Field’s Piano Sonata op.1 no.1 in E flat major for a concert performance led the author to investigate and research the Urtext edition published by G. Henle Verlag (1983). As no autograph manuscript ... -
Mirrors of monstrosity: the representation of the outcast in Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes and Death in Venice
The figure of the monster is at the heart of Benjamin Britten’s operas. By orchestrating and dramatizing various outcast figures from the world of literature, Britten and his librettists have illustrated that the monster ... -
Interpretation and Performance: An Investigation into Franz Schubert's Piano Sonata in A major D959
The investigation is based on the understanding of the role of the performer as narrator in the performance of early nineteenth-century piano music in general and Schubert’s Piano Sonata in A Major, D959, in particular. ... -
Miklós Rózsa's 'double life' : an assessment of Hungarian folksong elements in three of Rózsa's concert hall works
Miklós Rózsa (1907 – 1995) is best known for his Hollywood film scores, but in addition to this he also composed many concert hall works, leading to a diverse compositional output and the self-declaration of a ‘double ... -
Performance Considerations for Robert O’Dwyer’s Eithne (1909): A Contextual Study and Edited Vocal Score
Robert O’Dwyer’s Eithne (1909) is recognised as the first opera to be performed in the Irish language. Based on the Irish folklore legend, Éan an cheoil bhinn or ‘bird of the sweet music’, the work is at once representative ... -
Towards a Historically Informed Performance of Chopin’s Op. 10 Études
In the 1970s, historically informed performance practice became a major movement which involved performers and musicologists alike. Earlier, historically informed performances and scholarship focused on Baroque repertoires ...
