Ryan Molloy

About

Irish ‘art music’ from the late twentieth century to the present; Irish traditional music and its development in the late Twentieth Century; postmodern nationalist aesthetics in Irish art music; microinterval modality in older traditional Irish music; new compositional styles allowing fuller incorporation of Irish traditional music in the contemporary medium; the examination of identity in contemporary art and the response of contemporary performers to ‘traditional’ material; the place of contemporary composition in modern society; cultural contexts of improvisation