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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Léargas atá sa saothar seo ar na claochluithe a tháinig ar thraidisiún na
hamhránaíochta Gaeilge in Éirinn agus in Albain ón gcomhluadar pobail tuaithe as ar
eascair sí amach i dtreo na bpobal domhanda idirnáisiúnta ina ...
Van den Tol, Annemieke Johanna Maria(University of Limerick, 2012)
This thesis documents the results of a PhD research project which focuses on investigating the underlying psychological processes that can explain adults’ motivations for listening to self-identified sad music when feeling ...
This thesis examines 'transformations' of Irish traditional music represented
in speech, notation and writing in historical and contemporary contexts.
Instances of these three modes of transformation are examined, and ...
The life and music of the Irish harper / composer Turlough Carolan (1670-1738)
have been imagined and re-imagined in many different cultural contexts from the
eighteenth century. These imaginings frequently occur through ...