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Maynooth Musicology 00424201 00424201 Maynooth Musicology Postgraduate Journal Volume 2 2009 Edited by Brian Carty, Pat O ’Connell and Barbara Strahan N.U.I. Maynooth 1 1 NOV 20U Library Table of Contents Contributors................... v Acknowledgements......................................................................................... ix Preface........................................................................................ xi Introduction: ‘Attending to the Way Things Are’: Frankfurtian Reflections on Truth and Musicology........................................................ xiii JoeKehoe Benjamin Britten: art song, a synthesis of words and music — issues and approaches to text-setting.............................................. 1 Paul Higgins Music of a lesser genre? Schubert’s development and transformation of the piano duet medium............................... 19 Barbara Sti'ahan Dialectic process and sonata form in Schubert’s A minor String Quartet, D804................................................................................................................ 40 Adam Cullen Tensions between the ‘serious’ and the ‘popular’ in music: Josephine Lang’s compositional environment...................................................... 71 Aisling Kenny Time as a circular spectrum and the retrospective device in Gustav Mahler’s Symphony no. 3 (1895-1896)......................................................88 Jennifer Lee A Wind-Band in Cork in the first decade of the 1800s........................... 102 Pat O’Connell The promotion of music in Dublin: women’s lectures and articles supporting the city’s musical development.............................................. 119 Jennifer O’Connor Charles Villiers Stanford’s Experiences with and contributions to the solo piano repertoire....................................................................................139 Adèle Commins Subjective identity in the operas of James W ilson.................................172 Eileen Brogan Towards analytical synthesis: folk idioms, motivic integration and symmetry in Béla Bartôk’s Concerto for Orchestra (1943)...................190 Cathy Byrne Signature characteristics in the piano music of John Adams...............220 Eoin Conway Minimalism: towards a definition............................................................ 236 Adrian Smith Gender identity and the electric guitar in heavy metal music...............251 Philip Kelly Multi-channel and binaural spatial audio: an overview and possibilities of a unified system ....................................................................................... 281 Brian Carty Contributors Eileen Brogan graduated from St. Patrick’s College (DCU) with a first class honours Masters Degree (2005). She studied at the Royal Irish Academy of Music with David Lee (1992-2000) obtaining the teaching diplomas of A.R.I.A.M., L.R.I.A.M. and L.T.C.L. An examiner for the RIAM, she held the post of Senior Examiner from 2002-2004. Eileen is Director of Castleknock School of Music and has lectured in music education at St. Patrick’s College since 2002. She delivered a paper at the SMI conference (2008) and is in her third year of research focusing on subjective identity in the operas of James Wilson. Cathy Byrne, a postgraduate music student, was awarded a first class honours degree in music at NUI Maynooth in 2006, having previously graduated in arts from TCD (1993) and worked in the interim on Irish archaeological sites. Cathy is now completing her MLitt thesis on Béla Bartôk’s late orchestral compositions, and also performs and teaches piano. Brian Carty is a PhD student at NUI Maynooth, researching the area of binaural and spatial audio. His publications include a recent paper entitled ‘New Csound Opcodes for Binaural Processing’ at the Linux Audio Conference in Berlin in 2008. An IRCSET and John Hume scholar, Brian also lectures in the Music and Computer Science Departments at NUI Maynooth. Brian holds a first class BA and MA, in Music and Maths and Computer Music respectively. Brian is also a keen musician and emerging composer. Adèle Commins holds a first class honours degree in Music and Irish and a first class honours Higher Diploma in Education from NUI Maynooth. Her current PhD research concerns reception issues and the solo piano music of Irish-born composer Charles Villiers Stanford. At present she lectures in the Department of Music and Creative Media at Dundalk Institute of Technology in the areas of education, performance and musicology. She has presented papers at various musicological v conferences and she is a member of the RILM Ireland committee as well as having contributed articles to the forthcoming publication, EMIR. Eoin Conway is a second year MLitt student. He graduated from NUI Maynooth with a BMus in 