Music Research Writings by Rhys Chambers
‘Behind the Baton: An Ethnographic Study of Challenges Facing Musical Directors of Amateur Musical Theatre in the North East of England’, [Unpublished MA Thesis], 2024.
‘Repertory for a New World: Studying the Musical Theatre Concept Album in a the Digital Age’, [Unpublished MA Article], 2023.
‘Digital Humanities and the Transformation of Musical Scholarship’, [Unpublished MA Article], 2023.
‘How does musical knowledge influence the ways in which music is performed and listened to?’, [Unpublished MA Essay], 2022.
Historical Writings by Rhys Chambers
‘To what extent was the October Revolution of 1917 responsible for the emergence of Avant-Garde compositional techniques in Russia?’, [Unpublished BA Dissertation], 2019.
‘Did music education become more political in France during the Revolution?’, [Unpublished BA Essay], January 2019.
‘How effective was the ‘Stalin Prize’ in advancing the Socialist Realism art movement in Music?’, [Unpublished BA Essay], May 2018.
‘How far did growth of private music-making affect compositional style?’, [Unpublished BA Essay], March 2017.
‘What can modern performance practice techniques tell us about how and why Arcangelo Corelli’s Sonate a Violino e Violone o Cimbalo was first published?’, [Unpublished BA Essay], November 2016.
‘What should we call the music conventionally called ‘Baroque’?’, [Unpublished BA Short Essay], August 2016.
Analytical Writings by Rhys Chambers
‘How does Mahler’s Symphony No. 6 engage with the concept of Sonata failure?’, [Unpublished BA Essay], May 2019.
‘Exploring the techniques of formal expansion in Mozart’s ‘Jupiter’ Symphony’, [Unpublished BA Essay], November 2018.
‘Chromatic Harmony in Brahms’ ‘Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer, Op. 105, No. 2‘, [Unpublished BA Essay], May 2018.
‘Topical Discourse, Formal Function & ‘Becoming’, and Deformation in Schumann’s Piano Sonata in F# major Op. 11, [Unpublished BA Essay], January 2018.
‘Shenkerian Analysis of Chopin’s Mazurka Op. 41, No. 2‘, [Unpublished BA Essay], January 2018.
‘Form, Topic and Genre in Nineteenth-Century Music’, [Unpublished BA Essay], December 2017.
‘Thematic analysis of Schubert’s Symphony No. 5 in Bb major (I)‘, [Unpublished BA Essay], May 2017.
‘Formal analysis of Handel’s Keyboard Suite in F major (IV)‘, [Unpublished BA Essay], May 2017.
‘Thematic analysis of Beethoven’s Bagatelle Op. 33, No. 2, [Unpublished BA Essay], February 2017.
Performance Writings by Rhys Chambers
‘How have 19th Century myths such as ‘the image of the deaf and silent genius’ influenced our reception of Romantic music and its performance practice?’, [Unpublished BA Essay], May 2017
‘How can musical developments in the classical era help us understand how improvisation was approached at the time?’, [Unpublished BA Essay], April 2017
‘Challenges faced when performing Medieval music’, [Unpublished BA Essay], December 2016.
Empirical Musicology Writings by Rhys Chambers
‘The effect if mnemonic devices in music pedagogy on information recall’, [Unpublished BA Research Paper], May 2019.
‘The effect of musical tempo on exertion during aerobic exercise’, [Unpublished BA Research Paper], July 2018.
Conducting Writings by Rhys Chambers
‘What is the Conductor’s responsibility to the score?’, [Unpublished BA Essay], February 2018.