Exploring an Instrument's Diversity: The Creative Implications of the Recorder Performer's Choice of Instrument

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Recorder performers constantly face the challenge of selecting particular instrumental models for performance, subject to repertoire, musical styles, and performance contexts. The recorder did not evolve continuously and linearly. The multiple available models are surprisingly dissimilar and often somewhat anachronistic in character, juxtaposing elements of design from different periods of European musical history. This has generated the particular and peculiar situation of the recorder performer: the process of searching for and choosing an instrument for a specific performance is a complex aspect of performance preparation.
This research examines the variables that arise in these processes, exploring the criteria for instrumental selection and, within the context of music making, the creative possibilities afforded by those choices. The study combines research into recorder models and their origins, use and associated contexts with research through performance. The relationship between performer and instrument, with its cultural and personal complexities, is significant here. As an ‘everyday object’, rooted in daily practice and personal artistic expression over many years, the instrument becomes part of the performer’s identity. In my case, as a Chilean performing an instrument that, despite its wider connection to a range of other duct flutes across the world, belongs to European culture, this sense of identity is complex and therefore examined in my processes of selecting and working creatively with the instruments.
This doctorate portfolio comprises six performance projects, encompassing new, collaboratively developed works for a variety of recorders, presented through performance and recorded media. The artistic outputs are accompanied by critical commentary, examining how the creative work addresses core questions that arise from the situation outlined above. In addition to performance, most of the projects resulted in original scores that invite other performers to explore the instrumental diversity of the recorder, encouraging a renewed, creative perspective.

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Supervisors:	Laws, Catherine
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Keywords:	Practice Research, Music Performance, Recorder Music, Agency, Instrumental Afoordances, Resistance, Artistic Collaboration, Recorder (Musical Instrument) Models, Choice of Instruments, Identity, History of Recorder, Musical Narrative, Artistic Exploration, Action Research, Iterative Process.
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.805480
Depositing User:	Mrs Carmen Troncoso
Date Deposited:	22 May 2020 15:07
Last Modified:	21 Jun 2020 09:53
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID):	oai:etheses.whiterose.ac.uk:26469

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