Portfolio of compositions

Abstract

My Masters research has been to the aim of my development as a composer of original music with an individual voice that is nonetheless informed by the musical and aesthetic currents alive in our contemporary society. This paper is an exegesis on my portfolio of compositions, written during my Masters candidature from 2006-08, in which I pursue a generally-consistent language towards a music that situates itself across a number of dualities with the aim to resolve their opposing strands, while exploring a wide range of thematic and philosophical concerns. The musical analyses contained within demonstrate my compositional technical apparatus which bridges between microstructural cellular detail and an organically unified whole, and promotes a consideration of metaphorical issues that arise through further aesthetic contemplation.