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PhD Dissertations (1974-2004): All dissertations, listed alphabetically
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Agmon, Eytan (1986) Diatonicism, Chromaticism, and
Enharmonicism : a Study in Cognition and Perception.
Aldag, Richard (1990) Roger Sessions' Duo For Violin And
Violoncello: an edition and an examination of the composition process
Andreacchi, Peter (1986) An examination of the relation of text to
music in Claude Devussy’s Trois Poemes De Mallarme
Anson-Cartwright, Mark (1998) The development section in Haydn's
late instrumental works
Antokoletz, Elliot (1976) Principles of Pitch organization in
Bartok’s Fourth String Quartet
Ardito, Linda (1994) A study of compositional procedures in
selected opera overtures (1791-1821)
Barash, Amari (2002) Cadential Gestures in Post-Tonal Music: The
Constitution Of Cadences in Selected Solo Piano Works of Messiaen and
Boulez
Baron, Carol (1987) Ives on his own terms: an explication, a
theory of pitch organization, and a new critical edition for the '3-page
sonata'
Bauer, William (1996) Betty Carter: A biography and style analysis
Bebbingtion, Warren Arthur (1984) The orchestral Conducting
practice of Richard Wagner.
Beder, Jodi (1982) The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book Dances: The fusion
of Rhythm and tonal structure in the Late Renaissance.
Berlin, Edward A. (1976) Piano Ragtime: A Musical and Cultural
Study
Biondi, Michael (1994) Compositional Process in
Dallapiccola's Ulisse: a survey and analysis of new findings in the
Dallapiccola archive, Florence, Italy
Blazekovic, Zdravko (1997) Music in medieval and Renaissance
astrological imagery
Block, Adrienne Fried (1978) Pierre Segernt’s Les Grans Noelz ca
1537 and the early French Parody Noel
Boren, Murray (2002) A Catalogue of the Compositions of Hugo
Weisgall
Bortz, Graziela (2003) Rhythm in the Music of Brian Ferneyhough,
Michael Finnisy, and Arthur Kampela: A Guide for Performers
Bradley, Robert (1992) Musical life and culture at Savoy,
1420-1450. (Volumes I and II)
Brancaleone, Francis (1982) The short piano works of Edward
Macdowell
Brauer, James Leonard (1983) Instruments in Sacred Vocal Music at
Braunschweig-Wolfenbuttel: A study of the changing tastes in
the seventeenth century
Brewer Charles E. (1984) The Introduction of the Ars Nova into East
Central Europe: A Study of the late Medieval Polish Sources.
Burke, Richard (1991) The 'Marche Funebre' from Beethoven to
Mahler
Burnett, Henry (1978) The Sacred Music of Maurice Greene
(1696-1755): a study of the problems confronting the composer of English
church music during the early eighteenth century.
Burstein, Poundie (1988) The non-tonic opening in Classical and
Romantic music
Burwasser, Daniel (1993) A study of Lou Harrison's Concerto for Violin
and Percussion Orchestra and Concerto for Organ and Percussion Orchestra
Bushler, David (1975) Development in the First Movements of
Bruckner's Symphonies
Byrne, Madelyn (1999) Speech-based computer music compositions:
Selected works by Charles Dodge and Paul Lansky
Carlson, Philip (1986) The player piano music of conlon Nancarrow:
An analysis of selected studies.
Campbell, Alan (1990) Roger Sessions' adoption of the twelve-tone
method
Cambell, David Eugene (1984) The Purveyor as Patron: The
contribution of American Piano Manufacturers and Merchants to musical
Culture in the United States 1851-1914
Carrabre, Thomas Patrick, (1993) Twelve-tone tonality and the
music of George Perle
Carter Lee Chandler (1995) The progress in 'the Rake's'
Cartwright, Katherine
(1998) Quotation and reference in Jazz Performance: Ella Fitzgerald’s
“St. Louis Blues” 19576-1979
Chapman, Alicia (2005) The Modern Oboist's Transition to the
Baroque Oboe, a guide for players and teachers.
