Te Puna Puoru National Centre for Research In Music Education and Sound Arts Music Education Research Centre (MERC) Tel: +64 3 364 2987 ext 7630 Email: merc@canterbury.ac.nz, www.merc.canterbury.ac.nz Te Puna Puoru National Centre for Research in Music Education and Sound Arts (MERC) invites you to contribute to the national database of research in music education and sound arts. Fill in the template provided by selecting the appropriate category for each project. Please send to merc@canterbury.ac.nz, or post to – MERC School of Music University of Canterbury Private Bag 4800 Christchurch 8140 RESEARCH IN MUSIC EDUCATION AND SOUND ARTS (Completed in, and/or about New Zealand) Title: Researcher/Author: Degree/qualification (if applicable): Date completed: Source/Institution: Location of original or copy: Availability: Researcher’s contact – email or address: Number of pages: Short description or abstract (Please attach): Keywords (up to five from the attached list): Published: Yes/No If published, name and address of publisher: Other information: PROJECT IN PROGRESS Title: Researcher/Author: Degree/qualification (if applicable): Projected completion date: Source/Institution: Location: Researcher’s contact – email or address: Short description or abstract (Attach if preferred): Keywords (up to five from the attached list) Other information: PROJECT BEING CONSIDERED Topic: Researcher/Author: Degree/qualification (if applicable): Source/Institution: Researcher’s contact – email or address: Type of project (thesis; research article): Short description: Keywords (up to five from the attached list) Other information: MERC Database - Keywords Aboriginal music Abstraction in music Accent Acoustics Action songs Administration Adult education Aesthetics African music Amateur American music Analysis Ancient civilisation Appreciating music Assessment Asian music Audience Audio engineering Aural Australian music Ballet Bands Baroque Beat Blues music Body percussion Careers Ceremonies Chamber music Chance music Chants Chinese music Choral music Classical music Community artists Community projects Composers Compositional techniques Computers in music Concerts Conducting Contemporary music Copyright Creating music Cross curricular Cross discipline Culture Curriculum Customary Dance Digital environments Dynamics Early childhood Eastern music Electronic music Elements of music Ensemble Environmental music Ethnic music Ethnomusicology European music Eurythmics Evaluation Expressionism Festivals Film music Folk music Forms Genre Gifted and talented students Graphic notation Haka Harmony History ICT Impressionism Improvisation Indian music Instrumental music Instrumental techniques Instrumentation Interpretation Jazz Kapahaka Keyboard music Kodaly Latin American music Listening Literacy Locomotor movement Lyrics Maori music Measurement Medieval Melody Metre Mixed media Modernism Mood music Motif Movement in music Multiple intelligences Music and society Music groups Music psychology Music reviews Music schools PTO Music study and teaching Music styles Music technology Music theatre Music theory Music therapy Musical accompaniment Musical arrangement Musical composition Musical forms Musical parenting Musical practices Musical processes Musical structures Musicals Musicians Musicianship Natural environments NCEA New Zealand music Nga toi Notations Operas Orchestral music Orff Ostinato Pacific Nations music Pedagogy Pentatonic Percussion music Performance Piano music Pitch Planning Play by ear Play from memory Playing music Policy formation Pop music Popular culture Post modernism Practice Primary school Productions Professional development Purpose or function of music Questioning Reading music Recording music Relationships Renaissance Resources Repetition Representing sound Responding to music Rhythm Romanticism Safe practice Scales Schemes Score reading Score writing Scores Secondary school Shape Sight-read Singing Social contexts Social issues Sol-fa Solo performance Songs Songwriting Sound Sound arts Sound environments Sound recording Sound production Soundscape South East Asian music Special needs Strategies Student achievement Styles Stylisation Symbol Taonga puoro Technology Television music Tempo Terminology Tertiary Texture Timbre Time Tone colour Vibrations Vocal music Voice Waiata Waiata-a-ringa Western tradition World music