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Our many successful alumni attest to the extraordinary environment we are proud to offer. The overwhelming majority of our graduates hold teaching and administrative positions in major research universities, liberal arts colleges, and schools of music. This page lists students who have completed the MM and PhD degrees in music theory at Indiana University, including dissertation titles for PhD recipients and last known location. The list is sorted by year the most recent degree was completed.
We also maintain a list of current graduate students.
For more information on dissertations, see Doctoral Dissertations in Music Theory.
PhD Alumni
Christa Cole (PhD 2023)
“The Work of the Performer: Enlivening Performative Effort through the Music of Elisabeth Lutyens (1906–1983)”
Stephen Komer (PhD 2022)
“Analyzing Renaissance Polyphony Using Josquin’s Masses: A New Approach to the Application of Mode for Understanding Tonal Behavior”
Emily Barbosa (PhD 2022)
“Du Fay’s Magnetic Counterpoint”
Devin Chaloux (PhD 2022)
“Tonality and Tonal Structures in the Music of Tomás Luis de Victoria: A Case Study for Analyzing Tonal Phenomenology in Renaissance Polyphony”
Last known location: Southern New Hampshire University
Calvin Peck (PhD 2022)
“Harmony and Political Signification In Music From France During the Revolution and First Empire (1789-1815)”
Juan Mesa (PhD 2021)
“A Revised Model for the Analysis OF J. S. Bach Concerto Ritornelli”
Last known location: St Leonard’s Church in Boston, Director of Music and Organist
Nathan Blustein (PhD 2020)
“Engaging with Music-Theatrical Conventions: Reprise, Reinterpretation, and Character Transformation in the Musicals of Stephen Sondheim”
Last known location: American University
Leah Frederick (PhD 2020)
“Generic (Mod-7) Geometric and Transformational Approaches to Voice Leading in Tonal Music.”
Last known location: Oberlin Conservatory
Aaron Sunstein (PhD 2020)
“Contrapuntal Strategies in the Music of Giralomo Frescobaldi (1583-1643): Reimagining Polyphonic Genres”
Last known location: Piteå Academy of Music
Zachary Zinser (PhD 2020)
“Sound, Syntax, and Space in Studio-Produced Popular Music”
Nikolas Bauchat (PhD 2019)
“A Processive Approach to Foreshortening in J.S. Bach’s Arias”
David Geary (PhD 2019)
“Analyzing Drums And Other Beats In Twenty-First Century Popular Music”
Last known location: Wake Forest University
Robert Komaniecki (PhD 2019)
“Analyzing the Parameters of Flow in Rap Music”
Last known location: University of Iowa
Nathan Lam (PhD 2019)
“Relative Diatonic Modality in Extended Common-Practice Music”
Last known location: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Katrina Roush (PhD 2019)
“Framing Listening Experiences in Selected Works of Corelli”
Last known location: University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley
Ryan Taycher (PhD 2019)
“De Fundamento Discanti: Structure and Elaboration in Fourteenth-Century Diminished Counterpoint”
Christy Keele (PhD 2018, MM 2008)
“Reconceptualizing Climax in the Scherzos of Frédéric Chopin”
Jason Jedlicka (PhD 2018, MM 2011)
“Interpreting Steve Reich’s Later Music (2007–2012)”
Last known location: Ashland University
Jessica Sommer (PhD 2018)
“Embodiment, Enaction, and Signification in Analyzing Opera”
Last known location: Lawrence University
Trina Thompson (PhD 2018)
“The Rhetoric of Suggestion in Debussy’s Mélodies: A Contingent Poetics of Thematicity, Temporality, and Agency”
Lucy Liu (PhD 2018)
“Musical Prose and Modular Discourse in Select Works by Brahms”
Last known location: Illinois Wesleyan University
Matthew Boyle (PhD 2018, MM 2011)
“Musical Pleasure in Rossinian Opera”
Last known location: University of Alabama
Chelsey Hamm (PhD 2016)
