Graduates of the Ph.D. Program and Their Dissertations
(For full bibliographic records, click on the dissertation title)
Nicolette van den Bogerd (2024)
Writing Music After the Holocaust: Survivor Identity and Memory in the Works of Polish Jewish Composers
Aaron Riedford (2023)
Folk Individuals: Rock Music’s Discursive and Ideological Debts to the American Folk Revival, 1950–1964
Emily Baumgart (2023)
Musici Ficti: Fictional Musicians on Screen and Their Control Over Narrative Through Diegetic, Nondiegetic, and Metadiegetic Musics
Kirby Haugland (2023)
Bringing Opera to Saxon Audiences in the Age of Napoleon 1800–1817
Kate Altizer (2023)
Piano Dogs and Whale Theaters: Paranoid Relations and Affect with Nowhere to Go in the Study of Nonhuman Animals and Music
Nathan Landes (2023)
“That’s Not Heavy Metal”: Egalitarianism, Elitism, and Winning Arguments in Three Metal Music Studies Canons
Caitlin Brown (2022)
Modernity, Disenchantment, and Music at Artist Communities in the United States, 1910–1933
Stewart Duncan (2022)
Choral Singing and English Politics in the 1930s
Christine Wisch (2022)
Politics, Patronage, and Music in 1830s Spain
Molly Doran (2021)
Women’s Suffering in French Opera: Nineteenth-Century Contexts and Twenty-First-Century Performance
Ryan Young (2020)
Psalm Signing, Community, and the Formation of Puritan Identity in England 1558–c. 1660
Matthew Gramm Leone (2020)
The Dynamics of Canon Formation, 1800-1850: The Case of Jan Ladislav Dussek
Devon Nelson (2020)
The Antiquarian Creation of a Musical Past in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Brent Reidy (2020)
A Golden Age of Poetry and Power: Artists, Outsiders, and the Kennedy Administration
Karen Stafford (2020)
Binders’ Volumes and the Culture of Music Collectorship in the United States, 1830-1870
Carolyn Inez Carrier (2019)
Memory and Commemoration in Robert Schumann’s Album Leaves
Katie Chapman (2019)
Digital Approaches to Troubadour Song
Amanda Jensen (2019)
Universal Music, Universal Magic: Esoteric Thought in Athanasius Kircher’s Musurgia Universalis
Elizabeth Elmi (2018)
Singing Lyric among Local Aristocratic Networks in the Aragonese-Ruled Kingdom of Naples: Aesthetic and Political Meaning in the Written Records of an Oral Practice
Kerry O’Brien (2018)
Experimentalisms of the Self: Experiments in Art and Technology, 1966-1971
Daniel Rogers (2018)
Musical Creative Frameworks in the Late Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries
David Rugger (2018)
Seeing the Voice, Hearing the Body: Countertenors, Voice Type, and Identity
Virginia Whealton (2018)
Travel, Ideology, and the Geographical Imagination: Parisian Musical Travelogues, 1830–1870
Alexis Witt (2018)
Networks of Performance and Patronage: Russian Artists in American Dance, Vaudeville, and Opera, 1909-1947
Dana Barron (2017)
Continental Scribes and the Reception of Fifteenth-Century English Mass Music: A Case Study of the Aosta Manuscript
Laura Rorick (2017)
The Significance of Accessibility in American Orchestral Music
Mollie Ables (2016)
Giovanni Legrenzi’s Venetian Career and Musicians’ Networks at Sacred Institutions, 1670-1690
Daniel Bishop (2016)
Sounding the Past in the New Hollywood Cinema
Marysol Quevedo (2016)
Cubanness, Innovation, and Politics in Art Music in Cuba, 1942-1979
Mary Ellen Ryan (2016)
Music as Spiritual Recovery: Political Crisis and the Motet after the Sack of Rome
Laura Stokes (2016)
Music and Cultural Politics during the Reign of Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia
Hyun Joo Kim (2015)
The Dynamics of Fidelity and Creativity: Liszt’s Reworkings of Orchestral and Gypsy-Band Music
Tong Blackburn (2015)
In Search of Third Space: Composing the Transcultural Experience in the Operas of Bright Sheng, Tan Dun, and Zhou Long
Nik Taylor (2014)
The Published Church Cantatas of Georg Philipp Telemann
Kristen Strandberg (2014)
Art or Artifice?: Violin Virtuosity and Aesthetics in Parisian Criticism, 1831-1848
Derek Stauff (2014)
