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A chronicle of cultural transformation: ethnography of Badagry Ogu musical practices

Author: Kunnuji, Joseph Date: 2020 This thesis examines the musical practices of Badagry Ogu people from both historical and contemporary perspectives and provides strategies for their further integration into the changing social and economic landscape characteristic of ... Read more
An annotated catalogue of works for piano duet a supplement to Cameron McGraw's Piano duet repertoire

Author: Magalhaes, Luis Miguel de Arajo Date: 2011 Each entry provides, apart from the title of the work and the composers name, dates and nationality, the following information (where applicable and/or available): composer's website, movements, approximate duration, the arranger's name, the ... Read more
The composer as technologist : an investigation into compositional process

Author: Warrington, Miles Date: 2016 This work presents an investigation into compositional process. This is undertaken where a study of musical gesture, certain areas of cognitive musicology, computer vision technologies and object-orientated programming, provide the basis for ... Read more
Conductors of the Cape Town Municipal Orchestra, 1914-1965 a historical perspective

Author: Alkema, Sjoerd Date: 2012 This thesis profiles the conductors of the Cape Municipal Orchestra since its inception in 1914 until the resignation of David Tidboald in 1965. After the introductory Chapter 1, Chapter 2 includes a historic review of the period before 1914. ... Read more
Conquering the Cape: the role of domestic keyboard instruments in colonial society and the colonisation process

Author: Dippenaar, Erik (Gert Diederick Victor) Date: 2021 This thesis traces the history and usage of domestic keyboard instruments in the Cape Colony from 1652 until 1852, and brings to light the role that these instruments played in colonial society and in the colonisation process in the Cape ... Read more
Contemporary musical expression in Anglican Churches of the Diocese of Cape Town developments since the liturgical, theological and social revolutions of the twentieth century

Author: Bethke, Andrew-John Date: 2012 The broader purpose of this study is to investigate musical change in relation to theological and liturgical change. The particular focus of this thesis is to explore the link between liturgial revision and musical development in the Diocese ... Read more
Early radio broadcasting in South Africa: culture, modernity & technology

Author: Mhlambi, Thokozani Ndumiso Date: 2015 This thesis tells the story of the events that led to a broadcasting culture in South Africa. It then proceeds to show how listeners were gradually brought into the radio community, notwithstanding all the prejudices of the time. Africans ... Read more
Educational content in the performing arts : tradition and Christianity in Kenya

Author: Miya, Florence Ngale Date: 2004 The performing arts (a combination of music, dance and dramatisation) in the church in Kenya have not received much scholarly attention. These performing arts as adopted by Christian dance groups in Kenya have not been fully accepted into ... Read more
Evoked emotional responses in the performance practices of selected Yorùbá dùndún ensembles

Author: Durojaye,Cecilia Date: 2018 The study aims to investigate and describe the communication of emotion through dùndún music of the Yorùbá ethnic group of Nigeria. The two-pronged focus is on (a) the strategies that dùndún performers employ to potentially arouse emotions ... Read more
The history of the clarinet in South Africa

Author: Steltzner, Becky L Date: 2016 This thesis explores and traces the history of the clarinet in South Africa. After discussing the problems of researching western European music history in South Africa from the arrival of the Dutch in 1652, and briefly summarising that music ... Read more
The influence of romanticism on the evolution of the transcendental etudes of Franz Liszt

Author: Low, Michael Meow Yin Date: 2009 This thesis sets out to investigate the musical and Romantic ideas that may have influenced Liszt during the composition of the three versions of the 'Transcendental' Etudes in relation to the pianistic and musical evolution of the work. The ... Read more
The jazz piano style : a comparative study of bebop, post-bebop and modern players

Author: Lilley, Andrew Date: 2006 The study embraces a need to document the jazz piano style through analytical representation of key players in the jazz tradition. While there are several educational books outlining method, there is little material discussing jazz style in ... Read more
The Makhweyane bow of Swaziland: music, poetics and place

Author: Stacey, Cara L Date: 2017 This dissertation investigates how the contemporary performers of the Swazi gourd-resonated bow, the makhweyane, create music. Since David Rycroft's study of Swazi bow music in the 1960s and 1970s, little study has been devoted to this musical ... Read more
The mezzo-soprano as representation of 'the other' in nineteenth century opera

Author: Van der Walt, Karen Date: 2013 The author continues by arguing that mezzo-soprano and contralto voices resemble the male voice and therefore composers often cast women in this fach as the jealous and malicious characters compared to the true and simplistic nature of the ... Read more
Music as metaphor and mediator : creating an integrative paradigm for education

Author: Muller, Linda Date: 2006 The purpose of this thesis is to create an integrative paradigm for education based on music as metaphor and mediator. It proposes a meta-frame of inquiry to establish a meta-contextual perspective from within which a self-reflexive reframing ... Read more
The operatic piano reduction as an art form : a critical evaluation

Author: Engelbrecht, Lisa Christine Date: 2008 An operatic piano reduction is a piano arrangement of a full instrumental score of an opera. It is commonly used as a study tool by singers and opera coaches, as a rehearsal score by operatic rÃ©pÃ©titeurs or rehearsal pianists, and also by ... Read more
Peculiarities and anomalies of intonation with special reference to the construction and evolution of woodwind instruments

Author: Matei, Corvin Date: 2001 The author has been playing principal flute for almost twenty years, in the ""G Enescu"" Bucharest Philharmonic Orchestra, the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra and the Cape Philharmonic and was fortunate to hear live some of the leading world ... Read more
Piano sonatas by South African composers, 1900-2015: a catalogue and compositional analyses of selected works

Author: Delport, Wilhelmus Date: 2020 The piano sonata’s prominent position in Western art music is reflected in both its long history and its presence in the oeuvres of composers from across the globe. While some information on piano sonatas by South African composers has been ... Read more
South African film music: representation of racial, cultural and national identities, 1931-1969

Author: Jeffery, Christopher Date: 2017 The thesis examines the role of music in South African film pertaining to representation of identity of South African peoples and cultures, from the country's earliest sound films until the industry expansion of the 1970s. Chapter 1 contextualizes ... Read more
Structural processes in Gabriel Fauré's nocturnes for piano

Author: Rooi, Pieter Date: 2020 This study constitutes an investigation of Gabriel Fauré's achievements in the genre of the piano nocturne through detailed analysis of each of his thirteen nocturnes. Fauré's nocturnes are widely considered to be representative of his pianistic ... Read more

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