“Charles Ives and Democracy: Association, Borrowing, and Treatment of Dissonance in His Music”
Last known location: Christopher Newport University (Newport News, VA)
Paul Sherrill (PhD 2016)
“The Metastasian Da Capo Aria: Moral Philosophy, Characteristic Actions, and Dialogic Form”
Last known location: University of Utah
Michael McClimon (PhD 2015, MM 2010)
“A Transformational Approach to Jazz Harmony”
Last known location: SMT webmaster; software developer, FastMail Pty Ltd
Diego Cubero (PhD 2014, MM 2010)
“Brahms the Autumnal and the Romantic Aesthetic of Dissolution”
Last known location: University of North Texas
John Reef (PhD 2014)
“Perspectives on Phrase Rhythm in J. S. Bach’s Keyboard Fugues”
Last known location: Nazareth College (Rochester, NY)
Stephen Grazzini (PhD 2014, MM 2008)
“Reconstructing the Improvised Keyboard Prelude of the French Baroque”
Andreas Metz (PhD 2014)
“Temporality, Pace, and Formal Structure in Selected Passages from Brahms’s Adagio Genre”
Last known location: Sibelius Academy (Helsinki, Finland)
Garrett Michaelsen (PhD 2013, MM 2008)
“Analyzing Musical Interaction in Jazz Improvisations of the 1960s”
Last known location: University of Massachusetts–Lowell
Timothy Chenette (PhD 2013, MM 2007)
“Counterpoint, Transformations, and Musical Spaces in the Late Sixteenth Century”
Last known location: Utah State University
Sara Bakker (PhD 2013)
“Playing with Patterns: Isorhythmic Strategies in György Ligeti’s Late Piano Works”
Last known location: Utah State University
Grace Yu (PhD 2012)
“A Semiotical Interpretation of Liszt’s Piano Works in Light of Their Extramusical Sources”
Last known location: Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
Kyle Fyr (PhD 2011, MM 2006)
“Proportion, Temporality, and Performance Issues in Piano Works of John Adams”
Last known location: Mahidol University (Thailand)
Justin Lavacek (PhD 2011)
“Polyphonic Meaning in the Motets of Machaut”
Last known location: University of North Texas
Mitch Ohriner (PhD 2011, MM 2007)
“Modeling Music Performance: Projected Tension and Durational Contours in Recordings of the Music of Chopin”
Last known location: University of Denver (Lamont School of Music)
Danny Arthurs (PhD 2011, MM 2005)
“Reconstructing Tonal Principles in the Music of Brad Mehldau”
Last known location: University of Tulsa
Amy Engelsdorfer (PhD 2010)
“Pedagogical and Compositional Techniques in Treatises by Augustus Frederic Christof Kollmann and Johann Bernhard Logier”
Tamara Balter (PhD 2009, MM 2000)
“A Theory of Irony in Music: Types of Irony in the String Quartets of Haydn and Beethoven”
Last known location: Jerusalem, Israel
Brent Yorgason (PhD 2009, MM 1999)
“Expressive Asynchrony and Meter: A Study of Dispersal, Downbeat Space, and Metric Drift”
Last known location: Brigham Young University
Michelle Clater (PhD 2009)
“Interposed Between God and Man: Agency in the Requiems of Berlioz and Fauré”
Last known location: Maranatha Baptist University (Watertown, WI)
Melissa Hoag (PhD 2008, MM 2002)
“Multiply-Directed Moments in the Music of Brahms”
Last known location: Oakland University (MI)
Victoria Malawey (PhD 2007, MM 2001)
“Temporal Process, Repetition, and Voice in Björk’s Medúlla”
Last known location: Macalester College (St. Paul, MN)
Mike Baker (PhD 2007)
“Text-Music Relationships in the Solo Songs of Felix Mendelssohn”
Last known location: University of Kentucky
Erick Carballo (PhD 2006, MM 1994)
“De la pampa al cielo: The Development of Tonality in the Compositional Language of Alberto Ginastera”
Last known location: Indiana University Teaching and Learning Technology Center
Stanley Kleppinger (PhD 2006, MM 2000)
“Tonal Coherence in Copland’s Music of the 1940s”
Last known location: University of Nebraska–Lincoln
David Thurmaier (PhD 2006)
“Time and Compositional Process in Charles Ives’s Holidays Symphony”
