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Auteur : McGartland, Aidan

Aidan McGartland is doctoral candidate in music theory at McGill University, where he focusses on the works of Elisabeth Lutyens, Margaret Sutherland and Benjamin Britten. He holds degrees in classical voice and musicology from the University of Melbourne, and a Master of Studies in musicology from the University of Oxford. In 2023, Aidan was awarded a prestigious Australian postgraduate scholarship from the Ramsay Centre. Aidan has previously presented for the Society for Music Analysis, the Musicological Society of Australia, and the Society for Music Theory. He has forthcoming analytical publications on works by Margaret Sutherland, Benjamin Britten and Igor Stravinsky.

Vol. 12 nº 2, décembre 2025
“Dream Away the Time”. Metric Play in Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream Aidan McGartland PDF | CITATION | AUTHOR Abstract 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 […]