Ledger, Alison Jane(University of Limerick, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, 2010)
Developing new services is a commonplace responsibility for music therapists worldwide. Starting a job often entails being the first music therapist in a facility, and even the first music therapist many staff and clients ...
This thesis examines how the button accordion, first patented in 1829 and
available for sale in Ireland by 1831, became a member of the family of instruments
on which Irish traditional music is played. It traces the ...
This dissertation explores the creation and transmission of the Mescher two-handed bones playing style which was first developed by the German-American farmer, Albert Mescher, in the 1920s, in Iowa, and subsequently passed ...
This thesis presents an interactive system for investigating the emotive content of music. This system takes an empirical, computational approach that involves the subject directly in the process of creating emotional ...
This study develops conceptual tools in which Community Music practices in the United Kingdom (UK) can be analysed and understood. From a proposition that suggests that the effectiveness of Community Music has been reduced ...
Intveen, Monika Andrea(University of Limerick, 2011)
This thesis explores anthroposophical music therapy (AnMt), an approach based on the philosophy of Rudolf Steiner. AnMt is well established in some countries, such as Germany, Switzerland or the Netherlands and is practiced ...
Phelan, Helen Frances(University of Limerick, 2000)
This work proposes the sourcing of a theology of music with particular reference to liturgical music developments in the Irish Catholic church since the Second Vatican Council. In doing so, it is confronted by two primary ...
Escribano del Moral, María(University of Limerick, 2012)
This dissertation, the first extensive academic work on Txalaparta as a social
phenomenon, explores the ongoing revival and construction of this tradition and
percussion instrument amid the Basque struggle for ...
Cape Breton step dancing is the regional label, given to the vernacular form of
percussive step dance found in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. Whether
improvised or choreographed into a routine, this dance genre ...