Philosophical

Writer	Thesis Title	Degree	University	Year	# of Pages
ANDERSON, Natasha	Revolts of being : the abject and informe (formless) in music installation/performance	MA	Victoria University (Vic. Australia)	2004	65
ASKER, Donald	Personal meanings and artistic processes	PhD	University of Melbourne	2001	3 vol
ASPDEN, Suzanne Elizabeth	Psyche's borrowed plumes	MMus	Victoria University of Wellington	1992	332
ATKINS, Peter	Music and spirituality: Locating spirituality within paradigms of musical meaning	PhD	University of NSW	in progress (2005)
AUBREY, David Graham	The influence of music in redefining nationalism in Wales in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries	MA	University of Sydney	1995	212
BARDWELL, Glenn	Musical expression and communication: an overview	MMus (perf)	University of Melbourne	1996	121
BEEVER, Allan David	Development and recapitulation : Wagner and Schopenhauer on music, opera, and art	PhD	University of Auckland	1998	317
BETTS, Eleanor Ruth Helyar	Music in Exile: A Study of the Effects of the Exile Experience on 20th Century Eastern European Composers	MMus (Perf)	University of Sydney	in progress (2006)
BIGNELL, B.	Musical utterance as a way of knowing : a contemporary epistemology of music	PhD	University of Western Sydney	2000	499
BIGNELL, Barry	Active participation in the emergence of musical phenomena: a commentary and guide	M.Ed	University of Melbourne	1994	231
BLESKIE, Oliver Nicholas	Early traces of romanticism : an analysis of the philosophy of art expressed in Diderot's Encyclopedie, with particular reference to the articles on music	MA	University of Waikato	2000	295
BOTTOMLEY, John A	Jazz/culture : styles, formations, politics	MA	Australian Catholic University	1991	94
BRINCAT, Lauren	I thought about playing guitar but there are too many musicians already	MVA	University of Sydney	2005	69
BROWN, Judith	Fragmentation and authenticity: art and salvation in the thought of Ernst Bloch and Paul Tillich	PhD	University of Otago	2001	264
CARROLL, Mark	When worlds collide: music and ideology in France, 1946-1954	PhD	University of Adelaide	2000	303
CHAN, Amy Wai Yee	Composing race and nation: intercultural music and postcolonial identities in Malaysia and Singapore.	PhD	Australian National University	2005	326 + 1 CD
CHAN, Chi Man	Aspects of the impact of postmodernist thought on the analysis of music	MA	University of Sydney	1996	75
CHEONG, Simplicius T.E.	A critique of Adorno's philosophy of music : expression, creativity, formalism	MA	Macquarie University	1988	88
CHU, Kalaly	Cross-modal experience in music and visual art : their correspondences and a new perspective of appreciation in education	PhD	University of NSW	2008	308
CRICHTON, Kieran	"The Most Divine of All the Arts:" Neoplatonism, Anglo-Catholicism and music in the published writings of A.E.H. Nickson	MMus	Australian Catholic University	2005	145+
DAVIES, Stephen	A discussion of the theories of musical unity proposed by Rudolph Reti, Hans Keller and Alan Walker	MA	Monash University	1973	497
DE HAAN, Simone	The relationship between the composer, performer and listener in twentieth century musical practice: "a plea for reform"	MusM	University of Western Aust.	1994	96
De La FUENTE, Eduardo	Social theory, music and modernity	PhD	Griffith University	1998	275
DENCH, Chris	Towards an ethics of musical composition	MMus	University of Melbourne	1998	73
DENNISON, Jannah Marie	The integrity of melody and meaning: music as worship in the Taize community	MA	University of Otago	2005	188
DYSON, Frances	The silencing of sound: metaphysics, technology, media	PhD	University of Technology Sydney	1993	153
ELKINGTON, Jeremy	A studio investigation : approaching the sublime through the musical, the exotic and "the perfect"	MA	Monash University	2002	179
FAHEY, Win	There's a lot more to music than music: folk music, folk festivals and cultural difference	MA	Griffith University	1999	95
FISHER, Jeremy	Music from another country	MA	University of Technology Sydney	1996	119
FORD, Andrew	Text and intertextuality: words about music about words	DCA	University of Wollongong	1993	236 + 4 cass + 6 scores
FORSTER, Jason	Commodified evil's wayward children: black metal and death metal as purveyors of an alternative form of modern escapism	MA	University of Canterbury	2006	147
GONG, Xiao-qiang	The nature and meaning of music : towards relativity and universality of musicality : a study in East-West comparative aesthetics of music	PhD	University of Melbourne	1995	267
