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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 ... -
Reimagining the Saxophone: Preparing Works by Six Irish Composers for Performance – A First History
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), ... -
Roles for leading ladies: investigating the influence of ovarian hormones on performance anxiety and vocal impairment in elite singing
Professional singing in the classical western tradition is a highly stressful occupation. Training requires many years to gain proficiency. The vocalis muscle is influenced by fertility hormones. Unlike men, women experience ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
A twentieth- and twenty-first-century piano étude soundworld: obsessions and self-portraiture in Philip Glass's Twenty Piano Études
(Royal Irish Academy of Music, 2023-10)Philip Glass’s Twenty Piano Études are a monumental contemporary contribution to the piano étude genre with notable composers throughout history using the oeuvre as a means of creating their own distinctive pianistic ... -