Organology

Writer	Thesis Title	Degree	University	Year	# of Pages
Anon	Dictionary of New Zealand violin makers	PhD	Victoria University of Wellington	in progress (NiC08/07)
Anon	Pianists Perspectives of the Stuart and Sons Piano	MMus	Griffith University	in progress (2005)
Anon	Origins and defining characteristics of the mezzo-soprano voice classification	MCA	University of Wollongong	in progress (NiC08/07)
BAJZEK, Dieter	Percussion - an annotated bibliography : with special emphasis on contemporary notation and performance	MA	LaTrobe University	1986	222
BANKS, Zane	The electric guitar in contemporary arts music	PhD	University of Sydney	2014	399
BARKER, Jade Caroline	Applying Bartolozzi's theory from New sounds for woodwind (1967) to a performance of Bartolozzi's Per Olga (1976) and Smith Brindle's Andromeda M31 (1967) mediated through the utilisation of the Bartolozzi-Mencarelli method	MMus	Monash University	2014
BARKL, Michael Laurence Gordon	Pure data as a Meta-Compositional Instrument	DCA	University of Wollongong	2009	133 + CD
BARLOW, Shaun	Beatbox flute : An historical account, performance manual and notational guide	MMusPerf	University of Sydney	2011	101
BARRACLOUGH, Timothy	Iterative Design for Approachable, Mobile-Based Collaborative Electronic Music Instruments	MEng	Victoria University of Wellington	2015	128
BEDELL, Kingsley	Metamorphosis : a history of the pedal harp from 1720 to 2001 AD	MMus	Australian National University	2001	144
BELL, Robert	PAL: the percussive audio lexicon. An approach to describing the features of percussion instruments and the sounds they produce	PhD	Swinburne University of Technology	2015	536
BENTON, Robert L	The effect of lip-slur practice on increasing pitch range in brasswind instrument students	M.Ed	Edith Cowan University	1998	2 microfiche
BIEDERMAN, Daniel, Marc	The Turntable as a musical instrument and the emergence of the concert turntablist : analytical notes	MMus	University of Sydney	2014
BLACKBURN, Andrew	The pipe organ and real-time digital signal processing (DSP): A performer's perspective	DMA	Griffith University	2011	256
BLORE, Ann Orriss	'A strange madness' : organ festivals in Australia 1968-1973	MMus	University of Melbourne	2011	109
BOGG, Lois	Countertenor characteristics : case studies from interview and acoustic investigations	MApSc	University of Sydney	2003	157
BOLTON, Alan Graham	The design of an electronic music synthesizer	MAppSC	University of Adelaide	1977	1 vol
BUTLER, Gary	Prepared instruments in improvised music : precedents and purposes	PhD	University of Wollongong	2000	374
CAMERON, Christopher Paul	Exploring applications of multi-dexterity in drum kit performance	MMus	Monash University	2016
CASSON, Donald	The development of woodwind instruments and their timbres	MA	University of Western Aust.	1977	158
CATLIN, Tim	Extended timbral possibilities in acoustic and electric guitar production	MA	RMIT University	2000	1 vol + 2 cds
CHAI, Chang-ning	The dizi (Chinese bamboo flute) its representative repertoires in the years from 1949 to 1985	PhD	University of Sydney	2014	305
CHAO, Peter Yu-Chun	Multi-stylistic fluency on the saxophone: Delineating pedagogical strategies for the interpretation of jazz-influenced classical saxophone works	MMus	University of Sydney	2016	83
CHEN, Sarah Yi-Ying	A study of the Sheng	MMus	University of Sydney	1994	77
CHENG, Lancini Jen-Hao	Taxonomies of Taiwanese Aboriginal musical instruments	PhD	University of Otago	2014	989
CLINCH, Peter	Oral tract fluctuations in clarinet and saxophone performance: an acoustical analysis	PhD	Monash University	1980	188
COLLINS, Grant	Solo Drumset: Revering the Drumset as a Solo Instrument with Expansions for the Instrument, Notation, Physical Expression and Compositional Works	DMA	Griffith University	2014	238
CONNELLY, Patrice C.	The Viola da Gamba: the development of its technique and pedagogy to the present	MMus	University of Sydney	1995	139
CORN, Aaron David Samuel	Musical instruments in cultural heritage collections : a case study of the Queensland Museum	MPhil	Griffith University	1995	199+ 112
COSTELLO, Christopher	The timpani	MMus	University of Adelaide	1990	167
CRONIN, Stephen	The harpsichord in the twentieth century: an analysis of three selected works	MMus	University of Queensland	1985	84
CROSS, Rodney	This blows : social and cultural perceptions of ancient Roman brass instruments and musicians	MRes	Macquarie University	2015	64
CUBBIN, David R	The flute in the eighteenth century	MA	Flinders University	1971	513
CUMMINGS, Timothy James	The Great Highland bagpipe: extended techniques and their musical potential.	MA	Victoria University of Wellington	2002	224