2007. His research interests lie in the Minimalist and post-Minimalist composers (John Adams, Steve Reich, Arvo Part and Philip Glass), and in historically-informed performance of early choral music. He is a founding member of the Maynooth Early Music Ensemble, and a countertenor in the Palestrina Choir. He is a contributor to the Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland. Adam Cullen graduated from NUI Maynooth in 2006 with a first class honours Bachelor of Music degree specialising in composition. Since graduation he has tutored in the university in harmony, counterpoint, and dissertation writing. Adam has studied Classical Guitar with Alan Grundy, sang with the Maynooth Chamber Choir since 2005, and is Musical Director for the Millicent Singers. He is currently in the final year of his MLitt, supervised by Dr Lorraine Byrne Bodley, examining the relationship between certain late instrumental works by Schubert. Paul Higgins is in the final year of his PhD at NUI Maynooth researching the areas of historical and analytical musicology. The working title of his thesis is ‘Text-setting within musical texture - the art songs of Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)’. Paul graduated with a BMus degree (first class honours) from NUI Maynooth (2005) during which time his interests included the English Baroque and the nineteenth-century German Lied. He delivered papers at SMI conferences (2006 to 2008) and at the Britten Study Conference hosted by the University of East Anglia (April 2008). He was a contributor and an inaugural editor of Maynooth Musicology I. Joe Kehoe retired from the public service in 2004. He graduated from NUI Maynooth with an honours Bachelor of Music Degree in 2007, and he also holds an honours degree in philosophy from London University. He was the winner in-2008 of the first CHMHE Undergraduate Musicology Competition for his final year dissertation The Place of Ethics in Musicology, and on this basis was invited to present a paper to the 2008 Conference, in Waterford, of the Society for Musicology in Ireland. Joe has tutored students in musicology in NUI Maynooth and is currently an M. Litt. student there. Philip Kelly commenced studies in NUI Maynooth in 2005 in the BMus degree programme and graduated in 2008. While studying, Philip participated in the NUI Maynooth Guitar Orchestra and in other ensembles within the college including Brian Bridges’s Electric Guitar Array. He has played both classical and electric guitar for a number of years and is currently studying for a licentiate with Trinity College of Music London in electric guitar performance. Philip’s research interests include areas of popular musicology, ethnomusicology and music technology. He is currently enrolled in the MA in Computer Music at NUI Maynooth. Aisling Kenny was awarded a John Hume Scholarship in 2005 after completing her BMus at NUI Maynooth. She is currently pursuing doctoral research on the Lieder of Josephine Lang. She has presented papers at conferences in Ireland and the UK. She has written several articles on Irish singers for The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland. Her paper on Josephine Lang’s Goethe settings was published in the NUI Maynooth Musicology Journal in 2008. Aisling, a Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholar of the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, also holds performance diplomas in piano and singing. Jennifer Lee graduated with an honours BMus degree from NUI Maynooth in 2006 specializing in original composition. Jennifer’s postgraduate studies on the philosophical connotations of Mahler’s Symphony no. 3 have been recently upgraded to doctorate level. She was awarded the Professional Certificate of Higher Level Teaching from NUI Maynooth in 2007 and teaches violin and music theory part-time in several schools in Dublin. Pat O’Connell holds an MA in Anglo Irish Studies from University College, Dublin. After a career of thirty-five years in the Information Technology and Telecommunications industries, he was accepted as a postgraduate student in the Department of Music at NUI Maynooth. His PhD research concerns the music and musicians of the Irish militias at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries. He has presented papers at a number of conferences and is a contributor to the forthcoming publication, EMIR. Jennifer O’Connor has a degree in Music and English and an MA in Music History from NUI Maynooth. She is completing her PhD which focuses on the contribution of women to music in nineteenth century Dublin. She has spoken at several conferences both in Ireland and the U.K. and is a contributor to the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Music in Ireland. Adrian Smith graduated from NUI Maynooth in September 2007 with a first class
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