Browsing Masters Degrees (Music) by Title

Raiding genres, remaking contemporary South African jazz discourse: the study of choices and ideals behind my compositional portfolio.

Giandhari, Riley Joseph. (2019)

This thesis is presented as an autoethnography that documents the process of composing a portfolio of works that are identifiable as Jazz. Autoethnography is understood here as both a theory and a method. While my personal ...

The relationship between mbira dzavadzimu modes and Zezuru ancestral spirit possession.

Matiure, Perminus. (2009)

The relationship between mbira dzavadzimu mode and Zezuru Spirit Possession. This thesis investigates the relationship between mbira dzavadzimu modes and different levels of Zezuru spirit possession. The research adopted ...

The relationships between music and sound effects in post 1960 popular Hollywood film.

Kilian, Mark Andre. (1994)

No abstract available.

The role of music in the Hindi Shiksha Sangh (South Africa).

Mahabeer, Swasthi. (1999)

The promotion of the Hindi language by the Hindi Shiksha Sangh (South Africa) has dominated the cultural life of the majority of Hindi-speaking Hindus in South Africa for over fifty years. This study concerns itself with ...

The role of rap performance in reinforcing or challenging participants' perceptions of 'race' in post-apartheid South Africa, Durban.

Chimba, Musonda Mabuza. (2008)

This ethnographic study concerns itself with the role that local rap performance plays in either reinforcing or challenging perceptions of 'race' amongst the participants of hip-hop culture in Durban, South Africa, and ...

Selling the war, surviving the war : the use of music during the border war.

Morrow, Catherine Anne. (2009)

This dissertation examines some of the numerous ways in which music can be put to use

South African popular gospel music in the post-apartheid era : genre, production, mediation and consumption.

Malembe, Sipho Sikhonzi. (2005)

This dissertation studies South African popular 'Gospel' music in the context of the new order of the post-apartheid era. The four main focal points of the study are genre, production, mediation and consumption. The end ...

The steps and music of the Italian ballo of the early renaissance.

Hoeksema, Susan. (1984)

No abstract available.

A study on the creative processes of Ngalanga traditional music and dance from Mozambique: expressions of the Mozambican Chopi immigrant community of Clermont Township in Durban.

Chemane, José Alberto Daniel. (2018)

This study is an ethnographic enquiry on the creative processes engaged in ngalanga by a migrant community of Mozambicans in Clermont Township in Durban. It discusses how creative actions are conceived and applied to ...

A stylistic and technical analysis of Skryabin's Etudes, Op. 8.

Combrink, Albert Christiaan. (1992)

No abstract available.

Stylistic principles in three chamber works by Bela Bartok with particular reference to the role of the piano.

Bowen, Nellie. (1990)

The thesis discusses the following three works composed by Bartok between 1922 and 1938 : Sonata no. 2 for Violin and Piano, Rhapsody no. 1 for Violin and Piano and "Contrasts" for Violin, Clarinet and Piano. Details ...

A survey of school music in South Africa.

Ramsay, Mary Robinson. (1987)

Music in the curricula, music in the schools, supportive materials, and facilities were examined in six out of seven South African educational jurisdictions during the late 1970's. Official views were compared with what ...

The symbolism of death in Arnold van Wyk's Five Elegies : an application of William Kimmel's theory concerning the Phrygian inflection.

Smith, Martin. (1991)

Arnold van Wyk (1916 - 1983) frequently referred to the extramusical concepts of the elegiac, and of mournfulness, introspection and death when describing the intended content of his works. The import of these concepts ...