Dissertations from 2016
Puccini’s Love Duets and the Unfolding of Time, Kae Fujisawa
The Versatile Singer: A Guide to Vibrato & Straight Tone, Danya Katok
Issues of Rhythm, Symmetry, and Style in Alfred Schnittke's Concerto for PIano and Strings, Ilya Mayzus
On the Appearance of the Comedy LP, 1957–1973, David Michael McCarthy
Charles Ives on the Nature of Experience: The Compositional Designs and Aesthetic Programs of Three Orchestral Works, Ashleé Michele Miller
The Relation of Analysis to Performance of Post-tonal Violin Music: Three Case Studies, Karen E. Rostron
The Motivic Economy in Nikolai Medtner's Sonata Romantica, Nellie S. Seng-Quinn
Symmetry and Interval Cycles in the Quartettos of Mario Davidovsky, Ines Thiebaut Lovelace
Le Pianiste: Parisian Music Journalism and the Politics of the Piano, 1833–35, Shaena B. Weitz
Searching for Sounds: Instrumental Agency and Modularity in Electroacoustic Improvisation, Stephen (Red) Wierenga
Dual-Aspect Meter: A Theory of Metrical Consonance, Dissonance, Weight, and Variety, Andrew Wilson
Snapshots, Cynthia L. Wong
The Fourth Movement of György Ligeti's Piano Concerto: Investigating the Musical-Mathematical Connection, Cynthia L. Wong
Anton Arensky’s String Quartet in A minor, Op. 35, for Violin, Viola, and Two Celli, Miho Zaitsu
Sacred Freedom: Sustaining Afrocentric Spiritual Jazz in 21St Century Chicago, Adam Zanolini
Dissertations from 2015
The Problem of Tonal Disunity in Sergeĭ Rachmaninoff's All-Night Vigil, op. 37, Olga Ellen Bakulina
Reconsidering Organicism in Milton Babbitt's Music and Thought, Zachary Bernstein
José White Laffita (1835-1918): A Biography And A Study Of His Six Études, Op. 13, Yavet Boyadjiev
La Vie Dans Les Plis, Andre Rene Bregegere
L'Harmonie révée: An Analysis of Henri Pousseur's 'Votre Faust' And 'Les litanies d'Icare', Andre Rene Bregegere
The Symbiosis Between Villa-Lobos's Carnaval Das Crianças And Momoprecoce: A Comparative Study, Vanessa Rodrigues Cunha
The Contributions of Earl "Bud" Powell to the Modern Jazz Style, David Joseph DeMotta
Essays in the Theory and Practice of the Suzuki Method, Kara Eubanks
Mental Discipline and Musical Meaning, Alice Harriet Jones
The Impact of French Opera in Nineteenth-Century New York: The New Orleans French Opera Company, 1827–1845, Jennifer C. H. Jones Wilson
The New York Philharmonic Strike of 1973, Kuan Cheng Lu
RAGTIME THEN AND NOW: Composers and Audiences from the Ragtime Era to the Ragtime Revival, William Martin McNally
Music In Poetry And Poetry In Music: Tumanian's Anush, Beata Asmik Navratil
Common-Tone Preserving Contextual Inversions in the Music of Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Jessica Rudman
Twisted Blue, Jessica Rudman
The Finales of Robert Shumann's Piano Sonatas and Fantasie, Emiko Sato
Ecological Aspects of the Music of John Luther Adams, David Arie Shimoni
Pagh-Paan's No-ul: Korean identity formation as synthesis of Eastern and Western Music, Ji Hyun Son
Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann (The Irish Musicians' Association) and the Politics of Musical Community in Irish Traditional Music, Lauren Weintraub Stoebel
Performing Blackness in a Mulatto Society: Negotiating Racial Identity through Music in the Dominican Republic, Angelina Maria Tallaj-García
Siento una Flauta: Improvisational Idiom, Style, and Performance Practice of Charanga Flutists in New York from 1960 to 2000, Jessica Lynne Valiente
Dissertations from 2014
The Music and Multiple Identities of Kurdish Alevis from Turkey in Germany, Ozan Aksoy
Different Placements of Spirit: African American Musicians Historicizing in Sound, Casey Hale
Todesfuge, Casey Hale
Musical Rhetoric, Narrative, Drama, and Their Negation in Morton Feldman's Piano and String Quartet, Ryan Michael Howard
The Kalophonic Settings Of The Second Psalm In The Byzantine Chant Tradition Of The Fourteenth And Fifteenth Centuries, Arsinoi Ioannidou
Secrets of a Toy-box: A Study of Claude Debussy's La Boîte à joujoux, Mirna Lekic
Rotational Form And Sonata-Type Hybridity In The First Movement Of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony, Charity Lofthouse
Emerging Musical Structures: A method for the transcription and analysis of Electroacoustic Music, Mario Mazzoli
