All Outputs (4)

Interaction as Freedom, Tradition, and Mentorship: a performer-centred investigation into interaction in jazz performance (2023)
Thesis
Banks, D. (2023). Interaction as Freedom, Tradition, and Mentorship: a performer-centred investigation into interaction in jazz performance [Doctoral thesis, University of Hull]. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4565247

The purpose of this thesis is twofold: to construct a performer-centred autoethnographic methodology and to re-examine interaction in jazz performance utilising this methodology to recast interaction and position it as a means by which an ensemble's... Read More about Interaction as Freedom, Tradition, and Mentorship: a performer-centred investigation into interaction in jazz performance.

Composing for improvisers : information flow, collaborative composition and individual freedom in large ensembles (2019)
Thesis
Freed, M. (2019). Composing for improvisers : information flow, collaborative composition and individual freedom in large ensembles [Doctoral thesis, University of Hull]. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4222576

Rooted in the lineages of European ‘free’ improvisation, jazz, the New York ‘Downtown’ scene, Chicago’s AACM, and various ‘indeterminate’ approaches, this research project deals with the creation and evaluation of a portfolio of compositions, each of... Read More about Composing for improvisers : information flow, collaborative composition and individual freedom in large ensembles.

Rebecoming analogue : groove, breakbeats and sampling (2015)
Thesis
Oliver, R. A. (2015). Rebecoming analogue : groove, breakbeats and sampling [Doctoral thesis, University of Hull]. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4218015

In this thesis I address two related questions: how does groove work in breakbeats, and how might it enable musical participation across time and space?

In order to do this, I analyse breakbeats as they are heard in their original funk context and... Read More about Rebecoming analogue : groove, breakbeats and sampling.

Pathways in the music of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies: from precursor works to the first two symphonies (2011)
Thesis
Phillips, J. P. N. (2011). Pathways in the music of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies: from precursor works to the first two symphonies [Doctoral thesis, University of Hull]. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4212940

This thesis presents analyses of the first and second symphonies of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. It starts with an introductory part consisting of two chapters outlining the overall structure of what follows and describing four features and a number of... Read More about Pathways in the music of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies: from precursor works to the first two symphonies.