Publications
Listed below are some of the publications by Cardiff's Music postgraduates, including completed doctorates, with titles of Theses, details of Performance recitals and contents of Composition portfolios. Our postgraduates are encouraged to promote their research beyond their immediate studies, whether it be in print, on air or in the concert hall. Examples of such activities, published while students are at Cardiff University, are also included below.
Completed Doctorates (since 2001)
- Adrian Hull (Composition): Static Infection for symphony orchestra (2004), Quorum for chamber orchestra (2004), The Young Hegelian for fourteen players (2005), Pathogenesis for symphony orchestra (2006), Sit Down and Listen. Please. for quintet (2006), Octamerous Rituals for piano (2006), Amerchania for clarinet, horn and cello (2006), Three Agitations for Cello (2006-07), Rondo for quartet (2006-07), Communicare for octet (2006-07), Lifetimes for cello and piano (2007) and In Tenebris for tenor and eleven players (2007) (2007)
- Phillip Cooke (Composition): Invocation for piano (2004), Do Dreams Lie Deeper? for mezzo-soprano and piano (2005), Diurnal for guitar (2005), Four Bagatelles for clarinet and piano (2006), Threnody for tenor and chamber ensemble (2006), Diptych for string quartet (2007), Three Pieces for orchestra (2007) and The Marian Antiphons for large chamber ensemble (2005-07) (2007)
- Gareth Peredur Churchill (Composition): Blodeugerdd (Anthology) for baritone and piano (2004), Mydrau Barddonol (Poetic Metres) for cln bsn hn 2vln vla vc db (2005), Haul Ar Fynydd (Sun on a Mountain) for female voices (ssaa) (2005), Caer Arianrhod: Sonata for solo harp (2006), In Chains for soprano and piano (2006), Y Garreg Ddial: Sonata for violoncello and piano (2005), Cromlech: Sonata for viola and piano (2006), Meddylun (Mindscape) for orchestra (2006), Ystwyth: String Quartet no. 1 (2006) and Rhai Llestri (Some Vessels) for cln vln vc pno (2006) (2007)
- Cameron Gardner (Musicology): Towards a Hermeneutic Understanding of Schubert's 1825 Piano Sonatas: Constructing and Deconstructing Interpretation from Expressive Opposition (2006)
- Carys Wyn Jones (Musicology): Is There a Canon of Rock Music? Canonical Values, Terms and Mechanisms in the Reception of Rock Albums (2006)
- Christopher Melen (Composition): Kalachakra for orchestra, From the Shoreline to the Stars for eighteen instruments, Nine Settings of William Carlos Williams for soprano, clarinet, harp and cello, Gamut for flute and clarinet, Nothing is Hidden for clarinet, violin and piano, To Lyric Light for septet and Six Metal Fugue for sextet (2006)
- Marina Lupishko (Musicology): The 'Rejoicing Discovery' Revisited: Re-Accentuation in Stravinsky's Settings of Russian Folk Verse (2006)
- Nicholas Reyland (Musicology): 'Akcja' and Narrativity in the Music of Witold Lutoslawski (2005)
- Lewis Foreman (Musicology): English Music 1860-1960: Its Reception, Revival and Recording (2005)
- John Parsons (Performance; violin): lecture-recital, 'Expression in Violin Performance c.1900-1960: Jeno Hubay and Changing Style in the Hungarian Violin School in the Age of Recordings'; thesis, Stylistic Change in Violin Performance 1900-1960, with special reference to recordings of the Hungarian Violin School (2005)
- David Hemsley (Musicology): Henry Bryceson (1832-1909 Organ Builder and Early Work in the Application of Electricity to Organ Actions (2005)
- David Manning (Musicology): Harmony, Tonality and Structure in Vaughan Williams's Music (2004)
- Jane Holland (Musicology): Robert Bremner's Favourite Songs: Opera Publishing in Eighteenth-Century London (2004)
- Bryan Marshall (Musicology): Charles Ives and the Absent Presences of Life and Work (2003)
- Sarah Hill (Musicology): 'Blerwytirhwng?' Welsh Popular Music, Language, and the Politics of Identity (2002)
Books, Book Chapters, Articles and Reviews (since 2001)
- Danijela Spiric: 'Imagining a Balkan Community: Modernism, Slavenski, and the First Yugoslavia (1918-1945), in Josip Slavenski i njegovo doba [Josep Slavinski and his time] (Belgrade: Sokoj MIC, 2006), 155-68
- Danijela Spiric: 'Canon at the Periphery: Contextualising the Music of Josep Slavenski', in Tatiana Markovic and Vesna Mikic (eds), Music and Networking: The Seventh International Conference (Belgrade, 2005), 172-78
- Danijela Spiric: (review) Philip V. Bohlman:The Music of European Nationalism: Cultural Identity and Modern History, Muzikologija 5 (2005), 420-3
- Carys Wyn Jones: 'The Aura of Authenticity: Perceptions of Honesty, Sincerity and Truth in 'Creep' and 'Kid A'', in J. Tate (ed.), The Music and Art of Radiohead (Aldershot: Aldgate, 2005), 38-51
- Cameron Gardner: (report) 'SIUK Study Day 'Schubert and Schiller' ', The Schubertian 47 (April 2005), 8-11
- Cameron Gardner: (CD review) 'Peter Katin: Schubert Impromptus D899 and D935', The Schubertian 45 (October 2004), 19-20
- Cameron Gardner: (report) 'SIUK Study Day 'The Reception History of Schubert the Man, as Reflected in Popular Culture' ', The Schubertian 44 (July 2004), 2-6
- Beata Boleslawska: 'Symmetry in the Music of Andrzej Panufnik', in J. Paja-Stach (ed.), Andrzej Panufnik's Music and Its Reception (Krakow: Jagiellonian University, 2003), 94-113
- Nicholas Reyland: (review) 'Osvaldas Balakauskas, La Lointaine', Opera 54/2 (February 2003), 192-4
- Nicholas Reyland: (review) 'A Protean Diversity: Lutoslawski Studies', Polish Music Journal 5/2 (Winter 2002)
- Beata Boleslawska: 'Andrzej Panufnik and Stalinist Pressures in Post-War Poland', Tempo 220 (April 2002), 14-19
- Nicholas Reyland: (review) 'Lutoslawski Studies', BBC Music Magazine (March 2002), 112-3
- Sarah Hill: 'Welsh Popular Music in the 1960s: The Roots of an Identity', in K. Karki, R. Leydon & H. Terho (eds), Looking Back, Looking Ahead: Popular Music Studies 20 Years Later (Turku: IASPM-Norden, 2002), 247-54
- Nicholas Reyland: 'Engineering the Soul', Central Europe Review 3/16 (May 2001)
- Sarah Hill: 'Britpop: Syllu ar Fogail Lloegr', Tu Chwith (Haf/Summer 2001), 37-44
- Beata Boleslawska: Panufnik (Krakow: PWM, 2001)