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Chapman, Alicia (2005) The Modern Oboist's Transition to the Baroque Oboe, a guide for players and teachers.

Hsu, Yilien (2005) A Study of Selected Flute Works of Otto Luening.

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.

Knijff, Jan-Piet
(2005) An Early Violin Sonata by Peter Cornelius: A Critical Edition and Study.

Koo, Mijung (2005) Theme and Drama in Thea Musgrave’s Early Music in 1956-1960.

Joffe, Edward (2005) An Examination of Woodwind Doubling Performance Problems Between Saxophones, Clarinets, and Flutes.

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.

Ohno, Sarina (2005) The Piano Chamber Music of Maurice Ravel.

Palackal, Joseph (2005) Syriac Chant Traditions in South India.

Pottinger, Mark (2005) The Staging of History in France: Characterizations of Historical Figures in French Grand Opera during the Reign of Louis Phillippe.

Ragland, Catherine
(2005) Ni Aquí ni Allá (Neither Here nor There): Música Nortena and the Mexican
Working-Class Diaspora.


Samuel, Jamuna
(2005) Music, Text,and Drama in Dallapiccola's ‘Il Prigioniero'.

Schleuse, Paul (2005) Genre and Meaning in Orazio Vecchi's Selva di varia ricreatione (1590).

Taublieb, Diane
(2005) Arthur Weisberg's Contemporary Chamber Ensemble.

Willson, Brian
(2005) Achieving Fluency in Twentieth-Century Rhythms: A Pedagogical Approach.

VanNostrand, Jill (2005) The First American Entertainment: Minstrelsy in Post-Civil War New York, 1865-1870.

Currie, Norman (2004) Robert Schumann, Hector Berlioz, and Their Publishers  

Hodos, Gilya
(2004) Transcriptions, Paraphrases, and Arrangements: The Compositional Art of Moritz Moszkowski

Hosford, Desmond
(2004) Redefining Perfection: The Lullian Aesthetic
and its Eighteenth-Century Development


Howell, Mark
(2004) An Ethnoarchaeomusicological Investigation of Guatemalan
Maya Dance-Plays


Leslie, Philip
(2004) The Use and Development of the Trumpet:
1900 to 1920


Losada, Cristina Catherine
(2004) A Theoretical Model for the Analysis of
Collage in Music Derived from Selected Works by Berio, Zimmerman and
Rochberg


Miyake, Jan
(2004) The Role of Multiple New-Key Themes in
Selected Sonata Form Expositions


Milton, Nicolas
(2004) The String Quartets of Peter Sculthorpe:
A Study in Stylistic Synthesis


Muir, Peter
(2004) Before 'Crazy Blues': Commercial Blues
in America 1850-1920


Rapoport, Erez
(2004) The Smoothing-Over of Formal Junctures as a Style
Element in Mendelssohn's Instrumental Music

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

Wang, Myungsook
(2004) Isaac Albeniz's Iberia and the Influence of
Franz Liszt


Bortz, Graziela (2003) Rhythm in the Music of Brian Ferneyhough, Michael Finnisy, and Arthur Kampela: A Guide for Performers 

Dragone, Luann
(2003) Structural Consistency Amidst Stylistic Diversity in the Music of Louise Talma 

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

Garcia, David
(2003) Arsenio Rodriguez: A Black Cuban Musician in the Dance Music Milieus of
Havana, New York City, and Los Angeles

Johnson, Marc
(2003) The Masses Are Singing': Insurgency and Song in New York City, 1929-1941

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 

Lionnet, Leonard
(2003) Point Counter Point: Interactions between Pre-Existing Music and Film Structure in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining.

