Browsing Masters Degrees (Music) by Title
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Local is lekker? : a study of the perceptions of contemporary South African popular music among Durban adolescents at five culturally diverse schools in the greater Durban area.
(2005)Is local lekker? This study looks at the perceptions the youth in Durban hold towards local music. Through a study of the Grade 11 learners at Bonela Secondary, Gelofte Skool, Hillcrest High School, Thomas More College ... -
Local music and identity: a study of the signifiers of South African identity embedded in the South African Music Awards’ ‘Record of the Year’ listings from 2013 to 2018.
(2020)This research paper explores the concept of a local identity through the gaze of a postapartheid South Africa. In discussing ‘local’, this study explores pertinent discourse surrounding what could be deemed as the South ... -
The mangalam and its significance to Indian South Africans in Kwazulu Natal.
(1999)Weddings have always been an indispensable and auspicious part of Hindu life both in South Africa and in India. This study is an examination of one aspect of Hindu weddings, viz. the vocal and sometimes instrumental recital ... -
The morphology of texture and style in the minuet movements of Haydn's keyboard trios.
(1991)Haydn wrote approximately forty-five keyboard Trios between 1760 and 1796. About fifteen of them date from his youth and the rest from the later part of his creative life. This study traces the changes in the Minuet-type ... -
Mugithi perfomance as a form of social cohesion among the Agikuyu of Kenya.
(2010)This research investigated what the musical characteristics of mwomboko music were, what its social characteristics were in terms of performers, listening, venues and class relations to what extent this music functioned ... -
Music and spirituality in the Sai movement : a case study of the Isipingo Sai Centre.
(1995)No abstract available. -
Music composition in the 21st Century: exploring concertgoers’ aesthetic response to AI-generated music.
(2021)We live in the information age where digitisation and computational technology have become integral and indispensable to our daily activities. Artificial intelligence (AI), quantum computing, and other such technologies ... -
Music of numbers [printed music] : nine pieces for two players and pianoforte.
(1981)No abstract available. -
The orchestral tradition amongst Indian South Africans in Durban between 1935 and 1970.
(1996)During the mid-thirties, a tradition of music-making began amongst South Africans of Indian origin that dominated the cultural life of the majority of Indian South Africans for about forty years. This study concerns itself ... -
Pennywhistle kwela : a musical, historical and socio-political analysis.
(1993)This thesis is an exploration of the history of the pennywhistle in black South African popular music, the most important style to evolve around this instrument being kwela music. An analysis of kwela is conducted from ... -
The pianist and the Brahms sonata for piano and violin, opus 108 in D minor.
(1989)This thesis deals in particular with the pianist's approach to the Brahms Sonata for Piano and Violin in D Minor, Opus 108. There are two chapters, the first of which takes the form of a bibliography in which different ... -
Politics, production and process : discourses on tradition in contemporary maskanda.
(2000)No abstract available.