This site is no longer updated and will not be available after December 2010. Completed Masters Theses
Master of Arts
CHAPPELL, William
The Late Nineteenth-Century Renaissance of Music in England (With Special Reference to the Work of Parry and Stanford) - 1963
GARRETTY, F.D.
Three Australian Composers (Margaret Sutherland, Robert Hughes, Dorian Le Gallienne) - 1963
SAMSON, Patricia
Music and Criticism: A Study of Some Trends During the Twentieth Century - 1964
THACKER, Eric
Catalogue Raisonné of the Material Relevant to Percy Grainger as a Man, Contained in the Music and Percy Grainger Museum, Faculty of Music, The University of Melbourne - 1965
TALBOT, John
The Music of Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss: A Comparative Survey - 1966
FINDLAY, Ian
Johann Sebastian Bach’s Weltliche Kantaten, Eine literatur-Musikalische Betrachung - 1967
DODDS, Agnes
Dramatic and Musical Structures in Three Twentieth-Century Operas - 1973
MURPHY, Kerry
An Analysis of the Role and Function of Music Criticism - 1979
McCOLL, Sandra
Large-Scale Marian Antiphon Settings by English and Scottish Composers, 1460–1558 - 1982
TRAHAIR, Christine Anne
The Early Church Music of Edward Elgar - 1982
MITCHELL, Linda Jane
Stravinsky and his Sources: Pulcinella and Le Baiser de la Fee - 1984
Master of Music
HARDIE, Jane
French Song in the Nineteenth Century: Aspects of the Relationship of Music and Poetry - 1963
HARDIE, Graham
The Chamber Music and Piano Music of Aaron Copland and Elliot Carter - 1964
QUIRK, Patrick
Symphony No. 3; Requiem; String Trio - 1964
SHEEHAN, Janet
The Purpose of Music in Education: An Investigation Based on the Philosophy of Aristotle - 1964
THORNTON, Donald W.
A Survey of the Music of William Walton - 1965
LUCAS, Kay
Hector Berlioz and the Romantic Symphony: a Study of the Dramatic Structure of the Instrumental Works - 1966
QUONG, Judith
Some Studies in Nineteenth-Century Lieder; An Examination of the Developments of the Lied in the Nineteenth-Century and the Relationship Between Poem and Setting in the Lieder of Schubert, Schumann and Wolf - 1966
ELTON, Jane
Music in Secondary Education in Girls’ Faculties in Victoria - 1967
HAIR, Graham
The Serial System in the Compositional Techniques of Pierre Boulez and Arnold Schoenberg: Different Conceptions and Functions - 1966
O’BRIEN, Paul
Perspectives: Historical, Thematic, Structural and Symmetrical in Bartok’s String Quartets - 1967
McALLISTER, Alison
A Survey of the Piano Music of Brahms, with Special Emphasis Placed Upon the Technical Aspects of the Fifty-One Exercises - 1968
RADIC, Théresè
Aspects of Organised Amateur Music in Melbourne 1836–1890 - 1968
BISHOP, Dianne
John Calvin and the Genevan Psalter: A Study of the Calvanist Aesthetic and its Application in the Music of the Psalter - 1969
BONIGHTON, Ian
Haydn La Canterina: an Opera (Piano reduction); Percy Grainger: Tribute to Foster. (Realization); Electronic Music Equipment—A Theremin and a Ring Modulator; String Quartet No.2; Three pieces of Orchestra (score); Music for Sleep - 1969
ABBOTT, Graham
Three Aspects of Flute Study: (a) Flutes of the World (b) Acoustics (c) Flute Literature and Performance in Europe Up to 1600 - 1969
FORSYTH, James A.
Handel’s Organ Concertos - 1970
BREEN, Julia
Literary Sources in the Work of Debussy - 1971
BONSEY, Joan
German Romanticism and its Impact on Schubert, Schumann and Brahms - 1972
McRAE, Barbara
The Modern Faculty of French Organ Music: a Study of Organ Music in France Since the Time of Franck - 1972
HEAGNEY, Rodger
A History of Keyboard Instruments and Technique - 1972
MIECHEL, Philip
Three Australian Approaches to the Clarinet Concerto - 1972
CHALMERS, Brian A.
