Engaging Ireland’s rich heritages of traditional music, story-telling, song, dance, and language, this doctoral composition project is a unique undertaking in the amalgamation of native art forms and the narrative realisation of Irish legends. The centrepiece of the project comprises of two collections of compositions inspired by the legends Oidhe Chloinne Lir (the tragic fate of the children of Lir) and Loinges Mac nUislenn (the exile of the sons of Uisliu). An interdisciplinary approach of traditional research and creative practice was employed in the development of this project, which informed and supported the formulation of personal and distinctive recensions of the chosen narratives, and the composition of over three hundred new works...
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the topology of the field of Irish traditional folk music a...
The thesis Fiddles - one of the major elements of Irish traditional music deals with Irish tradition...
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the topology of the field of Irish traditional folk music a...
Irish oral tradition is an ancient artform that has an active global presence. Due to this global ap...
The performance of saga-inspired works, composed within the last fifty years, has given life to a nu...
For more than three hundred years, Irish composers have engaged with tales from early Irish saga-lit...
The issue of Irish art music has been the subject of much discussion in this past decade and beyond....
Port na bPúcai literally translated as the ‘tune of the ghosts’ or also known as the ‘music of the f...
Prior to commencing the research for this dissertation I had composed a number of concert works whic...
As both a traditional Irish musician and composer, I am always striving to effectively fuse folk mus...
non-peer-reviewedPort na bPúcai literally translated as the ‘tune of the ghosts’ or also known as t...
As both a traditional Irish musician and composer, I am always striving to effectively fuse folk mus...
As both a traditional Irish musician and composer, I am always striving to effectively fuse folk mus...
In the late twentieth century, many new melodies were composed in the genre of traditional Irish ins...
Throughout the second half of the nineteenth century, arrangements of Irish airs were popularly perf...
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the topology of the field of Irish traditional folk music a...
The thesis Fiddles - one of the major elements of Irish traditional music deals with Irish tradition...
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the topology of the field of Irish traditional folk music a...
Irish oral tradition is an ancient artform that has an active global presence. Due to this global ap...
The performance of saga-inspired works, composed within the last fifty years, has given life to a nu...
For more than three hundred years, Irish composers have engaged with tales from early Irish saga-lit...
The issue of Irish art music has been the subject of much discussion in this past decade and beyond....
Port na bPúcai literally translated as the ‘tune of the ghosts’ or also known as the ‘music of the f...
Prior to commencing the research for this dissertation I had composed a number of concert works whic...
As both a traditional Irish musician and composer, I am always striving to effectively fuse folk mus...
non-peer-reviewedPort na bPúcai literally translated as the ‘tune of the ghosts’ or also known as t...
As both a traditional Irish musician and composer, I am always striving to effectively fuse folk mus...
As both a traditional Irish musician and composer, I am always striving to effectively fuse folk mus...
In the late twentieth century, many new melodies were composed in the genre of traditional Irish ins...
Throughout the second half of the nineteenth century, arrangements of Irish airs were popularly perf...
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the topology of the field of Irish traditional folk music a...
The thesis Fiddles - one of the major elements of Irish traditional music deals with Irish tradition...
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the topology of the field of Irish traditional folk music a...