Theses - Music
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Harmonic Centricity and Paths Towards Integrating Different Soundworlds
(2019-03-06)Many current schools of compositional thought evidence an interest in the integration and collision of different methods of harmonic organisation. Creating strategies that aid composers in incorporating many dramatically ... -
The New Manila Sound: Music and Mass Culture, 1990s and Beyond
(2019-01-26)This dissertation provides the first detailed account of the mass musical culture of the Philippines that originated in the 1990s and continues to be the most popular style of musical entertainment in the country — a scene ... -
Charles Jennens's collection of Handel's sacred oratorios from 'Saul' to 'Jephtha': sources, contexts, and revisions
(2019-01-26)Charles Jennens (1700-1773), the librettist of 'Saul', 'Messiah', 'Belshazzar', the final part of 'L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato', and probably 'Israel in Egypt', amassed a huge library of music that forms the ... -
Accentual counterpoint and metrical narrative in the music of Brahms
(2018-10-20)This thesis introduces a web of concepts to analyse Brahmsian metre and move toward a more nuanced understanding of metrical expression and narrative in his music. Recent analytical studies of metre in common-practice ...
