CUNY PhD Dissertations (1974-2004): Music of the Twentieth-Century and
Beyond
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Music of the Turn of the Century and the
Early 20th Century
Ohno, Sarina (2005) The Piano Chamber Music of Maurice
Ravel.
Hodos, Gilya
(2004) Transcriptions, Paraphrases, and
Arrangements: The Compositional Art of Moritz Moszkowski
Leslie, Philip (2004) The Use and Development of the Trumpet:
1900 to 1920
Muir, Peter (2004) Before 'Crazy Blues': Commercial Blues
in America 1850-1920
Johnson, Marc (2003) The Masses Are Singing': Insurgency and
Song in New York City, 1929-1941
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
Kanovsky, Peninah
(2002) Metric hierarchy in music by Bartok, Copland And Stravinsky
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
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
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
Darby, Joseph (1999) Dmitri Shostakovich's Second, Third and
Fourth symphonies: Problems of context, analysis, and interpretation
Santa, Matthew (1999) Studies in post-tonal diatonicism: A
mod7 perspective
Coppola, Catherine (1998) Form and fantasy: (1870-1920)
Chevan, David (1997) Written music in early jazz
O'Donnell, Shaugn
(1997) Transformational voice leading in atonal music
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)
Carter, Lee Chandler
(1995)The progress in 'the Rake's'
Krasner, Orly
(1995) Reginald de Koven (1859-1920) and American comic opera
at the turn of the century
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
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'
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'
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
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.
Carlson, Philip (1986) The player piano music of Conlon Nancarrow:
An analysis of selected studies.
Mead, Rita H. (1978) Henry Cowell’s New Music 1925-1936
The society, the music editions, and the recordings
Saylor, Bruce (1978) Ideas of Freedom in the Musical Thought
of Henry Cowell, as seen in selected compositions and writings
Berlin, Edward A. (1976) Piano Ragtime: A Musical and
Cultural Study
Siebert, Lynn Laitman (1974) Cole Porter: An
Analysis of 5 musical comedies and a thematic catalogue of the complete
works.
Post-War Music
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.
Koo, Mijung (2005) Theme and Drama in Thea Musgrave’s Early Music in
1956-1960.
Levitov, Daniel
(2005)
Narrative and Program in the Twentieth-Century Cello Concerto.
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'.
Taublieb, Diane (2005)
Arthur Weisberg's Contemporary Chamber Ensemble
Willson, Brian (2005)
Achieving Fluency in Twentieth-Century Rhythms: A Pedagogical Approach.
Milton, Nicolas (2004) The String Quartets of Peter Schulthorpe:
A Study in Stylistic Synthesis
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
Losada, Cristina Catherine (2004) A Theoretical Model for the
Analysis of
Collage in Music Derived from Selected Works by Berio, Zimmerman and
Rochberg
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.
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
Boren, Murray (2002) A Catalogue of the Compositions of Hugo
Weisgall
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
Roman, Beatriz
(2004) Time as a Structural Element in the Music of John Cage:
A Study of Representative Piano Pieces
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)
Matthews Whiteman, Carol (1997)'Passio': The iconography of
Arvo Part
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
Nuss, Steven (1996) Tradition and innovation in the art music
of post-war Japan
Chung, Yiu-Kwong (1995) I Ching compositional system: the symbolism,
structures, and orderly sequence of the sixty-four hexagrams as
compositional determinants
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 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
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
Hester, Karlton (1990) The melodic and polyrhythmic
development of John Coltrane's spontaneous composition in a racist society
Campbell, Alan (1990) Roger Sessions' adoption of the
twelve-tone method
Miller, Jeffrey (1987) An Analysis of Roberto Gerhard’s Libra
Lott, R. Allen (1986) The American Concert tours of
Leopold De Meyer, Henri Herz, and Sigismong Thalberg.
Oja, Carol J. (1985) Colin McPhee (1900-1964): A
composer in two worlds.
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.
Darson, Thomas H. (1979) The solo piano works of Cyril Scott
Porter, Steven (1979) Rhythm and Harmony in the Music of the Beatles.
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