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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 ...
Music therapy methods, strategies and techniques for engaging children in meaningful music therapy encounters in hospital play therapy settings

Muhammad Rizaini, Farhana (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

This qualitative study examines a music therapy student’s practice on a paediatric ward in a general hospital in New Zealand. The study arose after I experienced challenges engaging and interacting with patients in a ...
A Music Therapy Student's Exploration of Single Session Music Therapy for Children on a Paediatric Ward Using Action Research Methodology

Kaenampornpan, Pornpan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

This study aimed to answer the question “How can I, as a music therapy student in a paediatric ward, provide children with beneficial single session music therapy?” In order to answer this question, action research ...
Mythological Signification in Smetana’s Tábor and Blaník and its Implications on Personal Compositional Output

Skierka, James (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

The presented thesis is an examination of the mythology and literary narrative that is present within the two orchestral tone poems of Bedřich Smetana, Tábor and Blaník, and how ideas pertaining to the examination of ...
Na Suklit: Benicio Sokkong and the Bamboo Musical Instruments of the Kalinga

Prior, Aaron (Victoria University of Wellington, 2011)

This ethnomusicology study explores the contexts of the bamboo musical instruments of the Kalinga people of the Philippines in two distinct contemporary locations: the urban setting of Lucnab, Baguio City, and the rural ...
New Zealand Works for Contrabassoon

Roud, Hayley Elizabeth (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

The contrabassoon is seldom thought of as a solo instrument. Throughout the long history of contraregister double-reed instruments the assumed role has been to provide a foundation for the wind chord, along the same line ...
A Night at the (Imaginary) Opera: The Visual Dimension in Hector Berlioz's Lelio, Romeo et Juliette and La Damnation de Faust

Moore, Frances Claire (Victoria University of Wellington, 2009)

In keeping with the spirit of Romanticism, Hector Berlioz has always been something of a rogue figure. Works like Lelio, Romeo et Juliette and La damnation de Faust, which Daniel Albright refers to as 'semi-operas', occupy ...
The ontology of musical objects in contemporary instrumental composition

Post, Jason William (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

The musical object occupies a strange place in music criticism. The new musicology schools influenced by post-structuralist continental thought have shied away from the object’s autonomous existence, exemplified by Christopher ...