| ALLEN, Clint | Crossover trends: The nexus between the Third Stream Movement and contemporary music | MMus | Griffith University | In progress (2008) | |
| ARNOLD, Martin | Why play jazz? : an investigation into meaning of participation in a primary school music ensemble | M.Ed | University of Melbourne | 2000 | 126 |
| AUGUSTYNIAK, Sylvana Falcomata | Music, Media and the Arts | DPhil Ed. | University of NSW | in progress (2006) | |
| BARLOW, Dale | A portfolio of transcriptions and analyses towards Masters of Music | MMus (Jazz) | University of Canberra | 1997 | 2 vol |
| BEVAN, Andrew | From conception to realisation : instrumentation and recording quality in creative music making for the jazz multi-instrumentalist | MMus | University of Adelaide | 2006 | 44+3cds |
| BOCHNER, Nicholas I. | Interpretation through improvisation | MMus | University of Queensland | in progress (NiC08/07) | |
| BORNMAN, Richard M. | An analysis of the jazz guitar style of Lenny Breau : late 1960s | MMus (Perf) | University of Sydney | 2004 | 1 vol |
| BORTHWICK, Jeremy | Hal Crook : an analysis of his improvisational style from the period 1994-1996, by the examination of core material common to three representative recordings and their related transcriptions | MMus | University of Sydney | 2000 | 88 |
| BOTTOMLEY, John A | Jazz/culture : styles, formations, politics | MA | Australian Catholic University | 1991 | 94 |
| BREEN, Andrea | Creating a place : women, land and improvisation | PhD | University of Tasmania | 2000 | 335 + 2 cass + 2 CD |
| BRIEN, Stephen | An investigation of forward motion as an analytic template | MMus (Perf) | University of Sydney | 2004 | 112 |
| BROMLEY, Mark | Musicological study of Australian contemporary music with reference to cross-fertilisation of jazz and world music | MMus (Hons) | University of New England | in progress (NiC08/07) | |
| BROWN, James | Intellect and intuition: reflections on the role of improvisation in contemporary jazz composition and performance | MMus | University of Adelaide | 2007 | 62 + 2CDR |
| BRUER, Tim | A study of pianist Keith Jarrett's approach to the structuring of an improvised performance, based upon the standard song, from the years 1985 to 1989 | MMus (Jazz) | University of Sydney | 2003 | |
| BURGESS, Nadia | An overview of third stream/confluent music and the involvement of Australian composers + Portfolio of original compositions | MMus (Comp) | University of Sydney | 2004 | 2 vol + CD |
| BUTLER, Gary | Prepared instruments in improvised music : precedents and purposes | PhD | University of Wollongong | 2000 | 374 |
| CAESAR, Michael | The use of indeterminacy in music composition as a stimulus for developing music improvisation skill in performers | PhD | Australian National University | 2005 | 2 vol |
| CAESER, Michael | The processes used by high school music instrumentalists when improvising music and the factors which influence those processes | M.Ed | University of Canberra | 1999 | 262 |
| CARBONE, Gwen | Australian ragtime music 1946 to 1996: an historical and analytical survey of selected scores | MMus | Australian Catholic University | 1997 | 119 |
| CHAMBERLAIN, Grant Michael | Transcription and analyses | MMus (Jazz) | Australian National University | 1998 | 1 vol + 1 cass |
| DAMBERG, Erik | Exotic Australia songs from the 1920s-1950s | MA | Macquarie University | 2003 | 67 + 2 CDs |
| de JONG, Susan | The Art of Lyric Improvisation: A Comparative Study of Two great Jazz Vocalists | MMus | University of Canterbury | in progress (2007) | |
| DE SOUZA, Marian | The development of the improvisational technique of Louis Armstrong | M.Litt | University of New England | 1983 | 182 |
| DENSON, Louise | Creative Practice as research - jazz composition and arranging | DMA | Griffith University | 2008 | 42 |
| DJURIC, Deanna | Messieaen's Musical Language for the Jazz Pianist: An exploration through performance | MMus | University of Adelaide | in progress (2006) | |
| FLEMING, Jenni K. | Transcribing improvised music: a comparison of part of the original transcription with the recording of Keith Jarrett's Koln concert. | MMus | University of Queensland | 1995 | 88 |
| FORRESTER, Peter | An exploration through improvisational music and verbal dialogue of the construct "working together" | M.Ed | LaTrobe University | 2001 | 76 |
| FRANKLIN, Gavin E. | Stylistic Features in the Recorded Improvisations of Herman "Woody' Shaw (1944-1989) | PhD | University of NSW | 2001 (NiC) | 3 vol + CDs + booklet |
| FREEMAN, Lliam | Developing an improviser's "tool-kit" : exploring methodologies towards the development of improvisational skill and fluency in the performance of original work in jazz ensemble | MA | Monash University | 2006 | 56 + CD |
