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Supporting gestures: Breathing in piano performance (2006)
Book Chapter
King, E. (2006). Supporting gestures: Breathing in piano performance. In A. Gritten, & E. King (Eds.), Music and Gesture (142-164). Aldershot: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315091006

Existing research provides valuable insight into the importance of breathing for music performers and its function in supporting instrumentalists. The study of pianists’ breathing is perhaps a less obvious choice of subject than breathing by singers... Read More about Supporting gestures: Breathing in piano performance.

The roles of student musicians in quartet rehearsals (2006)
Journal Article
King, E. C. (2006). The roles of student musicians in quartet rehearsals. Psychology of music, 34(2), 262-282. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305735606061855

This study focuses on collaboration between student musicians in a wind quartet, saxophone quartet and string quartet. Devised as an explorative investigation using observation and interview methods, the roles of student musicians are defined within... Read More about The roles of student musicians in quartet rehearsals.

Strategies of ensemble practice (2004)
Book Chapter
King, E., & Davidson, J. (2004). Strategies of ensemble practice. In A. Williamon (Ed.), Musical Excellence: Strategies and Techniques to Enhance Performance (105-22). Oxford: Oxford University Press

Ensemble Performance (2002)
Book Chapter
King, E. (2002). Ensemble Performance. In J. Rink (Ed.), Musical Performance: A Guide to Understanding (153-167). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511811739.012

Ensemble performance involves musical and social interaction between a group of performers. The term ‘ensemble’ derives from the French for ‘together’, and it defines the seemingly infinite array of musical performances involving more than one person... Read More about Ensemble Performance.

Music in Shakespeare
Dataset
Wilson, C. Music in Shakespeare. [Dataset]

This website attempts to identify every music reference in context in each play and in a number of poems where they occur. Music in Shakespeare is a wide-ranging subject embracing terms and phrases of many differing kinds and definitions. For the pur... Read More about Music in Shakespeare.

Ursula Vaughan Williams Song Project (performance portfolio)
Exhibition / Performance
Tsang, L. (2010). Ursula Vaughan Williams Song Project (performance portfolio). (Unpublished)

Tsang, L (producer, editor, singer). Ursula Vaughan Williams: In Memoriam. A concert of songs on UVW texts including new works by Thomas Simaku, Alastair Borthwick, Richard Tsang, Evis Sammoutis, George Christofi, Leonidas Sakellarides, Nathaniel Sea... Read More about Ursula Vaughan Williams Song Project (performance portfolio).

Equanimity
Digital Artefact
Mackay, R. Equanimity

The composition, Equanimity (for clarinet and computer), was commissioned by American clarinetist F. Gerard Errante for his CD project Delicate Balance (2012, Aucourant Records, USA). Taking a moonlit night on a beach in Majorca as its inspiration, E... Read More about Equanimity.

Strata Sequence
Digital Artefact
Mackay, R. Strata Sequence

Composition cycle based on recordings of the Brantwood Musical Stones (developed as part of the Ruskin Rocks project) and text of John Ruskin in collaboration with Dame Evelyn Glennie.

Flow
Digital Artefact
Mackay, R. Flow

Flow is a composition for flute, electronics and video, commissioned by Mexican multimedia performance group Luminico. It was created in the studios of CMMAS (Centro Mexicano para la Música y las Artes Sonoras) during October 2012, supported with fun... Read More about Flow.

Sounds of Sea Swim
Digital Artefact
Mackay, R. Sounds of Sea Swim

The Sounds of Sea Swim is a collection of compositions, sound collages, and installations developed as part of commissioned work for the Sea Swim project, directed by Lara Goodband and John Wedgewood Clarke. Part swimming club and part art club, Sea... Read More about Sounds of Sea Swim.

Helical Time (an open ended song cycle for combinations of baritone voice, violin, piano and trumpet with instrumental pre-/inter-/post-ludes): (i) 'Time Being', for baritone voice and piano, in Tsang, L. & Venables, P.(eds) Finding Ursula Vaughan Williams:An Anthology of New Songs for Voice and Piano, with an Introduction by Lee Tsang (York: University of York Music Press, 2010). Supplementary recorded material available from http://www.uymp.co.uk/uvw. Performed as part of Ursula Vaughan Williams: In Memoriam which featured 12 new commissions. Tsang as producer, editor, singer. Lee Tsang (baritone); Peter Sproston (piano). Recorded live to video for online use. Beverley Minster and Middleton Hall, 15-16 April 2010. (4'). ISMN M 57036 187 8; (ii) 'Days', for baritone voice, piano, trumpet and violin (a setting of the poem by Philip Larkin). Performances (as part of the whole 'helix') in Hull and Hong Kong, March 2013
Digital Artefact
Borthwick, A. Helical Time (an open ended song cycle for combinations of baritone voice, violin, piano and trumpet with instrumental pre-/inter-/post-ludes): (i) 'Time Being', for baritone voice and piano, in Tsang, L. & Venables, P.(eds) Finding Ursula Vaughan Williams:An Anthology of New Songs for Voice and Piano, with an Introduction by Lee Tsang (York: University of York Music Press, 2010). Supplementary recorded material available from http://www.uymp.co.uk/uvw. Performed as part of Ursula Vaughan Williams: In Memoriam which featured 12 new commissions. Tsang as producer, editor, singer. Lee Tsang (baritone); Peter Sproston (piano). Recorded live to video for online use. Beverley Minster and Middleton Hall, 15-16 April 2010. (4'). ISMN M 57036 187 8; (ii) 'Days', for baritone voice, piano, trumpet and violin (a setting of the poem by Philip Larkin). Performances (as part of the whole 'helix') in Hull and Hong Kong, March 2013