CUNDELL, Roger Guy Scott	Across the Pacific: the transformation of the steel guitar from Hawaiian folk instrument to popular music mainstay.	MPhil	University of Adelaide	2014	151
CWACH, Michael.	The pukl and Chodsko : aspects of linkage between a bagpipe and an ethnographic region	PhD	University of Canterbury	2012	583p +2 DVD
D'ARCY, Sing	The organ as architecture : reconfiguring the ecclesiastical space of the Hispanic Baroque	PhD	University of Sydney	2010
DAVISON, Michael	Didjeridu journey	MCA	University of Newcastle	2005	54
DELAVERE, Sara	Challenging the drumkit: musical identities and habitus	MRes	Macquarie University	2015	88
DELL, Natalie Louise	Investigation into factors affecting the acoustics and playability of the horn, and the effect of auditory feedback on horn playing	PhD	University of Western Aust.	2011	418
DENG, Wei	Historical and stylistic development in the Chinese four-stringed lute pipa and in pipa music from 1800 to 1995 : with particular reference to "Spring River"	PhD	Queensland University of Technology	1996	519
DENT, Lachlan James	The application of the pedagogy of Evangeline Benedetti and Christopher Bunting to the performance of Grieg’s Sonata in A minor for cello and piano, and Carl Vine’s Inner World for cello and pre-recorded CD	PhD	Monash University	2015
DJACHENKO, Yuri	A short history of English bowmakers	MMus	University of Queensland	1998	65
DOWNER, Caroline Isobel	Music in the museum : an examination of the collection of musical instruments in the Powerhouse, Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences in Sydney	MA	University of Melbourne	1997	149
DUNLOP, Roslyn Ann	The indigenous music of East Timor and its relationship to the social and cultural mores and lulik worldview of its autochthonous people	PhD	University of Newcastle	2016	278
ELLIS, Angelina M.	The Classical guitar in Australia: Foundations	MA	Queensland University of Technology	2000	112
ESPLIN, Penelope	The Musical Imagery in Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s paintings for his patron, Frederick Leyland	MArts	University of Otago	2016
EVANS, W.	The fortepiano in the 18th century	MMus	University of Sydney	withdrawn 1968
FARQUHAR, Jonathan R	The history of the Eb" clarinet : with a bibliography of solo and chamber works written for the Eb" clarinet	MMus	Griffith University	2003	147
FUHLER, Cornelis William Hendrik	DISPERSE AND DISPLAY: STRUCTURAL STRATEGIES FOR MODULAR APPROACHES IN COMPOSITIONAL AND INSTRUMENTAL PRACTICE	PhD	University of Sydney	2016
GIFFORD, Toby	Improvisation in interactive music systems	PhD	Queensland University of Technology	2011	205 + Disc
GOULD, Alannah	The bassoon at the time of Carl Maria von Weber	MMus Studs	University of Queensland	2001	55
GRANTHAM, Edward McNeal	Hill organs in Australia, 1850-1910 : a critical survey and chronicle of developments in organs sent to Australia by William Hill and Sons, London	MMus	University of NSW	1988	157
Griffith, Joelene	Performance fitness: physiological benefits of aerobic exercise for performing singers	MPhil	University of Newcastle	2011	84
HADFIELD, Karen	Mannheim and the Clarinet	MPhil (perf)	University of Queensland	2006	83
HALLO, Rosemary Margaret	Erard, Bochsa and their impact on harp music-making in Australia (1830-1866): an early history from documents.	PhD	University of Adelaide	2014	236
HEAGNEY, Roger	History of keyboard instruments and technique	MMus	University of Melbourne	196-?	64
HEALEY, Kristine	From the Birdcage to the Concert Stage: The Transformation of the Boehm Flute	MPhil (perf)	University of Queensland	2006	49
HILL, Matthew	Hit scrape click drag : analysis and application of compositional methodologies at the intersection of conserved and emergent technologies	PhD	James Cook University	2007	301 + CD Rom + DVD
HUNT, Kevin Patrick	Perceptions of the Stuart & Sons Piano Sound: Realising a creative, active vision	PhD	University of Sydney	2016
JOHNSTON, Robert Bruce	The influence of vocal tract resonances on the operation of reed wind instruments	MSc	Monash University	1990	1 vol
KAMINSKI, Jason	Kolokol : spectres of the Russian bell.	PhD	University of Technology Sydney	2006	346
KAZIMIERCZAK, Bogdan	The percursors of the violin family : emergent technology and technique from late classical antiquity to the early Renaissance	MMus	University of Adelaide	1980	96
KEITH, Sarah Louise	Standards for deviation: developing laptop performance of generative contemporary electronic music	PhD	Macquarie University	2010	250 + CD-R
KELLY, Caleb	Cracked and broken media in 20th and 21st century music and sound	PhD	University of Canberra	2006	249