Chevan, David (1997) Written music in early jazz
Chung, Yiu-Kwong (1995) I Ching compositional system: the
symbolism, structures, and orderly sequence of the sixty-four hexagrams as
compositional determinants
Clemmons, William (2001) Johann Joseph Fux's 'Gradus ad Parnassum'
and the traditions of seventeenth-century contrapuntal pedagogy
Coeyman, Barbara (1987) The stage works of Michel-Richard
Delalande in the musical - cultural context of the French court, 1680-1726
Cohen, Allen (1996) Theory and practice in the works of Howard
Hanson
Cohen, Vered (1977) Zarlino on modes: an annotated,
indexed translation, with introduction and commentary.
Conrad, Bridget (1994) The sources of Jolivet's musical language
and his relationships with Varese and Messiaen. (Volumes I and II)
Coppola, Catherine (1998) Form and fantasy: (1870-1920)
Currie, Norman (2004) Robert Schumann, Hector Berlioz, and Their
Publishers
Havana, New York City, and Los Angeles
Darby, Joseph (1999) Dmitri Shostakovich's Second, Third and
Fourth symphonies: Problems of context, analysis, and interpretation
Darson, Thomas H. (1979) The solo piano works of Cyril Scott
Delfausse, Robert (1988) The roles of symmetrical measure groups
in Mozart's piano sonatas
Dragone, Luann (2003) Structural Consistency Amidst Stylistic
Diversity in the Music of Louise Talma
Duerksen, Marva (2003) Organicism and Musical Analysis: Three Case
Studies
Evans, Roger (1977) Amalarius of Metz and the singing of the
Carolingian Offices
Eversole, Sylvia Miller (1992) EleanorEverest Freer: her life and
music
Finley, Patrick D. (1993) A Catalogue of the Works of Ralph
Shapey
Foster, Genette (1977) The iconology of musical
instruments and musical performance in thirteenth-century French
manuscript illuminations.
Friedland, Bea (1975) Louise Farrenc 1804-1875
Composer, Performer, Scholar
Gagne, David (1988) Performance Medium as a compositional
Determinant: A study of selected works in three genres by Mozart.
Gamble, Charles (2001) The framing interval and its role in the
integration of melody and form in four early works by Aaron Copland
Garcia, David (2003) Arsenio Rodriguez: A Black Cuban Musician in
the Dance Music Milieus of
Havana, New York City, and Los Angeles
Ghezzo, Marta A. (1983) Epic Songs of Sixteenth-Century Hungary,
History and Style.
Goldberg, Halina (1997) Musical life in Warsaw during Chopin's
youth, 1810-1830
Goldner, June (1987) The emergence of the role of the solo
vocalist and the position of women as singer.
Gonzalez-Quinones, Jaime (1985) The orchestrally-accompanied
villancico in Mexico in the eighteenth century.
Greenbaum, Matthew (1984) Stefan Wolpe’s Proportions: A translation
and commentary by Matthew Greenbaum
Greenwald, Helen M.
(1991) Dramatic Exposition and Musical Structure in Puccini’s Operas.
Gunn, Nancy
(1993) Organicism, Motivic Development, and Formal Design in Ellen
Taaffe Zwilich’s Symphony No. 1
Guzski, Carolyn (2002) American Opera at the Metropolitan,
1910-1935: A Contextual History and Critical Survey of Selected Works
Hallman, Diana (1995) The French grand opera 'La Juive' (1835): a
socio-historical study
Hager, Nancy Barnes (1978) Rhythm and voice-leading as a facet of
style keyboard works of J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach and Mozart
Hamer, Janice (1994) Sofia Gubaidulina's compositional strategies
in the 'String Trio' (1988) and other works
Hanock, Galia (1996) The shadow of death in the
original works of Franz Liszt.
