Thesis submission ID 896 | created | last updated

David Thomas Cotter, Collaborative Creativity in Classical Guitar Performance: ‘Reassessing the Role of Accompanist’
PhD, University of Cambridge, in progress


Supervisor(s): Professor John Rink

General specialism: Musicology: Performance Studies
Historical timeframe: 1795-present
Key terms, concepts: Accompaniment; Classical guitar; Collaboration; Creativity; Ensemble performance; Expressiveness; Flow; Gesture; Improvisation; Live performance; Phenomenology; Physicality of performance; Practice-led research; Virtual reality
Key terms, institutions: University of Cambridge
Key terms, genres, instruments: Classical, Classical guitar, Guitar, Piano

Summary:
Building a database of classical guitar accompaniments from 1795 to the present day, identifying how the instrument’s unique affordances and characteristics possess suitability for accompaniment, and exploring how embodied, musical and visual performative devices (both existing and innovative) can convey aesthetic intentions.
Thesis submission ID 896