Panner, Daniel
(2003) The Function of the Second Viola in the String Quintets of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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 

Stoecker, Philip
(2003) Studies in Post-Tonal Symmetry: A Transformational Approach

Barash, Amari (2002) Cadential Gestures in Post-Tonal Music: The Constitution Of Cadences in Selected Solo Piano Works of Messiaen and Boulez 

Boren, Murray
(2002) A Catalogue of the Compositions of Hugo Weisgall 

Guzski, Carolyn
(2002) American Opera at the Metropolitan, 1910-1935: A Contextual History and Critical Survey of Selected Works

Hong, Sun-Kyoung
(2002) A Stylistic Analysis and Technical
Consideration of Debussy's Sonata for Cello and Piano

Jung, Ja Young
(2002) Preludes in All Twenty-four Major and Minor Keys, Op. 67 by Johann Nepomuk Hummel: An Investigation and Analysis

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

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 Performing Edition

Lin, Hui-Mei
(2002) Franz Liszt: Solo Transcriptions of Schubert's 'Winterreise'

Thorman, Marc
(2002) Speech and Text in Compositions by John Cage, 1950-1952

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

Gamble, Charles
(2001) The framing interval and its role in the integration of melody and form in four early works by Aaron Copland

Kaneda, Mariko (2001) Selected piano works of Emmanuel Chabrier: a stylistic analysis

Shannon, Jonathan
(2001) Among the Jasmine trees: Music, modernity, and the aesthetics of authenticity in contemporary Syria

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

White, Andrew
(2001) 'Good invention repaid with interest': The importance of borrowing in Bach's compositional practice

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'

Miller, Cynthia
(2000) Parallelism and symmetry in three Debussy preludes

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

Darby, Joseph
(1999) Dmitri Shostakovich's Second, Third and Fourth symphonies: Problems of context, analysis, and interpretation

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

Cartwright, Katherine
(1998) Quotation and reference in Jazz Performance: Ella Fitzgerald’s “St. Louis Blues” 19576-1979

Coppola, Catherine
(1998) Form and fantasy: (1870-1920)

Jackson, Susan
(1998) Berg and Neuber: Music printers in sixteenth-century Nuremberg

Weisser, Benedict
(1998) Notational practice in contemporary music: A critique of three compositional models (Luciano Berio, John Cage, and Brian Ferneyhough)

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

Blazekovic, Zdravko (1997) Music in medieval and Renaissance astrological imagery

Chevan, David
(1997) Written music in early jazz

Goldberg, Halina
(1997) Musical life in Warsaw during Chopin's youth, 1810-1830

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

Matthews Whiteman, Carol
(1997) 'Passio': The iconography of Arvo Part

Muir, Theresa
(1997) Wagner in England: Four writers before Shaw

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

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

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

Kirby, Paul H.
(1996) Tonal And Nontonal Elements in the Recent Chamber Music of Ned Rorem

Hanock, Galia
(1996) The shadow of death in the original works of Franz Liszt.

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

Ya'ar, Avishai
(1996) The Cantillation of the Bible: the Aleppo Tradition (Pentateuch)

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

Chung, Yiu-Kwong
(1995) I Ching compositional system: the symbolism, structures, and orderly sequence of the sixty-four hexagrams as compositional determinants

Hallman, Diana
(1995) The French grand opera 'La Juive' (1835): a socio-historical study

Krasner, Orly
(1995) Reginald de Koven (1859-1920) and American comic opera at the turn of the century

Wulfhorst, Martin  
(1995) Louis Spohr's early chamber music (1796-1812): A contribution to the history of nineteenth-century genres

Ardito, Linda (1994) A study of compositional procedures in selected opera overtures (1791-1821)

Biondi, Michael
(1994) Compositional Process in Dallapiccola's Ulisse: a survey and analysis of new findings in the Dallapiccola archive, Florence, Italy

Conrad, Bridget
(1994) The sources of Jolivet's musical language and his relationships with Varese and Messiaen. (Volumes I and II)

Hamer, Janice
(1994) Sofia Gubaidulina's compositional strategies in the 'String Trio' (1988) and other works

Holzaepfel, John
(1994) David Tudor and the performance of American experimental music, 1950-1959

