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Songs for Middle America : Burt Bacharach and Hal David in the sixties
This work describes the extent to which the songs of Burt Bacharach and Hal David, written and recorded between 1962 and 1970, reflect significant challenges to the norms of pop music in that decade. It delineates unique ... -
Fog of War: British theatrical responses to the 2003 invasion of Iraq in an "exceptional" political environment
This thesis examines the “post-truth” political environment through a retroactive exploration of issues surrounding the 2003 Invasion of Iraq and how these were depicted on the British stage. By presenting “post-truth” ... -
The Conceptualization and Sustainability of Rotenese Gong Music
This dissertation presents an ethnomusicological study of Rotenese gong (meko), particularly in relation to the conceptualization and the sustainability of this musical instrument ensemble in Rote, Indondesia. Ethnographic ... -
The Sublime and Sensibility in French Keyboard Music in the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries
This dissertation examines the aesthetic elements of the keyboard music from the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries in France, highlighting the concepts of the Sublime and Sensibility. In order to evaluate the ... -
Bending Form: Dynamic Content Within a Framework and the Recordings of the Beatles in the Mid-Sixties
This written exegesis, alongside three recorded albums, Pictures of Everyday, Baby Astronaut, and The Dunedin Electric Co., works to reconcile the analytic with implementation through a practice-as-research approach. The ... -
How can a contemporary composer use film to enhance music?
There is a body of literature on music in film, and some analytical writing on music video, but almost no writing that approaches the subject from the point of view of how the film might support the music. My research ... -
An analysis of the Chamber concerto for 13 instruments by Gyorgy Ligeti
This thesis is an analysis of Ligeti's Chamber Concerto for 13 instruments. It examines in detail the ordering of notes, particularly Ligeti's use of canon, and links the pitch organisation with other parameters, such as ... -
An historical ethnography of music in the town of Hawera in 1946 : from the recordings of the Mobile Unit of the New Zealand Broadcasting Service and oral histories of musicians
This work describes the music of a small New Zealand town, Hawera in south Taranaki, in the years immediately following the Second World War. It is the first musical study to draw on the extensive recordings of the ... -
Environmental Staging: A Practice-Based Exploration of Recording Locations in Contemporary Rock Production
This project (comprised of this exegesis, and the accompanying recordings) explores the role of recording environments in the production of pop and rock records in an independent music scene, located in Dunedin, New Zealand. ... -
Stranger than Fiction: the creation of two short theatre of the real plays about Closed Stranger Adoption in Aotearoa
My MFA explores how a range of theatrical techniques can be used to stage autobiographical and biographical narratives. Using practice-led research I created and staged two theatre of the real plays: Close Stranger and ... -
Re–Establishing Britishness/Englishness: Representation Through Music in a non–Parliamentary Nation
Folk singers were once principal media sources by which news of national events was disseminated in what became the United Kingdom in 1707. Folk song has since been imbued with significance as a record of political events ... -
The power to shock: Perceptions of visual and textual horror in Rammstein's performance aesthetics
The use of monumental imagery, period clothing, German Romantic texts and guttural chants, which include nasal gestic speaking, all combine to make up what I regard as the Rammstein "formula". This formula has been apparent ... -
The 'Indie' Music Scene in Dunedin, New Zealand From 2010 to 2017: Scene, Music Making and a DIY Ethos
This thesis examines the practices of contemporary musicians located in Dunedin, New Zealand. The thesis studies the period of musical output between 2010 and 2017, focusing on bands that are related to the then emergent ... -
Herr Daniel Bandmann and Shakespeare vs the World
German actor Daniel Bandmann played his first Hamlet at the age of 20, and made his English language debut as Shylock in New York, 1863. In his prime, he performed extensively in America, Great Britain, Australia, and New ... -
Floating Islanders: Pasifika Theatre in Aotearoa
‘We float – we’re not based in one place – we’re floating Islanders. I always come back to theatre, theatre is my first home.’ – Makerita Urale This book celebrates 30 years of Pasifika theatre in Aotearoa/New Zealand. ... -
Kwaimani Ana Liohaua Gia, The Heart of Us
In North Malaita, Solomon Islands, oral histories, songs and music have archived cultural knowledge and spiritual beliefs for generations. This thesis examines how North Malaitan ways of thinking and being are expressed ... -
Making the Choice for Music
This research examines the impact of formal and informal music education experiences on the decision-making process of students who choose to pursue tertiary music studies. By examining the literature on this subject, and ... -
Painting with Sound: Exploring Transformational Aspects of Studio Production Processes, within the framework of Acousmatic Music Practice
This Thesis investigates a series of transformative studio production processes used in the creation of Acousmatic music from fixed media sourced on a research trip to the Huế peninsula in Vietnam. It also looks at a ... -
Production, Genre and Composition: A study of approaches to contemporary studio production
Within Popular Music Studies genre has been most commonly approached from the perspectives of music consumers, and rarely from that of music creators. On the rare occasions that the influence of genre on music creators has ... -
Durational Thematicism and the Temporal Process: The Golden Ratio as a Thematic Idea in Beethoven's B-flat Major String Quartet, Op. 130, and the Grosse Fuge, Op. 133
This thesis explores the use of Fibonacci sequences, and other rhythmic proportions corresponding to the golden ratio in Beethoven's string quartet No. 13, Op. 130, and its original finale, the Grosse Fuge, Op. 133. This ...