A Study of Musical Preference Among First Year University Students - 1973
CAMPBELL, Glenn D
The Use of the Piano As an Accompanying Instrument in the Songs of Debussy, Ravel and Poulenc - 1974
HYETT, Barbara
Bach’s Goldberg Variations: A Unique Phenomenon in Baroque Keyboard Variation Style - 1974
D’OMBRAIN, Geoffrey
The Concept of the Electronic Music Studio: North America 1972 - 1974
PATKIN, Nehama
New Approaches to Piano Sonorities in Works of Charles Ives, Henry Cowell and Edgar Varese - 1974
LAWRENCE, Douglas
Organ Registration in the French and German Baroque - 1974
TAYLOR, Alan William
A General Study of the Evolution of the Trumpet - 1975
MORONEY, Mary
The Song of Songs and the Medieval Love Lyric - 1976
MADDEN, Wayne
Sonata for Viola & Piano; Variations for string orchestra; Pieces for orchestra - 1976
MURATTI, Aurora
Five-Merous for string quartet; The Straightening for high voice orchestra - 1976
HOGG, Noela L
An Investigation of First-Year Primary Teachers’ Perceived and Observed Levels of Music Competence in Relation to Their Home, Faculty and College Music Backgrounds - 1978
BEBBINGTON, Warren
The Operas of GWL Marshall-Hall - 1978
FITZGERALD, Thomas
A Study of the Sequenzas I–Vll by Luciano Berio; Five Variations for piano; Soliloquy for solo cello; Reflections for chamber orchestra; Beyond Our Field of Vision - for orchestra; The Monster Among Us for soprano voice and electronic sounds; Endless Flight electronic music and pre-recorded tape; Return of a Great Spirit electronic sounds - 1979
LEASK, Jeffrey David
Opera in Australian Faculties: a Philosophical Investigation of the Place of Opera in Education - 1979
TURNER, Paul
Towards a Functional View in the Analysis of Twentieth-century music - 1979
BLACKBURN, Andrew
Styles in the Church Music of Henry Purcell - 1980
STOCKIGT, Janice
The Problems of Editing and Performing Baroque Music with Special Reference to Telemann’s Oboe Works in Der getreue Musik- meister - 1980
STAVRIDIS, Katherine
Charles E. Ives: An American Composer—A Study of His Music - 1981
STEVENSON, Alan
The Piano Solo Compositions of Percy Aldridge Grainger: The First Twenty-Five Years (1893-1918) - 1981
WRIGHT, Elizabeth Anne
Music for Piano; The Fear for flute and piano; Reflection in the Lunar Dust for orchestra; Three Panels in Space for three chamber groups and percussion - 1981
STEVENSON, Alan G
Analysis of Stockhausen’s Klavierstuck V and Berio’s Circles - 1981
SABLINSKIS, Paul V
The Significance of Percussion in Contemporary Music Between 1945 and 1970, Illustrated in Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Zyklus, Luciano Berio’s Circles, Morton Feldman’s The King of Denmark and lannis Xenakis Persephassa - 1981
JAYASUNDERA, Malinee
The Operas of Michael Tippett - 1982
WHIFFIN, Lawrence
Music in the Mirabell Garden Song Cycle by Larry Sitsky: Analysis. Maletude (for computer); Two Orchestral Pieces; Sonata Fantasy for organ; Circles-l for harpsichord; Prelude, Orgy a Fugue for chamber ensemble; The Piano Tuner - four solo voices and choir with piano and tam-tam; Bill Poster: a musical play for children - 1982
WILLIAMS, Craig
The Influence of the Scientific Approach on Methods of Piano Technique 1850-1950 - 1982
TAYLOR, Colin
A Comparison of Music in Certain Selected Independent Faculties in England and Australia - 1980
CALLAGHAN, Mervyn
A Study of Violin Learning - 1983
ROSS, David
Singing and Society: Melbourne, 1836-1861- 1982
ANDERSON, Elizabeth
A Study of Fingering in Selected Sources of English Virginal Music - 1984
STEVENS, Susan
A Consideration of Music Curricula for Year Seven - 1984
MORGAN, Ian
An Analysis of Margaret Sutherland’s Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (1947) - 1984
WELLINGS, Joy Gladys
Unity and Expressive Content in the Late Piano Cycles of Franz Liszt - 1984
FENTON, Robin
Handel’s Almira (1705): A Study of Handel’s First Opera and its Relationship with the Opera Cleopatra (1704) by Johann Mattheson - 1985
CHU Wang-Hua
Folio of analyses and compositions - 1984
CHAPLIN, Peter
Chamber Concerto for trombone quartet and string orchestra; Sound-rhetoric for soprano, contralto and ensemble; Variations 4 x 2 for four track, four channel tape; A Double Dissolution; From a Coalition of Bandits, a New Rome; The Death of Arthur: a composition for orchestra based on the poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson. Gyorgy Ligeti: Chamber Concerto for Thirteen instrumentalists; Witold Lutoslawski: Livre pour orchestre: Self analysis - 1985
O’LEARY, Mark
Teaching the Flute to Young Children Using an Approach Based on the Music Educational Principles of Zoltan Kodaly - 1986
THOMAS, Adrian A.
