Research, analysis and writing on composers, folk music traditions and twentieth-century musical style.
‘The Mounting of a Jewel’
MA thesis on Béla Bartók’s marriage of composer and ethnomusicologist – how his folk music fieldwork in Hungary, Romania and Slovakia shaped his harmonic language and mature compositions.
MA Thesis · 2001‘Rhizome’
A composition for violin, clarinet and piano, submitted as part of an MA in Twentieth Century Music at Queen’s University Belfast.
Composition · MAMore coming soon
Additional articles and research pages on composers and musical style will appear here.