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

Piza, Antoni
(1994) The tradition of autobiography in music

Raickovich, Milos
(1994) 'Einstein On The Beach' by Philip Glass: a musical analysis

Schultz, Timothy P.
(1994) Performing French Classical Music: A Case Study Base on the premiere suite of Francois Chauvon (fl. 1712-1736)

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

Gunn, Nancy
(1993) Organicism, Motivic Development, and Formal Design in Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s Symphony No. 1

Finley, Patrick D
. (1993) A Catalogue of the Works of Ralph Shapey

Kahan, Sylvia
(1993) The Princesse Edmond De Polignac (1986-1943): A documentary chronicle of her life and artistic circle

O’Leary, Stephen
(1993) A Catalogue of Fourth Spans in Bartok’s Mikrokosmas, Volumes IV and V

Bradley, Robert (1992) Musical life and culture at Savoy, 1420-1450. (Volumes I and II)

Eversole, Sylvia Miller
(1992) Eleanor Everest Freer: her life and music

Hur, Mi-Sool Han (
1992) Irregular Recapitulation in Schubert’s Instrumental Works.

Nagy, Alexander
(1992) Bela Bartok's Violin Concerto  #2: an analysis of the creative and compositional process through a study of the manuscripts

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

Ros-Fabregas, Emilio
(1992) The Manuscript Barcelona, Biblioteca de Catalunya, M. 454: study and edition in the context of the Iberian and continental manuscript traditions.

Burke, Richard (1991) The 'Marche Funebre' from Beethoven to Mahler

Greenwald, Helen M.
(1991) Dramatic Exposition and Musical Structure in Puccini’s Operas.

Johnson, Margaret
(1991) Knowledge formalization and representation of the dynamics of expressive musical performance

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

Miller, Benjamin
(1991) Simulation and evaluation of a model of meter perception

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

Stern, David
(1991) The use of Accidental Inflections and the Musical System in Josquin’s Period ca 1480-1520

Wendland, Kristin Florence
(1991) The major choral works of Robert Starer and their place in American music

Yarmolinsky, Benjamin
(1991) The music of Jillala: a repertoire of spirits

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

Hur, Young-Han
(1990) Conflicting attributions in the continental motet repertory from ca. 1500 to ca. 1550

Renton, Barbara
(1990) The musical culture of eighteenth-century bohemia, with special emphasis on the music inventories of Osek and the Knights of the Cross

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'

Porter, Charles
(1989) Interval Cycles and Symmetrical Formations as generators of Melody, harmony, and form in Alban Berg's String Quartet Opus. 3

Preston, Katherine
(1989) Traveling opera troupes in the United States, 1825-1860. (Vols. I and II)

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

Delfausse, Robert
(1988) The roles of symmetrical measure groups in Mozart's piano sonatas

Gagne, David
(1988) Performance Medium as a compositional Determinant: A study of selected works in three genres by Mozart.

Jackson, Tim
(1988) The Last Strauss: Studies of the Letzte Lieder.

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'

Coeyman, Barbara
(1987) The stage works of Michel-Richard Delalande in the musical - cultural context of the French court, 1680-1726

Goldner, June
(1987) The emergence of the role of the solo vocalist and the position of women as singer

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, Jeffrey
(1987) An Analysis of Roberto Gerhard’s Libra

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

Agmon, Eytan (1986) Diatonicism, Chromaticism, and Enharmonicism : a Study in Cognition and Perception.

Andreacchi, Peter
(1986) An examination of the relation of text to music in Claude Debussy’s Trois Poemes De Mallarme

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.

Smaldone, Edward
(1986) Linear Analysis of Selected Post-tonal Works of Arnold Schoenberg: Towards an Application of Schenkarian Concepts to music of the post-tonal Era.

Gonzalez-Quinones, Jaime (1985) The orchestrally-accompanied villancico in Mexico in the eighteenth century.

Marsh, Carol
(1985) French Court Dance in England 1706-1740: A study of the sources.