Lutheran Music and Politics in Saxony during the Thirty Years’ War
Alison Mero (2014)
The Quest for National Musical Identity: English Opera and the Press, 1834-1849
Lisa Cooper Vest (2014)
The Discursive Foundations of the Polish Musical Avant-Garde at Midcentury: Aesthetics of Progress, Meaning, and National Identity
Travis Yeager (2014)
Questiones in musica: A Critical Edition, Translation, and Commentary
Jonathan Yaeger (2013)
The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in East Germany, 1970-1990
Christopher Holmes (2013)
“History is Now:” T.S. Eliot’s Idea of Tradition in the Music of Peter Maxwell Davies
Amanda Sewell (2013)
A Typology of Sampling in Hip-Hop
Kunio Hara (2013)
Staging Nostalgia in Puccini’s Operas
Sherri Bishop (2012)
Authorship, Attribution, and Advertising in Venetial Madrigal Prints, 1538-1580
Kathryn White (2012)
George Whitefield Chadwick and the American Vernacular in His Chamber Works
Baber, Katherine (2011)
Leonard Bernstein’s Jazz: “Musical Topic and Cultural Resonance”
Rika Asai (2011)
The Josef Bonime Collection of Radio Music: Music and Advertising in the Golden Age of Radio
Alisa White (2011)
“No Room for Squares”: The Hip and Modern Image of Blue Note Records, 1954-67
Randall Goldberg (2011)
Clerics and Cavaliers at the Dawn of Modern Music: The Zarlino-Galilei Dispute
Jir Shin Boey (2010)
Popular Music in the Culture of Ambivalence: The Search for Identity in the Sixteenth-Century Low Countries
Gary Laycock (2010)
Re-evaluating Olivier Messiaen’s Musical Language from 1917 to 1935
Sam Cox (2007)
Paul Whiteman’s Vision for a New American Music as Seen through His Composer Commissions
Jennifer L. King (2007)
The Proposta e risposta Madrigal, Dialogue, Cultural Discourse, and the Issue of Imitatio
Peter Schimpf (2006)
A Transcultural Student, Teacher, and Composer: Henry Cowell and the Music of the World’s Peoples
Nicholas M. Butler (2004)
“Votaries of Apollo”: The St. Cecilia Society and the Patronage of Concert Music in Charleston, South Carolina, 1766-1820
Felicia Miyakawa (2003)
God Hop: The Music and Message of Five Percenter Rap
Patrick R. Warfield (2003)
“Salesman of Americanism, Globetrotter, and Musician”: The Nineteenth-Century John Philip Sousa, 1854-1893
Judith Barger (2002)
“Ladies Not Eligible”?: Elizabeth Stirling and the Musical Life of Female Organists in Nineteenth-Century London
Lyle Neff (2002)
Story, Style, and Structure in the Operas of César Cui
Daria A. Depa (2001)
Wagner and Musikpolitik in the Weimar Republic: Re-appropriations and Re-evaluations
Fredrick A. Tarrant (2000)
John Blow’s Verse Anthems with Organ Accompaniment
Chris Smith (1999)
“I can show it to you better than I can explain it to you”: Analyzing Procedural Cues in African-American Musical Improvisations
Andreas Giger (1999)
The Role of Giuseppe Verdi’s French Operas in the Transformation of His Melodic Style
Jean Hoover (1999)
Constructions of National Identities: Opera and Nationalism in the British Isles
René Mario Ramos (1997)
The Symphonies of Gaetano Brunetti (ca. 1744-1798)
Susan E. Richardson (1997)
Defining a Place for Composers: The Early Histories of the American Composers Alliance and American Music Center, 1937-1950
Nancy Kinsey Totten (1997)
The English Victorian Drawing-Room Ballad: A Product of Its Time
Luminita Florea Aluas (1996)
The Quatuor Principalia Musicae: A Critical Edition and Translation, with Introduction and Commentary
Mara Emily Parker (1995)
Soloistic Chamber Music at the Court of Friedrich Wilhelm II: 1786-1797
Julie Schnepel (1995)
The Critical Pursuit of the Great American Symphony: 1893-1950
Karen McGaha Bryan (1994)
An Experiment in Form: The Reform Operas of Saverio Mercadante
Brian J. Hart (1994)
The Symphony in Theory and Practice in France, 1900-1914
C. Matthew Balensuela (1993)
The Ars cantus mensurabilis mensurata per modos iuris: (Coussemaker’s Scriptores 3, Anonymous V): An Introduction, Critical Text, and English Translation with Commentary
Barbara Blanchard Hong (1992)