Hester, Karlton, (1990) The melodic and polyrhythmic development
of John Coltrane's spontaneous composition in a racist society
Heyman, Barbara (1989) Samuel Barber: a documentary study of his
works. (Volumes I and II)
Hisama, Ellie (1996) Gender, politics, and modernist music:
analyses of five compositions by Ruth Crawford (1901-1953) and Marion Bauer
(1887-1955)
Hodos, Gilya (2004) Transcriptions,
Paraphrases, and
Arrangements: The Compositional Art of Moritz Moszkowski
Holzaepfel, John (1994) David Tudor and the performance of
American experimental music, 1950-1959
Hong, Sun-Kyoung (2002) A Stylistic Analysis and Technical
Consideration of Debussy's Sonata for Cello and Piano
Hosford, Desmond (2004) Redefining Perfection: The Lullian
Aesthetic
and its Eighteenth-Century Development
Howell, Mark (2004) An Ethnoarchaeomusicological Investigation of
Guatemalan
Maya Dance-Plays
Hsu, Yilien (2005) A Study of Selected Flute Works of
Otto Luening.
Hur, Mi-Sool Han (1992) Irregular Recapitulation in Schubert’s
Instrumental Works.
Hur, Young-Han (1990) Conflicting attributions in the continental
motet repertory from ca. 1500 to ca. 1550
Hurwitt, Elliott (2000) W. C. Handy as music publisher: career and
reputation
Jackson, Susan (1998) Berg and Neuber: Music printers in
sixteenth-century Nuremberg
Jackson, Tim (1988) The Last Strauss: Studies of the Letzte Lieder.
Jazwinkski, Barbara (1984) Four Compositions by Tadeusz Baird an
Analytic Essay.
Joffe, Edward
(2005) An Examination of Woodwind Doubling Performance Problems
Between Saxophones, Clarinets, and Flutes.
Johnson, Marc (2003) The Masses Are Singing': Insurgency and Song
in New York City, 1929-1941
Johnson, Margaret (1991) Knowledge formalization and
representation of the dynamics of expressive musical performance
Jorgens, Elise (1975)“Let Well Tun’d Words Amaze” Attitudes toward
Poetry in English Solo Song from John Dowland to Henry Lawes
Jung, Ja Young (2002) Preludes in All Twenty-four Major and Minor
Keys, Op. 67 by Johann Nepomuk Hummel: An Investigation and Analysis
Kagan, Susan (1983) The Music of Archduke Rudolph Beethoven’s
Patron, pupil and friend
Kahan, Sylvia (1993) The Princesse Edmond De Polignac (1986-1943):
A documentary chronicle of her life and artistic circle
Kaneda, Mariko (2001) Selected piano works of Emmanuel
Chabrier: a stylistic analysis
Kanovsky, Peninah (2002) Metric hierarchy in music by Bartok,
Copland And Stravinsky
Karpinski, Gary (1991) The interval cycles in the music of Bartok
and Debussy through 1918
Kassel, Richard (1996) The evolution of Harry Partch's monophony
Kessler, Deborah (1996) Schubert's late three-key expositions:
influence, design, and structure
Kim, Ye-Ree
(2005) The Impact of Stravinsky's Serial Conversion on Composers of
the "American Stravinsky School": An Examination of Selected Works for
Piano.
Kirby, Paul H.
(1996) Tonal And Nontonal Elements in the Recent Chamber Music of Ned
Rorem
Koo, Mijung
(2005) Theme and Drama in Thea Musgrave’s Early Music in 1956-1960.
