Aidan McGartland
Biographic Data
| ID | 6522563 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aidan McGartland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aidan |
| FAMILY NAME | McGartland |
| SIGNATURE | MCGARTLAND A |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6729-1680 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
“Dream Away the Time”. Metric Play in Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
This article examines how meter serves as a key compositional device in Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1960), employed in strikingly idiosyncratic ways. Borrowing Leccia’s (2024) notion of “play” as an analytical metaphor, I explore Britten’s diverse metric types and techniques through representative excerpts. Drawing on the metric theories of Lerdahl and Jackendoff (1983) and Rothstein (1989), alongside key Britten scholarship by …
Elisabeth Lutyens and Edward Clark
As musicologists work to reconstruct the role of women composers in shaping twentieth-century musical life, two new monographs—on Elisabeth Lutyens and Elizabeth Maconchy, respectively, each a pioneer of musical modernism and gender equality in music—enrich our understanding considerably. Despite the composers’ shared commitment to modernism and their acquaintance at the Royal College of Music in the mid-1920s, their compositional languages soon …
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Elisabeth Lutyens and Edward Clark
As musicologists work to reconstruct the role of women composers in shaping twentieth-century musical life, two new monographs—on Elisabeth Lutyens and Elizabeth Maconchy, respectively, each a pioneer of musical modernism and gender equality in music—enrich our understanding considerably. Despite the composers’ shared commitment to modernism and their acquaintance at the Royal College of Music in the mid-1920s, their compositional languages soon …
“Dream Away the Time”. Metric Play in Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
This article examines how meter serves as a key compositional device in Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1960), employed in strikingly idiosyncratic ways. Borrowing Leccia’s (2024) notion of “play” as an analytical metaphor, I explore Britten’s diverse metric types and techniques through representative excerpts. Drawing on the metric theories of Lerdahl and Jackendoff (1983) and Rothstein (1989), alongside key Britten scholarship by …
Musicology and Musical Analysis (2 works) · Art (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Diverse Musicological Studies (1 work) · Historical Art and Culture Studies (1 work) · History (1 work) · Music History and Culture (1 work) · Musical (1 work) · Narrative (1 work) · Orchestration (1 work)