Search for dissertations about: "music events"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 18 swedish dissertations containing the words music events.

  2. 1. What is music education? : discursive construction and legitimisation of theory and practice in a Swedish upper secondary school

    Author : Karin Bohman; Per-Olof Erixon; Linn Hentschel; Thomas von Wachenfeldt; Petter Dyndahl; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Music education; music; music theory; aural skills; ensemble; discourse; pedagogiskt arbete; educational work;

    Abstract : The overall purpose of this thesis is to describe and discuss the discursive constructions and legitimisations of Music and Music theory in Swedish upper secondary school context. Thereby, this thesis is part of the construction and debate concerning theory vs practice in Music education. READ MORE

  4. 2. Organ improvisation : Activity, action and rhetorical practice

    Author : Karin Johansson; Musikhögskolan i Malmö; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Rhetorical practice; Cultural-historical activity theory; Higher music education; Western art music; Discursive practices; Organ improvisation;

    Abstract : This thesis focuses on contemporary organ improvisation in Western European musical culture. The aim of the study is to explore organists’ descriptions, constructions and definitions of improvisation in words and music, with an interest in the interaction between receptivity, creativity and change. READ MORE

  5. 3. Towards Musicking in a Public Sphere : 1-3 year olds and music pedagogues negotiating a music didactic identity in a Swedish preschool

    Author : Maria Wassrin; Eva Österlind; Ketil Thorgersen; Tiri Bergesen Schei; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Music education; musicking; early childhood education; preschool; age power structures; very young children; subject specific didactics; public sphere; Hannah Arendt; cultural studies; Subject Learning and Teaching; ämnesdidaktik;

    Abstract : This thesis explores alternative ways of staging music in preschool. The ‘preschool subject of music’ is approached as a social and cultural construct that is embedded in discursive negotiations. Participants in the study are 1-3 year-old children and their music pedagogues, working in the preschool on a daily basis. READ MORE

  6. 4. A social semiotic account of music-movement correspondences

    Author : Joshua Han; Theo van Leeuwen; Louise Ravelli; Sydney UNSW School of the Arts & Media; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES;

    Abstract : In this thesis, I develop a comprehensive account of synergies between music and movement from a social semiotic perspective. This account includes an analytical framework, a cross-contextual case study and an assessment of the expansive scope of the social semiotic framework. READ MORE

  7. 5. Goodbye Reason Hello Rhyme : a study of meaning making and the concept development process in music composition

    Author : Peter Falthin; Kungl. Musikhögskolan; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; making musical meaning;

    Abstract : This thesis comprises two articles based on qualitative empirical studies and a theoretical introduction. All three texts deal with the same problem area concerning musical meaning making and the concept development process in the course of composition learning. Each text could be read separately. READ MORE