Research Articles (Odeion School of Music)
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Proposing a seamless learning experience design (SLED) framework based on international perspectives of educators from five higher education institutions
(Academic Publishing International Limited, 2022)Since seamless learning (SL) is still a rather unknown concept in higher education many educators classify it under the same categories as mobile, blended, online or hybrid learning. The purpose of this study is first to ... -
Tonality and texture in Arnold van Wyk’s Vier weemoedige liedjies: musical, poetic and personal considerations
(University of the Free State, 2013)English: The four poems as set in Arnold van Wyk’s (1916-1983) Vier weemoedige liedjies (Four sad little songs [1934, published 1949]) present a continuum of consciousness that explores various aspects of a sense of loss ... -
Personality traits of successful music entrepreneurs
(University of the Free State, 2013)English: It is internationally accepted that music entrepreneurship presents an alternative form of employment for music graduates. The question that inadvertently arises concerns the suitability of this occupation for ... -
The raised fourth in Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story
(University of the Free State, 2010)English:This article traces the functions and applications of the raised fourth-scale degree in Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story against the background of the work’s precarious positioning between a Broadway musical and ... -
Acculturation as translation: mimicry, satire and resistance in Chewa dance
(University of the Free State, 2012)English: communities of Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. With this particular dance – and indeed with many others – historical connotations, cultural reverberations, and systemic institutionalisation come ... -
Music and (re-)translating unity and reconciliation in post-genocide Rwanda
(University of the Free State, 2012)English: This article focuses on the ability of a historically important musical instrument in the East African country of Rwanda, the inanga, to contribute to the (re-)translation of issues related to unity and reconciliation ... -
After universalisms: music as a medium for intercultural translation
(University of the Free State, 2012)English: Postmodernity is characterised by the fundamentalisation of plurality. As Aleida Assmann (1996: 99) finds, difference is affirmed in the form of deviance, gaps, and radical alterity. Within this intellectual milieu, ...
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