GRANT, Roxanne	"White bread milk toast", performance art in the urban environment : a view of communicating ideas as public based performance art	MCA	James Cooke University	1998	152
GREENWOOD, Andrew Alexander	Modernist musical performance as hermeneutics : three historical case studies from Bartok, Webern and Adorno's philosophy of music	M.Phil	University of Sydney	2004	125
HAIG, Christine	Our music; their music: identifiying meaning in musical experiences	PhD	University of Otago	2004	322
HALL, Meredith Ellen Grace	Music as social activity	MA	University of Adelaide	1981	494
HILL, Kathryn R.	The origins of postmodernism in music	PhD	University of Sydney	in progress (NiC08/07)
HOPE, Alison	Papal thought on the nature of sacred music	GradDipMus	Australian National University	1998	47
HUANG, Yuh-Wen	Miró to music : transformation and cross disciplinary processes	DCA	University of Wollongong	2002	136 + 6 scores
JENNINGS, Mark	Realms : a phenomenological, socio-cultural and theological-religious studies exploration of musical spaces	Ph.D	Murdock University	2009	292
JOHNS, Heather	A morphology of fusion thinking	MCA	James Cooke University	1994	159 + 1 booklet
JOHNSON, Jo-Anne	An archaeology of periodisation in music history	MMus	Griffith University	2000	55
KINGSBURY, Justine Margaret Joy	The expression of emotion in music	MA	Victoria University of Wellington	1991	79
KOUVARAS, Linda Ioanna	Aspects of the postmodern condition in Southern cross, double concerto : a work by Barry Conyngham	MMus	University of Melbourne	1991	92
KUNG, Sandra Fang-Chien	Lifelong learning and music appreciation: a praxial lifelong learning approach for mature-age students in technological colleges of Taiwan	PhD	University of Western Aust.	2004	357
LANGLOIS, Roslyn J.	Meaning in music : towards criteria for a personal philosophy of music for the practising musician	MMus	University of Tasmania	1992	70 + 7 cass
LANGSTON, Thomas W.	Capitalizing on community music : a case study of the manifestation of social capital in a community choir	EdD	University of Tasmania	2005	347
LARSEN, Gretchen L.	The symbolic consumption of music	PhD	University of Otago	2003	263
LEWIS, Bethan	Interrogating the aesthetic: the 'historically informed performance' contribution	M.Phil	University of Queensland	2004	56
LIVINGSTON, John Robert	Phenomenology, music, nature	PhD	University of Tasmania	1999	212
LOCKE, Kirsten Anna	Power and polyphony : contextualising the musical subject	M.Ed	University of Auckland	2004	148
MACARTHUR, Sally	Feminist aesthetics in music: politics and practices in Australia	PhD	University of Sydney	1997	510 + 1 tape
MAJEED, Raamy	The culprits of musical expressiveness	MA	University of Otago	2007	113
MARSHMAN, Anne	Jung and music: a study of the relationships between Carl Jung's Analytical psychology and music	MMus	Griffith University	2000	85
McGEE, Mark	From Celibidache to Debussy : reflections on music and meaning	DMA	University of Melbourne	2001	199
MERCER, Christine	Henry Tate (1873 - 1926) and the creation of Australian Musical Identity	PhD	University of Melbourne	in progress (2004)
MILLER, James David	The colour of preference brown, white or l/f? : the application of time series techniques to experimental aesthetics	MA	University of Auckland	1980	135
MILLINGTON, Aliese	Subject to Change: Nine constructions of the crossover between Western art music and popular musics	PhD	University of Adelaide	submitted 2007	257
Monro, Gordon P	Portfolio of Audio-visual Compositions: Accompanying Notes + The Concept of Emergence in Generative Art	MMus (Comp)	University of Sydney	2008 (nyiC)	20 + DVD-audio + 2 DVD-video + 61 (essay)
MORGAN, Christy	An exploration of the performer-composer dynamic	M.Phil	University of Queensland	2006	67
MUNRO, Ian	Musical conversations	MCA	University of Newcastle	2003	74
MURPHY, Kerry	An analysis of the role and function of music criticism	MA	University of Melbourne	1979	202
PARKHILL, Peter	Sciencing about music : a critical review of ethnomusicological theory and method, as set out in the discipline's major texts	MA	University of Sydney	1991	155
PARLE, Rosemary	Music and the hemispheres	BA(Hons)	Macquarie University	1984	1 vol
PRICTOR, Megan	Music and the ordinary listener: music appreciation and the media in England, 1918-1939	PhD	University of Melbourne	2000	299
PRITCHARD, Brian W.	Societies in society: a case in historical sociology of music	MA	University of Canterbury	1965	367
