ANALYZING WITH THE ARTS
(2024)
author(s): Iselin Dagsdotter Sæterdal
published in: University of Inland Norway
This exposition explores the following question: How might an analysis be done in post-qualitative inquiry and performative approaches?
Considering that post-qualitative inquiry rejects pre-existing research designs, methods, processes, procedures, or practices, and acknowledging that a research process will unfold and materialize differently in different projects, my aim is to explore one possible approach to analysis. This approach explored herein is specific to my PhD project. At the same time, I invite you to re-turn (to) the pieces you find fruitful and adjust them to your research.
The research material being analyzed in this exposition is informed by my PhD project, which explores what might materialize in the matter of digital musicking when a loop station and 1–3-year-olds meet each other in a kindergarten context.
Exploring how an analysis might be done in post-qualitative inquiry and performative approaches, and as the title plays on, the method of analyze is with the arts and take an arts-based approach.
This exposition contributes to the fields of early childhood music education, post-qualitative and performative inquiry, and arts-based research.
This exposition is included in the anthology "Utfordringer og muligheter innen musikk og utdanning", or "Challenges and Opportunities in Music and Education" in Enlgish. The anthology is published as part of MusPed:Research by the Cappelen Damm Academic publishing house. MusPed:Research is a peer-reviewed series of scholarly publications within the field of music pedagogy. The anthology, of which this exposition is a part, has been peer-reviewed, and this extends to this exposition as well.
Etableringen av en norsk klavertradisjon: Interpretative trekk ved Edvard Griegs Ballade op. 24, Geirr Tveitts Sonate nr. 29 op. 129 og Fartein Valens Sonate nr. 2 op. 38.
(2024)
author(s): Einar Røttingen
published in: Research Catalogue
The theme of this dissertation is three important Norwegian piano works. The dissertation includes a main text, a recording and a critical/practical edition of Valen’s Sonata no.2 op.38. By using a musicological/analytical and artistic approach, this dissertation aims to create a greater understanding for these three works as a part of a Norwegian and continental European piano tradition. The main text investigates the contents of the music and how the works are built. It looks at the performance indications in the score and performance practice traditions (historical recordings). References and allusions to other works in the same genres and to similar piano styles are discussed. By looking at possible autobiographical and metaphorical allusions, the dissertation aims at finding an understanding for the works’ origin and meaning. The critical and practical edition contributes for the first time to correct errors and unclear readings of the existing edition and presents a possible realization of Valen’s incomplete score. The main text also includes general criteria for the interpretative choices on the CD. (Norwegian version only, some parts are translated to English as articles)
APPROACHING IMAGES: A Journey from Imagery to the Concrete
(2023)
author(s): Rui Braga Simões
published in: KC Research Portal
The piano is an instrument filled with endless possibilities, and an absurd amount of marvellous repertoire, but also has its downsides, namely its extremely complex mechanism: fingers activate a key, that moves a hammer, that hits a string. It’s a lot of steps from the moment you imagine a note and the moment you hear it, and the resulting sound isn’t always what we hope for. This instrument can be limited for the things that are asked from pianists, such as playing singing and legato lines. However, there are ways of getting over this limitation, and one of them is the use of Imagery, I.e., having a strong imagination of something else in order to do things that, in many occasions on a piano, are technically impossible.
In this artistic research I approach the concept of Musical Imagery and present an arrangement I made of Debussy’s Et la lune descend sur le temple qui fut (from the second book of Images) for piano and percussion quartet, exploring the imagery elements I use in my practice and explaining how I turned them into something concrete, through the use of new layers added by the chosen instruments.
Performing Music Theory
(2022)
author(s): Bart de Graaf
published in: KC Research Portal
In my thesis Performing Music Theory, I will examine how listening to recordings of musical performances may influence my analysis of Chopin’s First Ballade. Therefore, I take the music as heard in performance as the starting point for the analysis, rather than the score. By consulting recorded performances by various pianists, I will analyze how different performances may lead to different analyses. These analytical observations will concern phrase structure, harmony, topical analysis and form. The interpretation of form in particular is highly dependent on tempo choices that pianists make. In the case of the First Ballade, a piece with very few tempo indications, these choices vary widely.
