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Kwaimani Ana Liohaua Gia, The Heart of Us

Hundleby, Irene Karongo (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2017)

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

Brown, Sara Margaret (Thesis, Master of Arts, 2017)

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

Cotton, Dale William (Thesis, Master of Music, 2017)

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

Parkins-Craig, Madeleine (Thesis, Doctor of Musical Arts, 2017)

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

Suggate, David Michael (Thesis, Master of Arts, 2017)

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 ...
The Songs of Fionn mac Cumhaill: An Historical and Musicological Analysis of Indo-European Musical Poetics in Ireland, Scotland and Nova Scotia

Hirt, Aindrias (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2017)

The purpose of this study was to investigate through archival and musicological analysis the audio recordings of Fenian lays made in the middle of the last century. These recordings were made from informants who learned ...
Verbatim and Maori Theatre Techniques: Documenting People's Experiences of Hauora

Kewene, Francis Waiata (Thesis, Master of Arts, 2017)

The theatrical review group Maranga Mai, emerging out of the political unrest of the 1970s, used drama to challenge New Zealand’s ideology of one people and dispel the myth that Māori and Pākehā (a person of predominantly ...
Waipiata: A Practice-Led Exploration of Heterotopic Playwriting

Duncan, Emily Tess (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2016)

This thesis proposes a heterotopic methodology for the dramatic treatment of a site and its histories. This practice-based research comprises a full-length playscript, entitled Waipiata, and an exegesis. In the exegesis I ...
Music Video and Online Social Media: A Case Study of the Discourse Around Japanese Imagery in the New Zealand Indie Scene

Johnson, Henry; Wilson, Oli (Journal Article, Sites: A Journal of Social Anthropology & Cultural Studies, 2016)

This article offers original insights into the construction of musical meaning through an intensification and bricolage of postmodern discourse as a result of music video as online media. The discussion contributes to ...
Low Budget Music: Three EPs

Dawa, Samdrub (Thesis, Master of Music, 2016)

This exegesis sets out to investigate our production of three EPs created on low budgets in Dunedin in order to gain a deeper understanding of our activities and external influences upon them. It is accompanied by these ...
Acting the Moor: Critical response to performances of Othello in Australia and New Zealand 1834 - 1866

Warrington, Lisa (Journal Article, Australian Studies, 2014)

In this article, I examine selected Australian and New Zealand productions of Othello over a thirty-five year arc, sampling critical commentary from each decade to highlight the expectations of Shakespeare in performance ...
We Are Amused: Theatre Comes To Dunedin, December 1861-April 1862

Warrington, Lisa (Journal Article, Australasian Drama Studies, 2013)

Examines the beginnings of professional theatre in Dunedin, New Zealand, from its first home in a converted horses stables business in 1862.
"Generally Regarded with a Lenient Eye': Amateur Theatre in Dunedin 1862 -1868

Warrington, Lisa (Journal Article, Journal of New Zealand Studies, 2013)

Discussion of the rise of amateur theatre in Dunedin, New Zealand, 1862 - 1868, and its associations with professional theatre in the city.
Polycyclic Comprovisation

Coleman, Trevor Alexander (Thesis, Doctor of Musical Arts, 2016)

The majority of western art, jazz, popular and indeed most music of the world is positioned within a mono-metric system. Furthermore, multiples of ‘4’ often predominate in musical structures, particularly in popular music, ...
An Investigation into the Implications of Upside-Down Bass Guitar Technique for Pedagogy Theory

Macfarlane, AJ (Thesis, Master of Arts, 2016)

This thesis investigates how the learning and teaching strategies of upside-down bass players could be applied to influence pedagogy theory, particularly teaching strategies centered on students as individuals. The thesis ...
A musical ethnography of the Ruwatan performance in Central Java : tradition and change

Susilo, Joko (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2000)

Ruwatan is the Javanese term that comes from the word ruwat, to cleanse or release from curse or misfortune. A ruwatan ceremony involves a sacred wayang kulit (shadow puppet) play that is performed as a form of exorcism ...
The Challenge of Curriculum: An International Comparative Study of Music Education Policies and Practices

Pardàs, Lluïsa (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2016)

This research investigates music education policies and practices in New Zealand and Catalonia, through the analysis of curriculum documents and interviews with music education practitioners, and expands the analysis of ...
Practice and Performance as Research in the Arts

Bendrups, Dan; Downes, Graeme (Chapter in Book, Dunedin Soundings, 2011)
'The Stillness': Electronic recording and production methods in a contemporary context

Abrams, Devin (Thesis, Master of Music, 2016)

This exegesis explores the ideals and outcomes resulting from a practice based research project. It will provide some context in regards to my transition and migration from the music industry into the academic setting, and ...
The Musical Imagery in Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s paintings for his patron, Frederick Leyland

Esplin, Penelope (Thesis, Master of Arts, 2016)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-82) was an accomplished English painter, poet, designer and translator. He was a leading figure of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood (formed in 1848) which was a movement of a small group of British ...