This thesis considers the biographical, historical and musical significance of manuscript music collections belonging to the diarist, artist and musician Georgiana McCrae, who brought her collections from London and Scotland ...

A completed a folio of original compositions by Harry Sdraulig, including chamber works and a trombone concerto. The music explores a sophisticated harmonic vocabulary, in creative dialogue with traditional models. The ...

This thesis explores the possibility of synthesising some aspects of Schenkerian and Neo-Riemannian theories and seeks to demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach in the analysis of a twentieth-century sonata. Although ...

This thesis examines the life and musical contributions of Hermann Theodor Schrader. Schrader was an active performer and teacher in Melbourne and Adelaide, receiving his main musical training in Leipzig, Germany.

Abstract: This exegesis explores how four types of quotation outlined by musicologist Krystyna Tarnawska-Kaczorowska – parole and langue quotation, quotation-signatures and quotation-symbols are employed in short form works ...

Music is a human universal, an integral part of all known human culture. While most people possess the capacity for music perception and production, individual differences in various forms of music abilities are evident ...

The purpose of this thesis is to expand existing literature concerning the hurdy-gurdy as a contemporary musical instrument. Notably, it addresses the lack of hurdy-gurdy literature in the context of contemporary composition ...

In the late eighteenth century, comic opera was among London’s most popular and profitable musical cultures. Despite the extraordinary success of the genre, however, various events have caused it to be all but lost to the ...

‘The Speculative Ear’: Explorations in Adorno and Musical Modernism Theodor W. Adorno continues to cut a controversial figure through the discipline of musicology. Against the substantial discourse that has built up ...

This thesis argues that the context within which prominent Spanish composer Joaquín Rodrigo (1901-1999) composed for the guitar was largely affected by the role of neoclassicism between the late-nineteenth and mid-twentieth ...