| GARCIA, Anthony Lamont | An introduction to guitar harmony and improvisation | MMus | University of Queensland | 1999 | 121 |
| GONZALEZ, Roger Orio | ¡Latin jazz! : a syncretic journey from Spain, Cuba, the United States and back | M.A.(Research) | Queensland University of Technology | 2009 | 273 + 1 CD |
| GREENBAUM, Stuart | Composition folio; Pat Metheny's The First circle: transcription and commentary | MMus | University of Melbourne | 1991-2 | 2 vol + 2 cass |
| HAMMOND, Jason Clifford | An Australian perspective on third stream music | MMus | Griffith University | 1998 | 127 |
| HANSSON, Clare | Marian McPartland, jazz pianist : an overview of a musical career | PhD | Queensland University of Technology | 2006 | 47 + CD |
| HARGREAVES, Wendy | Jazz Improvisation: Addressing Vocalists | PhD | Griffith University | in progress (2007) | |
| HARRISON, Gregory | The dialectics and aesthetics of freedom: Hegel, slavery and African American music | PhD | University of Sydney | 1999 | 463 |
| HIRST, Brett | The place of the bass : a study of Charlie Haden's accompaniment of Don Cherry's solo on "The face of the bass | MMus (Perf) | University of Sydney | 2006 | 55 + CD |
| HOORWEG, Colin | The ostinatos and themes of Max Roach : as played in his solo compositions for multiple percussion set / transcribed and analysed | MMus | Australian National University | 1996 | 29 |
| HORT, Harold | The development of music in Australia 1788-1850 | MA (Hons) | Macquarie University | 1979 | 392 + 2 cassettes |
| JACKSON, Leigh | Elements of jazz | MMus | Massey University | 2001 | 144 |
| JOHNSON, Don | Six improvised trumpet solos / transcribed and analysed. | Mmus (Jazz Perf) | Australian National University | 1995 | 31 |
| JONES, Ian | Observations of processes of jazz improvisation | MMus | University of Sydney | 1996 | 182 |
| Kahr, Michael | Aspects of harmony and voice leading in the Clare Fischer composition "In memoriam" | MMus | University of Sydney | 2004 | 76 |
| KELLY, Jane | The piano works of Deodat de Severac: technical and timbral concerns | MMus | University of Queensland | 1994 | 71 |
| KELLY, Wayne | Transcriptions and analyses | GradDipMus | Australian National University | 1999 | 1 vol + cass |
| KING, Bridie | A private piano studio : the research site for practitioner inquiry into the teaching and learning of improvisation | MMus (Mus Ed.) | University of Sydney | 2006 | 122 |
| KOO, Terence James | 88 keys...no doors: beginner to intermediate level jazz piano education, the Australian perspective | MA | University of Newcastle | 2004 | 303 |
| KOSTROMIN, Marina | Australian cross-over performers of improvisatory jazz since the 1950s | MA | Monash University | 1996 | 102 |
| LINDSAY, Julie Anne | Analytical approaches to jazz polyphony, with special reference to the use of pitch-class set theory in the works of Toshiko Akiyoshi and Phil Woods | MA | LaTrobe University | 1995 | 314 + music cassette |
| LUEBKE, Harold | Transcription and analysis; Compositions | MMus(Jazz Perf) | Australian National University | 1995 | 2 vols |
| LUGG, Fiona | Harmonic signification : a study of articulation practices in four unaccompanied jazz double bass solos | MMus (Perf) | University of Sydney | 2004 | 116 |
| LYALL, Graeme William | A folio of transcription and analyses of Paul Desmond and Lee Konitz: a stylistic comparison; Folio of arrangements | MMus(Jazz Perf) | Australian National University | 1995 | folio + 2 cass |
| MAEGRAITH, Richard | Warne Marsh : a study of tension and release | MMus (Jazz) | University of Sydney | 2000 | 44 + CD |
| MASON, Spike | Roger Frampton : an analysis of his saxophone improvisations, played over his original compositions, from the period of 1978 to 1994 | MMus (Perf) | University of Sydney | 2002 | 72 + 1 CD |
| MAYALL, Jeremy Mark | Composition portfolio | MMus Comp | University of Waikato | 2006 | 189 +CD Rom + DVD |
| McMILLAN, Rosalind | A terrible honesty : the development of a personal voice in musical improvisation | PhD | University of Melbourne | 1996 | 371 |
| MEEHAN, Norman | After the melody : Paul Bley and jazz piano after Ornette Coleman | MMus | Massey University | 2002 | 101 |
| MITCHELL, Anne Kathryn | Crossing the great divide : the composition of jazz concerti using historical sources . [Thesis + compositions] | PhD | Southern Cross University | 2003 | 2 vol + 2 CDs |
| MURPHY, Francis Richard James | The place of Jazz in music education | MA | University of Sydney | 1974 | 2 vol |
| MURPHY, Francis Richard James | The cornet style of Leon Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931) | PhD | LaTrobe University | 1982 | 4 vol + 2 cassettes |