An Examination of the Approaches to and Teaching of Contemporary Music to Undergraduates in Tertiary Music Institutions in California and Great Britain During the Years 1979-1980 - 1987
KASZTELAN, Helen
Levels of Pitch Structure in Debussy’s Estampes - 1986
ERDONMEZ, Denise
Preservation of acquired music performance skills in three cases of neuropsychological impairment - 1987
DODD, Peter
Work for solo trumpet in C; Five Anthems for S.A.T.B. choir and organ; String Quartet; Piano Sonata; Serenade for Orchestra; An Analysis of Robin Holloway’s Romanza; An Analysis of Luciano Berio’s Sequenza 111; An Analysis of Peter Sculthorpe’s String Quartet no.9 - 1987
HORVAT, Christopher Karl
Sonata Forms in the Keyboard Music of Liszt - 1988
EKKEL, Gary J.
Ockeghem’s Alma Redemptoris Mater and the Renaissance Duo: Towards a Structuralist Method of Analysing Renaissance Polyphony - 1988
MITCHELL, Andrew J.
The Tonal and Technical Development of the Orchestral Clarinet Section in the Symphonic Medium from Beethoven to the Twentieth Century - 1987
SEELIGSON, Rita
Variation Technique in the Third Movement of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata, Op.109 - 1988
MITCHELL, Elizabeth
The Influence of Neoclassicism on Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G - 1988
NEWTON, Patrick
Two Studies in British Symphonic Writing: Vaughan Williams and Michael Tippett - 1989
COOTE, Darryl Glen
The Influences of Alfred Cortot on Performance, Teaching and Research - Editing of Piano Music from the Romantic Era - 1989
BINNS, Georgina Mary
Patriotic and Nationalistic Song in Australia to 1919 - 1988
BAKER, Amanda
Composing with Computers: Aesthetics, Methods and Music - 1988
CHAMBERLAIN, Robert E.
Schubert’s Mayrhofer Lieder: An Examination of the Relationship Between Accompaniment and Text - 1989
CATRICE, Andre
A Semiotic Analysis of Three Pieces from George Crumb’s Makrokosmos, vol.l and part 2 of Steve Reich’s Tehillim. Towards the Darkness; Harmonice Mundi; Quartet 1987; Kyrie Eleison; M. Stravinsky, His Fantasy;Vision of Divine Love. - 1989
REINER, Thomas
Bali Suite; Similes; Moth and Spider; Fantasy and Fuge; Paraphrase, Surge and Repose. Mark-Anthony Turnage - On All Fours; Analysis of Turnage’s On All Fours; A Comparative Analysis of Hans Werner Henze’s Serenade and Iannis Xenakis’s Embellie - 1989
RIDDLE, Glenn
The Pianism of Percy Grainger: A Study of His Score Annotations - 1989
TARKA, Milada
The Organ Music of Bohuslav Matej Czernohorsky: Problems of Provenance and Attribution - 1989
TSOU Nan Chien
Musical Life in Bendigo, 1856–1918 - 1990
BORTOLUSSI, Anne
Possible Influences of Bach on the Harmonic and Contrapuntal Language of Brahms’ Klavierstucke op. 1 16–119 - 1989
KOUVARAS, Linda
Aspects of the Postmodern Condition in Southern Cross: Double Concerto’ a work by Barry Conyngham - 1989
RAYMOND, Eric
The Influence of Bach on Chopin’s Preludes and Etudes - 1991
NUNN, Philip
The Organ Works of lan Bonighton (1942–75): a Description with Analytical Observations. Concerto for Harpsichord & String Orchestra; Five Bells for Tenor Voice and Piano; Unto the High Places for Flute, French Horn and Double Choir with soloists.; A Reverie for Henry Tate for Piccolo, three Flutes and alto Flute; I Heard the Owl Call My Name for Double Choir - 1991
KILDEA, Paul F
World War I and the British Music Industry - 1991
GREENBAUM, Stuart
Rhythmic Modulation as Super-Structure with Contemporary Music, 1970–1988. Pat Metheny’s ‘The First Circle’: transcription and commentary & cassette tape. Fanfare for the opening of the CUB Malthouse; Letters to the front (1915–75); Images of a Broken Marriage; Columns of Rain; Upon the Dark Water; Melancholy; Homage to Prof Peter Dennison - 1992
PERRY, Simon David
Multiple Meaning in Dmitri Shostakovich’s Eighth String Quartet op.110 - 1992
FURMAN, Alexander
Haydn’s London visits 1791–95: Impact on his keyboard style - 1992
