Dissertations from 2019
Meaning Beyond Words: A Musical Analysis of Afro-Cuban Batá Drumming, Javier Diaz
Sighs of the German People: An Emotional History of Musical Sigh-Compositions during the Thirty Years War (1618–1648), Thomas Marks
Dissertations from 2018
The Exegetical Function of the Conductus in MS Egerton 2615, Dongmyung Ahn
Splendid Disarray: The Music of Andrew McKenna Lee, Nina Berman
Rachmaninoff and the Flexibility of the Score: Issues Regarding Performance Practice, Tanya Gabrielian
Musicking, Discourse, and Identity in Participatory Media Fandom, Aya Esther Hayashi
Analyzing Genre in Post-Millennial Popular Music, Thomas Johnson
Climax Structure in Late Romantic Opera, Ji Yeon Lee
The Musicality of Salsa Dancers: An Ethnographic Study, Janice Mahinka
Sunken II Chords and Inwardness: A Correspondence Complex in Robert Schumann’s Liederjahr Songs, Alexander J.J. Martin
Strauss and the City: The Reception of Richard Strauss’s Salome, Elektra, and Der Rosenkavalier within New York City, 1907–1934, Christopher G. Ogburn
Leonard Bernstein's Piano Music: A Comparative Study of Selected Works, Leann Osterkamp
A Performer’s Guide to Astor Piazzolla's Tango-Études pour flûte seule: An Analytical Approach, Asis Reyes
Unusual Accidental Signs, Microtonal Inflections, and Marchetto of Padua, Alan D. Richtmyer
A Pedagogical Study of the "Four Lauds for Solo Violin" by Elliott Carter, Heesun Shin
An Exploration and Analysis of the Unaccompanied Viola Sonatas of Günter Raphael, Gregory K. Williams
The Son Jarocho Revival: Reinvention and Community Building in a Mexican Music Scene in New York City, Emily J. Williamson
Dissertations from 2017
The Analysis of Musical Dramaturgy in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Danielle J. Bastone
Constructions of New England Identity and Place in American Music, 1885-1935, Jacob A. Cohen
Music in Haredi Jewish Life: Liquid Modernity and the Negotiation of Boundaries in Greater New York, Gordon A. Dale
William Bolcom’s "Twelve New Etudes" (1988): Theoretical and Interpretative Analysis, Ran Dank
Spectacular Politics and Everyday Performance: Tracing Music from Ceauşescu’s Romania to Multicultural America, Benjamin Dumbauld
Reimagining the Collective: Black Popular Music and Recording Studio Innovation, 1970-1990, Will Fulton
The Varieties of Tone Presence: On the Meanings of Musical Tone in Twentieth-Century Music, Aaron Harcus
Solo Performance: An Extension of Vocal Pedagogy, Monica J. Harte
Interval Cycles in György Kurtág’s Post-Dodecaphonic Late Music, Ramin Heydarbeygi
The Performance Conversation: A Pragmatic, Curricular Approach to Speaking from the Stage, Barrett J. Hipes
Heinrich Schenker’s Early Approach to Form, 1895–1921: Implications for His Late Work and Its Reception, Jason A. Hooper
"Toccatas and Arias": Analysis and Historical Context of Vivian Fine’s Last Work for Solo Piano, Manon Hutton-DeWys
From Protest Song to Social Song: Music and Politics in Colombia, 1966-2016, Joshua Katz-Rosene
Worlds of If: Analyses of the Composed and Improvised Works of Robert Dick, Melissa Keeling
Mahlerian Tonality: Challenges to Classical Foreground Structures in the Music of Gustav Mahler, Ryan Kosseff-Jones
A New Approach to the Analysis of Timbre, Megan L. Lavengood
Gustave Vogt's Musical Album of Autographs: A Scholarly Edition, Kristin Leitterman
A Study of Nikolai Medtner's Compositional Technique: Form and Narrative in Tales, Oliver H. Markson
Creating an Unbroken Line of Becoming in Live Music Performance, Bonnie B. McAlvin
Max Kowalski's Japanischer Frühling: A Song Collection from the Period of the Jewish Cultural Alliance in Nazi Germany, Nils Neubert
Between Speech & Song: Clarifying the Sprechstimme of Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire, Sara M. Paar
Constructing Music of Rebellion in the Triumphant Empire: Punk Rock in the 1990s United States, David Pearson
Jazz and Recording in the Digital Age: Technology, New Media, and Performance in New York and Online, Dean S. Reynolds
Scholasticism and Formal Structure in Camille Saint-Saëns's Fugues for Keyboard, Pedro Segarra-Sisamone
Noodling Changes: The Development of Xylophone Improvisation in New York City (1916-1942), Jonathan D. Singer
The Protagonist's Experience: Temporality, Narrative, and Harmonic Process in Brahms's Solo Lieder, Loretta Terrigno
Schoenberg's "Phantasy" Form, Lisa A. Tipton
Dissertations from 2016
Speaking of Consequences: Contemporary Music for Political Discourse, Elizabeth Adams
Ten Etudes for Solo Cello by Sofia Gubaidulina, Julia A. Biber
Edwin Fischer and Bach Performance Practice of the Weimar Republic, Bradley V. Brookshire
Musical and Dramatic Roles of the Chorus in Hugo Weisgall’s "Esther", Michael A. Capobianco IV
Die Meistersinger, New York City, and the Metropolitan Opera: The Intersection of Art and Politics During Two World Wars, Gwen L. D'Amico
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
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
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
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
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
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