CUNY PhD Dissertations (1974-2004): Western music: early, Classical, and Romantic

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CUNY dissertations dealing with early music and Baroque music

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

CUNY dissertations dealing with Classical and Romantic music

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Saposnik, Andrea (2003) Women in the Spotlight: Divas in
Nineteenth-century New York

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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