Search for dissertations about: "thesis in music"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 301 swedish dissertations containing the words thesis in music.

  2. 21. Surrounded by Sound : Experienced Orchestral Harpists’ Professional Knowledge and Learning

    Author : Lia Lonnert; Eva Sæther; Liora Bresler; Stephen Cottrell; Musikhögskolan i Malmö; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; harp; lifelong learning; music education; orchestral playing; practical knowledge; professional knowledge; Music Education; Musikpedagogik; harp; lifelong learning; music education; orchestral playing; practical knowledge; professional knowledge;

    Abstract : Orchestral playing is a central practice within Western European classical music. Previous research in the field of orchestral musicians’ learning and knowledge has mainly focused on students’ learning orchestral playing. Working conditions and work-related problems were also emphasized in previous studies. READ MORE

  4. 22. Signing and Singing : Children in Teaching Dialogues

    Author : Tina Kullenberg; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; teaching; children; singing; sociocultural perspective; social interaction; cultural tools; communicative activity type; double dialogicality; signing; music; educational science;

    Abstract : The dissertation examines children’s dialogical sense-making in task-oriented teaching activ- ities, the aim of which is to explore children’s values and ideas in musical learning, in order to investigate how musical knowledge is constructed collaboratively through different levels of dialogicality. Hence, the study addresses the organizational resources and values at stake when children take part in pedagogical dialogues. READ MORE

  5. 23. Stepping out of the shadows of colonialism to the beat of the drum : The meaning of music for five First Nations children with autism in British Columbia, Canada

    Author : Anne Lindblom; Hannu Räty; Tero Timonen; Grace Iarocci; Carin Roos; Elina Kontu; University of Eastern Finland; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; First Nations; Autism; Music; Indigenist research methodologies; Inclusion; Psykologi; Psychology;

    Abstract : This dissertation set out to examine the meaning of music for First Nations childrenwith autism in BC, Canada. The research questions addressed were: How can thediagnosis of ASD be seen through a First Nations lens? How do the First Nationschildren with ASD use music? In which ways is music used in different domains?In which ways is music used to facilitate inclusion? How is traditional music used?The dissertation is based on four original articles that span over the issues of under-detection of autism among First Nations children in BC, ethnographic fieldwork,and the paradigmatic shift to Indigenist research methodologies, the role of music insocial inclusion and a First Nations lens on autism, the use of Indigenous music withFirst Nations children with autism, put in context with First Nations children’s rights. READ MORE

  6. 24. 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

  7. 25. Music and media in local life : Music practice in a Newar neighbourhood in Nepal

    Author : Ingemar Grandin; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN;

    Abstract : The study concerns the medialization of local music practice, where music practice is taken to mean in what ways music resources- repertoires, instruments, ensembles, and so on-are used in performance and listening, and medialization the permeation by media and their contentsof life at large.The study is based upon 16 months' ethnomusicological fieldwork in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, in 1985-86, 1987 and 1988. READ MORE