Philosophical

Writer	Thesis Title	Degree	University	Year	# of Pages
ALLEN, Susan	René Maran's "Batouala", jazz-text	PhD	University of Newcastle	2012
ALSOP, Peter Roger	Mapping gestures in the creation of intangible artworks	PhD	RMIT University	2011	238
ANDERSON, Natasha	Revolts of being : the abject and informe (formless) in music installation/performance	MA	Victoria University (Vic. Australia)	2004	65
Anon	Buffy the vampire Slayer : a study of popular music on commercial television	PhD	University of Sydney	2008	446 + 2 CD
Anon	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)
Anon	Dissent and Dissonance: Understanding Musical Experiences and social movements in resistance in the early twenty first century	PhD	University of Melbourne	in progress (2006)
Anon	Defining the Indefinable: An historical and cultural exploration of excellence in music	PhD	Australian National University	In progress (2010)
Anon	Exploring the influence of Confucianism on music learning among the Chinese-Australian Diaspora	PhD	Monash University	in progress (2013)
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 the experience of the spiritual	PhD	University of NSW	2012	385
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
AURIN, Andreas	Dialectical music and the Lehrstück	PhD	University of NSW	2013	312
BAKER, Jane Susanne	Learning, identity work, and music use in young garage band	PhD	University of Queensland	2014
BANNEY, David Andrew	Symmetry and symmetry reduction in music	PhD	University of Newcastle	2015
BARDWELL, Glenn	Musical expression and communication: an overview	MMus (perf)	University of Melbourne	1996	121
BATES, Nathanael James	Sampling and the 'Sound Object' in contemporary sonic art	PhD	RMIT University	2013	117
BEEVER, Allan David	Development and recapitulation : Wagner and Schopenhauer on music, opera, and art	PhD	University of Auckland	1998	317
BETTS, Eleanor Ruth Helyar	The long dream of home: the experience of exile and its effect on the music of Bohuslav Martinu	MMus (Perf)	University of Sydney	2009	77
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
BINNIE, Michele	Finding the Drastic : Exploring Forms of Attention in Piano Performance	MMus	Victoria University of Wellington	2014
BIRCHLEY, Keith Andrew	Reading Barth with Mozart in mind: An exploration of Mozartean resonance in the theology of Karl Barth	M.Phil	University of Queensland	2012	119
BIRON, Dean Leonard	Contemporary music and its audiences	PhD	University of New England	2008	224
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
BOLITHO, Wendy Anne	Silent invocations : music, sublimation, and social transformation	PhD	Massey University	2011	252
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
BUCK, Mary	Music, geometry, and the listener : space in the history of Western philosophy and Western classical music	PhD	University of New England	2008	TBA
BUTLER, Ronald Kenneth	The Influence of Theosophy on the Tradition of Speculative and Esoteric Theories of Music	PhD	Griffith University	2013
BYRNE, Benjamin Alexander	Murmur	Phd	University of Technology Sydney	2012	187
BYWATER, Philip Frank	As the spirit moves : a study of personal spirituality as a source for musical inspiration	MMus(Perf)	University of Melbourne	2010	90 + 1 CD
CAPORALI, Ursula	Deconstructing the structure	PhD	University of Sydney	2014	199
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
CHILDS, Codie	Spaces traversed : Master of Music portfolio submission thesis	MMus(Composition)	University of Auckland	2011	61 + 2 DVDs
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, Ian 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	2004	145+
DALGLEISH, Jodie	Notes for sound	MCW	Auckland University of Technology	2011	225
DAVIES, Stephen	A discussion of the theories of musical unity proposed by Rudolph Reti, Hans Keller and Alan Walker	MA	Monash University	1973	497
DAVIS, Angharad	Responding to referentiality: perspectives on listener interaction with musical quotation	MMus	University of Sydney	2009	198
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
DELAVERE, Sara	Challenging the drumkit: musical identities and habitus	MRes	Macquarie University	2015	88
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
FARNAN, Peter	Distilling an essence: the structuring of the recorded pop/rock song form	MMus	University of Melbourne	2014
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 sco
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
FOSTER, DJ	Music: Pathways to Personal Meaning	PhD	University of New England	2015	366
Garrido, Sandra	Negative Emotions in Music: What is the attraction?	PhD	University of NSW	2012	310
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 Cook 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
HALE, Christopher John	Not skilled, but divine : Plato's Ion and the surrender of the human element in music performance	MMusPerf	University of Melbourne	2011	40
HALL, Meredith Ellen Grace	Music as social activity	MA	University of Adelaide	1981	494
HAMEL, Alistair	Artefactualism as an Ontology of Art	M.A	Victoria University of Wellington	2010	99
HAMMOND, Jane	Dancing with ghosts: the topic of the pastoral explored in a folio of music compositions	PhD	Monash University	2015
HARRISON, Holly	The logic of nonsense : personal process towards oppositionality and reorganisation as music composition	PhD	University of Western Sydney	2014
HICKEY, Jocelyn Elizabeth	The voice in the darkness: one singer's journey to individuation	MMus	University of Melbourne	2011
HOLGATE, Gary	Interactions in improvised music: people at play	PhD	University of Sydney	2014	188
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 Cook University	1994	159 + 1 booklet
JOHNSON, Chloe Hope	Sonic intersections : subjectivity within punk aesthetics	M.A.	University of Melbourne	2007	124 + 1 CD
JOHNSON, Jo-Anne	An archaeology of periodisation in music history	MMus	Griffith University	2000	55
KEOGH, Brent	Analyzing world music discourse in Australia	PhD	Macquarie University	2014	298
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
LANDERS, Heath A.W.	Rhetorical concepts and Mozart: elements of classical oratory in his drammi per musica	MPhil	University of Newcastle	2015	307
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
LOCKITT, Matthew James	The musical is drama: apollonian and dionysian dynamics and liminal ruptures in the contemporary musical theatre.	PhD	Monash University	2014
LOUTH-ROBINS, Tristan	Still and moving lines [electronic resource] : listening and signification in sound art	MMus	University of Adelaide	2010	65 + CD + DVD
LYALL, Mark	Hatred and history : an exploration through voice, music and sound design	PhD	LaTrobe University	2008	121 + CD (49 min)
MAALSEN, Sophia	The Life History of Sound	PhD	University of Sydney	2013	303
MACARTHUR, Sally	Feminist aesthetics in music: politics and practices in Australia	PhD	University of Sydney	1997	510 + 1 tape
MACLEAN, Hilary Clare	Singing the Lord's song in a strange land [electronic resource] :compositional voice towards expression of Christian transcendence	PhD	University of Western Sydney	2009	220
MAHER, James	The Christian songwriter as theologian : giving voice to the converted heart and mind	M.T	University of Divinity	2013	71
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
MEDCALF, Laura, Julie	Musical intimacy and the negotiation of boundary challenges in contemporary music therapy practice	PhD	University of Melbourne	2016	202
MERCER, Christine	Henry Tate (1873 - 1926) and the creation of Australian Musical Identity	PhD	University of Melbourne	2010 nyic
METHURST, Reilly	Mujic of the footure : Jacques Lacan and concordant discord	MMus	University of Auckland	2011	82
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

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