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Canons, Airs Sérieux and Airs à Boire: A Study of the Contribution of the Eighteenth-Century French Composer and Copyist C. de La Serre.

Dillon, Teressa (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

C. de La Serre was a composer, copyist and maître de musique. His known compositions are all airs sérieux and airs à boire, appearing in printed sources and manuscripts between 1716 and 1724. His individual collection, ...
Challenges in Communication: a Critical Analysis of a Student Music Therapist's Techniques in Working with Special Needs Children

Savaiinaea, Chelsea Makere (Victoria University of Wellington, 2009)

This paper describes the processes under taken by a student music therapist to improve her clinical practice and enhance the quality of service provided to children with profound and multiple disabilities. Using an Action ...
CHALLENGING THE WORK CONCEPT: METAPHOR, EMBODIMENT AND STRUCTURE IN MUSIC ANALYSIS

Jackson, Fleur (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

Metaphorical depictions, embodied experiences, and by extension structures within the music, are distinct between performances of both the same works and across works of different styles. Traditional forms of musical ...
Channelisation of Noise through a Rhythmic Grid: Brutalist Mechatronic Sound-sculpture

Zareei, Mo (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

The aim of this thesis is to provide accessibility and appreciation for sounds that are conventionally perceived as non-musical or “noise”. Ordering the noise on a grid of metric rhythms, and underlining its materiality ...
The Choreomusical Page-to-Stage Approach: Visual Representations of Musical Modernism Through the Works of Igor Stravinsky and George Balanchine

Hughes, Eustacia Lynn Jocea (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

The musical developments of the Modernist period provided a new understanding and approach to composition. These developments are also seen in ballet, branching into several styles, with many choreographers providing their ...
The Cinematic Aspects of Electroacoustic Music

Taylor, Sarah Elizabeth (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

This portfolio explores ‘the cinematic aspects of electroacoustic music’ by way of three compositional contexts: acousmatic composition drawing on filmic resources, electroacoustic soundtracks for short films, and the ...
The Clarinet as Extension of the Voice and Expressive Conduit of Musical Styles in Diverse Ensembles

Rainey, Lucy (Victoria University of Wellington, 2011)

Original research into the links between vocal and clarinet tone reveals how clarinettists act as expressive conduits of musical styles in diverse ensembles. This research is relevant to musicologists and anthropologists ...
Closing the Loop: Implementing Real-time Audio Feedback Systems in Musical Robots

Long, Jason (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

A closed-loop control system is any configuration that feeds information about its output back into the control stream. These types of systems have been in use for hundreds of years in various engineering related disciplines ...
Collaborating with the Guitar: The exploration of collaborative practices between three non-guitarist composers and a guitarist performer in the creation of new works for the classical guitar

Church, Jake (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

Cross-disciplinary in its approach, through the internal frameworks of collaboration, this exegesis explores a series of case studies with non-guitarist composers, documenting the why and how aspects of collaboration in ...
Collaborative music therapy; Determining the benefits and challenges of collaborative work from a student’s perspective

Macdonald, Jamie (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

This study describes the benefits and challenges experienced by a student music therapist on placement at a special school in New Zealand. While working alongside an experienced music therapist at the school, and taking ...
Coming up trumps: A student music therapist supports young people with high or very high complex special needs to develop the key competencies

Hall, Sarah (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

This exploratory study aimed to discover and highlight the techniques and strategies that supported young people with high or very high complex special needs to develop the key competencies during music therapy sessions ...
Community Music Therapy: A Pathway to a Sense of Belonging in a School Environment

Davidson, Gary (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

This research investigated the intersection between a student's work in a special school, where one of the primary aims was to develop students' sense of belonging, and Community Music Therapy (CoMT). A sense of belonging ...
The Composer's Hand: An Analysis of Selected String Orchestral Works by Arvo Pärt

Johnson, Mark (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

Arvo Pärt’s music has received little attention from theoretical scholars, in part, because it is often labelled as minimalist or process music. This is due primarily to his use of limited sets of musical materials and ...
Composing the Chimera Suite: Grafting the Conventions of Extreme Metal onto a Jazz Orchestra Setting

Beernink, Chris (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

The Chimera Suite is a five-movement composition for a modern jazz orchestra augmented with timbres derived from extreme metal. Each movement explores how conventions located in extreme metal can be combined with modern ...
The constraints, aesthetic implications, and creative strategies of composing for networked music performance

Wilson, Rebekah (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

Performing music together over a public network while being located at a distance from each other necessarily means performing under a particular set of technical and performative constraints. These constraints are ...
Constructing Contrast: Juxtaposition as a tool for formal construction in my own creative practice, explored through the music of Stravinsky and Donatoni

Downie, Glen (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

Juxtaposition and Superimposition are two techniques that I have adopted as a core feature of my creative practice. This exegesis examines the origins of these techniques through the analysis of two 20th century works, ...
Contemporary and historical performance practice in late eighteenth-century violin repertoire: Observations on articulation, bow strokes, and interpretation

He, Jun (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

Since the 1970s, historically-aware performances of late eighteenth-century repertoire (and that of Mozart and Beethoven in particular) have prompted demands for a finer stylistic awareness on the part of the performer. ...
Contemporary Approaches to Live Computer Music: The Evolution of the Performer Composer

Vallis, Owen Skipper (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

This thesis examines contemporary approaches to live computer music, and the impact they have on the evolution of the composer performer. How do online resources and communities impact the design and creation of new musical ...
Co-therapy in a Group Setting: Benefits and Challenges in Facilitating Co-Therapy Music Therapy in a Small Group Setting

Katz, Yair (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

This study provides my findings on the issue of co-therapy in music therapy practice with children and young adults, based on my personal experience in placement during my final year as a student practitioner for music ...
Creating New Standards: Jazz Arrangements Of Pop Songs

Lile, Trudy (Victoria University of Wellington, 2009)

This study involves the research, analysis, and performance of existing arrangements of songs that have been played and recorded by jazz musicians, and are identifiable as pop songs of the last thirty years. This project ...