School of Creative Arts
Welcome to the
School of Creative Arts
The School enjoys an international reputation for research and teaching across the disciplines of drama, music and film.
Interested in taking up Music, Film or Drama as a New Minor Subject?
Students can choose to take a new minor subject as part of their degree pathway choice via https://my.tcd.ie/. Details on how to make pathways choices available on Pathways website. Information on prerequisites available at https://www.tcd.ie/TEP/new-minor-subject/. Details of type of modules offered in the School of Creative Arts can be found in NMS Factsheet.
Students can choose to take a new minor subject as part of their degree pathway choice via https://my.tcd.ie/. Details on how to make pathways choices available on Pathways website. Information on prerequisites available at https://www.tcd.ie/TEP/new-minor-subject/. Details of type of modules offered in the School of Creative Arts can be found in NMS Factsheet.
News
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Third iteration of MOOC in Orpheus Institute features video module by Assist. Prof. Nicholas BrownA free online course that explores the burgeoning field of artistic research in music has recently been given a third run and includes a video module by Ussher Assistant Professor Nicholas Brown. Artistic Research in Music – an Introduction is a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) created by the Orpheus Institute, Belgium where Assist. Prof. Brown holds the post of Associate Researcher concurrently with his work at Trinity. The course is currently open for enrolment on edX.org, a leading platform for online learning and education. Assist. Prof. Brown's module is titled Theory Across Time. It explores his creative work with theories from late Antiquity & the Middle Ages. -
New Dublin on screen - a place of freedom and choiceAssociate Professor Ruth Barton looks at how the image of Dublin has changed in a series of recent releases on film and television, including Dating Amber, Handsome Devil, and Normal People, in this article for The Conversation, an independent source of news and views, sourced from the academic and research community and delivered direct to the public. -
Student work published in Film Matters Issue 10.3Congratulations to several current Film students whose work has been published in Film Matters, an international peer-reviewed undergraduate journal. The dossier of essays on the topic of Digital Media was co-edited by Senior Sophister student Hiram Harrington and Assistant Prof. Jennifer O'Meara. It includes essays on YouTube, Netflix, video essays and digital storytelling by Riccardo Agostini, Jack Coen-Doyle, Cáit Murphy, Joey Fanthom, and Peter Horan. The articles can be accessed via Ingenta Connect website or the Trinity library catalogue. -
Staff member rescues fragmentary songs from Tudor composer William ByrdIn Chains of Gold, a recent CD release from Signum Classics UK, includes the première commercial recordings of several fragmentary but important songs by the Tudor composer William Byrd that have been rescued from near oblivion by Trinity musicologist Assist. Prof. Andrew Johnstone. Recorded under the direction of William Hunt by top-notch UK ensembles Fretwork, His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts and The Magdalena Consort, the CD entered the specialist classical charts at No 3, and has been warmly received by Early Music Review and Gramophone.