Last known location: University of Missouri–Kansas City
Michael Oravitz (PhD 2005, MM 1991)
“Metric Patterning and its Effects on Phrasing and Form in Selected Debussy Préludes”
Last known location: University of Northern Colorado
Elisabeth Honn Hoegberg (PhD 2005)
“From Theory to Practice: Composition and Analysis in Marin Mersenne’s Harmonie universelle”
Last known location: University of Indianapolis
Timothy Shane Pack (PhD 2005)
“Axial-Tenor Composition in the Renaissance”
Last known location: University of Oregon
Bettina Hahn (PhD 2004, MM 1993)
“Schoenberg and Bakhtin: Dialogic Discourse in the String Quartet, Op. 10, No. 2”
Last known location: Texas Performing Chinese Arts Association
Rusty Jones (PhD 2004)
“Key Classes and Textural Dissonance: An Instrument-specific Study of the Idioms, Textures, and Structures of Selected Early Romantic Music for the Guitar (1799-1850)”
Last known location: Butler University
Ryan McClelland (PhD 2004)
“Tonal Structure, Rhythm, Meter, and Motive in the Scherzo-Type Movements of Brahms’s Chamber Music with Piano”
Last known location: University of Toronto (Associate Dean)
Mark Butler (PhD 2003)
“Unlocking the Groove: Rhythm, Meter, and Musical Design in Electronic Dance Music”
Last known location: Humboldt University Berlin
Andrew Davis (PhD 2003)
“Structural Implications of Stylistic Plurality in Puccini’s Turandot”
Last known location: University of Houston (Dean, Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts)
Julian Hook (PhD 2002)
“Uniform Triadic Transformations”
Last known location: Indiana University
Lyn Thornblad Burkett (PhD 2001)
“Tensile Involvement: Counterpoint and Compositional Pedagogy in the Work of Seeger, Hindemith, and Krenek”
Last known location: Western Carolina University
Vincent Benitez (PhD 2001)
“Pitch Organization and Dramatic Design in Saint François d’Assise of Olivier Messiaen”
Last known location: Penn State University
Rebecca Jemian (PhD 2001)
“Rhythmic Organization in Works by Elliott Carter, George Crumb, and John Adams: Rhythmic Frameworks, Timepoints, Periodicity, and Alignment”
Last known location: University of Louisville
Ted Buehrer (PhD 2000)
“An Alternative Pedagogical Paradigm for Aural Skills: An Examination of Constructivist Learning Theory and Its Potential for Implementation into Aural Skills Curricula”
Last known location: Kenyon College (Gambier, OH)
Arthur Samplaski (PhD 2000, MM 1996)
“A Comparison of Perceived Chord Similarity with Predictions of Selected Twentieth-Century Chord Classification Schemes, Using Multidimensional Scaling and Cluster Analysis”
Last known location: Ithaca, New York
Lori Wacker (PhD 2000, MM 1991)
“Rhythmic and Motivic Procedures in Selected Late Works of S. C. Eckhardt-Gramatté”
Last known location: East Carolina University
Glenn Wegge (PhD 1999)
“Musical References in the Neoplatonic Philosophy of Plotinus”
Last known location: Waldorf College (Forest City, IA)
Don Hedges (PhD 1999, MM 1986)
“Taking Notes: The History, Practice, and Innovation of Musical Diction in English and American Aural Skills Pedagogy”
Last known location: Trinity International University (Dean of Strategic Initiatives)
John White (PhD 1999)
“Processes of Structuring in Selected Free Improvisations of the Chamber Ensemble ‘Oregon'”
Last known location: Ithaca College
Byron Almén (PhD 1998)
“Narrative Archetypes in Music: A Semiotic Approach”
Teresa (Shelton) Reed (PhD 1997)
“Idiosyncrasies of Music Narrative: Hypotheses for Further Investigation”
Last known location: University of Louisville (Dean)
George Boyd (PhD 1996)
“The Scacchi/Siefert Controversy with Translations of Marco Scacchi, Cribrum musicum and Paul Siefert, Anticrabratio musica”
Last known location: Indiana University (Bureau of Evaluative Studies and Testing); deceased 2017
