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Talking About Transition: An Exploration of the Secondary to Tertiary Transition Process for Music Students in a New Zealand Context

Wenden, Lynne (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

There are complex challenges facing music students majoring in performance in New Zealand as they transition from secondary to tertiary study. As a result of their pretertiary experiences, these students form identities ...
Tensional processes and perception of form in three selected compositions by Kaija Saariaho

Jenkins, Brad (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

The primary feature that gives ‘spectral music’ its stylistic uniqueness within the field of art music is the blurring of the traditionally distinct roles of harmony and timbre, through the use of chords derived from the ...
Thematic Process and Motivic-Developmental Approaches to Composition in three works for Jazz Orchestra

Atkinson, Timothy David (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

This exegesis examines key structural processes found in selected large-scale, extended compositions for jazz orchestra, with a particular focus on composers Maria Schneider, Darcy James Argue, Jim McNeely. These composers ...
The Three Great Soviet Composers and Mstislav Rostropovich – Talent, Music and Politics in the Soviet Union

Gijsbers, Lucy (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

Mstislav Rostropovich, the most famous cellist of the second half of the twentieth century, had a close relationship with Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Prokofiev, and Mieczyslaw Weinberg. These three composers are hailed by ...
Timbral Processes in Three Selected Works by Olga Neuwirth, Kaija Saariaho and Clara Iannotta, and Their Influence on a Portfolio of Creative Works

Ballard, Sarah (Victoria University of Wellington, 2021)

The instrumental music of composers Olga Neuwirth, Kaija Saariaho and Clara Iannotta inhabits an inventive sphere of approaches to timbre, inviting a variety of possibilities of considering how sound can be organised to ...
Towards New Forms of Pianistic Improvisation Across Musical Boundaries

Donlon, Mark Templeton (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

This thesis is practice-based. The main element in which the research outcomes are manifested is the portfolio of creative work. There are three CD albums of original music: Southern Shift, Between Moons, and Tales from ...
Transformations of drum rudiments in jazz performances

Philip, Lance (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

A significant part of the training of many performers on the drum set during the last 100 years has involved mastery of drum rudiments and military-style cadences. Consequently, many jazz drummers have built upon such ...
Transgressive Gestures: Women and Violin Performance in Eighteenth-Century Europe

Bell Jordan, Hester (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

Studies concerning eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century women musicians abound within recent musicological scholarship, but the focus on singers and keyboard players – whose musical activities are understood to have ...
The Use of Improvisation in a Student’s Music Therapy Practice with Older Adults in a Residential Setting

Stothart, Luke (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

As shown in the research literature, improvisation is a less common approach to music therapy practice than the use of familiar songs or group singing when working with elderly people in residential settings. This research ...
The use of musical interactions to collaborate with teaching staff and specialist services at a special education school.

Brooks, Devin (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

This research aimed to investigate how a student music therapist used musical interactions to collaborate with teaching staff and specialist services at a special education school in New Zealand. Music therapists in this ...
The Use of Music Therapy Strategies to Enhance the General Milieu in a Rehabilitation Centre

Liu, Xinxin (Victoria University of Wellington, 2011)

This research focused on how music therapy strategies could be used to improve the milieu in a rehabilitation centre in a New Zealand city. Residents in the rehabilitation centre had difficulty interacting with each other. ...
The Use of Music Therapy to Support Speech and Expressive Language Development for Pre-School Children with Special Needs

Ludlam, Shari K. (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

Client-centred music therapy with individual pre-school children, involving playful but focused songs, behaviours and instrumental play, can enhance their speech and expressive language development. Four constructs were ...
Verismo opera: how bel canto technique protected the voices of its singers

Chen, Zeyu (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Verismo is a style of opera composition that was influenced by a significant movement in Italian literature from the end of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century. It is characterised by the ...
The Violin in Music Therapy: How do I use the violin in music therapy with people who have intellectual disabilities or neurological conditions?

Kelly, Lucy (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

In this research I explored my use of the violin in music therapy with people who have intellectual disability and neurological conditions. I am interested in this topic because the violin is my primary instrument and I ...
Virtuosity and composer-performer collaboration in the viola works of Darius Milhaud and Paul Hindemith

Andreeva, Irina (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

This thesis considers the position of Darius Milhaud’s Viola Concerto No. 1, op. 108 (1929–30), and Viola Concerto No. 2, op. 340 (1955), in the modern viola repertoire. Milhaud’s understanding of the viola as a solo ...
Voices in the Reo: Music, Community and Membership in a Rātana Brass Band

Thomas, Helen (Nell) (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

This study explores the brass bands of the Rātana community. Te Hāhi Rātana (the Rātana Church) is a Māori Christian church based in Aotearoa New Zealand. Between 1932 and 1984 Te Hāhi Rātana established seven brass bands, ...
Voicing Rupture: Resisting docility through performances of feminine agency in Arnold Schoenberg’s Das Buch der hängenden Gärten

Thirlwall, Imogen (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

My experience of learning and performing Arnold Schoenberg’s song cycle, Das Buch der hängenden Gärten, can be explored through the lens of Foucault’s ‘docile bodies’ theory – that is, bodies that are ‘subjected, used, ...
The Way of Steve Lacy: Finding Individuality through Musical Genealogy

Johnson, Lucien (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

This research project traces Lacy’s life in music, looking at his long period of apprenticeship, the brief but important period in which he focussed exclusively on free improvisation, and the subsequent years spent formulating ...
We Made This Song. The Group Song Writing Processes of Three Adolescent Rock Bands

Thorpe, Vicki (Victoria University of Wellington, 2007)

In garages, practice rooms and classrooms, young people are composing music in rock and pop bands; engaged in working together in the shared enterprise of group music making. This study aims to contribute to scholarly ...
Whanganui Kaiponu: Ngāti Ruakā Methodologies for the preservation of Hapū waiata and oral taonga

Haami, Meri (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

This research explores Ngāti Ruakā perspectives on the preservation of hapū waiata and oral taonga, and it examines Whanganui kaiponu as a culturally appropriate methodology and research framework. Ngāti Ruakā perspectives ...