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Musical setting creation for a Yeats poem: an autoethnographic Irish-Canadian experience
(2024-10-25)The project aims to explore 'what it is like' to create a musical setting for a poem written by WB Yeats as a Canadian born musician of paternal Irish heritage. Exploring the significance of this creative process is to ... -
Flow, play, feel and creativity: some of the potential outcomes of playing by ear from a recording
(GIA Publications Inc, 2017)Playing by ear from a recording is, in the history of human music-making, a relatively new activity, stemming as it does from only the last one hundred years or so, since the invention of audio recording and play-back ... -
Pedagogy and professional development- research report for ETHNO
(Jeunesses Musicales International, 2022-06-07)The aim of the pedagogy and professional development research was to document local, national and global understandings of Ethno pedagogy, and to describe and theorize its processes in action, including the ways it was ... -
Nurturing collaborative creativity through group playing by ear from recordings in formal music education
(Springer Nature, 2019-07-12)This chapter discusses research on informal learning (Green in How popular musicians learn. Ashgate Publishers, Aldershot, 2002) with a particular focus on playing by ear from recordings in groups and how it contributes ... -
Bringing different generations together in music-making – an Intergenerational Music Project in East London
(Intellect, 2011-12-09)This article describes an intergenerational music project that took place as part of a bigger project, entitled the Music for Life Project that explored the social and emotional benefits of music participation for people ... -
Benefits experienced by older people in group music-making activities
(Intellect, 2012-08-23)This article focuses on the reported benefits of participation in musical activities identified by people over the age of fifty, who participated in the Music for Life Project. The participants engaged in weekly musical ... -
Collaborative playful experimentation in Higher Education: a group ear playing study
(Sage Publications, 2016-08)Exploring how western classical musicians could develop their aural, improvisatory and creative musicianship skills through playing by ear is an area that has recently received noteworthy attention within Higher Education. ... -
A review of '"Ordinary Irish Life: Music, Sport and Culture" Méabh Ní Fhuartháin and David M. Doyle eds. (Pre-published version)
(Cambridge University Press, 2014)This collection of nine essays, edited under the auspices of the Centre for Irish Studies at NUI Galway, seeks to broaden further the remit of Irish Studies by arguing for the place of sport, music and culture as central ... -
A review of "The Cambridge Companion to Schumann" Beate Perrey ed. (Pre-published version)
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A review of "Reading Musical Interpretation: Case Studies in Solo Piano Performance" by Julian Hellaby (Pre-published version)
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Aspects of pitch structure and pitch selection in post-war Irish composition: an analytical study of tonal and post-tonal referential collections in selected works by Irish composers
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2002)This dissertation examines aspects of pitch structure, processes of pitch selection and the treatment of referential collections in the works of selected post-war Irish composers. The first chapter reviews the literature ... -
Moniuszko and musical nationalism in Poland
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Introduction: musical constructions of nationalism
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The musical press in nineteenth-century Ireland
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Race, nation and empire in the Irish music of Sir Charles Villiers Stanford
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Too cool for school? Musicians as partners in education (Pre-published version)
(Taylor & Francis [Routledge], 2010)