Kosovsky, Robert (2000) Bernard Herrmann's radio music for the
'Columbia Workshop'
Krasner, Orly (1995) Reginald de Koven (1859-1920) and American
comic opera at the turn of the century
Kutnowski, Martin (2003) Harmony, Voice Leading, and Phrase Rhythm
In Scriabin's Op. 11, No. 2, and Ops. 22, Nos. 1 & 3: A Schenkerian
Perspective
Lapidus, Benjamin (2002) An examination of the Changui genre of
Guantanamo, Cuba
Lerner, Bennett (2002) Piano Pieces by Roy Harris, Marc Biltzstein,
Paul Bowles, and Irving Fine: A
Leslie, Philip (2004) The Use and Development of the Trumpet:
1900 to 1920
Levitov, Daniel (2005) Narrative and Program in the
Twentieth-Century Cello Concerto.
Lewis, Alexandra (2005) Evocations of Water at the Piano:
From Schubert to Liszt and Ravel.
Lin, Hui-Mei (2002) Franz Liszt: Solo Transcriptions of Schubert's
'Winterreise'
Link, John (1994) Long-range poly-rhythms in Elliott Carter's
recent music
Lionnet, Leonard (2003) Point Counter Point: Interactions between
Pre-Existing Music and Film Structure in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining.
Longo, Lauren (1997) Pietro Gianotti's 'Le Guide du compositeur':
A reworking of Rameau's 'L'Art de la basse fondamentale'. An annotated
translation and critical edition of part I
Losada, Cristina Catherine (2004) A Theoretical Model for the
Analysis of
Collage in Music Derived from Selected Works by Berio, Zimmerman and
Rochberg
Lott, R. Allen (1986) The American Concert tours of Leopold De
Meyer, Henri Herz, and Sigismong Thalberg.
MacIntyre, Bruce Cambell (1984) The Viennese Concerted Mass of the
early classic period: History, Analysis, and thematic Catalogue
Maisel, Arthur (1989) Talent and technique: George Gershwin's
'Rhapsody in Blue'
Marsh, Carol (1985) French Court Dance in England 1706-1740: A
study of the sources.
Matthews Whiteman, Carol (1997) 'Passio': The iconography of Arvo
Part
Mead, Rita H. (1978) Henry Cowell’s New Music 1925-1936 The
society, the music editions, and the recordings
Meister, Barbara (1987) The interaction of music and poetry: a
study of the poems of Paul Verlaine as set to music by Claude Debussy and of
the song cycle 'Songs And Proverbs of William Blake' by Benjamin Britten
Miller, Benjamin (1991) Simulation and evaluation of a model of
meter perception
Miller, Cynthia (2000) Parallelism and symmetry in three Debussy
preludes
Miller, Jeffrey (1987) An Analysis of Roberto Gerhard’s Libra
Milton, Nicolas (2004) The String Quartets of Peter Schulthorpe:
A Study in Stylistic Synthesis
Miyake, Jan (2004) The Role of Multiple New-Key Themes in
Selected Sonata Form Expositions
Muir, Peter (2004) Before 'Crazy Blues': Commercial Blues
in America 1850-1920
Muir, Theresa (1997) Wagner in England: Four writers before Shaw
Nagy, Alexander (1992) Bela Bartok's Violin Concerto #2: an
analysis of the creative and compositional process through a study of the
manuscripts
Nitzberg, Roy (1999) Voice-leading and chromatic techniques in
expositions of selected symphonies by Franz Joseph Haydn, introducing a new
theory of chromatic analysis
Nuss, Steven (1996) Tradition and innovation in the art music of
post-war Japan
O'Donnell, Shaugn (1997) Transformational voice leading in atonal
music
Ohno, Sarina
(2005) The Piano Chamber Music of Maurice Ravel.
Oja, Carol J. (1985) Colin McPhee (1900-1964): A composer in two
worlds.
O’Leary, Stephen (1993) A Catalogue of Fourth Spans in Bartok’s
Mikrokosmas, Volumes IV and V
Joseph Palackal (2005) Syriac Chant Traditions in South India.
Panner, Daniel (2003) The Function of the Second Viola in the
String Quintets of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Park, Christopher (1999) Mozart's harmonization exercises for
Barbara Ployer
