Papers by Kieran McCarthy Fell
In the summer of 2013, I began an independent research project in Ireland to explore connections ... more In the summer of 2013, I began an independent research project in Ireland to explore connections between Western classical music and Irish traditional music. This research provided the initial groundwork for this paper, in which several parameters for the term "virtuosity" are defined and analyzed in relation to traditional Irish music. These parameters were chosen using articles from scholarly journals that examine characteristics of virtuosity beyond exceptional technical ability. The scope for the paper, as well as several of the articles which guided my research on virtuosity, resulted from a class with Professor Mark Katz at UNC-Chapel Hill which explored musical virtuosity.
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Papers by Kieran McCarthy Fell