VAN PINXTEREN, William
Musical Style in Selected Fantasias and Preludes of Joachim van der Hove - 1992
GREET, Martin
Analysis of Hans Werner Henze’s Symphony No. 7 - 1993
SEGAL, Deviani
The Music of Fanny Hensel - 1993
TODZY, Joerg
Analysis: Indeterminacy in the Works of Bruno Maderna - 1993
TREGEAR, Peter
The Life and Operas of Fritz Bennicke Hart - 1993
EDWARDS, Jane
The effect of music and non-musical cues, musical history/experience and level of cognitive functioning on the song recall abilities of older adults who have some form of dementia - 1993
ALLISON, Dianne
The use of programmed music versus non-programmed and no music, during childbirth - 1994
CATANACH, Alison
18th Century Flute Music: Technical and tonal aspects of performance on classical and modern instruments - 1994
FARMER, Elizabeth
Performance Practice of the Organ Works of César Franck with a Focus on Recorded Performances of Franck’s works by Charles Tournemire - 1994
FINSTERER, Mary
Composition folio - 1994
HINDSON, Mathew
An Investigation into Correlations Between the Poster Design Red Lightning by Ignaty Nivinsky and the Eponymous String Quartet by Michael Smetanin - 1994
LIM, Liza
Composition: 3 works: 1. wind and string, music theatre work involving puppets and mime, 2 for two pianos, 3 for full orchestra. Analysis: Brian Ferneyhough’s Funerailles Version I + II - 1994
MURRAY, Ken
Angel Barrios, Manual de Falla, Granada and the Guitar - 1994
O’CALLAGHAN, Clare
Song Writing in Palliative Care - 1994
THOMPSON, Lesleigh
The Title Toward the Shining Light as an Influencing Factor on the Basic Form and Structural Components in Broadstock’s First Symphony – 1994
LEM, Alan
An Integrated Profile of Brain-wave Activity and Structural Variability of Music in the Study of Music and Imagery Experiences in Vivo – 1995
ACKER, Yolanda
The symphonic works of Antonio Jose – 1996
DEVERS, Deanna
The Use of Music in Wartime Propaganda During World War 2 in Australia – 1996
HARVEY, Lawrence
Composition Folio – 1996
HAWLEY, Richard
The Influence of Debussy on Stravinsky’s Early Works, 1906–1914 – 1996
SERVADEI, Alessandro
A Critical Edition and Exploration of Percy Grainger’s The Warriors - Music to an Imaginary Ballet– 1996
SYKES, Ingrid
Twentieth Century Women Organ Composers, Concentrating on Boulanger - 1996
ARMSTRONG, Newton
The Music of Brian Ferneyhough – 1997
JOSEPH, David
Cross-currents in Twentieth Century Music as exemplified in the creation of Richard Meale’s Viridian – 1997
HOGAN, Bridgit
The experience of music therapy for terminally ill patients - 1998
CECIL, Ann
Formulative Influences on Melbourne Flute School 1930s Onwards - 1998
CEFF, Linda
Timbral Perception: A Study in Sound Colour, with Emphasis on the Listener’s Perception and Aspects of Skryabin and Kandinsky - 1998
GRASSO, Melissa
Music and physiotherapy: Evaluation of a program developed for caregivers of infants and toddlers with cystic fibrosis - 1998
SPICCIA, Jessica
Francesco Balilla Pratella (1880-1955) and futurism in music- 1998
DODSWORTH, Judith
Some observations on the vocal implications of singing to guitar accompaniment, with particular reference to the lieder of Schubert - 1998
JORDAN, Genevieve
An ocker sheila wearing football socks?: selectivity and myth in biographical studies of Dame Nellie Melba - 1998
COUNSEL, Graeme
The influence of the jali tradition on post-colonial and contemporary West African popular music - 1999
HARDWICK, Robert
Australian silent film music 1896-1909: the role of the Salvation Army Limelight Department - 1999
BAKER, Felicity
The effects of live and taped music on the agitation and orientation levels of people experiencing posttraumatic amnesia - 1999
DUN, Beth
The experience of music therapists working with children in coma - 1999
RAINEY PERRY, Mary
Relating improvisational music therapy to communication development: A case study approach with severely and multiply disabled children - 1999.
