Dissertations from 2024
An Analysis of William Bolcom's "Three Classical Rags", Thomas A. Owens
Seeking A Uniform Approach to Trumpet Sound Concept, Coleman T. Scott
Quiet No More: An Analysis of Women's Protest Music, Jillian Vogel
Dissertations from 2023
Femme Fatale in Lieder: Songs of Lorelei by Clara Schumann, Franz Liszt, and Alexander Zemlinsky, Eun Chong Kang
Performance Anxiety in Young Musicians: A Case Study of Music Educators' Experiences, Carmen L. Rodriguez
A Multiple Case Study of Adolescent Piano Students: Examining Motivation Through the Lens of Interest Development, Carla Lucia Salas Ruiz
Emily Somebody: a Chamber Opera in Three Acts, Rodrigo Afonso Salles Camargo
Dissertations from 2022
A Performance Guide to Michael Patterson's "People of the Land" for Baritone and Piano, Thaddeus Harm Ennen
'Space is the Place:' Afrofuturism in Black Popular Music, Tamyka Jordon-Conlin
A Study of Indigenous North Vietnamese Ca Tru Music, and The Deities of the Kalachakra Mandala, Daniel D'Aiuto Schultz
Creating Musical Scores Inspired by the Intersection of Human Speech and Music Through Model-Based Cross Synthesis, William Alexander Thompson IV
Unifying Text and Music: Applying Shurtleff's Twelve Guideposts to Operatic Arias for Soprano, Jamey J. Wright
Dissertations from 2021
Jake Runestad, An American Triptych: A Conductor's Guide, Neviton Barros
An Introduction to Jazz Performance Skills and Techniques for Trombone: The Bordogni Jazz Project, William Ford
The Innocence of Lennie Small in Carlisle Floyd's Opera Of Mice and Men In Excerpts Presented as a Performer's Guide, Michael Robert Hendrick
Looking Down from the Top of a Redwood Tree, Keri Pertuit
Dissertations from 2020
A Conductor's Guide to Dale Trumbore's How To Go On, Stuart Dameron
String Quartet No. 1 "Lanterns", Austin A. Franklin
Instrument Construction: An Examination of the Effect of Lead Pipe Design Variability on Tuba Response, Larry James Heard
The Seven Valleys for Orchestra and a Study of Music Composition Pedagogy, Niloufar Iravani
A Case Study of Two Preservice Elementary Music Teachers as Culture-Bearers, Julius Kyakuwa
Indeterminate Sample Sequencing in Virtual Reality, Chase Mitchusson
A Conductor's Guide to amass by Jocelyn Hagen, Matthew J. Myers
James Kallembach's Antigone: A Conductor's Guide, Dominique Petite
Finding Music in Chaos: Designing and Composing with Virtual Instruments Inspired by Chaotic Equations, Landon P. Viator
Dissertations from 2019
History, Politics, and Religion in the Life and Compositions of Sahba Aminikia, Sinella Aghasi Moshabad
Insights into the Collaborative Process between Electronic Music Composers and Commissioning Saxophonists, Taylor Barbay Assad
Modeling Melodic Dictation, David John Baker
Old School for the New School: Discussing the Importance of Motown Records in American Music History, Crystal Darcell Birdsong
The Application of Nonverbal Prosody in Scratches, An Original Composition For Trumpet and Chamber Ensemble, Shane Courville
Thelonious Monk's Prototypical Style: Close and Distant Readings of Jazz Stylings, Connor Davis
Conductors' Annotated Scores: A Comprehensive Study, Leandro de Magalhaes Gazineo
Deconstructing Piatti: Exploring Underlying Physiological Challenges in the 12 Caprices for Solo Cello, Unusdian Errandonea
Motivic Voice-Leading in Selected Piano Cycles of Johannes Brahms, Jacob Joel Gran
DIY in Early Live Electroacoustic Music: John Cage, Gordon Mumma, David Tudor, and the Migration of Live Electronics from the Studio to Performance, Lindsey Elizabeth Hartman
Mobile Music Development Tools for Creative Coders, Daniel Stuart Holmes
Phoenix for Orchestra, Niloufar Iravani
Epic Beginnings: A Symphonic Work and Aaron Copland (the American Stravinsky) versus Igor Stravinsky, Terrell O. Jones
John Adams Composing Through Others: Modeling, Innovation, and Recomposition, Michael Edward Palmese
Analyzing Hermeto Pascoal's Calendário do Som, Adam Rosado
Designing and Composing for Interdependent Collaborative Performance with Physics-Based Virtual Instruments, Eric Sheffield
Dissertations from 2018
A Conductor's Guide to Ariel Ramirez's Misa Por La Paz y La Justicia, Andrew David Alegria
A Cycle of Giving: Transforming Individuals, Transforming Community in a Louisiana Children's Choir, Jason Paul Bowers
The Well-Rounded Musician: A New Degree Path for Horn in Jazz, Lauren M. Braud
A Performer’s Guide to Poema de Sete Faces, Song Cycle by Jeffrey Perry, Paulo Henrique Campos Silva
Concerto for Violin and Percussion Orchestra by Lou Harrison: A Study Guide, Deborah Sophia Carneiro Ribeiro
Extended Techniques for Intermediate Violin Students, Mariana Krewer
A Pedagogical Approach to the Waltzes and Tangos for Piano by Francisca Gonzaga, Ana Paula Machado Simoes
A Rhythmic Transcription and Spectral Analysis of Luciano Berio's Thema (Omaggio A Joyce), Christopher C. McCardle
Perceptions of Religious Music in a Southern U.S. Public Middle School: A Case Study, Emily Marie Mercado
