Clarke, Desmond (2015) Folio of Compositions. PhD thesis, University of York.
Abstract
The ten works presented here were composed between early 2012 and early 2015. They chart a process of experimentation, development and clarification with regards to my personal approach to composition and share a broad set of musical ideas.
The works are diverse in terms of forces, aesthetics and sound-worlds, but are unified by the application of musical dialectics that can be metaphorically traced back to the investigation of human perception, an interest which ultimately derives from my experiences as a performer of notated and improvised music.
This investigation is represented practically, descriptively, and metaphorically in various ways across the folio. This is not a scientific study: my own curiosity about the conscious and unconscious processes which shape one’s perception of the world provided a starting point for the construction of a set of musical relationships. These formative dialectics may provoke a listener to think about perceptual phenomena, or they may have an entirely different effect.
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Supervisors: | Suckling, Martin |
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Awarding institution: | University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > School of Arts and Creative Technologies (York) |
Academic unit: | Music |
Identification Number/EthosID: | uk.bl.ethos.686523 |
Depositing User: | Dr Desmond Clarke |
Date Deposited: | 24 May 2016 09:35 |
Last Modified: | 08 Sep 2016 13:34 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:etheses.whiterose.ac.uk:12640 |
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