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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 ... -
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 Road to Calvary: Tracing the Diachronic Instability in Representations of the Cleric in Modern Irish Film
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Drama, 2023)This thesis argues for the diachronic contingency of the priest in modern Irish cinema. This study utilises Richard Kearney?s account of `incarnate? and `excarnate? subjectivity to construct an analogous model for analysing ... -
REIMAGINING THE PUBLIC SPHERE: ADDRESSING THE CRISES OF DEMOCRACY THROUGH APPLIED DRAMA
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Drama, 2022)Liberal democracy is under threat and in a state of crisis around the world. This crisis of democracy is characterised by a rise in right-wing populism, an increase in political strongmen, and an undermining of liberal ... -
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 ... -
Unconscious Biases In Irish Theatre: Reading plays by women before and after #WakingTheFeminists
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Drama, 2022)The emergence of #WakingTheFeminists in response to the Abbey Theatre?s male-dominated 2016 ?Waking The Nation? programme confirmed the presence of systemic gender bias within Irish theatre. This thesis investigates the ... -
Performing Religion and Spirituality: The Postsecular Turn in Contemporary British and Irish Theatre
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Drama, 2022)This thesis argues that there has been a postsecular turn on the contemporary stage, focussing in particular on woman-centred theatre in Britain and Ireland in the past three decades. It deals with the representation ... -
An Intercultural Theory of the Comic Spirit: Insider/Outsider Dynamics and Representation in Theatre and Performance
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Drama, 2022)This dissertation commences with an enquiry into the origins of comedy in Greek fertility rituals and nature, drawing upon theories of play, ritual, and community to explicate case studies that have been decidedly sourced ... -
Vocal Artefacts: A Sonic Imagination of the Human Microphone
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Drama, 2021)This thesis (Vocal Artefacts) presents a body of artistic research and practice inspired by the event of the human microphone at Occupy Wall Street, Zuccotti Park, in the autumn of 2011. Vocal Artefacts conceives of the ... -
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 ... -
Leur vie d homme presque, d homme tout juste, d homme assez Une étude de l hybridation des créatures beckettiennes dans le contexte de l Anthropocène
(2020)This article offers a re-contextualisation of Beckett’s creatures in the Anthropocene and the Great Acceleration which leads to the introduction of a new vocabulary in order to conceptualise his hybrid creatures. After the ... -
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 ... -
Review of book Till Dawn Comes with a Song
(2020)“His grip was firm when he took the note to read the third time. The message stared at him. He stared back at it. The warning was brief and clear-cut. They would kill him if he was not very careful.” These are the opening ...
