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Browsing Irish World Academy of Music & Dance by Author "Phelan, Helen Frances"

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Aspects of organ-building in Ireland in the nineteenth century, referencing White, Telford, and post-emancipation choral practice

McKeever, Alexis Paul (Univeristy of Limerick, 2012)

This thesis is the first to combine organology, musicology, history and ethnography in a comprehensive study focusing on Irish organ-building. Chapter One commences with an extensive historical survey of Irish organ-building. ...
The autonomy question: an investigation of the aporia of autonomy and dependency through arts practice and social engagement

McLoughlin, Lisa (University of Limerick, 2020)

This arts-practice Ph.D. thesis seeks to investigate the aporia of autonomy and dependency through arts practice and social engagement. Arts Practice was used as a robust and agile tool for allowing space for non-consensus ...
Boundary - walkers: contexts and concepts of community music

Higgins, Lee David (University of Limerick, 2006)

This study develops conceptual tools in which Community Music practices in the United Kingdom (UK) can be analysed and understood. From a proposition that suggests that the effectiveness of Community Music has been reduced ...
Exposing the play in Gregorian Chant: the manuscript as an opening of re-presentation

Mascareñas Garza, Óscar Octavio (2011)

The purpose of this thesis is to review some of the concepts that are at the foundation of Gregorian chant scholarship – particularly those related to the notion of formula and concepts closely related to it, such as that ...
Generating states: exploring the kinaesthetic and energetic relationship between the moving body-mind and environment, through the lens of a dancer, a choreographer and a performer

Vaughan, Mairéad (University of Limerick, 2016)

My dance practice research examines and reflects on what I experience as a deep symbiotic relationship between the body-mind and environment, through the creation of two original choreographic works. This mixed-mode ...
The goddess dances beyond time: an exploration of continuity through change in contemporary Japanese ritual, with specific reference to the miko mai shinji

Phelan, Helen Frances; Hirabayashi, Eri (University of Limerick, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, 2010)

Ritual performance is a characteristic of contemporary Japanese life. Some of rituals originated more than a 1000 years ago, while the origins of others are not known. The theme of this thesis—continuity through change in ...
Laus Perennis : the emergence of a theology of music with reference to Post-Vatican II Irish Catholicism

Phelan, Helen Frances (University of Limerick, 2000)

This work proposes the sourcing of a theology of music with particular reference to liturgical music developments in the Irish Catholic church since the Second Vatican Council. In doing so, it is confronted by two primary ...
The Logoi of song: chant as embodiment of theology in orthodox Christian prayer and worship

Freedman Walker, Sydney (University of Limerick, 2014)

This practice-based study explores how chant of the Eastern Orthodox Church embodies theology and how it helps worshippers to do the same. It consists of a theological investigation and three case studies, which include ...
Missale Vetus:liturgy, palaeography and repertories in the notated missal EXcl 3515

Mannion, Anne (University of Limerick, 2012)

EXcl 3515 is a notated missal located in Exeter Cathedral. To date, it has received very little attention from chant scholars. This neglect is due possibly to the absence of a liturgical Kalendar and evidence of local ...
A musical exploration of the Sabbath morning service in Dublin's orthodox Jewish community

Brown, Melanie (University of Limerick, 2012)

The Jewish community of Dublin has been in existence for 400 years. Nowadays, many Dublin Jews are descended from Lithuanians who settled in Dublin at the turn of the twentieth century. Most Dublin Jews are integrated into ...
Phrased notation and renaissance polyphony: exploring a new solution to an old problem. An arts practice exploration of a modified music notation system, drawing on Irish based renaissance sources

O'Carroll, Kevin Fintan (University of Limerick, 2017)

A 1984 performance of Sicut Cervus by Palestrina raised in this writer’s mind questions regarding the performance of Renaissance polyphony by non-specialist choirs. The initial questions developed into one which asked ...
To write or not to write? The contested nature and role of writing in arts practice research

Phelan, Helen Frances; Nunan, Mary (Athabasa University Press, 2018)

One of the most contested areas of arts practice research concerns the nature and role of writing. For many artist-scholars, research predicated on artistic practice does not require written contextualization. For those ...
Unearthing the artist: An arts practice research investigation into the impact of Dalcroze Eurhythmics on the practice of a classically trained professional violinist

Daly, Diane Kathleen (University of Limerick, 2019)

This research explores the role and value of improvisation and expressive creativity in Western classical music professional training and practice, through an arts practice investigation by a classically trained ...
The untidy playground: an irish congolese case study in sonic encounters with the sacred stranger

Phelan, Helen Frances (MDPI, 2017)

This paper explores the proposal that music, and particularly singing, has unique properties that render it amenable to encounters with “the other” or the sacred stranger. Drawing on the deconstructionist works of Kristeva ...

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