Jeff Gillespie (PhD 1996)
“Difficulty Factors in the Perception of Melody by Skilled Listeners”
Last known location: Butler University
Eric Lai (PhD 1995, MM 1984)
“A Theory of Pitch Organization in the Early Music of Chou Wen-Chung”
Last known location: Baylor University
Ralph Lorenz (PhD 1995)
“Pedagogical Implications of Musica Practica in Sixteenth-century Wittenberg”
Last known location: University of Syracuse (Senior associate dean in the College of Visual and Performing Arts)
Lisa Derry (PhD 1993)
“The Pre-Classical Concerto of Johann Christian Bach: First Movement Design in the Eighteen “London” Keyboard Concertos”
Last known location: College of Idaho (retired)
Scott Harris (PhD 1993, MM 1987)
“Formal Archetypes, Phrase Rhythm, and Motivic Design in the String Quartets of Alexander Zemlinsky”
Last known location: Schwob School of Music, Columbus (GA) State University (Director)
Eric Isaacson (PhD 1992, MM 1987)
“Similarity of Interval-class Content Between Pitch-class Sets: The IcVSIM Relation and Its Application”
Last known location: Indiana University
Rudy Marcozzi (PhD 1992)
“The Interaction of Large-scale Harmonic and Dramatic Structure in the Verdi Operas Adapted from Shakespeare”
Last known location: Roosevelt University (Dean, Chicago College of Performing Arts)
Stephen Moore (PhD 1992)
“The Writings of Emile Jaques-Dalcroze: Toward a Theory for the Performance of Musical Rhythm”
Last known location: California State University, Dominguez Hills
Ronald Rodman (PhD 1992)
“Thematic and tonal processes in the development-reprise forms of Claude Debussy, 1880-1905”
Last known location: Carleton College
Joe Brumbeloe (PhD 1991, MM 1982)
“Formal Grouping in the Theory and Musical Practice of the Eighteenth Century”
Last known location: University of Southern Mississippi
Craig Cummings (PhD 1991, MM 1985)
“Large-scale Coherence in Selected Nineteenth-century Piano Variations”
Last known location: Ithaca College
Sarah Schaffer (PhD 1991)
“Analytical Issues in the Segmentation of Atonal Music: An Investigation Based on Selected Pre-Serial Works of Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern”
Last known location: Token Creek Chamber Music Festival (Managing Director)
Miguel Roig-Francoli (PhD 1990)
“Compositional Theory and Practice in Mid-Sixteenth-Century Spanish Instrumental Music: The Arte de tañer fantasía by Tomás de Santa María and the Music of Antonio de Cabezón”
Last known location: University of Cincinnati
Ilene Sears (PhD 1990, MM 1971)
“The Influence of Rhythm in Selected Chamber Works of Igor Stravinsky”
Last known location: Winston-Salem, NC
Todd Tucker (PhD 1988, MM 1971)
“Hindemith’s Harmonic Procedure from 1935-1940”
Last known location: Illinois Wesleyan University
Timothy Lindeman (PhD 1987, MM 1978)
“Strategies of Sonata Form in the First Movements of the Beethoven String Quartets”
Last known location: Guilford College (Chair, Music)
John Schaffer (PhD 1987)
“Developing an Intelligent Music Tutorial: An Investigation of Expert Systems and Their Potential for Microcomputer-based Instruction in Music Theory”
Last known location: University of Wisconsin
Susan Tepping (PhD 1987)
“Fugue Process and Tonal Structure in the String Quartets of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven”
Last known location: Georgia State University; deceased 2016
James Hiatt (PhD 1986, MM 1969)
“Structure and Style in the Late Instrumental Works of Carl Nielsen”
Last known location: James Madison University (retired)
Jon Conrad (PhD 1985, MM 1969)
“Style and Structure in Songs by George Gershwin: Published 1924-1938”
Last known location: University of Delaware
James Skoog (PhD 1985)
“Set Syntax in Béla Bartók’s Mikrokosmos”
Last known location: Bowling Green State University?
