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Metamorphosis, Microtones And Modes: Composition Portfolio With Commentary, Daragh Black Hynes
Metamorphosis, Microtones And Modes: Composition Portfolio With Commentary, Daragh Black Hynes
Research Theses
This research project consists of a portfolio of eight works accompanied by a thesis, which offers analytical commentaries on all of the works and the composition processes therein. The title of the thesis, ‘Metamorphosis, Microtones and Modes’, alludes to the primary factors involved in the composition processes, from a research perspective, across the course of the project. The concept of metamorphosis was approached in the context of attempting to musically interpret the visual ideas of M.C. Escher, and was subsequently explored extensively throughout the portfolio works in the parameters of pitch material, rhythm, form and structure, texture, timbre, and also …