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The Effect of Music Therapy on Self-Reported Affect in Hospitalised Paediatric Patients

Armstrong, Ruth Elizabeth (Victoria University of Wellington, 2009)

The present research examines the effect of music therapy on the affect of hospitalised children. It took place on a paediatric ward of a New Zealand public hospital. This study aimed to investigate the role of music ...
The Effect of Outside Genres on Techniques and Devices in Modern Jazz Composition (1988-2008)

Botting, Thomas (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

This is a study involving research, analysis and performance of music composed by jazz artists in the last twenty years. The focus of this discussion will be on the influence of several outside genres on the music of these ...
The Effect of Single Sessions of Music Therapy on the Level of Anxiety in Older Persons with Psychiatric Disorders: A Pilot Study

Castelino, Ajay (Victoria University of Wellington, 2009)

This pilot study examined the effects of single sessions of music therapy on the level of anxiety in older persons with psychiatric disorders. The studied intervention was a 30 minute music therapy group and the control ...
Embodying Voice: Singing Verdi, singing Wagner

Medlyn, Margaret (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

Writers from diverse disciplines have rhapsodised over the impact of the operatic voice on the listener, while musicologists such as Abbate, Duncan, and Risi have explored the effect that concepts of voice and bodily ...
Enabling the curious practitioner: perceptions on the integration of research and practice in the education of music therapy students at masters' level.

Hoskyns, Sarah Leigh (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

This PhD research explored perceptions about the integration of research and practice in the Masters’ training of music therapists. Using constructivist case study methodology, the study analysed viewpoints of international ...
Engagement in Music Therapy: A Detailed study of Communication Between the Therapist and Client Presenting with Severe and Multiple Handicaps

Stamenovic, Miona (Victoria University of Wellington, 2009)

The impact of multiple disabilities causes difficulties in the area of communication. Individuals with severe and multiple handicaps often have no verbal language as a result of serious physical impairments. This population ...
Establishing and Understanding of Group Dynamics and Process within Single-Session Music Therapy Groups Open to Both Adolescents with Mental Illness and Mental Health Staff

Upjohn Beatson, Erin Beth (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

The purpose of this research was to gain an understanding of group dynamics and process within single-session music therapy groups open to both adolescents and mental health staff. The study investigated factors that ...
Establishing a New Music Therapy Service in an Aged-Care Centre with Multiple Settings: The Journey of a Music Therapy Student

Jung, Silvia (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

This exegesis describes my journey as a music therapy student navigating a practicum placement with older people, in a facility where there had been no previous music therapy service. My uncertainty about beginning the ...
An Examination of the Chance Elements in Witold Lutosławski's Music, with Particular Attention to Its Function as a Model for Compositional Practice

Hextall, Pieta (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

This thesis studies the use of aleatory techniques in Witold Lutosławski's music and the issues that arise when using aleatoricism, a branch of textural composition that has room for exploration. I focused my study on three ...
An Exploration of the Relationship between TEACCH and a Music Therapy Student's Practice in a Special Education Setting

Algie, Philippa (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore how aspects of Schopler's TEACCH (Treatment and Education of Autistic and related Communication Handicapped Children) might be related to music therapy practice, using ...
Exploring different approaches utilized in music therapy practice with a wide range of clients in various clinical settings

Shyu, Wei-Kai (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

Diversity of practice demands diversity in approaches. This explorative qualitative research study was conducted to help me understand and improve my practice with a wide range of client populations in various clinical ...
Exploring Josef Hofmann’s Recordings in My Pianistic Journey

Wu, Qian (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

This exegesis studies Josef Hofmann’s pianistic intricacy and sophistication by surveying the minutiae and architectonics of his performances of Romantic and Classical piano compositions. The scores, together with a variety ...
Exploring playfulness in paediatric music therapy using an action research approach

Austin, Rachel Alison (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Playfulness is a disposition which promotes adaptability across the lifespan. Attuned co-playfulness is a therapeutic tool requiring self-awareness of the disposition by the therapist. As a music therapy student working ...
Expressive Musical Robots: Building, Evaluating, and Interfacing with an Ensemble of Mechatronic Instruments

Murphy, Jim (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

An increase in the number of parameters of expression on musical robots can result in an increase in their expressivity as musical instruments. This thesis focuses on the design, construction, and implementation of four ...
Faiva: Trials of Skill: the Song and Dance of Tongan Politics, 1773-1993

Pond, Wendy Rona (Victoria University of Wellington, 1995)

The work embarks on a quest to discover the parameters of faiva, the dances, martial arts, aquatic and land-based sports which are exhibited on Tongan festival grounds as trials of skill. The work is organised as a succession ...
Finding a Place for Music Therapy Practice in a Hospital Child Development Service

McGann, Helen Sian (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

This exegesis examines the beginnings of a music therapy practice at a hospital Child Development Service (CDS) in New Zealand, looking at the issues involved in setting up this practice during a student placement over a ...
Finding the Drastic: Exploring Forms of Attention in Piano Performance

Binnie, Michele (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

While Carolyn Abbate’s essay “Music – Drastic or Gnostic” sets provocative parameters for considering performance, she also makes a bold stand on the mutual exclusivity of the knowing or gnostic mind and active or drastic ...
Fingering strategies in the Prelude of J.S. Bach's sixth suite for solo cello

Partridge, Alexandra Claire (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

The introduction of this exegesis presents a brief history of Bach’s cello suites, explores the relevance and reliability of the manuscript sources and discusses the intended five-stringed instrument for Suite No. 6. Part ...
The Forgotten Soundtrack of Maoriland: Imagining the Nation Through Alfred Hill’s Songs for Rewi's Last Stand

Cross, Melissa (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

Alfred Hill’s songs based on collected Māori musical materials and narrative themes are artefacts of cultural colonisation that represent individual identities and imagined communities. They are tangible evidence of the ...
From Callas To Netrebko: Diva power, vocality, and the mediatisation of the operatic voice

Wollerman, Jenny (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

Maria Callas’s fame as an opera star in the 1950s is still recognised today, and, for many, her name is synonymous with the modern concept of the opera ‘diva’. The increasing diversity of mediatised forms of operatic ...