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Music Dissertations

As of 2014, all newly submitted Graduate Center dissertations and theses appear in Academic Works shortly after graduation. Some works are immediately available to read and download, and some become available after an embargo period set by the author. Dissertations and theses from before 2014 are generally accessible only to the CUNY community, but some authors have chosen to make theirs open access.

Dissertations from 2014 2014

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 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

The New York Chamber Music Society, 1915-1937: A Contribution to Wind Chamber Music and a Reflection of Concert Life in New York City in the Early 20th Century, Lisa Kozenko

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 2012

Aspects of Adaptation in the Egyptian Singing Film, Margaret Jean Farrell

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 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 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 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 2008 2008

Toward a General Theory of Polymeter: Polymetric Potential and Realization in Elliott Carter's Solo and Chamber Instrumental Works After 1980, Ève Poudrier

Dissertations from 2005 2005

An Early Violin Sonata by Peter Cornelius: A Critical Edition and Study, Johannes P. Knijff

Dissertations from 2004 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 1997

An Interpretive Analysis of Bela Bartok's Performance of His Own Music, Shu-Yuan Yang

Dissertations from 1996 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 1990

Conflicting Attributions in the Continental Motet Repertory from ca. 1500 to ca. 1550, Young-Han Hur

Dissertations from 1989 1989

Talent and Technique: George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" and John Paul II's Mayday 1984 Address to New York Gay and Lesbian Socialists' League at Cooper Union's Great Hall (Transcribed into Verse from Unauthorized French and Italian Versions of the Official Soviet Translation of the Polish Original by Norman MacAfee) for Tenor Solo, Chorus (SATB), and Eight Players, Arthur Maisel

Dissertations from 1987 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 1986

Linear Analysis of Selected Posttonal Works of Arnold Schoenberg: Toward an Application of Schenkerian Concepts to Music of the Posttonal Era (and) String Quartet, No. 2 (Original Composition), Edward M. Smaldone

String Quartet, No. 2, Edward M. Smaldone

Dissertations from 1983 1983

Instruments in Sacred Vocal Music at Braunschweig-Wolfenbuttel: A Study of Changing Tastes in the Seventeenth Century, James Leonard Brauer

Dissertations from 1982 1982

The Short Piano Works of Edward MacDowell, Francis Paul Brancaleone