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Contemporary performance practice of art music in South Africa : a practice-based research enquiry
(2012-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this dissertation, I examine contemporary South African art music performance practice and the social function it fulfils. Performance practice is understood in this study to mean an art practice or ...
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’n Ondersoek na die benadering tot musiekonderrig in die Senior Fase binne-in verskillende sosio-ekonomiese kontekste in Suid-Afrika
(2016-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In 2012 the Department of Basic Education replaced Outcomes Based Education with the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement. In this policy statement the subject Arts and Culture was replaced with ...
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Jacobus Gustavus de Wet’s contribution to violin pedagogy in South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die Suid-Afrikaanse vioolpedagoog, Jack de Wet (gebore in 1927), is heel moontlik die invloedrykste en mees welbekende figuur in strykersonderrig in Suid-Afrika. Gedurende sy onderrigloopbaan, wat oor ...
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Teaching violin holistically: towards a deeper understanding of the Colourstrings violin approach
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The purpose of this study is to discover how the Colourstrings violin approach is an expression of the philosophy of holistic education. This is achieved through a thorough literature review of firstly ...
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Using the Business model canvas to explore how independent South African musicians do music-as-business
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The international and South African music industry value chain is continuously being redefined. These changes that require a new way of thinking about music as a product are primarily driven by the ...
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Dokumentasie in die Kontemporêre Opnameproses
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)
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Die Ontwerp van ’n Stelsel vir die Akkurate Kartering van Mikrofoonposisies
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Recording quality is influenced by small changes in the distance relationships between a microphone and a projecting sound source. The choice of microphone as well as microphone and sound source positions ...
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Contemporary performance of the sonatas for cello and piano by Ludwig van Beethoven as informed by Carl Czerny
(2016-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation places the sonatas for cello and piano by Ludwig van Beethoven into the context of a continuing discussion about the composer’s metronomic tempo indications (MTIs) for a large number ...
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Recomposition in the music of Kevin Volans: A comparative study investigating three settings of Chakra
(2015-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The art of borrowing and recomposition is an age-old practice, representing a well of inspiration that many composers have drawn from. Kevin Volans, one of South Africa‟s most successful musical exports, ...
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Towards a Generalised Theory of Orchestration Practice: a Grounded Theory Approach
(2015-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: A number of authors have attempted to devise a set of principles according to which symphonic orchestration practice takes place. However, these authors have routinely failed to acknowledge the differences ...
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The Technical and Interpretative Challenges in the Marimba Works of Peter Klatzow: A Performer's Analysis
(2015-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT:Peter Klatzow (1945-) is one of the few renowned South African composers to have gained international recognition for his works. This is primarily due to his marimba pieces that are constantly prescribed ...
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The use of History texts in isiXhosa for Grade 11 in developing academic writing skills across the curriculum
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The central aim of the study is to present a proposal of how academic literacy development across the curriculum in secondary school can be facilitated through the use of content subject texts in isiXhosa. ...
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The Organ Works of Petr Eben (1929-2007): A Hermeneutical Approach
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Czech composer Petr Eben (1929-2007) was a devoted Catholic who found one of his greatest sources of inspiration in his faith. Eben admitted in many interviews that his religious belief played an ...
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'n Ondersoek na die onderwysmetodiek van aanlyn fluitonderrig
(2015-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Technological progress ensures the feasibility of distance music education. The physical absence of the educator raises unique challenges that require that the teaching methodology must be adapted. This ...
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A history of the Endler Hall as cultural space
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Endler Hall has emerged as a prestigious concert hall with remarkable acoustics. Although it functions primarily as an academic facility of the Stellenbosch University Music Department, it has, since ...
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An analysis of articles on classical music in the SABC Bulletin
(2015-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The history of broadcasting in South Africa involves the political, cultural, intellectual, technological, and social aspects of the history of South Africa. The South African Broadcasting Corporation ...
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Composing (in) contemporary South Africa theoretical and musical responses to complexity
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis explicates a perception of music as complex phenomenon and, accordingly, the comprehension, creation and performance of music as complex tasks. While its immediate field of investigation is ...
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Musical Understanding: An Analysis of the Creative Arts CAPS Outline for the Foundation Phase
(2015-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In South Africa we are fortunate to have Music as part of the school curriculum. The new improved curriculum, the National Curriculum Statement Grades R – 12, is currently being introduced and implemented ...
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A performance-based research on the Fourteen Stations of the Cross by Alan Ridout
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Stations of the Cross is an ancient Roman Catholic devotional ritual. True to the conviction of the Roman Catholic Church that art has the ability to communicate theological ideas, works of art that ...
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Curating South African flute compositions : landscape as theme of exhibition
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study explores intersections between curatorship, South African flute compositions in concert practice and ‘landscape’ as theme of exhibition for concert events. The investigation into these ...
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Making the Dutchman proud of his language... : ’n honderd jaar van die Afrikaanse kunslied
(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2011-12)Die ontwikkeling van die Afrikaanse kunslied kan herlei word na die eerste voorbeeld daarvan, ’n toonsetting deur Jan Gysbert Bosman (ook bekend as Bosman di Ravelli) in 1908 van wat beskou word as die eerste volwasse ...
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Lewe-in-werk : outobiografiek in Arnold van Wyk se musiek
(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2008-03)AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die artikel handel oor die populêre vraag rakende die konsep van betekenis in die kunsmusiek, meer spesifiek die musiek van die Suid-Afrikaanse komponis Arnold van Wyk (1916-1983). Tydens ’n onderhoud ...
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Tussen Bethlehem en Bloubergstrand : vanaf die oue na die eie in Stefans Grove se oeuvre
(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2013-06)AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die tradisionele idee van styl in die kunstenaar se produksie volstaan meestal by weinig meer as oppervlak-beskrywings van fasette van die kunswerk. In die musikale konteks kan sulke fasetteneerkom ...
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Musiek en kulturele diversiteit in Suid-Afrika
(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2009-12)Hierdie artikel gaan uit van die mening dat die politieke versoening, wat tot die vestiging van demokrasie in Suid-Afrika gelei het, nie gepaardgegaan het met ’n ooreenkomstige en gelykwaardige versoening op die sosiale ...
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Non-Intrusive Audible Quick Response Code for media application
(2015-02)This study details the design of an audible QR Code. The audible QRCode seeks to increase the rate of information exchanged in a human interaction and increase the quality of communication by altering the delivery medium ...
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Critical Factors influencing the Sustainability of Community Music Schools in the Greater Cape Town area: Two Case Studies.
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Community Music is a vibrant and growing field within the South African context and exists across various practices and settings. Community Music Programs in the Western Cape and more specifically the ...
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An Orchestration for Wind Band of Peter Klatzow’s From the Poets: Exploring a systematic approach to orchestration.
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2015-03)The wind band is a far underused composition medium in South Africa. Partially, this is due to the stereotypical view towards the ensemble and unfamiliarity with dealing with the heterogeneous timbral pallet. The author ...
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Checklists in Audio Production
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis investigates the role and implementation of the checklist in audio production studios. The goal of this study is to limit frequent human error by compiling and testing a checklist to be used ...
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Investigation of a Sweep Technique for Microphone Placement
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-03)
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Musiek, kulturele diversiteit, menswaardigheid en demokrasie in Suid-Afrika
(2009-04)As 'n mens 'n intreerede voorberei, dan vra jy jouself noodgedwonge af watter soort voordrag 'n intreerede nou eintlik is. Aan die een kant word daar sekerlik verwag dat dit op een of ander wyse 'n vakkundige voordrag ...
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