CUNY PhD Dissertations (1987-2001): Music Theory Dissertations

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Sigrun Heinzelmann (2008) Ravel’s Prewar Sonata Forms

Aleksandra Vojcic(2007) Rhythm as Form: Rhythmic Hierarchy in Later Twentieth-Century Piano Music
 
Kyle Adams (2006) Chromaticism in the 16th and 17th Centuries

Michael Berry (2006) Atonal Voice-Leading Spaces

Jamuna Samuel (2005)  Dallapiccola’s The Prisoner

Erez Rapoport (2005) Smoothing-Over of Formal Boundaries in Mendelssohn

Catherine Losada (2004) Analysis of Collage

Jan Miyake (2004) Classical Form: Multiple Themes in Second Groups

Channan Willner (2004) Durational Pacing in Handel's Instrumental Works

Dragone, Luann (2003) Music of Louise Talma

Duerksen, Marva (2003) Organicism and Musical Analysis: Three Case Studies

Stoecker, Philip (2003) Metric Studies in Post-Tonal Symmetry

Kanovsky, Peninah (2002) Metric hierarchy in music by Bartok, Copland And Stravinsky

Thorman, Marc (2002) Speech and Text in Compositions by John Cage, 1950-1992

Clemmons, William (2001) Johann Joseph Fux's 'Gradus ad Parnassum' and the traditions of seventeenth-century contrapuntal pedagogy

Slottow, Stephen (2001) A vast simplicity: pitch organization in the works of Carl Ruggles

Kosovsky, Robert (2000) Bernard Herrmann's radio music for the 'Columbia Workshop'

Nitzberg, Roy (1999) Voice-leading and chromatic techniques in expositions of selected symphonies by Franz Joseph Haydn, introducing a new theory of chromatic analysis

Park, Christopher (1999) Mozart's harmonization exercises for Barbara Ployer

Samarotto, Frank (1999) A theory of temporal plasticity in tonal music: An extension of the Schenkerian approach to rhythm with special reference to Beethoven's late style

Santa, Matthew (1999) Studies in post-tonal diatonicism: A mod7 perspective

Anson-Cartwright, Mark (1998) The development section in Haydn's late instrumental works

Yaraman, Sevin (1998) The waltz: A musical interpretation through the steps

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

O'Donnell, Shaugn (1997) Transformational voice leading in atonal music

Kessler, Deborah (1996)  Schubert's late three-key expositions: influence, design, and structure

Hisama, Ellie (1996) Gender, politics, and modernist music: analyses of five compositions by Ruth Crawford (1901-1953) and Marion Bauer (1887-1955)

Nuss, Steven (1996) Tradition and innovation in the art music of post-war Japan

Carter, Lee Chandler (1995)The progress in 'the Rake's'

Link, John (1994) Long-range polyrhythms in Elliott Carter's recent music

Platt, Heather (1992) Text-music relationships in the Lieder of Johannes Brahms

Karpinski, Gary (1991) The interval cycles in the music of Bartok and Debussy through 1918

Skoumal, Zdenek (1991) Structure in the late instrumental music of Leos Janacek

Maisel, Arthur (1989) Talent and technique: George Gershwin's 'Rhapsody in Blue'

Burstein, Poundie (1988) The non-tonic opening in Classical and Romantic music

Renwick, William (1987) Voice-leading patterns in the fugal expositions of J. S. Bach's 'Well-Tempered Clavier'

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