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.

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Dissertations from 2014

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The Music and Multiple Identities of Kurdish Alevis from Turkey in Germany, Ozan Aksoy

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Gendered Practices and Conceptions in Korean Drumming: On the Negotiation of "Femininity" and "Masculinity" by Korean Female Drummers, Yoonjah Choi

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Different Placements of Spirit: African American Musicians Historicizing in Sound, Casey Hale

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Todesfuge, Casey Hale

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Musical Rhetoric, Narrative, Drama, and Their Negation in Morton Feldman's Piano and String Quartet, Ryan Michael Howard

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The Kalophonic Settings Of The Second Psalm In The Byzantine Chant Tradition Of The Fourteenth And Fifteenth Centuries, Arsinoi Ioannidou

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Secrets of a Toy-box: A Study of Claude Debussy's La Boîte à joujoux, Mirna Lekic

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Rotational Form And Sonata-Type Hybridity In The First Movement Of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony, Charity Lofthouse

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Emerging Musical Structures: A method for the transcription and analysis of Electroacoustic Music, Mario Mazzoli

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A Structural Approach to the Analysis of Rock Music, Drew F. Nobile

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Melodic Function and Modal Process in Gregorian Chant, Richard Porterfield

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Analysis And Performance Suggestions For Witold Lutoslawski's Grave: Metamorphoses For Cello And Piano, Marta Reilly

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The Mad Science of Hip-Hop: History, Technology, and Poetics of Hip-Hop's Music, 1975-1991, Patrick Rivers

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Nikolai Medtner's First Piano Concerto: A Metrotectonic Analysis, Aleksandra Sarest

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October in Galicia, Karen J. Siegel

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Timbral Transformations in Kaija Saariaho's From the Grammar of Dreams, Karen J. Siegel

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A Derivation of the Tonal Hierarchy from Basic Perceptual Processes, David Smey

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The Art of the Commonplace: Found Sounds in Compositional Practice, Jennifer Stock

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Redefining Diaspora Consciousness: Musical Practices Of Moroccan Jews In Brooklyn, Samuel Reuben Thomas

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Xenakis in America, Charles Wolcott Turner

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Ralph Shapey and the Search for a New Concept of Musical Continuity, 1939-66, Barry Wiener

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At the Threshold: Edgard Varese, Modernism, and the Experience of Modernity, Robert Jackson Wood

Dissertations from 2013

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Two Sides to a Drum: Duality in Trinidad Orisha Music and Culture, Ryan J. Bazinet

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Ladakhi Traditional Songs: A Cultural, Musical, and Literary Study, Noe Dinnerstein

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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

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Twelve-Tone Cartography: Space, Chains, and Intimations of "Tonal" Form in Anton Webern’s Twelve-Tone Music, Brian Christopher Moseley

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Triadic Music in Twentieth-Century Russia, Christopher Mark Segall

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Free from Jazz: The Jazz and Improvised Music Scene in Vienna after Ossiach (1971-2011), Thomas Albert Zlabinger

Dissertations from 2012

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

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Grunt Work for the Avant-Garde, Andrea A. La Rose

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Politics, Improvisation, and Musicking in Frederic Rzewski's "Which Side Are You On?" from North American Ballads, Andrea A. La Rose

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History of the Performance Practice of Mozart’s Fantasie and Sonata K. 475/457, Mikako Ogata

Dissertations from 2011

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Franz Joseph Rosinack (1748-1823): A Bohemian Oboist and Music Arranger at the Fürstenberg Hofkapelle, Jan Oliver Homann

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The Art Songs of Tom Cipullo, Elizabeth Bell Kling

Dissertations from 2010

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The Piano Works of Páll Ísólfsson (1893–1974): A Diverse Collection, Nina Margret Grimsdottir

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Madness, Sexuality, and Gender in Early Twentieth Century Music Theater Works: Four Interpretive Essays, Megan B. Jenkins

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Mátyás Seiber’s Twelve-Tone Technique, Bettina Lee

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Music and National Identity: A Study of Cello Works by Taiwanese Composers, Yu-Ting Wu

Dissertations from 2009

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"A Kind of Construction in Light and Shade": An Analytical Dialogue with Recording Studio Aesthetics in Two Songs by Led Zeppelin, Aaron Liu-Rosenbaum

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Music for the (American) People: The Concerts at Lewisohn Stadium, 1922–1964, Jonathan Stern

Dissertations from 2008

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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

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

Dissertations from 2004

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Transcriptions, Paraphrases, and Arrangements: The Compositional Art of Moritz Moszkowski, Gilya Hodos

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An Ethnoarchaeomusicological Investigation of Highland Guatemalan Maya Dance-Plays, Mark Harold Howell

Dissertations from 1997

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

Dissertations from 1996

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Sonata for Trumpet and Piano, Paul Howard Kirby

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Tonal and Nontonal Elements in the Recent Chamber Music of Ned Rorem, Paul Howard Kirby

Dissertations from 1994

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The Tradition of Autobiography in Music, Antoni Piza

Dissertations from 1990

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

Dissertations from 1989

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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

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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

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An Analysis of Roberto Gerhard's "Libra", Jeffrey Lynn Miller

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Sinfonia Brevis (Original Composition), Jeffrey Lynn Miller

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Voice-Leading Patterns in the Fugal Expositions of J. S. Bach's "Well-Tempered Clavier", William Jonathan Michael Renwick

Dissertations from 1986

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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

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String Quartet, No. 2, Edward M. Smaldone

Dissertations from 1983

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

Dissertations from 1982

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The Short Piano Works of Edward MacDowell, Francis Paul Brancaleone