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Writer	Thesis Title	Degree	University	Year	# of Pages
ADAMS, Christopher Patten	Composition portfolio	MMus	University of Auckland	2006	126 + 2 CDs
AIRY, Samuel P. G.	Music teachers' beliefs and their use of MIDI Technology	M.Ed	University of Auckland	1999	247
AN, Yu Lee	Publishers of New Zealand Music: a historical survey from 1840-2002	MA Mus	University of Otago	2003	364
ANNABELL, Angela Ruth	New Zealand’s cultural and economic development reflected in song : aspects of the New Zealand folk song ethos.	PhD	University of Auckland	1976	473+ cass
ANNABELL, Angela Ruth	Music in Auckland 1840-1855 : with reference to aspects of music in the Bay of Islands area both before and after 1840.	MA	University of Auckland	1968	239
BALLARA, Carlo	Dictionary of New Zealand violin makers	PhD	Victoria University of Wellington	in progress (NiC08/07)
BANNISTER, Matthew	White man’s soul : Pakeha masculinities in popular music of New Zealand / Aotearoa	PhD	University of Auckland	2002	339 + 2 CDs
BARTUP, Marie Patricia	An annotated bibliography on expressions of popular culture: the music and dance of hip hop in New Zealand	MLIS	Victoria University of Wellington	2002	86
BATHURST, Ralph James	The music of organisations : an aesthetic ethnography	PhD	Victoria University of Wellington	2006	427
BEBAN, Daniel	Going for a song: the New Zealand chant of auctions, housie and racing	MA	Victoria University of Wellington	2001	129 + 2 CD
BLACK, Taiarahia	Kāore te aroha-- : te hua o te wānanga	PhD	Massey University	2000	484 + 3 CDs
BODKIN, Sally	Being musical: teachers, music and identity in early childhood education in Aoteaoroa/New Zealand	PhD	University of Otago	2004	294
BRAATVEDT, Susan	A history of music education in New Zealand state primary and intermediate schools, 1878-1989	PhD	University of Canterbury	2002	572
BRENNAN, Renee	New Zealand music videos : whose voices are being heard in the New Zealand music industry?	MA	Auckland University of Technology	1999	144
BROWN, Michael	"There's a sound of many voices in the camp and on the track": a descriptive analysis of folk music collecting in New Zealand 1955-1975	MA	Victoria University of Wellington	2006	245
BROWNLEE, Philip	PhD in composition [Part 1. Folio of compositions -- Part 2. Structural functions of timbre in selected works of Philip Brownlee]	PhD	Victoria University of Wellington	2007
CAMM, Cheryl	In the teeth of it	DMus	University of Auckland	1995	1 score
CATTERMOLE, Jennifer Anne	The routes of roots of reggae in Aotearoa/New Zealand: the musical construction of place and identity	MAMus	University of Otago	2004	224
CHENG, Hsin	[portfolio of compositions]	MMus	University of Canterbury	2005	1 vol + 1 vid + CD
CHURTON, Wade	Alternative music in New Zealand, 1981-2001: definitions, comparisons and history	MA	University of Canterbury	2003	161
COLEMAN, Jennie J.	Transmigration of the Piob Mhor : the Scottish Highland piping tradition in the South Island of New Zealand, with particular reference to Southland, Otago, and South Canterbury to 1940	PhD	University of Otago	1996	744
COURTEAU, Mona-Lynn	Music and dance performance, longing, and the construction of Brazil in Auckland, New Zealand	MA	University of Auckland	2006	160
DE CASTRO-ROBINSON, Eve	Five responses; Peregrinations; A resonance of emerald;	DMus	University of Auckland	1989	1 score
ETE, Igelese	Malae : music portfolio	MMus	University of Auckland	2005	score + cd
FEHSENFELD, Diana Mae	Maori waiata : an examination of intellectual property law issues for music librarians	MLIS	Victoria University of Wellington	2006	92
FERREIRA, Rette	Music by New Zealand composers for feature films made in New Zealand: historical background and case studies	PhD	University of Auckland	In Progress (2007)
GAME-LOPATA, Jenny	Gillian Karawe Whitehead: her life and work	MA	Monash University	1999
GEBBIE, Rochelle Maree	A musical revolution in Nelson: the German Directors of the Nelson School of Music 1894-1944	MA	University of Auckland	1999	189
GIBSON, Lorena	Versioning for the love of it: Hip-Hop culture in Aotearoa	MA	Massey University	2000	116
GLEESON, Jean Clare	Counting time: a content analysis of the covers of the popular sheet music published by Charles Begg & Co. Ltd.	MLIS	Victoria University of Wellington	2003	65
GORDON, David Huntly	An investigation into the results of the North Shore Music Project a scheme to foster the musical development of a group of musically talented children	MMus	University of Auckland	1982	169
