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Langoron: Music and Dance Performance Realities Among the Lak People of Southern New Ireland, Papua New Guinea

Wolffram, Paul (Victoria University of Wellington, 2007)

This thesis seeks to describe the indigenous realities, meanings, and perspectives that are central to the music and dance practices of the Lak (Siar) people in Southern New Ireland, Papua Now Guinea. The insights recorded ...
L'Arte Di Interazione Musicale: New Musical Possibilities Through Multimodal Techniques

Hochenbaum, Jordan Natan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

Multimodal communication is an essential aspect of human perception, facilitating the ability to reason, deduce, and understand meaning. Utilizing multimodal senses, humans are able to relate to the world in many ...
Learning to be Mindful: An Exploratory Study into the Perceived Benefits of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Training for a Music Therapy Student

Graham, Jessica O. M. (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

Mindfulness training has become very popular in recent years and has proven successful for reducing anxiety and depression and enhancing coping skills (amongst other benefits). This research project explores the perceived ...
The life and music of André Tchaikowsky: A series of performances, an analytical survey of his compositional style, and a critical/performance edition of the Sonata for Piano

Glapska, Gabriela (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

This thesis focuses on André Tchaikowsky (1935–82) – a Polish émigré musician who was mostly recognised as a brilliant pianist, even though he considered himself primarily a composer. His traumatic childhood spent in ...
Listening to Yourself Listening: The Metaperceptual Approach to Sound Art

Johnston, Blake (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

This thesis presents a framework for the creation and analysis of metaperceptual sound artworks. Metaperceptual is a term coined herein to describe a range of works that use the perception of the audience as their artistic ...
The Livre d'Airs et de Simphonies Meslés de Quelques Fragmens d’Opéra 1697 of Pierre Gillier: An Edition and Study

Gerrard, Kathleen (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

The Livre d’Airs et de Simphonies meslés de quelques fragmens d’Opéra de la Composition de P. Gillier (Book of Airs and Instrumental Pieces mixed with some operatic fragments composed by Pierre Gillier) was published in ...
The Loudspeaker: Transformative and Tactile Aspects of the Object

Wright, Jason (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

Traditionally the loudspeaker has been viewed as a functional object. Whilst also serving as a design artifact and object of consumer fetishism, it is subject to the overriding purpose of the reproduction and replication ...
Māori Performing Arts and the Weaving Together of Local, National and International Communities

Avery, Jonathon (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

Māori performing arts provides a valuable contribution to Aotearoa New Zealand society. Māori performing arts has an intrinsic link to Māori culture and is used to connect 1) Māori who are disengaged from iwi/hapu/whanau, ...
Mapping Memory: Myth, History, and Liminality in Harlem and the Bronx

Laidler, David (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

The relationship between notions of ‘history’ and ‘myth’ is a familiar dilemma within the field of historiography. As this thesis will seek to demonstrate, myth – defined here as evaluative representations of the past to ...
Mapping Memory: Myth, History, and Liminality in Harlem and the Bronx

Laidler, David (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

The relationship between notions of ‘history’ and ‘myth’ is a familiar dilemma within the field of historiography. As this thesis will seek to demonstrate, myth – defined here as evaluative representations of the past to ...
Melodic ornamentation from Muffat to Telemann

Ward, Megan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

Writers on 18th-century musical ornamentation have traditionally focused on the execution of notated ornaments, and on certain disputes arising from ambiguous and contradictory primary sources. Less attention has been given ...
MetaFlute: Developing Tools to Observe Micro-Timing and Physical Movements in Flute Playing

Siwiak, Diana Jean (Victoria University of WellingtonVictoria University of Wellington, 2018)

This thesis develops new methods to acquire information about observable aspects of flute playing. Performance parameters, such as the changes in expelled breath, the forearm muscle movements, the variation in the applied ...
"Moonlight and Roses", and other things they played: Organ Recitals in New Zealand, 1870-1920

Halliday, Dianne (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

The early history of pipe organs in New Zealand, and the music which was played on them, has long been of interest to organists and domestic organ builders alike. The primary focus of this exegesis is the performers ...
Musical hybridity through Greek diaspora: in the case of Calliope Tsoupaki and Yannis Kyriakides

Dalabakis, Elyse (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

This research explores the influence of Greek history and diaspora and its impact on Greece and the progression of Greek popular musical styles – traditional, folk, and rebetika music. This research examines the question: ...
Music Analysis of Clinical Improvisations with an Adolescent Who Has Communication Difficulties

Wang, Anna Ping-An (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

This qualitative study examines four improvisations taken from four phases of the researcher's clinical music therapy experience with an adolescent who had Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Therapeutic changes and communicative ...
Music and Sound

Johnson, Hermione (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

My practice as a composer has many influences but amongst the most important are the ideas generated through the spontaneity and immediacy of improvisation. Throughout the discussed works there is an underlying project of ...
The Music of Rene Drouard de Bousset (1703-1760): a Source Study and Stylistic Survey, with Emphasis on His Sacred Output

Smith, Felicity (Victoria University of Wellington, 2008)

Rene Drouard de Bousset (1703-1760) was an admired composer and an organist of renown. This thesis examines this musician's life and work, and attempts to bring Bousset's music, hitherto largely unknown, to the attention ...
Music Performance Anxiety in Adolescent Student Singers

Corby, Megan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2008)

This project seeks to sidestep the debilitating effects of music performance anxiety by cross-referencing knowledge from the areas of adolescent psychology with literature on MPA in singers in general in order to target ...
Music Therapy for Young Children Who Have Special Needs: the Music Therapy Experience from the Perspectives of Carers and Professionals

Chiang, Jenny Yu Kuan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2008)

This project aims to investigate how carers and other professionals perceive the music therapy process over time. Music therapy has been used to address a wide range of diagnoses and developmental issues of young children. ...
Music Therapy in an Early Intervention Centre for Children Who Have Cochlear Implants

Buxton, Sophie (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

This research paper presents qualitative study using exploratory research as the framework. The aim of this research was to describe the music therapy interaction between children with cochlear implants and a music therapy ...