“The study of narratology and its impact on programmatic music – with specific practice in writing for the piano”

Abstract

This dissertation aims to provide analysis of aspects of the phenomenology that has influenced the set of my four piano compositions in this folio. The study assesses narrative stimulants as a basis for writing the works, aspects of morphology and narratology and the application of the appropriate narrative spurs to these works. The folio includes purely absolute to programmatic music, thereby exploring the realms of “descriptive” and “narrative music”.