Kathryn Tickell & The Side
- Submitting institution
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University of Newcastle upon Tyne
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 238163-66911-1300
- Type
- Q - Digital or visual media
- Publisher
- Resilient Records
- Month
- September
- Year
- 2014
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Kathryn Tickell established The Side as a new ensemble combining two folk musicians and two classically-trained players. Creative exchanges here combine aural transmission and notation to: (1) deepen understanding of the connections between folk and classical repertoires, (2) stimulate interactions between players from diverse traditions, and (3) achieve substantive, intuitive, and non-tokenistic dialogue between these traditions. // This was predicated upon changed working relationships between the collaborators, and by Tickell’s insider’s knowledge of the folk performance conventions and contexts, and her prior collaborations with classical musicians. The methodology traces its roots to Tickell’s Percy Grainger Prom 25 (BBC Radio 3, 2011), with wider harmonic palette, and with more intensive use of notated parts than previously. The notated parts acted as a framing device: once completely familiarised, they were then adapted by the players, by ear, in response to each other. // The collaboration was reciprocal: each member of the ensemble contributed materials from their own tradition, while following a collective performance idiom particular to this project: each collaborator adapted their playing style. Old pieces such as Purcell’s Minuet Z. 689 and ‘The Nightingale and Two Sisters’ were re-contextualized, while new compositions were created, such as Tickell’s evocations of Northumberland (in ‘Queen of Pleasure’ to lyrics by Northumberland poet Charles A. Swinburne). The project was funded with a grant from the Performing Rights Society Foundation (£5,000, 2013-14); the CD was published 2014, with live and broadcast performances until 2017.
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- Non-English
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