Generating Audio Using Recurrent Neural Networks, Andrew Pfalz
Musical Introductions to Cavalleria Rusticana: Giuseppe Perrotta's "Bozzetto Sinfonico" and Pietro Mascagni's "Preludio", Ronaldo Augusto Teles Dos Santos
Requiem for Orchestra and Choir, Luciano Vaz Correa
Symphony No. 1, Jingyu Xu
Dissertations from 2017
"Leave All That You Have, That You May Take All:" What Hugo Distler's Totentanz Reveals About His Life and Music, Alison Elizabeth Allerton
Colombian Composer Adolfo Mejia, Four Works for Small Ensembles, Alvaro Jose Angulo Julio
A Performer's Guide to Joelle Wallach's A Revisitation of Myth, Lauren Brown
Charting a Path: How a Group of Urban Elementary Music Teachers Understand Their Career Decisions, Joseph J. Casselberry
Aleksander Peçi Before and After the Iron Curtain, Elida Dakoli
Eduardo Gamboa's Life, Music, and Inspiration. Understanding the Influence of Folk Music on his Work "Transparencias:" an Analysis, Performance Guide, and Violin Transcription, Perla del Rocio Fernandez Lopez
A Performer's Guide to Iosif Andriasov's "Concertino for Trumpet", Andrew K. Gerbitz
Chamber Ensembles and Web Presence: Best Practices for Creating and Presenting Online Content, Arisia Amalie Gilmore
Joshua: Symphonic Suite No. 2 and James Aikman, The Violin Concerto, and the Principle of Limited Economy, Chad Edward Hughes
Northern Music Culture in Antebellum New Orleans, Warren Keith Kimball
Symphony No. 1 and The Development of New Techniques in Contemporary Music Composition, Eric Lacy
In Support of Nikolai Medtner: An Examination of Five of his Art Songs, Daniel J. Liebeskind
Concerto for Cello and Orchestra and a Comparative Study of the Pedagogical Methods of Nadia Boulanger and Dr. Dinos Constantinides, Harold Curtuss Mims
Two-Part Invention for Vibraphone by David Stock: An Analysis and Performance Guide, Gustavo Henrique Miranda
Selected Works of Richard Burchard: A Resource Guide, William Floyd Plummer
Songs from Liquid Days by Philip Glass: A Performer's Guide, Jonathan Michael Ray
Song and Russian Futurism: The Early Vocal Works of Nikolay Roslavets and Arthur Lourié, Savanna Rigling
Convergent Styles: A Study of Dave Brubeck's Points on Jazz, Ethan Loyd Rogers
Ghost Rags by William Bolcom: A Descriptive Analysis and Performance Guide, Vera Zholondz
Dissertations from 2016
Four Corners: Concerto for Marimba and Orchestra and Carl Nielsen: An Analysis of His Late Symphonies: (Symphony 4-6), Timothy James Beattie
Music in Virtual Space: Theories and Techniques for Sound Spatialization and Virtual Reality-Based Stage Performance, Zachary Andrew Berkowitz
Character Studies of Time: A Two Movement Work for Orchestra, Crystal Darcell Birdsong
Developing a Mathematically Informed Approach to Musical Narrative through the Analysis of Three Twentieth-Century Monophonic Woodwind Works, Wesley James Bradford
On the Use and Development of the Pentatonic Scale Through the Works of Antonín Dvořák, Andrew W. Brinkman
A Critical Examination of the Rehearsal Frame Model, Allison Elise Carroll
Charles Ruggiero's "Tenor Attitudes": An Analytical Approach to Jazz Styles and Influences, Nicholas Vincent DiSalvio
“A Voice, A Messenger” by Aaron Jay Kernis: A Performer's Guide and Historical Analysis, Pagean Marie DiSalvio
A Performance Guide to Etüden für Flöte(n) solo by Isang Yun, Brian Dunbar
The Representation of Disability in the Music of Alfred Hitchcock Films, John T. Dunn
Rachmaninoff's Trio Elegiaque, Op 9: A Performer's Guide, Elisa Braga Galeano
Ben Moore's "Dear Theo," For Tenor Voice and Piano: A Performer's Guide, Gregory Michael Gallagher
String Quartets by Revueltas: In Search of a Critical Edition in "Musica de Feria", Rafael Galvan-Herrera
AEMI: The Actuated Embedded Musical Instrument, Nick Hwang
What Made You Hear That? An Examination of the Rehearsal Listening of Accomplished School-Based Music Conductors, Kelvin Deangelo Jones
Understanding of Authentic Performance Practice in Bright Sheng's "Seven Tunes Heard in China" for Solo Cello, Chiao-Hsuan Kang
The Analysis and Interpretation of Three Selected Piano Pieces by Chen Yi: Duo Ye, Ba Ban, Ji-Dong-Nuo, Yun-Hui Lai
A Swann's Song in Middle-earth: An Exploration of Donald Swann's "The Road Goes Ever On" and the Development of a System of Lyric Diction for Tolkien's Constructed, Elvish Languages, Richard Garrett Leonberger
From Distant Shores, Jamie Laurance Phillips
A Performance Guide for Thomas Pasatieri's Bel Canto Songs for Voice and Piano, Amy Robin Porter
Musicianship in Beginning Level String Pedagogy: A Content Analysis of Class Method Books, Laurie Rominger
A Conductor's Analysis of Poetry and Music in J. A. C. Redford's Antiphons, Brenda Lowe Rudd
Effects of Pitch and Rhythm Priming Tasks on Accuracy and Fluency during Sight-reading, Christine Renee Russell
East Meets West: A Musical Analysis of Chinese Sights and Sounds, by Yuankai Bao, Jiazi Shi
The Sketches for Mendelssohn's Paulus, Op. 36, Karl Joseph Simmerman