Alan Todd Jordan (PhD 1984)
“Harmonic Style in Selected Sibelius Symphonies”
Last known location: Senior Consultant, Keane, Inc.; Organist & Assistant Music Director, Our Lady of Mt Carmel Catholic Church (Carmel, IN)
John Maxwell (PhD 1984)
“An Artificial Intelligence Approach to Computer-Implemented Analysis of Harmony in Tonal Music”
Last known location: SAS Institute (Software Manager; North Carolina)
William Pflugradt (PhD 1984)
“Elliott Carter and the Variation Process”
Last known location: deceased
Garry Brodhead (PhD 1983, MM 1972)
“Structural Time in Twentieth-century Tonal Music”
Last known location: Ithaca College (Associate Provost) (retired)
Ann Gebuhr (PhD 1983, MM 1968)
“Structuralism in Music: A Review of Recent Ideas”
Last known location: Houston Baptist University (Director)
John Ibberson (PhD 1983, MM 1965)
“A History of Keyboard Theory”
Last known location: Indiana State University (retired)
Kate Covington (PhD 1982, MM 1969)
“A Study of Textural Stratification in Twentieth-century Compositions”
Last known location: University of Kentucky
Robert Hatten (PhD 1982, MM 1975)
“The Concept of Style Systems in Music Theory: A Model for Interpreting Style Change”
Last known location: University of Texas at Austin
John Snyder (PhD 1982)
“The De legitimis ordinibus pentachordorum et tetrachordorum of Theinred of Dover”
Last known location: University of Houston
J. Kent Williams (PhD 1982, MM 1965)
“Themes Composed by Jazz Musicians of the Bebop Era: A Study of Harmony, Rhythm, and Melody”
Last known location: UNC Greensboro
George Winfield (PhD 1981)
“Ferruccio Busoni’s Compositional Art: A Study of Selected Works for Piano Solo Composed Between 1907 and 1923”
Last known location: Howard University (Chair)
James Bersano (PhD 1979)
“Formalized Aspect Analysis of Sound Texture Applied to Selected Works of the 1960’s”
Eugene Reade (PhD 1979)
“A Study of Rhythm in the Serial Works of Igor Stravinsky”
Charles Lord (PhD 1978, MM 1971)
“An Explication of Some Recent Mathematical Approaches to Music Analysis”
Last known location: University of Kentucky (retired)
Gwyneth Roberts (PhD 1978)
“Procedures for Analysis of Sound Masses”
Last known location: Lowellville, Ohio
Bruce Thompson (PhD 1978, MM 1961)
“Musical Style and Compositional Techniques in Selected Works of T. J. Anderson”
Last known location: Winthrop University
Michael Burdick (PhD 1977)
“A Structural Analysis of Melodic Scale-Degree Tendencies in Selected Themes of Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, and Chopin”
Last known location: Chino Valley, Arizona
Margery Enix (PhD 1977, MM 1961)
“The Dissolution of the Functional Harmonic Tonal System: 1850-1910”
Last known location: Chapman University
David Kaplan (PhD 1977)
“Stylistic Trends in the Small Woodwind Ensemble from 1750-1825”
Last known location: University of Saskatchewan
Richard Domek (PhD 1976, MM 1967)
“A Syntactic Approach to the Study of Rhythm Applied to the Late Piano Works of Johannes Brahms”
Last known location: University of Kentucky
Roger Briscoe (PhD 1975)
“Rameau’s Démonstration du principe de l’harmonie and Nouvelles réflexions de M. Rameau sur sa Démonstration du principe de l’harmonie: An Annotated Translation and Commentary of Two Treatises by Jean-Philippe Rameau”
Last known location: Raritan Valley Community College (NJ)
William Edwards (PhD 1975)
“The Variation Process in the Music of Stravinsky”
Last known location: Broward Community College
Christopher Gallaher (PhD 1975, MM 1965)
“Density in Twentieth-Century Music”
Last known location: Morehead State University (chair; retired)
Dorothy Gross (PhD 1975)
“A Set of Computer Programs to Aid in Music Analysis”