A Structural Approach to the Analysis of Rock Music, Drew F. Nobile
Melodic Function and Modal Process in Gregorian Chant, Richard Porterfield
Analysis And Performance Suggestions For Witold Lutoslawski's Grave: Metamorphoses For Cello And Piano, Marta Reilly
The Mad Science of Hip-Hop: History, Technology, and Poetics of Hip-Hop's Music, 1975-1991, Patrick Rivers
Nikolai Medtner's First Piano Concerto: A Metrotectonic Analysis, Aleksandra Sarest
October in Galicia, Karen J. Siegel
Timbral Transformations in Kaija Saariaho's From the Grammar of Dreams, Karen J. Siegel
A Derivation of the Tonal Hierarchy from Basic Perceptual Processes, David Smey
The Art of the Commonplace: Found Sounds in Compositional Practice, Jennifer Stock
Redefining Diaspora Consciousness: Musical Practices Of Moroccan Jews In Brooklyn, Samuel Reuben Thomas
Xenakis in America, Charles Wolcott Turner
Ralph Shapey and the Search for a New Concept of Musical Continuity, 1939-66, Barry Wiener
At the Threshold: Edgard Varese, Modernism, and the Experience of Modernity, Robert Jackson Wood
Dissertations from 2013
Two Sides to a Drum: Duality in Trinidad Orisha Music and Culture, Ryan J. Bazinet
Ladakhi Traditional Songs: A Cultural, Musical, and Literary Study, Noe Dinnerstein
Twelve-Tone Cartography: Space, Chains, and Intimations of "Tonal" Form in Anton Webern’s Twelve-Tone Music, Brian Christopher Moseley
Triadic Music in Twentieth-Century Russia, Christopher Mark Segall
Free from Jazz: The Jazz and Improvised Music Scene in Vienna after Ossiach (1971-2011), Thomas Albert Zlabinger
Dissertations from 2012
Grunt Work for the Avant-Garde, Andrea A. La Rose
Politics, Improvisation, and Musicking in Frederic Rzewski's "Which Side Are You On?" from North American Ballads, Andrea A. La Rose
History of the Performance Practice of Mozart’s Fantasie and Sonata K. 475/457, Mikako Ogata
Dissertations from 2011
Franz Joseph Rosinack (1748-1823): A Bohemian Oboist and Music Arranger at the Fürstenberg Hofkapelle, Jan Oliver Homann
The Art Songs of Tom Cipullo, Elizabeth Bell Kling
Dissertations from 2010
The Piano Works of Páll Ísólfsson (1893-1974): A Diverse Collection, Nina Margret Grimsdottir
Madness, Sexuality, and Gender in Early Twentieth Century Music Theater Works: Four Interpretive Essays, Megan B. Jenkins
Mátyás Seiber’s Twelve-Tone Technique, Bettina Lee
Music and National Identity: A Study of Cello Works by Taiwanese Composers, Yu-Ting Wu
Dissertations from 2009
"A Kind of Construction in Light and Shade": An Analytical Dialogue with Recording Studio Aesthetics in Two Songs by Led Zeppelin, Aaron Liu-Rosenbaum
Music for the (American) People: The Concerts at Lewisohn Stadium, 1922-1964, Jonathan Stern
Dissertations from 2005
An Early Violin Sonata by Peter Cornelius: A Critical Edition and Study, Johannes P. Knijff
Dissertations from 2004
Transcriptions, Paraphrases, and Arrangements: The Compositional Art of Moritz Moszkowski, Gilya Hodos
An Ethnoarchaeomusicological Investigation of Highland Guatemalan Maya Dance-Plays, Mark Harold Howell
Dissertations from 1997
An Interpretive Analysis of Bela Bartok's Performance of His Own Music, Shu-Yuan Yang
Dissertations from 1996
Sonata for Trumpet and Piano, Paul Howard Kirby
Tonal and Nontonal Elements in the Recent Chamber Music of Ned Rorem, Paul Howard Kirby
Dissertations from 1990
Conflicting Attributions in the Continental Motet Repertory from ca. 1500 to ca. 1550, Young-Han Hur
Dissertations from 1989
Dissertations from 1987
Ives on His Own Terms: An Explication, a Theory of Pitch Organization, and a New Critical Edition for the "3-Page Sonata", Carol Kitzes Baron
An Analysis of Roberto Gerhard's "Libra", Jeffrey Lynn Miller
Sinfonia Brevis (Original Composition), Jeffrey Lynn Miller
Voice-Leading Patterns in the Fugal Expositions of J. S. Bach's "Well-Tempered Clavier", William Jonathan Michael Renwick
Dissertations from 1986
String Quartet, No. 2, Edward M. Smaldone
Dissertations from 1983
Instruments in Sacred Vocal Music at Braunschweig-Wolfenbuttel: A Study of Changing Tastes in the Seventeenth Century, James Leonard Brauer
Dissertations from 1982
The Short Piano Works of Edward MacDowell, Francis Paul Brancaleone