Graham (2020)

Author

Graham, A.

Year

2020

Title

Pedagogical potential in the complexism learning process : a performer’s journey through Brian Ferneyhough’s “Bone Alphabet” (1992)

University

University of British Columbia

Discipline (uncoded)

Musical Arts (DMA)

Macrostructure

Analogous to Traditional-Simple

Proposed Area of Unconventionality
(Tardy, 2016)

Unclear. (This seems like it may actually be conventional for the discipline)

Description and other notes

Lecture recital related to materials presented in chapters two through four happened prior to the submission of the written component. The goal, purpose, and main arguments were presented along with a live performance of Ferneyhough’s “Bone Alphabet.” Interviews four expert musicians but doesn’t have a methods section (perhaps because the interviews are more akin to journalistic interviews). Presents relationship between the interviewees’ experiences and the author’s learning process. Uses this to articulate the author’s argument in the chapter prior to the conclusion. I’ve labelled this as “traditional-simple analogue” because I read the chapters as leading up to the “experiment” which is carrying out the recital (or the apex of the dissertation) and the remaining chapters sort of re-situate the reader in the dissertation’s main findings/arguments.

(Proposed) Degree of separation or connection between atypical or unconventional component(s) and conventional or written component(s)

Separate. Creative component (recital) is not  visible in the written component.

(Proposed) Type of relationship construed between atypical or unconventional component(s) and conventional or written component(s)

Influenced. The research carried out through the written component is seen as influencing the creative component (live recital of “Bone Alphabet”)

Notes/Reasoning

None

Discipline 2 (coded)

Musical Arts (DMA)

Discipline Grouping (coded)

HUM, FINE ARTS

Source

UBC