Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Theses: Recent submissions
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Composition as the creation of a performance, music as a vehicle for non-musical thought : six new works.
(2016-12-01) - ThesisThis thesis comprises six new musical works composed between 2008 and 2015: ‘Struction (how I attempted to get the thoughts in my head into your head using only five instruments, five instrumentalists, metronome sound and ... -
"More like a poem than a play" : towards a dramaturgy of performing arts for Early Years
(2016-06-23) - ThesisThis thesis aims to further our understanding of the emergent phenomenon of Theatre for Early Years (TEY) in Scotland. It interrogates a series of artistic practices – traditional, postdramatic, participatory – with the ... -
Portfolio of original compositions
(2015-06-25) - ThesisThis folio and accompanying commentary draw together my compositional work over the period of the PhD and plot the development and exploration of a number techniques which are to be found in varying degrees in each of the ... -
From piano to stage : a genealogy of musical ideas in the piano works of Sergei Prokofiev (1900 – c.1920)
(2010) - ThesisThis thesis is a study of Prokofiev's musical ideas as they emerge in his early writing for piano. It is concerned with elucidating the connections between Prokofiev's pianistic technique and his compositional technique. ... -
Inter-actor interaction : contributions to rehearsal and performance practice that attempt to minimize pre-agreed-upon performance structure and divided consciousness
(2014) - ThesisThis dissertation presents and analyses original contributions to rehearsal and performance practice. Flow criticism - the use of flow theory to examine performance practice - is proposed as a tool for evaluating existing ...