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PhD Dissertations (1974-2004): American topics
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Hsu, Yilien (2005) A Study of Selected Flute Works of Otto
Luening.
Koo, Mijung (2005) Theme and Drama in Thea Musgrave’s
Early Music in 1956-1960.
Taublieb, Diane (2005) Arthur Weisberg's Contemporary Chamber
Ensemble.
VanNostrand, Jill (2005) The First American Entertainment:
Minstrelsy in Post-Civil War New York, 1865-1870.
Ragland, Catherine (2005) Ni Aquí ni Allá (Neither Here nor There):
Música Nortena and the Mexican
Working-Class Diaspora.
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.
Muir, Peter (2004) Before 'Crazy Blues': Commercial Blues
in America 1850-1920
Roman, Beatriz (2004) Time as a Structural Element in the Music
of John Cage:
A Study of Representative Piano Pieces
Shin, Jee-Young (2004) Synthesis of Various Elements in the
Selected Piano
Works of Frederic Rzewski: No Place To Go But Around, Andante con moto,
Four Pieces For Piano, The Turtle and the Crane
Howell, Mark (2004) An Ethnoarchaeomusicological Investigation
of Guatemalan
Maya Dance-Plays
Johnson, Marc (2003) The Masses Are Singing': Insurgency and
Song in New York City, 1929-1941
Garcia, David (2003) Arsenio Rodriguez: A Black Cuban Musician
in the Dance Music Milieus of Havana, New York City, and Los Angeles
Lionnet, Leonard (2003) Point Counter Point: Interactions
between
Pre-Existing Music and Film Structure in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining.
Saposnik, Andrea (2003) Women in the Spotlight: Divas in
Nineteenth-century New York
Sonenberg, Daniel (2003) Who In The World She Might Be: A
Contextual and Stylistic Approach to the Early Music of Joni Mitchell
Dragone, Luann (2003) Structural Consistency Amidst Stylistic
Diversity in the Music of Louise Talma
Bortz, Graziela (2003) Rhythm in the Music of Brian Ferneyhough,
Michael Finnisy, and Arthur Kampela: A Guide for Performers
Guzski, Carolyn (2002) American Opera at the Metropolitan,
1910-1935: A Contextual History and Critical Survey of Selected Works
Lerner, Bennett (2002) Piano Pieces by Roy Harris, Marc
Biltzstein, Paul Bowles, and Irving Fine: A Performing Edition
Thorman, Marc (2002) Speech and Text in Compositions by John
Cage, 1950-1952
Gamble, Charles (2001) The framing interval and its role in the
integration of melody and form in four early works by Aaron Copland
Slottow, Stephen (2001) A vast simplicity: pitch organization in
the works of Carl Ruggles
Wollman, Elizabeth (2001) The Aesthetic Development of the
Rock Musical on the New York Stage
Hurwitt, Elliott (2000) W. C. Handy as music publisher: career
and reputation
Kosovsky, Robert (2000) Bernard Herrmann's radio music for the
'Columbia Workshop'
Stewart, Alexander (2000) Composition and performance in
contemporary New York City big bands (1989--1999)
Byrne, Madelyn (1999) Speech-based computer music compositions:
Selected works by Charles Dodge and Paul Lansky
Weisser, Benedict (1998) Notational practice in contemporary
music: A critique of three compositional models (Luciano Berio, John Cage,
and Brian Ferneyhough)
Chevan, David (1997) Written music in early jazz
Zak, Albin Joseph, III (1997) The poetics of rock composition:
Multitrack recording as compositional practice
Bauer, William (1996) Betty Carter: A biography and style
analysis
Cohen, Allen (1996) Theory and practice in the works of Howard
Hanson
Kassel, Richard (1996) The evolution of Harry Partch's monophony
Hisama, Ellie (1996) Gender, politics, and modernist music:
analyses of five compositions by Ruth Crawford (1901-1953) and Marion
Bauer (1887-1955)
Krasner, Orly (1995) Reginald de Koven (1859-1920) and American
comic opera at the turn of the century
Holzaepfel, John (1994) David Tudor and the performance of
American experimental music, 1950-1959
Link, John (1994) Long-range polyrhythms in Elliott Carter's
recent music
Raickovich, Milos (1994) 'Einstein On The Beach' by Philip
Glass: a musical analysis
Burwasser, Daniel (1993) A study of Lou Harrison's Concerto for
Violin and Percussion Orchestra and Concerto for Organ and Percussion
Orchestra
Carrabre, Thomas Patrick (1993) Twelve-tone tonality and the
music of George Perle
Eversole, Sylvia Miller (1992) Eleanor Everest Freer: her life
and music
Wendland, Kristin Florence (1991) The major choral works of
Robert Starer and their place in American music
Aldag, Richard (1990) Roger Sessions' Duo For Violin And
Violoncello: an edition and an examination of the composition process
Campbell, Alan (1990) Roger Sessions' adoption of the
twelve-tone method
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)
Maisel, Arthur (1989) Talent and technique: George Gershwin's
'Rhapsody in Blue'
Preston, Katherine (1989) Traveling opera troupes in the United
States, 1825-1860. (Vols. I and II)
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'
Carlson, Philip (1986) The player piano music of Conlon Nancarrow:
An analysis of selected studies.
Lott, R. Allen (1986) The American Concert tours of Leopold De
Meyer, Henri Herz, and Sigismong Thalberg.
Gonzalez-Quinones, Jaime (1985) The orchestrally-accompanied
villancico in Mexico in the eighteenth century.
Oja, Carol J. (1985) Colin McPhee (1900-1964): A composer in
two worlds.
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
Brancaleone, Francis (1982) The short piano works of
Edward Macdowell
Tick, Judith (1979) Towards a history of American Woman
Composers before 1870
