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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
Redfern, Jane F.(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: As a recent graduate, I feel that young educators are graduating from South African universities and are teaching in schools without adequate knowledge of the various learning disabilities and behavioural ...
Vermeulen, Hendrik Johannes(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-12)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Tonality cognition incorporates a number of diverse and multidisciplinary aspects, including music
cognition, acoustics, culture, computer-aided modelling, music theory and brain science. Current
research ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study addresses issues concerning power and politics in five music archives in South Africa. It has a three-fold approach. First, it provides an overview of archival theory as it has developed since ...
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 ...
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING:Hierdie tesif ondersoek die estetiese begrip nai"witeit met spesifieke verwysing na die Wunderllc:-n-t...;•r.••:ngs van Gustav Mahler. Die term nai'witr .L kom dikwels in die vroee literatwJr : ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study was undertaken after it was found that aural training is being neglected in general. The researcher wanted to explore a possible solution. Aural training integrated with piano training is ...
Hartshorne, Leon Andre(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1989-12)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In the past, clarinet students and lecturers experienced problems in obtaining
works of South African composers. They also did not always know how to ascertain
what is in existence. Practical experience ...
This dissertation analyses the style of the published instrumental works
of Hugo Distler (1908-1942). Emphasis is placed on the innovative
aspects of the style rather than on the rejuvenation of older stylistic
models, ...