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The Songs of Fionn mac Cumhaill: An Historical and Musicological Analysis of Indo-European Musical Poetics in Ireland, Scotland and Nova Scotia
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Verbatim and Maori Theatre Techniques: Documenting People's Experiences of Hauora
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 ...