Lori Watson | Mapping the New Traditional School in Scotland: Beyond-tune composition from traditional musicians
Event details
Speaker: Lori Watson (University of Edinburgh)
Date: Thursday 10 March 2022
Time: 5.15 - 6.45pm.
Venue: ECA Main Building, West Court
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Abstract
Since the 1990s, innovative and beyond-tune composition by traditional musicians has increased and diversified in Scotland. I am currently mapping this activity from 1976 to 2020.
In order to understand the nature of the compositions and musical community and identify the strengths and development needs of the practitioners, I combine ethnomusicological and artistic research approaches. As a practising musician, I offer both emic and etic perspectives from a highly reflexive position within the community of practice and my own experimental compositions, participation and autoethnography inform the research. Fieldwork, literature and descriptive and structural musical analysis underpin this interdisciplinary study. To date, I have identified more than 170 composers, 230 compositions and 300 performers along with the two major commissioning and development programmes: Celtic Connections New Voices and Distil.
Biography
Links
www.loriwatson.net (external page)
www.tradmus.com (external page)
Lori Watson | Mapping the New Traditional School in Scotland: Beyond-tune composition from traditional musicians
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