Last known location: University of Minnesota
Glenn Chandler (PhD 1974)
“Rameau’s Nouveau système de musique théorique: An Annotated Translation”
Last known location: University of Texas at Austin
Sister Jule Adele Espey (PhD 1974)
“Formal, Tonal, and Thematic Structure of the Hindemith String Quartets”
Last known location: Our Lady of the Lake University
William McCandless (PhD 1974)
“Cantus Firmus Techniques in Selected Instrumental Compositions, 1910-1960”
Last known location: Central Missouri State University (chair; retired)
G. Larry Whatley (PhD 1974)
“Donald Francis Tovey and His Contributions to the Study of Harmony and Counterpoint”
Last known location: Brevard College (retired)
Robert Demaree (PhD 1973)
“The Structural Proportions of the Haydn Quartets”
Last known location: Indiana University South Bend (Dean; retired)
Arthur Ostrander (PhD 1973, MM 1969)
“Style in the Orchestral Works of Karl-Birger Blomdahl”
Last known location: Ithaca College (Dean, retired)
John Stewart (PhD 1973)
“Metrical and Tonal Stability in the Dance Music of the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book”
Last known location: Ohio University (retired)
Mary Arlin (PhD 1972, MM 1965)
“Esquisse de l’histoire de l’harmonie, considérée comme art et comme science systématique of François-Joseph Fétis: An Annotated Translation”
Last known location: Ithaca College (retired)
Sister Laurette Bellemy (PhD 1972)
“The Sonido Trece Theoretical Works of Julián Carrillo: A Translation with Commentary”
Last known location: Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College (Music area coordinator)
Asher Zlotnik (PhD 1972)
“Orchestration Revisions in the Symphonies of Robert Schumann”
Last known location: Deceased
Norman Hessert (PhD 1971)
“The Use of Information Theory in Musical Theory”
Last known location: St. Lawrence University
Jean Little (PhD 1971)
“Architectonic Levels of Rhythmic Organization in Selected Twentieth-Century Music”
Last known location: Monrovia, California
Kenneth Mays (PhD 1971, MM 1961)
“Harmonic Style in the Madrigals of Claudio Monteverdi”
Last known location: The Master’s College
Gary Potter (PhD 1971, MM 1969)
“The Role of Chance in Contemporary Music”
Last known location: Indiana University (Director of Undergraduate Studies; retired)
Harriet Chase (PhD 1970)
“German, Italian, and Dutch Fugal Precursors of the Fugues in the Well-Tempered Clavier I, 1600-1722”
Last known location: Westminster Choir College (retired)
Robert Hurwitz (PhD 1970, MM 1965)
“An Investigation into the Perception of Root in Harmonic Intervals”
Last known location: University of Oregon (Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, retired)
William Mickelsen (PhD 1970)
“Hugo Riemann’s History of Harmonic Theory with a Translation of Harmonielehre”
Last known location: St. George, Utah
James Marks (PhD 1969)
“Harmonic Rhythm as a Factor in Form Delineation in Selected Instrumental Works from 1775 to 1850”
Last known location: Sam Houston State University (retired)
Francis McGinnis (PhD 1969)
“Chopin: Aspects of Melodic Style”
Raymond Stahura (PhD 1969, MM 1961)
“A Stylistic Study of the Works of John Dunstable”
Last known location: Ripon College (retired)
George B. Biggs (PhD 1968)
“The Return Effect in Works for Orchestra by Stravinsky, Bartók, and Schoenberg, as Determined by Factors other than Theme and Key”
Last known location: Fort Worth, Texas
Charles Nick (PhD 1967)
“A Stylistic Analysis of the Music of Nicola Vincentino”
Louis Pisciotta (PhD 1967)
“Texture in the Choral Works of Selected Contemporary American Composers”
Last known location: Manhasset, New York
