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| Abstract : Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris |
| Razak Abdul Aziz (1959 - ) has been inking down his music from the early 1980?s. Still writing new
works, he had composed music for various medium of instrumentations – giving special
attention to the piano either as a soloist or a collaborator. Although this composer has been
in the contemporary music scene for nearly 40 years, scholarly writings on his
compositions are extremely scarce. His works were only actively performed in the early
1990s and only starting to regain attention in the recent years, locally and abroad. This
practice-led research focuses on my take as a co-creator of the selected piano works of Razak Abdul
Aziz, viewing it using Rosenblatt?s three principles of Transactional Theory, while quoting
examples of inspirations in works by other composers to set the tone of the theoretical
frameworks of this dissertation. The research findings show that I, as the co-creator of these
chosen pieces, was able to document the journey of performing these works in an 80-minute recital
of solo and collaborative piano music of Razak Abdul Aziz, with prior discussions with the
composer and intensive preparation with other musicians and production team. The finding
also demonstrates how the inspirations of the selected works are being translated
sufficiently into music notation, without being too technical with the music analysis.
Music of Razak Abdul Aziz deserves more attention from both academics and performers, as this
composer is regarded as one of the earliest Malaysian contemporary music composers. It would be a
great loss to the nation should his works be continually neglected, causing them to
possibly fall into oblivion.
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