The Five Piano Concertos of Selim Palmgren: A Finnish Nationalist Meets the Challenge of the Twentieth Century
James Cade Griesheimer (1990)
The Antiphon-, Responsory-, and Psalm-Motets of Ludwig Senfl
Harold Briggs (1989)
Richard Wagner and American Music-Literary Activity from 1850 to 1920
Claude K. Sluder (1987)
Music in New Harmony, Indiana, 1825-1865: A Study of the Music and Musical Activities of Robert Owen’s Community of Equality (1825-1827) and Its Cultural Afterglow (1827-1865)
Blake McDowell Wilson (1987)
Music and Merchants: The Laudesi Companies of Republican Florence, ca. 1270-1494
Peter Marquis Alexander (1986)
The Chamber Music of Franz Anton Danzi: Sources, Chronology, and Style
Paul W. Borg (1985)
The Polyphonic Music in the Guatemalan Music Manuscripts of the Lilly Library
Fredric B. Johnson (1985)
Tartini’s Trattato di musica secondo la vera scienza dell’armonio: An Annotated Translation and Consideration of Its Historical Significance
Mary Sue Morrow (1984)
Concert Life in Vienna, 1780-1810
Donald L. Caughill (1983)
A History of Instrumental Chamber Music in the Netherlands during the Early Baroque Era
Mack Clay Lindsey III (1981)
Klosterneuberg, Augustinerchorherrenstift, Codices 69 and 70:Two Sixteenth-Century Choirbooks, Their Music, and Its Liturgical Use
Vincent Justus Corrigan III (1980)
The Style of the Notre Dame Conductus
Robert A. Green (1979)
Annotated Translation and Commentary of the Works of Jean Rousseau: A Study of Late Seventeenth-Century Musical Thought and Performance Practice
Leonard M. Phillips (1979)
The Leipzig Conservatory: 1843-1881
Carol Henry Bates (1978)
The Instrumental Music of Elizabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre
Paul Wathen Cox (1978)
Classic Guitar Technique and Its Evolution as Reflected in the Method Books ca. 1770-1850
Alan Lloyd Kagan (1978)
Cantonese Puppet Theater: An Operatic Tradition and Its Role in the Chinese Religious Belief System
Laura Youens (1978)
Music for the Lutheran Mass in Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek, MS. Thomaskirche 49150
Terry E. Miller (1977)
Kaen Playing and mawlum Singing in Northeast Thailand
Ronald F. Cole (1975)
Music in Portland, Maine, from Colonial Times through the Nineteenth Century
Dewey Wayne Howard (1975)
The Kauthuma, Ranayania, and Jaiminiya Schools of Samavedic Chant
Roy V. Magers (1975)
Aspects of Form in the Symphonies of Charles E. Ives
Lawrence A. Oncley (1975)
The Published Works of Alexander Zemlinsky
Richard James White (1975)
The Battre Fascicle of the Trent Codex 87
Lee E. Eubank (1974)
Spanish Intabulations in the Sixteenth Century
J. Evan Kreider (1974)
The Masses for Five and Six Voices by Pierre de la Rue
Ronald L. Miller (1974)
The Musical Works of Marbriano de Orto: Transcription and Commentary
David Clifford Nichols (1974)
Francisco Delgado and Classicism in Mexican Music as Exhibited in the Missa a Quatro Voces
Hugh M. Birmingham (1973)
Schedel’s Song Book and Its Role in the Development of the German Tenor Song
Mary Matilda Gaume (1973)
Ruth Crawford Seeger: Her Life and Works
Marlene Joan Langosch (1973)
The Instrumental Chamber Music of Bernhard Heiden
Richard D. Leppert (1973)
Musical Instruments and Performing Ensembles in Flemish Paintings of the Seventeenth Century
Robert Burgess Lynn (1973)
Renaissance Organ Music for the Proper of the Mass in Continental Sources
Wilbur R. Maust (1973)
The Symphonies of Anthony Philip Heinrich Based on American Themes
Michael D. Williams (1973)
The Violin Concertos of Rodolphe Kreutzer
Nancy M. van Deusen (1972)
An Historical and Stylistic Comparison between the Graduals of Gregorian and Old Roman Chant
Jerry Haller Etheridge (1972)
The Works of Johannes de Limburgia
William R. Perryman (1972)
Walter Damrosch: An Educational Force in American Music
John Edward Druesedow Jr. (1971)
The Missarum Liber (1703) of José de Torres y Mart?nez Bravo (1665-1738)
Gordon Kay Greene (1971)
The Secular Music of Chantilly Manuscript, Musée Condé 564 (olim 1047)
