Sydney Conservatorium of Music: Recent submissions
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The change in parental involvement in boys' instrumental practice
Published 2009-12-22This study examines the nature and influences of the change in parental involvement in boys’ instrumental practice within a single school context. Questionnaire data was collected from the parents of male students in Years ...Open AccessThesis -
Childhood to teacher: Pre-service educators' formative musical experiences and their decision to become a classroom music teacher
Published 2009-12-19This study explores the relationships between formative musical experiences, narrative constructions of music teacher identity and the influence of these identity constructions on the decision to become a classroom music ...Open AccessThesis -
Australian jazz musician-educators: An exploration of experts' approaches to teaching jazz
Published 2009-12-11This qualitative study explores the approaches of expert jazz musicians actively involved in teaching, or jazz musician-educators, towards teaching jazz. The participants were six jazz musician-educators, whose experiences ...Open AccessThesis -
THE LAST BIWA SINGER: A Japanese Blind Musician in History, Imagination and Performance
Published 2009-01-01This book concerns the traditions of Japanese blind musicians and ritualists who accompanied themselves on the biwa, as embodied in the music and identity of Yamashika Yoshiyuki (1901-1996). Yamashika was the last person ...Open AccessRecording, musical -
Music in the lives of Deaf students in an Australian school
Published 2009-01-05This qualitative case study explores the ways in which Deaf students involve themselves with music, in a variety of contexts and from multiple perspectives, including the students’ own perspective. A Sydney school offering ...Open AccessThesis