RIAM Theses & Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Contemporary Irish choral music and an outline of its historical origins
This thesis examines the unfamiliar new reality of Irish choral music. It is in a better state of health now in the early twenty-first century than at any point in its long and difficult history. Irish choral music today ... -
Operation Singing Nation : a case study towards fulfilling the professional development needs of teachers in Ireland to facilitate group singing
Operation Singing Nation: a case study towards fulfilling the professional development needs of teachers in Ireland to facilitate group singing. Instantly cost-effective, accessible and inclusive, the voice as a musical ... -
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 ... -
Final thoughts? Interpretation of the first movements of Beethoven's and Schubert's last three piano sonatas
Considered as the apex of the literature for piano sonatas in the classical period, Beethoven’s last three piano sonatas, Opp. 109, 110, 111, and Schubert’s last three piano sonatas, D. 958, 959, and 960, are still well ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
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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 ... -
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 ... -
French basso continuo performance technique: a study of the arpeggiated gesture in the prélude non mesuré (c1650-c1720)
To compensate for the evanescent nature of the harpsichord, improvised techniques evolved within Italian and French keyboard repertoire so as to avoid ‘leaving the instrument empty’.1 In France, these techniques consisted ... -
Music, text and context in Felix Mendelssohn’s choral works for Berlin Cathedral
Although the towering presence of Mendelssohn’s oratorios has dominated the scholarship on his choral music, new light has recently been shed upon some of the shorter vocal works. During Mendelssohn’s tenure as ... -
An exploration of the key characteristics in Beethoven's Piano Sonatas and selected instrumental repertoire
Associating Beethoven and tonal affect has been an attractive scholarly practice for many generations. Although there seems to be a widespread acknowledgment about Beethoven’s key symbolism, rarely do historians examine ...