Reimagining the Saxophone: Preparing Works by Six Irish Composers for Performance – A First History
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This thesis examines the processes involved in the performance preparation of works
for saxophone by six Irish composers: John Buckley (1951), Bill Whelan (1951),
Benjamin Dwyer (1965), Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin (1950-2018), Conor Linehan,
(1971) and Kenneth Edge (1965). All of these compositions were either written for
me, or as in the case of Linehan’s Three Pieces, adapted for me. The compositions
chosen for this thesis represent a reimagining of the saxophone as a solo instrument
across a spectrum of intellectual and compositional concerns, and through my artistic
research I examine the embodiment processes from within the works. Incorporating
knowledge from the scientific fields of expertise in performance, embodied
cognition, sports psychology and autoethnography; the philosophical fields of the
‘work concept’; the positive psychology field of ‘flow’; and the artistic fields of
performance, notation, interpretation and sound recording; I have created a first
history of the performance preparation for the works under discussion in this thesis.
Although this thesis is concerned with preparation rather than performance, I include
sound recordings of the world premiere performances of the works by Ó
Súilleabháin, Buckley and Linehan as research artefacts.
Author: Edge, Kenneth
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