QUINTEROS, Carmen Veronica	Creativity, order and discipline [J.S Bach; Ontology, Creation, Ontology, Phenomenology]	PhD	University of NSW	2004	303
SAPUNDZIJEV, Mary	The music of politics-politics in music. The choral miniature repertoire of first generation Macedonian composers: a re-assignment of Macedonian musical development	PhD	Monash University	1996	3 vol + cass
SAVAGE, Stephen Leon	Behind the text, beyond the sound : investigations into processes of creative musical interpretation	PhD	Griffith University	2008	234 + 4 CDs
SCHAEFER, Peter	Sound and circle: dualities of culture and content within creative work 1987-97	DCA	University of Wollongong	2002	2 vol + 2 comp optical disks
SEGAL, Deviani Sarah	The impact of feminist studies on the portrayal of women in music history : Fanny Hensel, a case study	MMus	University of Melbourne	1993	42
SELIG, Sandra	The rhythmic disfiguration of vision : re-thinking subjectivity and art after minimalism	MA	Queensland University of Technology	1999	83
SMITH, Graeme	The social meaning of Irish button accordian playing styles from 1900-1975	PhD	Monash University	1990	505
STEFANAKIS, Mandy	Contemporary knowledge of what music is and does and the implications for music education	M Ed	University of Melbourne	2003	296
SVILANS, Marija	The harmonics of Aristoxenus and its influence on the writings of Aristides Quintilianus: an investigation into correspondences between two Greek music theorists	MA	University of Queensland	1990	400
TAWA, Michael	Sound, music and architecture : a study of the relationship between sound, number, space and time in sacred music and architecture according to the Vedic, Pythagorean and Platonic traditions	PhD	University of NSW	1991	289
TAYLOR, Jodie	Playing it Queer: Understanding queer gender, sexual and musical praxis in a 'new' musicological context	PhD	Griffith University	2008 (not yet in lib. cat.)	294 + 1 CD
TIEN, Adrien	Meanings in music texts and texts about music in Western Europe in the late 19th to early 20th centuries	GradDipMus	Australian National University	in progress (NiC08/07)
TODD, Paul, Graham	The philosophies of Karlheinz Stockhausen in Aus den sieben Tagen and In Freundschaft: performance as a means of communication	MA	Monash University	2004	53 + CD
TOLTZ, Joseph	Working title: Musical experiences in camps and ghettos under the control of the Nazis and their puppet allies, 1939-1945 - recollections of Jewish survivors	PhD	University of Sydney	In Progress (2006)
TRAINER, Adam	Rock'n'roll cinema	PhD	Murdock University	2005	412
TUCKER, Alison	The Process of Listening to Music: A Connectionist Conceptualization	PhD	University of New England	1999	2 vol
TURNER, Liz	Dissent and Dissonance: Understanding Musical Experiences and social movements in resistance in the early twenty first century	PhD	University of Melbourne	in progress (2006)
VAN DE LAAR, Amy Therese	Johann Mattheson's "oratory in sound": the intelligibility of instrumental music	MA	Victoria University of Wellington	2004	136
WALKER, Rhett H	In what is constituted musical meaning, significance, value and greatness	PhD	University of Melbourne	1993	231
WARDS, Allan Ross	Musical interest, church attendance and personality	MA	Massey University	1980	86
WATER, Bolke	Making music: discourses of cultural negotiation in New Zealand	MA	Victoria University of Wellington	2001	175
WATSON, Gary Stephen	Shared intellectual property and the maintenance of cosmic order : an investigation into the significance of melodic sampling and transformation in the creation of new gending in Balinese gamelan music	MMus	University of Sydney	1999	82 + CD
WATSON, Stephen	The effects of music in television commercials	PhD	University of Wollongong	1992	630 + 1 vid rec
WESTON, Donna	Music and Musical Thought of the "New Age"	PhD	Griffith University	1999	2 vol
WILLIAMS, Andrew	The functions of Walkman music	PhD	University of Adelaide	2004	NS
WINSOR, Keith	The music of the law: a comparative study in the history and philosophy of law and music in ancient civilisations of the west	MGenStud	University of NSW	1983	300
WOLFE, Jocelyn	These notes have hips, but not like Claudia Schiffer's! A study of the use of metaphor and figurative language in music instruction and the implication for students from different language backgrounds	MPhil	Griffith University	in progress (2005)

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