KEMP, David James	Compositions Combining Acoustic, Electro-Acoustic And Synthetic Instruments For Modern Jazz Performance	MMus	University of Sydney	2016	181
LALOR, Stephen	Ethnicities of sound	PhD	University of Sydney	2014	160
LALOR, Stephen James	Domra, Russian plucked-string instrument	MMus	University of NSW	1988	115
LANCASTER, Coral J.	The forms and development of the bass violin in seventeenth-century Italy	MusM	University of Western Aust.	1999	168
LAVAN, Daniel	Vibrational characteristics of bell plates	MSc	University of Technology Sydney	2002	92
LAWRENCE, Douglas	Organ registration in the French and German Baroque	MMus	University of Melbourne	1974	66
LEE, Daniel	A global approach to guitar tuition : developing an electric guitar meta-canon	MEdu	Charles Darwin University	2015	253
LI, Weicong	The physics of playing clarinet and saxophone: how players control articulation and timbre	PhD	University of NSW	2016	152
LIM, Elizabeth	The evolution of the post-Romantic clarinet	MMus	University of Sydney	1990	82
LINTON, Sean	The Music of 'Are'are: Acoustemology, Environmental Influences and Sustainability	PhD	University of Otago	2013	325
LOK, Lay Hong	The erhu and its role as a vehicle for syncretic music performance in Singapore	M.Phil	Massey University	2004	130
MANDENO, Jennifer	The reception of the Boehm system flute in Paris	MMus	University of Melbourne	2002	46
MARSH, Nicholas	The decline of speech surrogacy in Cuban bàtá drumming	MMus	University of Auckland	2013	111
MARTIN, Charles Patrick	Apps, Agents, and Improvisation: Ensemble Interaction with Touch-Screen Digital Musical Instruments	PhD	Australian National University	2016	279
McCORKILL, Catherine	Aspects of breathing in clarinet playing + Existing problems, developments and possible improvements of modern clarinet keywork	GradDipMus	Australian National University	1986	25 + 35
McEWEN, Timothy Michael	The Australian organ and its music: past, present and future	MMus	Griffith University	1998	187
MCNAUGHTON, Andrew	Sensor horn: creating an electronically augmented trumpet	M.Mus	University of Melbourne	2010	60
McPHERSON, Angus	The glissando headjoint : Expanding the musical palette of the flute through mechanical invention	MMusPerf	University of Sydney	2011	70
MIECHEL, Phillip A	The classical clarinet	MMus	University of Melbourne	1972	115
MILLS, Jonathan	Sound design: essays with micro-tonal tunings, musical instruments & sound spaces	MA	RMIT University	1997	46
MING-HUI, Ma	A comparison between Chinese "pipa" and Indian "Sitar" in contemporary performance	PhD	University of Sydney	2013	351 + CD + DVD
MOORE, Robert	Computer recognition of musical instruments [electronic resource] : an examination of within class classification	PhD	Victoria University (Vic. Australia)	2007	201
MORGAN, Craig Ashley	The Use of Virtual Instruments by Australian Screen Composers	PhD	University of Sydney	2016
MUMFORD, Monte Hilton	The development of the trombone as an ensemble instrument during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries	MMus	University of Tasmania	1987	88
MURPHY, Jim	Expressive Musical Robots : Building, Evaluating, and Interfacing with an Ensemble of Mechatronic Instruments	PhD	Victoria University of Wellington	2014
NAPIER, John J.	The introduction and use of the harmonium in North Indian classical music	MMus	University of NSW	1994	174
NAYLOR, Bruce Allan	Gazetteer of organs in South Australia & Organ Building in South Australia	MMus	University of Adelaide	1969 + 1973	320
NEWTON, Ronald	Organ building in New Zealand 1895-1930: a documentation of cultural context	PhD	University of Canterbury	1996	983
O'BRIEN, Ian	The Nature of Orchestral Noise and Viable Solutions	MPhil	University of Queensland	2008
O'NEILL, David G	The role of the organ in Early English Music, 800-1759	MusM	University of Western Aust.	1979	1 vol
OPIE, Timothy Tristram	Creation of a real-time granular synthesis instrument for live performance	MA	Queensland University of Technology	2003	183
ORTUSO, Joseph	The oboe reed : investigations and comparisons of the oboe reed for the development of the pedagogy of the oboe	MMus	University of Tasmania	1993	80
PALAJE, Jane Marie	The distinctive features of musical drones [manuscript]	MA	Macquarie University	2009	168
PANAGAKIS, Connie	The influence of vocal tract configurations on the resonance balance of the singing voice	MA	Monash University	1999	193
RABINOVICI, Alison	A history of horned strings : organology and early sound recording 1899-1945	MM	University of Melbourne	2010	187

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