GRANT, Alison	Music compositions	MMus	Victoria University of Wellington	2006	1 vol + CD
HAMIORA, Angeline Maurice	Aku waiata mo ngā tamariki, mokopuna: 1980 - 1990	M.Ed	University of Auckland	2003	172
HANNAY, Karen	The Wellington Youth Choir, 1989-1997: A comprehensive bibliography	MLIS	Victoria University of Wellington	1998	72
HARDIE, Richard Lawrence	Jenny McLeod: The emergence of a New Zealand voice	MM	Overseas	1994	68
HART, Amy Joan	On rough ground : New Zealand art and music, 1930-1990, and the problematics of landscape and national identity	MA	University of Auckland	2005	103
HAWKEY, Rachael M.	Vernon Griffiths (1894-1985): his life and philosophy of music education as demonstrated in his collected papers	PhD	University of Canterbury	1993	403
HERRIMAN, Nina	The air down here : global and local interpretations of New Zealand popular music, 1955-1977	MA	University of Auckland	2004	154 + CD
HILL, Carolyn	New Zealand music: into the 21st century: an investigation into the factors affecting the successful post-compositional promulgation of contemporary New Zealand music	MMus	Australian National University	2001	92
HOLMES, Leonie	Doctoral portfolio of compositions	DMus	University of Auckland	2006	307
HOWE, Ben	Getting older : the construction of place, history and identity in New Zealand independent music	MA (Anthrop)	University of Auckland	2000	129
JACKSON-GOUGH, Julie J.	Music events among four-year-old children in naturalistic contexts, within selected New Zealand kindergartens	PhD	Overseas	2003	162
JACKSON-TRETCHIKOFF, Julie	The influence of the British and American Musical on Musical Theatre Performance in Greater Auckland from 1906-2006	PhD	University of Auckland	in progress (2007)
JAMESON, Jennifer A. (Cutler)	Music education at the secondary level in a New Zealand urban area	MA	University of Canterbury	1967	104
JEFFS, Nick	Counting the Beatz : hip hop culture, commercialisation and the state in Aotearoa New Zealand	MA	Auckland University of Technology	2005	113
JEWELL, Stephen	Number eight wired : a history of New Zealand dance music and club culture from 1970 to 2001	MA	University of Auckland	2001	146
JOHNSON, Julie Anne	A woman's work: a music composition portfolio	MMus	University of Canterbury	2007	482 + 15 + CD
Johnston, Emma	Healing Maori through song and dance?: three case studies of recent New Zealand music theatre	MA	University of Canterbury	2007	84
JONES, Barry Alfred	Identifying and developing the gifts and talents of students with musical ability in New Zealand primary schools	M.Ed	Massey University	2006	243
JOYCE, Zita	Hearing ourselves: globalisation, the state, local content and New Zealand radio	MA	University of Canterbury	2002	163
KAIFA, Alana Siulia	Throwin' words at U : a lyrical analysis of MC Lyte's rap texts	MA	Massey University	2001	224
KAIWAI, Hector Moana	Pūkana rawatia! : Mickey Mouse does the haka	MA	University of Auckland	2003	152
KEAM, Glenda	Exploring notions of national style: New Zealand orchestral music in the late twentieth century	PhD	University of Auckland	2006	287
KELLY, Emma Jean	Making a scene : location, identity and dance music	MA	University of Auckland	2002	181 + CD
LAM, Yuen Ching	An analytical study of Alfred Hill’s String Quartet no. 2 in G minor	MA	University of Otago	2006	2 vol
LEMKE, Claudi	Maori involvement in sound recording and broadcasting 1919 to 1958	MA (Anthrop)	University of Auckland	1995	199
LEROY-DALE, Mette	"Flute 21" : 21st century New Zealand flute music and its contemporary performance practice	DMA	University of Auckland	2007	120 + CD
LEWIS, Christine Gaynor	Welsh folk song in New Zealand	MMus	University of Auckland	1975	763
LIGGETT, Wallace	"Music for every child, ever child for music" : a report on research into high school instrumentalists’ backgrounds and characteristics and a proposed general music and instrumental course at this level	MA	University of Auckland	1989	170
LIPINE, Tavita	Fasamoa and church music in New Zealand	MA	Victoria University of Wellington	2002	204
LITTLE, Jeni	The music of Nga pu Toru (Southern Cook Islands)	MMus	University of Auckland	1990	161
LLOYD, Rosemary	The Cook Island imene reo metua and imene tuki	MLitt	University of New England	1994	238
LOCKE, Kirsten Anna	Power and polyphony : contextualising the musical subject	M.Ed	University of Auckland	2004	148
LOCKE, Linda Mildred	Teaching and artistry	M.Ed	University of Auckland	2005	133
MABEY, Nicholas William	On the New Zealand music industry: a qualitative value chain analysis	MSc	University of Auckland	2006	126
MacDONNELL, David	The folk music revival in Otago	MA	University of Otago	in progress (NiC08/07)
