Alfred Hill (1870-1960) was a central figure of the Australasian art music world during his lifetime. He was New Zealand’s first professional composer, and had a close connection with its indigenous people, the Māori. ...

This thesis sets out to investigate the tonal procedures of the symphonies of Gustav Mahler, in order to gain a deeper understanding of the role played by progressive tonality in his works. Chapters 1 to 4 outline the ...

This thesis is a study in gender relations in sound engineering for contemporary rock music in New Zealand. I contend that music audiences and music industry workers alike discursively construct sound engineering as a ...

This dissertation analyses the visuality of three iconic conductors who worked in London between 1840 and 1940; Louis Jullien, Hans Richter and Sir Henry Wood. It investigates the ways in which the public saw, discussed ...

In the second half of the twentieth century, New Zealand witnessed a period of significant change, a period that resulted in dramatic demographic shifts. As a result of economic diversification, the New Zealand government ...

This dissertation is an analysis of Giovanni Antonio Terzi's lute intabulations contained in his two Venetian lute books of 1593 and 1599. These works are discussed in relation to other lute intabulations in sixteenth-century ...

This research proposes a model for the visual analysis of the twelve-inch, 33rpm album cover, and uses the work of pre-eminent rock star David Bowie as its subject. A form of art in its own right, an album cover possesses ...

In 1940 New Zealand celebrated its first 100 years as a British colony. Britain commended its remotest outpost for its successful taming of a primeval landscape into something akin to its own green and pleasant land. However ...