MA Thesis - Jorge Lozano 2025.pdf
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… for the accreditation of the program, conducted by the external assessment agency for Higher Education AeQui Nederland. A second type of document included in the analysis are those directly related to artistic activities organised and conducted by CM: online descriptive texts and programme notes for major performance events at the conservatory, namely the Night of Classical Music 2024, the Capstone Festival 2024, the 22nd Music Awards Maastricht, and the Award for Innovation in Music 2024. These … institutional documents, were coded and analysed with the help of ATLAS.ti. To ensure that the initial assumptions of the operationalisation would not constrain my examination, I employed a hybrid approach to thematic analysis. Derived by Jon Swain (2018), it integrates both deductive and inductive reasoning (p. 5). Accordingly, I began the analysis with the application of pre-empirical codes (Swain, 2018, p. 7) based on the operationalised thematic areas around autonomy, while simultaneously identifying and applying post-empirical codes (2018, p. 7) as potential new themes appeared in the data and signalled some form of articulation with the …