MACKLEY-CRUMP, Jared	The Festivalisation of Pasifika Cultures in New Zealand	PhD	University of Otago	In Progress (2009)
MANN, Matthew	MMus (composition) portfolio	MMus	Victoria University of Wellington	2005
MARSHALL, Deirdre P.	Lost Souls in a Vast Land. Recontextualising Maori Kapa Haka and the Construction of Home in Melbourne	PhD	University of New England	2003	286
MARTELLI, Lee	Solo piano music in New Zealand in the 1960s.	MMus	University of Auckland	1993	2 vol
MATTHEWS, Stephen Ralph	Portfolio of compositions	MMus	University of Auckland	2005	125 + CD
MAY, Judith Mary	Thus spake the Triad : a view of music in New Zealand 1893-1915	MMus	University of Auckland	1991	210
McLEAN, Mervyn	Field work in Maori music (a preliminary study)	MA (Hons)	University of Otago	1958	184
McLEAN, Mervyn	Maori chant : a study in ethnomusicology	PhD	University of Otago	1965	477 + 450
MERCER, John Kenneth	A search for identity in New Zealand music of the 1940s	MMus	University of Auckland	1999	80
MORGAN, Rachael	Composition portfolio for the completion of a Masters of Music	MMus	Victoria University of Wellington	2006
MURRAY, David	Raffaello Squarise (1856-1945): the colonial career of an Italian maestro	PhD	University of Otago	2005	2Vol
NASH, Claire Hazel	Compositions 2006	MMus	University of Auckland	2006	1 score + cd
NEILL, Karen	Hook, line & singer! : essential criteria for maximising the playlist potential of New Zealand music on commercial radio : a programme directors' perspective	MA	Massey University	2000	111
NEWTON, Ronald	Organ building in New Zealand 1895-1930: a documentation of cultural context	PhD	University of Canterbury	1996	983
NG, Siong Ngor	Music and culture : the information seeking behaviour and needs of academic ethnomusicologists in New Zealand	MLIS	Victoria University of Wellington	2003	76
NICHOL, Elizabeth Frances	New Zealand's published music 1850-1913	PhD	University of Auckland	In Progress (2009)
NORMAN, Philip	The beginnings and development of a New Zealand music: the life and work (1940-1965) of Douglas Lilburn	PhD	University of Canterbury	1983	785
NYCE, Douglas	A survey of NZ primary and secondary schools regarding the philosophy of music education operating in those schools	PhD	University of Auckland	in progress (2007?)
PALMER, Roger John	Participating in the classical music world: four amateur organisations and the persepectives of their members	MMus	Victoria University of Wellington	2006	149
PAPESCH, Te Rita Bernadette	"Pupuritia ngā purapura i mahue mai rā: : te waiata-ā-ringa, 1960-1990	MAMaori	University of Waikato	1990	139
PARSONS, Michael Graham	Music compositions	MMus	Victoria University of Wellington	2005	1 vol + 2 CDs
PEARSON, E.	History of music in Otago	MA	University of Otago	1941 NiC	unknown
PHILLIPS, Irene Margaret Constance	Maori music, a historical survey	MA	University of Auckland	1929	NS
POOLE, Marion	The influence of the Second Viennese School of Composers in New Zealand 1940-1990	PhD	University of Otago	In Progress (2004)
PREMANANDA, Weerachat	Kaleidoscope : for symphony orchestra	DMus	University of Auckland	1996	88
PRITCHETT, Sarah	Living to perform, playing for passion : a "girls" guide to rock	MA	University of Auckland	2002	103
RAKENA, Te Oti Paipeta	The synthesis of Polynesian and western traditions in contemporary New Zealand composers	DMA	Overseas	1998	106
ROHAN, Tracy	Music education in NewZealand primary schools: issues in implementing the music component of the arts curriculum	MAEd	University of Otago	2004	144
SANDERS, David John	Song of the kokako: birdsong in New Zealand Composition	MMus	Victoria University of Wellington	2004	230 + 2 CD
SCHWER, Ruth Elizabeth	The cello in New Zealand: history, composition, education, poular music and performance from the opinions of New Zealand musicians	MMus	Victoria University of Wellington	2000	162
SHENNAN, Jennifer	Waiata-a-ringa : a movement study of action songs, the dance genre developed in the twentieth century by the Maori people of New Zealand.	MA (Anthro)	University of Auckland	1977	213
SHEPHERD, Patrick	[Composition portfolio]	MusD	University of Canterbury	2006	45 + 3 scores + 2 CD
SHIEFF, Sarah	Magpies: negotiations of centre and periphery in settings of New Zealand poems by New Zealand composers 1896-1993	PhD	University of Auckland	1994	270
STACHURSKI, Michael Raymund	We will sing our own songs : a content analysis of selected Presbyterian hymnals, 1982-1993	MLIS	Victoria University of Wellington	2004	114

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