• Die begeleide vioolsonate in Suid-Afrika : die bydraes van Temmingh, Klatzow en Hofmeyr 

  Theunissen, Tricia (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-12)

  ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The sonata for violin and piano has a well-deserved place within chamber music in South Africa. It has always been one of the most prominent chamber music genres within Western art music. Between 1800 and ...
• Creating new music for horn through collaborative practice 

  Smit, Neil (2014-12)

  ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis considers the creative process involved in the composition and performance of new music for the horn. It sets out to describe the challenges and opportunities for composers and performers in ...
• Twelve notes, twelve endnotes 

  Muller, Stephanus (Brendon Bell-Roberts, 2011)

  "Exile" is always the narrative of one person or entity, an "I" or an "us". Therefore we speak not of "exiles" (the condition, that is), but of "exile". It is not that exile cannot be other than its volatile laws of ...
• Orientalizing Europe, Europeanizaing Africa : the fantastical lives and tale of Jan Gysbert Hugo (The Marquis) (Louis de) (Vere) Bosman di Ravelli, also known as Gian Bonzar 

  Muller, Stephanus (Department of Musicology, Faculty of Music, University of Arts in Belgrade, 2010)

  Before he was being invented by others, or started imagining himself in autobiographical texts, he was creating new names for himself. Born Jan Gysbert Hugo Bosman on 24 February 1882, the first of these names was ...
• Miniature blueprints, spider strategems : a Michael Blake retrospective at 60 

  Muller, Stephanus (The Musical Times Publications Ltd, 2011)

  SEVENTEEN YEARS after the first democratic elections in South Africa in 1994, radical voices in the country are asking the question: to what extent does the South Africa of 2011 display more continuities than discontinuities ...
• 'n Blik op die resepsiegeskiedenis van Hendrik Hofmeyr se Sinfonia Africana 

  Muller, Stephanus (UNISA Press, 2009)

  Op 19 Augustus 2004 het die Kaapse Filharmoniese Orkes onder Ieiding van die Amerikaanse dirigent Leslie B. Dunner vir die eerste keer Hendrik Hofmeyr se Sinfonia Africana uitgevoer in die Kaapstadse stadsaal. Die simfonie ...
• Film music : the synthesis of two art forms - a case study of themes and characters in Alfred Hitchcock's and Bernard Herrmann's Vertigo 

  Theunissen, Justin Robin (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)

  ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis investigates the impact that a musical score can have on the visual component as well as the final product of a film. This is achieved by the use of a systematic analytical approach that covers ...
• Arnold van Wyk as liedkomponis : ’n ontsluiting van die liedere in die Arnold van Wyk-versameling by die Universiteit Stellenbosch 

  Oosthuizen, Magdalena Johanna (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)

  ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this study an investigation into Arnold van Wyk’s song oeuvre — including the published and unpublished (completed and incomplete) songs — is done on the basis of the available composition sketches in ...
• A comparative analysis of the singer’s formant cluster 

  Van Der Linde, Byron-Mahieu (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)

  ENGLISH ABSTRACT: It is widely accepted that the singer’s formant cluster (Fs) – perceptual correlates being twang and ring, and pedagogically referred to as head resonance – is the defining trait of a classically trained ...
• Aviva Pelham : die sanger as crossover-kunstenaar - 'n ondersoek na die verskynsel 

  Van Der Westhuizen, Barend Nicolaas (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)

  ENGLISH ABSTRACT: It is ironic that with so much interest in singing as a career, the possiblities for trained singers are getting less and less, especially in South Africa. With reality programmes such as Idols and ...
• Towards a mapping of the marginal : readings of art songs by Nigerian, Ghanaian, Egyptian and South African composers 

  Van Rhyn, Chris (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)

  ENGLISH ABSTRACT: African art music practices of western origin have oftentimes been excluded from general discourses on western art music practices. In this study, close readings of selected art songs by twentieth and ...
• Exploring pluralism and musical meaning in the compositions of Hans Roosenschoon 

  Fraser, Melissa Jane (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)

  ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this thesis, the term pluralism is used to refer to the different musical and non-musical aspects that form part of a musical composition. Hans Roosenschoon, whose work is the focus of this study, is ...
• Developing an electronic resource for Kwaito Music in the Further Education and Training (FET) band (Grades 10 - 12) 

  Crouch, Lynnette (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-02-27)

  ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Kwaito music, pronounced either as kwhy-toh, or quite-oh, is an indigenous South African music style which came into existence after the apartheid era was abolished. It was created by the black South ...
• Die Frank Pietersen Musieksentrum : historiese agtergrond en ontwikkelingsbydrae tot die gemeenskap 

  Coetzee, Petrus Jacobus (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)

  ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Nowadays Music Community Projects are a common phenomenon in South Africa. These projects start with great ambition to uplift underprivileged communities through music education, but due to various reasons ...
• Institutional manifestations of music censorship and surveillance in apartheid South Africa with specific reference to the SABC from 1974 to 1996 

  Jansen Van Rensburg, Claudia Elizabeth (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)

  ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The current study documents the procedures used by the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) from 1974 to 1996 in the censorship of music. The disquisition argues that the SABC, as a national ...
• ’n Ondersoek na twintigste-eeuse musiek vir kinders en die pedagogiese waarde daarvan vir onderrig in Suid-Afrikaanse laerskole 

  Erasmus, Suzanne (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)

  ENGLISH ABSTRACT: When twentieth century music composed specifically for children is discussed, Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf and occasionally Benjamin Britten’s The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra are the ...
• Afrikaanse liederwysies : 'n bestekopname 

  Smith, Aletta Margaretha (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)

  ENGLISH ABSTRACT: “Liederwysies” (folk hymns) are spiritual folk songs that emerged in the Afrikaans culture at the beginning of the 19th century, and were used in isolated cases until the late 20th century. These hymn ...
• Authorship and ownership of UShaka KaSenzangakhona 

  Schonken, Philip Antoni (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)

  ENGLISH ABSTRACT: UShaka KaSenzangakhona is a work of about sixty minutes for choir, soloists and orchestra, composed by Mzilikazi Khumalo, orchestrated in 1994 by Christopher James and revised in 1996 by Robert Maxym. The ...
• The rise and development of electric bowed instrument groups in South Africa 

  Van der Linde, Annien (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)

  ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis explores the rise and development of electric bowed instrument groups in South Africa. The objective was to provide a history of the development of such groups in South Africa, as well as ...
• Contextual readings of analysis and compositional process in selected works by Arnold van Wyk (1916-1983) 

  Thom Wium, Magtild Johanna (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)

  ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this project, contextual readings of four works by Arnold van Wyk are developed. They are the Symphony No. 1 in A Minor, the First String Quartet, the Duo Concertante and the Missa in illo tempore. ...

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