South African composer, Alexander Johnson is a prolific and outstanding figure among his contemporaries. His numerous works and contributions to South African classical and indigenous music is worthy of mention. Over the ...

The study aimed to explore and understand how six South African jazz musicians acquire and practise the skill of jazz improvisation. Formative influences and practice methods were studied with the hope of identifying factors ...

AHEAD feasibility trial assessed the feasibility and acceptability of an 8-session group drummingprogramme aiming to improve executive function, depression and anxiety symptoms, andperceived social support in adolescents ...

This qualitative study examined how adolescent participants who self-harm narrate motivations for and experiences of self-harm and what a narrative group music therapy process could afford them. Seven participants from a ...

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The purpose of this study is to explore how the experience of ambiguity in Leonard Bernstein’s song cycle La Bonne Cuisine challenges the interpretation and performance thereof. I argue that the ambiguity in La Bonne Cuisine ...

Berio’s Sequenza VII is the most famous piece in the modern repertoire for solo oboe, written in 1969 for the renowned Swiss oboist Heinz Holliger, it retains pole position in sales and performances in its genre. It is a ...

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Over the past few decades Classical music, as an established art form, has increasingly struggled world wide as a sustainable industry. The music preferences of the general public have been moving away from the traditional ...