Donald Schwejda (PhD 1967)
“An Investigation of the Analytical Technique Used by Rudolph Reti in The Thematic Process in Music”
Last known location: Pacific University
Leon Smith (PhD 1967)
“An Investigation of the Inherent Qualities of Musical Intervals as Definers of Melodic Tonality”
Last known location: Round Rock, Texas
Mary Wennerstrom (PhD 1967)
“Parametric Analysis of Contemporary Musical Form”
Last known location: Indiana University (Associate Dean for Instruction, retired)
Carl Haenselman (PhD 1966)
“Harmonic Rhythm in Selected Works of the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century”
Eugene Sterling (PhD 1966)
“A Study of the Chromatic Elements in Selected Piano Works of Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, and Brahms”
Last known location: San Jose, California
Albert Hanna (PhD 1965)
“A Statistical Analysis of Some Style Elements in the Solo Piano Sonatas of Franz Schubert”
Harold Lewin (PhD 1965)
“Aspects of the Twelve-Tone System: Its Formation and Structural Implications”
George Sargent (PhD 1965)
“An Edition of Elizabeth Rogers’ Virginal Book (British Museum Add. Ms. 10337)”
Richard Tappa (PhD 1965)
“An Analytical Study of the Use of Imitative Devices in the Keyboard Ricercar from 1520 to 1720”
Glen Gould (PhD 1964)
“A Stylistic Analysis of Selected Twelve-Tone Works by Luigi Dallapiccola”
Last known location: Pennsylvania
James Krehbiel (PhD 1964)
“Harmonic Principles of Jean-Philippe Rameau and His Contemporaries”
Last known location: Eastern Illinois University (retired)
Maurice Laney (PhD 1964)
“Thematic Material and Developmental Techniques in Selected Contemporary Compositions”
Harry Ray (PhD 1964)
“An Experimental Approach to the Reading of Pitch Notation”
Janet Tupper (PhD 1964)
“Stylistic Analysis of Selected Works by Frank Martin”
Last known location: Denver, Colorado
Sanford Watts (PhD 1964)
“The Stylistic Features of the Bolognese Concerto”
Last known location: Indiana State University (deceased 2009)
James Burke (PhD 1963)
“A Study of Theories of Non-Chord Tones Pertaining to the Music of the Period ca. 1650 to ca. 1875”
Last known location: Acadiana Symphony Orchestra
Mary Fiore (PhD 1963)
“The Formation and Structural Use of Vertical Constructs in Selected Serial Compositions”
Last known location: Buffalo State College (deceased 2014)
William Jones (PhD 1963)
“The Music of Ernest Bloch”
John Mitchell (PhD 1963)
“A History of Theories of Functional Harmonic Progression”
Glen Morgan (PhD 1963)
“Stylistic Features of the Music of Guillaume de Machaut”
Edward Murphy (PhD 1963)
“Harmony and Tonality in the Large Orchestral Works of Richard Strauss”
Last known location: University of Arizona
Louis Richardson (PhD 1963)
“The Effect of Certain Harmonic Considerations upon Tuning Preferences for the Major Third”
Last known location: Fredonia, New York
John Egan (PhD 1962)
“Marin Mersenne: Traité de l’harmonie universelle: Critical Translation of the Second Book”
Last known location: St. Joseph’s University
Charles Knox (PhD 1962)
“The Orchestral Violin Tone”
Last known location: Georgia State University (retired)
John Nagosky (PhD 1962)
“Timbre Thresholds of Sinusoidal Mixtures”
Last known location: Indiana University (retired)
C. Allen Winold (PhD 1962)
“The Effects of Changes in Harmonic Tension upon Listener Response”
Last known location: Indiana University (retired)
Molly Gustin (PhD 1961)
“A Theory of Tonality”
Last known location: Thomas Aquinas College
Raymond Haggh (PhD 1961)
“Hugo Riemann’s Geschichte der Musiktheorie im IX-XIX. Jahrhundert, Books I and II: A Translation with Commentary and Annotated Bibliography”
Last known location: University of Nebraska-Lincoln (retired)
