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Browsing Music by Type "Mini Dissertation"
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Ballack, Catharina Elizabeth
(University of Pretoria, 2018)
The care, compassion and empathy that healthcare professionals exhibit towards their clients/patients can prove physically, psychically, mentally, and economically costly. Exposure to a client/patient�s trauma or distress ...
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Smith, Nadia
(University of Pretoria, 2023)
Caregivers in a Child and Youth Care Centre face several challenges that might lead to poor well-being. The well-being of the caregivers can impact the quality of care they offer and their relationship with they care for. ...
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Lotter, Sané
(University of Pretoria, 2018-05-18)
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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Sparks, Stephanie Mari
(University of Pretoria, 2023)
South Africa faces a significant unemployment crisis. The largest percentage of those unemployed are
young Black females and the issues they face are complex and pervasive. There is extremely limited
research with this ...
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Dednam, Marcel Johann
(University of Pretoria, 2019)
an autoethnographic exploration, this study aimed to determine how I (the
researcher) could enhance the learning experience of tertiary jazz piano students while
focusing on self-reflection. Vygotsky’s (1978) zone of ...
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De Beer, Zelda
(University of Pretoria, 1967)
No abstract available
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Snyman de Klerk, Mart-Marie
(University of Pretoria, 2020)
This study focuses on the analyses of the stylistic elements and challenges of technique and improvisation in three late piano works by the South African composer Surendran Reddy. Reddy’s personal identity as a crossover ...
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Gerber, Karlien
(University of Pretoria, 2020)
This mini-dissertation serves as an annotated bibliography of saxophone works by South African composers, composed between 1981 to 2018 which provides a performance level and pedagogical descriptive performance commentary ...
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Gouws, Eugene
(University of Pretoria, 2017)
The advances in music technology and cinematography in recent years has granted a higher level of importance to the film music. There exists a gap in the academic study of film music as it relates to music technology, as ...
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Kwak, Dong Ho
(University of Pretoria, 2016)
This quantitative study investigates the possible correlation between auditory loudness perception and commercial success in the music industry by measuring and comparing the loudness levels of the top 10 and the bottom ...
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Munro, Andrew
(University of Pretoria, 2013)
Performing music at an advanced level is a uniquely challenging act requiring intense preparation and a multi-modal learning approach. The path from the practice room to the stage is a complex and distinctive path that ...
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Williams, Carol Joy
(University of Pretoria, 2009)
The context of this study is a street shelter, situated in the inner city of Pretoria. This was the first time that music therapy sessions were conducted at the shelter. This study is conducted within a qualitative research ...
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De Villiers, Belinda Vivienne
(University of Pretoria, 2015)
The performance practice of Bach s keyboard works is a topic that has been researched and studied at great length, and has elicited much debate amongst authorities on the subject. While performing Bach on the piano is ...
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Batty, Jodi
(University of Pretoria, 2023-12-05)
The arts therapies are recognised healthcare professions regulated by the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA). Among other responsibilities the HPCSA provides guidelines and procedures to enable practitioners ...
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Joubert, Christine
(University of Pretoria, 2009)
This study explored community music therapy as a psychosocial resource for persons living with HIV/AIDS at a clinic in Tshwane, South Africa. The role of community music therapy and its implications in South Africa were ...
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Mitas, Andrea Lynne
(University of Pretoria, 2014)
Music education in South Africa has been portrayed as a multifaceted and complex journey (Stig-Magnus, 1997: 1), because of the political influences which have been evident in the country’s education system since 1658. ...
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Spies, Abraham Marthinus
(University of Pretoria, 2015)
This study investigates strategies for success in the opera industry. It evaluates the current opera market and how it is affected by the negative economic climate that is being experienced.
In order to achieve this aim, ...
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Pott, Jennifer
(University of Pretoria, 2022)
South Africa’s adolescent population is at high risk of adverse sexual outcomes, attributed to a range of factors at multiple levels. These risk factors, which impact both sexual and health-seeking behaviours, are particularly ...
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Graham, Rosemarie
(University of Pretoria, 2014)
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Van Schoor, Janandi Jacomien
(University of Pretoria, 2014)
This study is unique as the basic research acknowledges the chorale prelude as a genre in South Africa. The compilation of a catalogue of organ chorale preludes by South African composers is also a first and important ...