Oja, Carol J.
(1985) Colin McPhee (1900-1964): A composer in two worlds.

Zorman, Moshe
(1985) Music for solo violin 1450-1960: A study in twentieth century non-tonal melodic writing as exemplified in works by Perle, Shifrin, Ehrlich, Zimmerman, and Sessions.

Bebbingtion, Warren Arthur (1984) The orchestral Conducting practice of Richard Wagner.

Brewer Charles E.
(1984) The Introduction of the Ars Nova into East Central Europe: A Study of the late Medieval Polish Sources.

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

Greenbaum, Matthew
(1984) Stefan Wolpe’s Proportions: A translation and commentary by Matthew Greenbaum

Jazwinkski, Barbara
(1984) Four Compositions by Tadeusz Baird an Analytic Essay.

MacIntyre, Bruce Cambell
(1984) The Viennese Concerted Mass of the early classic period: History, Analysis, and thematic Catalogue

Reichart, Sarah Bennett (1984) The influence of Eighteenth-century Social Dance on the Viennese
Classical Style.


Brauer, James Leonard
(1983) Instruments in Sacred Vocal Music at Braunschweig-Wolfenbuttel: A study of the changing tastes in the seventeenth century

Ghezzo, Marta A.
(1983) Epic Songs of Sixteenth-Century Hungary, History and Style.

Kagan, Susan
(1983) The Music of Archduke Rudolph Beethoven’s Patron, pupil and friend

Beder, Jodi
(1982) The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book Dances: The fusion of Rhythm and tonal structure in the Late Renaissance.

Brancaleone, Francis
(1982) The short piano works of Edward Macdowell

Trimmer, Maud Alice (1981) Texture and Sonata form in the late string chamber music of Haydn and Mozart

Rosenstock, Raymond Hugh
(1981) Jean Maillar (Fl. 1538-1572): French Renaissance Composer

Darson, Thomas H. (1979) The solo piano works of Cyril Scott

Porter, Steven
(1979) Rhythm and Harmony in the Music of the Beatles.

Tick, Judith
(1979) Towards a history of American Woman Composers before 1870

Block, Adrienne Fried (1978) Pierre Segernt’s Les Grans Noelz ca 1537 and the early French Parody Noel

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.

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

Mead, Rita H.
(1978) Henry Cowell’s New Music 1925-1936 The society, the music editions, and the recordings

Plotinsky, Anita Heppner
(1978) The keyboard music of Johann Kaspar Ferdinand Fischer

Saylor, Bruce
(1978) Ideas of Freedom in the Musical Thought of Henry Cowell, as seen in selected compositions and writings

Antokoletz, Elliot (1976) Principles of Pitch organization in Bartok’s Fourth String Quartet

Berlin, Edward A.
(1976) Piano Ragtime: A Musical and Cultural Study

Sabbeth, Daniel
(1976) Principles of Tonal and Dramatic Organization in Verdi’s Falstaff

Wiesel, Meir
(1976) Thematic Unity in Beethoven’s sonata works of the period 1796-1802

Cohen, Vered (1977) Zarlino on modes: an annotated, indexed translation, with introduction and commentary.

Evans, Roger
(1977) Amalarius of Metz and the singing of the Carolingian Offices

Foster, Genette
(1977) The iconology of musical instruments and musical performance in thirteenth-century French manuscript illuminations.

Paymer, Marvin
(1977) The instrumental music attributed to Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: a study in authenticity.

Bushler, David (1975) Development in the First Movements of Bruckner's Symphonies

Friedland, Bea (1975) Louise Farrenc 1804-1875 Composer, Performer, Scholar

Jorgens, Elise (1975)“Let Well Tun’d Words Amaze” Attitudes toward Poetry in English Solo Song from John Dowland to Henry Lawes

Siebert, Lynn Laitman (1974) Cole Porter: An Analysis of 5 musical comedies and a thematic catalogue of the complete works.

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