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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 ...
From Coltrane to Magma and beyond: Interpreting musical meaning through composition

Bradley, Reuben (Victoria University of WellingtonVictoria University of Wellington, 2018)

This thesis is an exploration of the work A Love Supreme composed by John Coltrane, his influence on the band Magma, and their composition, Zëss. By applying Clifford Geertz’s interpretive framework to the work of Coltrane ...
From Columbia Studio B to Carnegie Hall: The Studio-to-Stage Creative Trajectory in the Fusion Jazz of Miles Davis

Booth, Timothy (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

This thesis proposes an interrelationship between the creative processes of the recording studio and the concert stage in the fusion jazz of Miles Davis. Recent scholarship highlights the importance of the recording studio ...
From this world to beyond: A student’s reflections on the role of her violin in music therapy

Ang, Cheri (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

This practice-based research explores a student music therapist’s experiences and self-reflections on the use of her violin in supporting the elderly at a residential hospital. The objective was to find out how the violin ...
Goal-oriented processes: Exploring the use of goals in music therapy to support young people with autism spectrum disorder

Lowery, Oliver (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

This qualitative research project explored how a student music therapist utilised goal-oriented processes to support young people with autism spectrum disorder throughout their course of music therapy. Inductive thematic ...
Gothic Imaginations in Primo Ottocento Opera

Chesney, Sarah (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

Connections between the Gothic and opera remain a subsidiary concern to most writers on the Gothic and on opera, if they are even addressed at all. In this study I wish to illuminate how the Gothic is presented both ...
Harmony, associativity, and metaphor in the film scores of Alexandre Desplat

Clark, Ewan Alexander (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

The objective of this doctoral study is to develop and demonstrate a theoretical framework to guide both the analysis and composition of twenty-first-century film music. The compositional portfolio submitted as part of ...
Heartfelt Love: Singing Maiden Characters in Romantic Vocal Music, 1800-1850

Liu, Haiman (Victoria University of Wellington, 2021)

The images of maidens in Italian opera and German lieder from the period 1800-1850 are vivid. In the plots of the operas and the scenes and stories of the lieder almost invariably these characters focus enthusiastically ...
Henry Playford: a Bibliographical Study

Harvey, Douglas Ross (Victoria University of Wellington, 1985)

Henry Playford (1657-1709) was one of the most important London music publishers in the period 1680 to 1710. He was the son of the music publisher John Playford and a member of the Company of Stationers, and his business ...
He oro hauora: How do kaupapa Māori models of health relate to my music therapy practice in an adolescent acute mental health unit?

Hodgson, Nolan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

This project explores the relationship between understandings of health within kaupapa Māori frameworks and music therapy with a particular focus on Durie’s Te Whare Tapa Whā (1998), Pere’s Te Wheke (1991) and ecological ...
Horizontality: From "Window" to "Ground", Exploring Immersive Audiotory Space as an Interactive Participant Medium

Panther, Jon (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

My sound-based arts practice is currently concerned with the shift of focus from the materiality of the sonic art object to the conceptual and semantic dimensions involved in interaction within a system. The twentieth ...
How Can a Music Therapy Student Facilitate Contributions by Adolescent Clients Who Have Psychiatric Disorders in Group Music Therapy?

Wong, Chit Yu (Victoria University of Wellington, 2009)

This study explored ways in which a music therapy student could modify and improve her own clinical practice in order to facilitate client contribution in group music therapy in an acute adolescent inpatient unit. Through ...
How can I as a Māori music therapy student develop the use of taonga puoro in my practice to support client recovery in an inpatient mental health setting?

Solly, Ruby (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

This research focuses on developing the use of taonga puoro as part of an individual's music therapy practice, within the context of an acute mental health unit. This was qualitative research guided by Kaupapa Māori Theory, ...
How can I use, develop and improve a collaborative music therapy practice to enhance the sense of community at a day programme for adults with learning disabilities?

Sabri, Sophie (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

Everyone needs to belong. People with disabilities often experience belonging to restricted communities of people who usually have similar needs. The purpose of this study is to investigate how music therapy could enhance ...
How can music therapy support family relationships for people living in a long-term care facility with neuro-disabilities, when regular visits can be challenging?

Auer, Karina (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

This exegesis will present the findings which emerged from secondary analysis of clinical practice data collected during a music therapy placement. The setting for this research is a long-term residential care facility for ...