Hans-Jörgen Holman (PhD 1961)
“The responsoria prolixa of the Codex Worcester F 160”
Frederick Homan (PhD 1961)
“Cadence in Gregorian Chant”
Vernon Kliewer (PhD 1961)
“The Concept of Organic Unity in Music Criticism and Analysis”
Last known location: Indiana University (retired)
Joel Mandelbaum (PhD 1961)
“Multiple Division of the Octave and the Tonal Resources of 19-Tone Temperament”
Last known location: CUNY-Queens College
Judson Maynard (PhD 1961)
“An Anonymous Scottish Treatise on Music from the Sixteenth Century: British Museum, Add. MS 4911, Edition and Commentary”
Last known location: Denton, Texas
W. Thomas Atcherson (PhD 1960)
“Modal Theory of Sixteenth-Century German Theorists”
Last known location: University of Iowa (deceased)
Donald Morrison (PhD 1960)
“Influences of Impressionist Tonality on Selected Works of Delius, Griffes, Falla, and Respighi: Based on the Concept Developed by Robert Mueller”
Last known location: Sarasota, Florida
Charles Smith (PhD 1960)
“Leonhard Euler’s Tentamen novae theoriae musicae: A Translation and Commentary”
Last known location: Dover, Delaware
Tom Ritchie (PhD 1960)
“A Study of the Effects of Diatonic Harmony upon the Aural Perception of Selected Melodic Fragments”
Last known location: Truman State University
Joseph Youngblood (PhD 1960)
“Music and Language: Some Related Analytical Techniques”
Last known location: University of Miami (retired)
Ronald Jesson (PhD 1958)
“The Third Relation in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries”
Dale Jorgenson (PhD 1957)
“A History of Theories of the Minor Triad”
Parviz Mahmoud (PhD 1957)
“A Theory of Persian Music and Its Relation to Western Practice”
William Abbott (PhD 1956)
“Certain Aspects of the Sonata-Allegro Form in Piano Sonatas of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries”
David Appleby (PhD 1956)
“A Study of Selected Compositions by Contemporary Brazilian Composers”
Last known location: Eastern Illinois University
Wayne Wise (PhD 1956)
“Tonal Relationship through Interchangeability of Mode in the Music of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries”
Quentin Nordgren (PhD 1955)
“Texture: A Consideration of Spacing, Doubling, Range, and Instrumentation, Based upon Selected Orchestral Works of Certain Nineteenth-Century Composers”
Wilbur Lee Ogdon (PhD 1955)
“Series and Structure: An Investigation into the Purpose of the Twelve-Note Row in Selected Works of Schoenberg, Webern, Krenek, and Leibowitz”
Last known location: University of California, San Diego
Helen Rogers (PhD 1955)
“The Development of the Concept of Modulation in Theory from the Sixteenth to the Early Eighteenth Century”
Mark Walker (PhD 1955)
“Thematic, Formal, and Tonal Structure of the Bartók String Quartets”
Robert Lamm (PhD 1954)
“The Evolution of the Secondary Dominant Concept”
George List (PhD 1954)
“An Analysis of the Relationship of Non-Stepwise Melodic Movement to Tonality in Selected Works of W. A. Mozart”
Last known location: Indiana University (ethnomusicology; retired)
Robert Mueller (PhD 1954)
“The Concept of Tonality in Impressionist Music: Based on the Works of Debussy and Ravel”
Last known location: Southern Illinois University (retired)
Ernest Trumble (PhD 1954)
“Early Renaissance Harmony”
Last known location: Norman, Oklahoma
Grace Yerbury (PhD 1953)
“Styles and Schools of the Art Song in America, 1720-1850”
William Thomson (PhD 1952)
“A Clarification of the Tonality Concept”
Last known location: University of Southern California (Dean, retired)
Arthur Darack (PhD 1951)
“Aesthetics of Music: Early Greek Views Critic”
Last known location: Author (deceased 2007)