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Evolution and Collaboration: the composition, rehearsal and performance of Finnissy’s Second String Quartet. [DVD] Lancaster: PALATINE

This item is one of three in a portfolio, co-authored with Michael Clarke:

Item 2. Refereed journal article. Bayley, A and Clarke, M (2009) Analytical Representations of Creative Processes in Michael Finnissy’s Second String Quartet. In: Journal of Interdisciplinary Music Studies. Spring-Fall (2009) 3/1-2, pp. 139-157. http://www.musicstudies.org/springFall2009.html. ISSN: 1307-0401

Item 3. Refereed journal article. Bayley, A., and Clarke, M. (2010) Analysing Michael Finnissy’s Second String Quartet: A Multimedia Interactive Approach’. In: Utz, C. ed. Music Theory and Interdisciplinarity. 8th Congress of the Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie Graz, 2008 [musik.theorien der gegenwart] 4, pp. 319-334. ISBN: 978-3-89727-448-8)

The research embodied in the DVD comprises both the analysis and organisation of primary source materials resulting from an ethnographic study, and the design of interactive software to facilitate the presentation of the resulting large quantity of multimedia materials. Research into user interface design and navigation strategies was of particular importance in order to maximize the user’s engagement with these materials through a structured yet flexible interface. The DVD offers a methodology in action. As a form of meta-research about composer-performer interaction it provides users with an experience that promotes the inter-relationship between aural and visual components with an emphasis on aural perception.

Items 2 and 3 represent different stages of research development, establishing the rationale and context concerning non-linear approaches to music analysis, and identifying research areas, musical structure and analytical content that were subsequently expanded and developed into the software DVD.