I will show that in some cases clear analytical conclusions can be drawn from performances. And in other cases, rather far-fetched theoretical analyses must be made to describe the performer’s choices, demonstrating how problematic it is to base an analysis entirely on performances. What does that mean for the relationship between performer and theorist, and more particularly for the position of the ‘prescribing’ theorist, who considers analysis as a starting point in a musical interpretation? And what does this mean for the importance of the Analysis course at conservatories?
Ottoman music as a source of inspiration for today’s composers
(2017)
author(s): Vasileios Filippou
published in: KC Research Portal
Name: Vasileios Filippou
Main Subject: Composition
Title of Research: Ottoman music as a source of inspiration for today’s composers
Subtitle:
Applying aspects of Ottoman Classical music within current compositional practice
Research Question:
How can I, as a composer, understand the rich tradition of Ottoman Classical music
and as a result, inform my compositional work?
Summary of Results:
By outlining and critically evaluating my compositional process, this research paper
aims to suggest methods of composing that are influenced by, and arise from a deep
understanding of Ottoman Classical music.
The purpose of this research is to show ways in which Ottoman Classical music can
provide compositional tools for today’s composers (especially those with a European
Classical background). The paper and the composition examples will illustrate
possible ways in which Ottoman Classical music can be used.
The important results of this research are presented in the form of compositions,
accompanied by their analyses, where the ways I approached the research question are
demonstrated. A diagram has been devised, which can be used as a method of drawing
inspiration from various musical elements whilst reflecting on them. The points
discussed on the use of Ottoman Classical music in today’s practice and the two
opposing views on this matter are key to these results as they have informed the study.
This is a practice as research approach where composition, which is my artistic
practice, becomes both my subject and my tool of research. It is an area not
extensively studied in the past and it is free of pre-defined methods and open to new
interpretations. This paper can be an introduction to composers who have not yet
studied or practiced this kind of music.
Biography:
Vasileios Filippou (b. Cyprus, 1991) is currently a master student at Koninklijk
Conservatorium Den Haag studying composition with Yannis Kyriakides and Calliope
Tsoupaki. He holds a master degree with a scholarship fromTrinity Laban conservatoire
and a bachelor degree from Royal Holloway, London. His music has been performed in
The United Kingdom, Netherlands, Greece, Spain and Cyprus, broadcasted from BBC
Radio 3 (UK) and RIK Radio (CY) and also presented in Aldeburgh and Cheltenham
music festivals. Latest major performances include a piece for Orkest de Ereprijs in
Appeldoorn and a piece for Ives ensemble and Slagwerk Den Haag in Amsterdam.
Jorge Alvaro's academic and research space
(last edited: 2024)
author(s): Jorge Alvaro Manzano
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The essence of the video essay is to transfer the energy of the chosen audiovisual pieces to a new language. It aims to focus the viewer on a detail, a concept that articulates part of the narrative. In this series, different proposals converge to emphasize some relevant aspects of each selection.
The articles allow me to investigate and reflect on the topics I photograph or film, deepening and discussing my research with other authors
Analysis for 'Derailed'
(last edited: 2021)
author(s): Metehan Köktürk
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Derailed is a collective audio-visual work of KompozitArt Collective, conceptualized on life’s evolutionary course which is transformed to an industrial stage with humanity. Perceiving the existence and evolutionary process of life in a very general perspective is the initial inspiration. It is aimed to question the life process that starts in the water and comes to the land and is systematized itself in the results of its own process with a creative approach.
The essence of the video essay is to transfer the energy of the chosen audiovisual pieces to a new language. It aims to focus the viewer on a detail, a concept that articulates part of the narrative. In this series, different proposals converge to emphasize some relevant aspects of each selection. The articles allow me to investigate and reflect on the topics I photograph or film, deepening and discussing my research with other authorsopen exposition comments (0)
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