William Thomas Hopkins (1971)
The Short Piano Compositions of Max Reger (1873-1916)
Joe Melvin Zimmerman (1971)
The Psalm Settings and Anthems of William Child (1606-1697)
Harry Elzinga (1970)
The Sacred Choral Compositions of Pavel Gregoryevich Chesnokov (1877-1944)
Donald E. Marcase (1970)
Adriano Banchieri, L’organo suonarino: Translation, Transcription, and Commentary
William Richard Shindle (1970)
The Madrigals of Giovanni de Macque
Milton Allen Swenson (1970)
The Four-Part Italian Ensemble Ricercar from 1540 to 1619
Mildred Katherine Ellis (1969)
The French Piano Character Piece of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Robert Edward Gerken (1969)
The Polyphonic Cycles of the Proper of the Mass in the Trent Codex 88 and Jena Choirbooks 30 and 35
John Waldorf Wagner (1969)
James Hewitt: His Life and Works
Norman Kirt Nunamaker (1968)
The Virtuoso Violin Concerto before Paganini: The Concertos of Lolli, Giornovicchi, and Woldemar (1750-1815)
David Alden Sheldon (1968)
The Chamber Music of Johann Friedrich Fasch
Theodore McKinley Jennings Jr. (1967)
A Study of 503 Versos in the First and Second Volumes of Antonio Martín y Coll’s Flores de Musica
Donna Kay Anderson (1966)
The Works of Charles Tomlinson Griffes: A Descriptive Catalogue
Robert Gordon Campbell (1966)
Johann Gottfried Müthel, 1728-1788
Jean Elizabeth Knowlton (1966)
Some Dances of the Stuart Masque Identified and Analyzed
Byron A. Wolverton (1966)
Keyboard Music and Musicians in the Colonies and United States of America before 1830
Carl Reginald Morey (1965)
The Late Operas of Alessandro Scarlatti
Jaroslav Mrácek (1965)
Seventeenth-Century Instrumental Dances in Uppsala, University Library IMhs 409: A Transcription and Study
Donald D. Colton (1964)
The Conducti of Ms. Madrid 20486
Carl Earl Forsberg (1964)
The Clavier-Violin Sonatas of W. A. Mozart
Wyatt Marion Insko (1964)
The Cracow Tablature
Clare Grill Rayner (1963)
A Little-Known Seventeenth-Century Composer, Christopher Gibbons (1615-1676)
Helen Margaret Smith (1963)
F. M. Veracini’s Il Trionfo della prattica musicale
Samuel Emmons Brown Jr. (1962)
The Motets of Ciconia, Dunstable, and Dufay
Barton Hudson (1961)
A Portuguese Source of Seventeenth-Century Iberian Organ Music: MS 1577, loc. B, 5, Municipal Library, Oporto, Portugal
Hadley Yates (1961)
A History of the Cadence in Polyphonic Vocal Music through the Fifteenth Century
Maurice Brooks Haynes (1960)
The Keyboard Works of Bernardo Pasquini (1637-1710)
Edward Joseph Pease (1960)
An Edition of the Pixérécourt Manuscript: Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds fr. 15123
John David Robinson (1959)
The Vocal Canon of the Classical Era
Arnold Salop (1959)
The Masses of Jacob Obrecht (1450-1505), Structure and Style
Dominique-René DeLerma (1958)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Works and Influences of His First Ten Years
Donald M. McCorkle (1958)
Moravian Music in Salem: A German-American Heritage
Miriam Karpilow Whaples (1958)
Exoticism in Dramatic Music, 1600-1800
Klaus Speer (1956)
A Portuguese Manuscript of Keyboard Music from the Late Seventeenth Century: MS No. 1607, loc. G, 7, Municipal Library, Oporto, Portugal
Roy Hart Jesson (1955)
Ambrosian Chant: The Music of the Mass
Mildred Jane Johnson (1955)
The Motets of the Codex Ivrea
Carol Cook MacClintock (1955)
The Five-Part Madrigals of Giaches de Wert
Frederick T. Wessel (1955)
The Affektenlehre in the Eighteenth-Century
Paul Edward Mueller (1954)
The Influence and Activities of English Musicians on the Continent during the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries
Bruno Nettl (1953)
American Indian Music North of Mexico: Its Styles and Areas
Donald Ira Sonnedecker (1953)
Cultivation and Concepts of Duets for Four Hands, One Keyboard, in the Eighteenth Century
Don Lee Earl (1952)
The Solo Song-Cycle in Germany (1800-1850)
Joseph Nathan Garton (1952)
The Thesaurus harmonicus of J. B. Besard 1603
John Reeves White (1952)
Music of the Early ltalian Ars nova (ca. 1325-1375)