FOGERTY, Beth
Group music therapy with Urban Koorie Elders who have a probable diagnosis of dementia: A descriptive approach - 1999
MARR, Jennifer
The Effects of Music Imagery Sequence in the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music - 2000
NUGENT, Natalie
The effect of live versus tapes preferred songs on individuals with dementia of the Alzheimer’s type displaying agitated behaviours - 2000
THOMAS, David
Writing for Clarinets of Richard Strauss circa 1910 - 2000
TONKS, Brighid
Australian Music for Flute - 2000
MOON, So-Young
The effect of piano exercises on the rehabilitation of right hand finger coordination for a patient with Traumatic Brain Injury - 2000
O’CONNELL, Clive
Musical composition in Australia in the period 1960-1970: individual triumph or historical inevitability? - 2001
BURK, Ian
The influence of Dr AE Floyd on Musical Culture and Musicians in Australia from 1914–1974 - 2001
GRAHAM, Jillian
Composer, Wife and Mother: Margaret Sutherland as Conflicted Subject - 2001
MCKENRY, Timothy
Composition folio - 2001
GRIXTI, Jesmond
Composition folio - 2001
SIPOS-ORI, Robert
Folk influences in Béla Bartók’s Ten easy pieces and Allegro Barbaro- 2001
ABBOTT, Katrina
Composition folio - 2002
MANDENO, Jennifer
The reception of the Boehm system flute in Paris- 2002
AH SAM, Opeloge
Composition folio - 2002
TANG, Imen
Composition folio - 2002
TROMBI, Demetrio
Composition folio - 2002
NORTHEY, Benjamin
John Hopkins and Australian Orchestral Music 1960–1974 – 2002
NOORY, Siamak
Faramarz Payvar and his Place in Iranian Music. - 2002
PEARCE, Rowena
Rediscovering Mirrie Hill (1889-1986): composer in her own right - 2002
BRUNDSON, Lindsay
Composition folio - 2003
ELLIOTT, Mark
Composition folio - 2003
FRANCES, Ruth
Music performance anxiety: a group work approach - 2003
JOHNSON, Richard
Composition folio - 2003
KELLY, Eamonn
Maidservants to the muse ; professional female musicians in Roman Italy, 200 BC - 400 AD - 2003
LU, Pei-Yun Julia
The Prix de Rome Competition: Success, Failure, or Prophet? - 2003
PERISSINOTTO, Dominic
A survey of Intabulation Techniques in Keyboard Music of Sixteenth-Century Spain. - 2003
POWER, Geraldine
Yvette Guilbert: a career of public applause and personal dissappointment - 2003
QUINN, Loretta
The Effect of Music Therapy on the Quality of Life of Clients with Dementia of the Alzheimer’s type (DAT) in the Home Setting: Carer and Client Perspective- 2003
SMART, Bonnie
Leon Caron and the Australian Music Profession - 2003
SULLIVAN, Peter
Composition folio - 2003
WATT, Sally
Simon Boyleau: motetta quatuor vocum (Venice: G.Scotto,1554): an edition and study - 2003
WILBOURNE, Emily
Elena Kats-Chernin’s Operas: Iphis and Matricide - 2003
WILLIAMS, Natalie
Composition folio - 2003
WONG, Maria
Grainger and Early Music - 2003
BARON, Annette
A comparison of unaccompanied singing of familiar songs and vocal improvisation for older adults with severe late-stage dementia - 2004
CHEN, Cindy
Composition folio - 2004
CONLEY, Jaedyn
Composition folio – 2004
ESSEX, Hildy
The Responses and Attitudes to New Music - 2004
FENN, Nirmali
Composition folio - 2004
HILLIER, Robin
Heinichen’s Alma Redemptoris Mater for Flute, Violin, Alto and Continuo: Edition, Discussion and Performance - 2004
HOLMES, Matthew
Personality Traits of Australian Music Therapists - 2004
O’BRIEN, Emma
The Nature of the Interactions between Patient and Therapist When Writing a Song in Music Therapy on a Bone Marrow Transplant Ward - 2004
O’BRIEN, Betty
Marjorie Lawrence: Her Australian Concert Tours 1939-1951 - 2005
LAIS, Peggy
Chamber Music in Melbourne 1880–1900 - 2005
Master of Music Studies
O’BRIEN, Helen
Piano Improvisation in the late-18th and early-19th centuries: an overview based on the models in Czerny’s Systematische Antleitung zum Fantasieren auf dem Pianoforte - 2000
CHUNG, Ai Lay
Tan Dun’s death and fire: ad parnassum, animals and Paul Klee – 2001
HO, Shingo Lin
Church Music Turns Contemporary: With a special study on central Chinese Baptist Church. - 2001
CALLAGHAN, Andrew
Composition folio - 2003