Although much research exists on both historical considerations of Korean music and intercultural relations, little attention has been paid to the processes and possibilities of intercultural collaboration of jazz and traditional musicians. As a practice-based inquiry, the resea…
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Improvisation has often been viewed and valued in terms of its service and resemblance to scripted traditions of theatre. Such a stance seriously undermines the significance and impact of this global performance modality, and has resulted in improvisatory modes being largely ign…
Sanggit is the creative means the dhalang (puppeteer) of the Javanese wayang kulit purwa (shadow puppet theatre) has for changing the narrative to suit the needs of the performance context. This case study of the wayang kulit purwa from the region of Banyumas, Central Java, exam…
Music therapy is widely portrayed either as a paramedical practice within which music is a technology applied as a form of treatment or as a form of psychotherapy within which the music plays a primarily symbolic role or acts as a lead in to verbal consideration of the patient’s…
This thesis deals with two related questions. The first relates to a critical inquiry into the processes of curriculum creation and formation within a medical school which has undergone a significant curriculum revision. I explore the notion that such processes can be understood…
This thesis comprises a portfolio of compositions with supporting commentary in addition to a general commentary on past and contemporary models of performance practice. The compositions all use elements of improvisation and are documented in recorded and score formats. Recordin…
Naji Subhy Paul Irénée Hakim, born in 1955 in Beirut, Lebanon, is one of the most recent representatives of the impressive French tradition of organist-composer-improvisers. Many of Hakim's organ works incorporate Gregorian chant. This study provides a brief biography of Naji Ha…
Developing Arab Music is an exploration of how musical change has been and continues to be discussed and implemented by 20 th- and early 21st-century musical innovators, educators, and performers in Cairo, Egypt. The first part of the thesis traces the establishment of instituti…
After the fall of the Berlin wall in '89, and the subsequent implosion of the East German economy, the Berlin improvised music community flourished with venues springing up almost overnight in the East's abandoned industrial and residential areas. Artists from around the world, …
According to the UN-Habitat, "developing countries will have 80% of the world's urban population in 2030. By then Africa and Asia will include almost seven out of every ten urban inhabitants in the world." (UN-Habitat, 2006) "the Dubai Fever can be found all over cities in count…
The need for multicultural counselling is on the rise while developing multicultural tools in counselling are lagging behind. This is especially apparent in the use of music for counselling purposes. There is a dearth of knowledge regarding the music repertoires of different cul…
This thesis examines the compositional strategies Rzewski applies to affect his audience's expectations so that the experience of the work parallels the political and philosophical ideas within it. Employing musical narrative theory as a way to characterize the process of expect…
Improvisation is an art form which has arguably been present since the existence of music itself. Inventing music on the spot, like spontaneous speech, is a common expression of artistry throughout history and across musical boundaries. While improvisation has maintained its imp…
Despite its centrality in all human cultures and throughout human history, philosophy of mind and cognitive science have historically had very little to say about vernacular dance. Vernacular dances are cultural dances, the ones we do at parties, clubs, rituals, festivals, compe…
The complexity of Hélio Oiticica’s Parangolés poses a challenge to art historians. The multiplicity of the Parangolés’ iterations coupled with their unclear history make them hard to define, and consequently hard to put in dialogue with other aesthetic practices. As a performanc…
The technique of partimento developed in eighteenth-century Italy with the purpose of instructing students in improvisation, composition and general musical knowledge. Partimenti took the notational form of a single staff wherein a variety of clef changes could be employed. With…
The purpose of this collaborative inquiry (CI) dissertation study was to examine pedagogical strategies designed to open Western classical music to improvisation. Piano teacher-participants formed a collaborative inquiry cohort as co-researchers to design and implement pedagogic…
Gerald Joseph “Gerry” Mulligan (1927–96) was a highly acclaimed jazz musician in the twentieth century. One of relatively few to adopt baritone saxophone as his or her main instrument he had a nearly fifty-year-long career performing, writing, and leading bands. During his lifet…
This dissertation examines acoustic jazz performances of recorded, post-1960 popular music, focusing on the compositional and improvisational transformations involved in these performances and how they configure the intertextual relationship between a jazz palimpsest and its sou…