| NELSON, Jason | Quantum music : a multi-media musical improvisation project | MA | Deakin University | 2005 | 61 |
| OLDHAM, Christine L | Development and validation of a music improvisation measuring instrument | M.Ed | University of Melbourne | 1998 | 242 |
| PAYE, Antony Andrew Dale | An investigation into the development of creative awareness through improvisation | M.Ed | RMIT University | 2003 | 143 + CDR |
| PENDER, Graeme | A study of the original Graeme Bell jazz band and its influence upon other jazz bands in Australia during the 1940s and 1950s | PhD | Monash University | withdrawn c.2005 | |
| PLATTNER, Markus | Aspects of third stream works : an analytical study of compositions by Gunther Schuller, Don Banks and Bozidar Kos | MMus(Comp) | University of Sydney | 2001 | 64 |
| PLEFFER, Andrew | Blues Down Under the Covers: Canonisation and reinterpretive practices in Australia's blues music culture. | PhD | Macquarie University | 2008 | 363 + 4 CDs |
| REID, Shane | It isn't always about playing the right notes-- : meeting the needs of gifted secondary school students with jazz improvisation | M.Ed | University of Melbourne | 2007 | 153 |
| ROGERS, Glenn | Graduate Diploma in Jazz Arranging and Composition [Analysis + compositions] | GradDipMus | Australian National University | 1996 | 2 vol + 2 cass |
| ROSEVEAR, Jennifer C. | The role of playing by ear and improvisation in music education in South Australian secondary schools | MMus Ed. | University of Western Aust. | 1996 | 194 |
| RYAN, James | Tenor saxophone transcriptions and analysis | MMus (Jazz Perf) | Australian National University | 1995 | 58 |
| SCHMIDT, Emanuel | Communication processes in jazz performance | PhD | University of Sydney | 2005 | 488 + 2 DVDs |
| SCHNEIDER, Craig | Folio of analyses: big band arrangements | MMus(Jazz perf) | Australian National University | 1994 | 1 vol |
| SCOTT, Craig Blakefield | A folio of transcriptions of famous bassists' solos and analyses thereof | MMus(Jazz perf) | Australian National University | 1995 | 60 + 1 cass. |
| SMITH, Margery | Improvisation as a Catalyst for Collaborative Musical Thinking and Composition | PhD | University of Newcastle | 2006 | 186 + 8 Cds |
| STEVENS, Tim | The Origins, Development and Significance of the Red Onion Jazz Band, 1960-1996 | PhD | University of Melbourne | 2000 | 2 vol |
| STRAZZULLO, Guy | An intercultural approach to composition and improvisation | MA (Hons) | University of Western Sydney | 2003 | 78 |
| STYLES, Matthew J. | An evaluation of the concept of third stream music and its applicability to a selected work of Mark-Anthony Turnage | MusM | University of Western Aust. | in progress (NiC08/07) | |
| SUGG, Andrew N. | Tracking the trane: comparing selected improvisations of John Coltrane, Jerry Bergonzi and David Liebman | PhD | University of Adelaide | 2001 | 359 |
| SWEENEY, Simon Paul | A study of the influence of Kenny Wheeler on a cross section of Sydney jazz artists of the 1990s | MMus | University of Sydney | 2000 | 76 |
| UBEDA, Patricia Rosalind | From Tin Pan Alley to the Royal Schools of Music : the institutionalisation of classical and jazz music | MA | Massey University | 2000 | 187 |
| VINCS, Robert | African heart, Eastern mind: the transcendent experience through improvised music | PhD | Deakin University | 2002 | 106 + 1 CD |
| WALLACE, Michael | Unifying composition and improvisation : applying Bob Brookmeyer's pitch module concept to composition and improvisation | MA | Monash University | 2007 | 76 + cd |
| WATKIN, Michael | The blues [electronic resource] : an interactive hypermedia database (documentation of the development of a multimedia CAI programme) | MMus Ed. | University of Sydney | 1995 | 182 + comp laser disk |
| WATSON, Christian | Acquiring the ability to improvise: a cross-cultural study examining the learning processes and performance strategies of musicians in jazz, Hindustani music, and Arabic taqsim | PhD | University of NSW | in progress (2007) | |
| WESTON, Ian | But beautiful : a study of the harmonic and melodic elements of jazz guitarist Jimmy Raney's improvisational style | MMus Studs | Griffith University | 2005 | 1 vol |
| WHITEOAK, John | Australian approaches to improvisatory musical practice 1836-1970: a Melbourne perspective | PhD | LaTrobe University | 1993 | 652 |
| WHITEOAK, Ralph Andrew | A SEARING SOUND - A preliminary investigation into the legend of Australian saxophonist, Frank Smith. | MMus (Perf) | University of Melbourne | 2004 (NiC) | |
| ZHANG, Yunjie | Finding freedom in classical music : a study of incorporating improvisation in individual piano lessons | MMus | University of Auckland | 2003 | 104 |
