Recent Ph.D. Dissertations
2009
Shalini Rao Ayyagari
Ethnomusicology
Sustaining Music and Preserving Culture: The Politics of Emerging Institutional Spaces Among the Manganiyar Hereditary Musician Community of Rajasthan, India
Rebecca Marina Bodenheimer
Ethnomusicology
Localizing Hybridity: The Politics of Place
in Contemporary Cuban Rumba Performance
Esther V. Criscuola de Laix
History and Literature
Cultures of Music Print in Hamburg, ca. 1550–1630
Aaron Einbond
Composition
New Work for Ensemble and Live Electronics
Timothy D. Fuson
Ethnomusicology
Musicking Moves and Ritual Grooves Across the Moroccan Gnawa Night
Lisa Jakelski
History and Literature
The Changing Seasons of the Warsaw Autumn:
Contemporary Music in Poland, 1960–1990
Matthew Rahaim
Ethnomusicology
Gesture, Melody, and the Paramparic Body in Hindustani Vocal Music
Christina J. Schiffner
History and Literature
Singing Silence, Silencing Noise: Rossini’s Opere Serie for Naples, 1815-1822
Arman Schwartz
History and Literature
Modernity Sings: Rethinking Realism in Italian Opera
2008
Jean Ahn
Composition
Salt for Orchestra
Eliot Bates
Ethnomusicology
Interactions, Networks, and the Production of Digital Audio in an Istanbul Recording Studio
Mason W. Bates
Composition
Liquid interface, for orchestra and electronica
Jeremy Hunt
Composition
in_videophone_surround
Alexander Kahn
History and Literature
Double Lives: Exile Composers in Los Angeles, 1933-1960
Christina Michelle Sunardi
Ethnomusicology
Gendered Dance Modes in Malang, East Java: Music, Movement and the Production of Local Senses of Identity
Noel Verzosa
History and Literature
The Absolute Limits: Debussy, Satie, and the Culture of French Moder
2007
Christina Ahn
Composition
Message - John 3:16 for Brass Quintet, Timpani, and Choir
Carla Brunet
Ethnomusicology
Carnaval, Samba Schools and the Construction of Gendered Identities in Sao Paulo, Brazil
Mei-Fang Lin
Composition
Multiplication Virtuelle
Loretta K. Notareschi
Composition
Sand in Machine for Wind Ensemble
Jeff Packman
Ethnomusicology
"We Work Hard at Entertainment": Performance and Professionalism in the Popular Music Scenes of Salvador De Bahia, Brazil
Yiorgos Vassilandonakis
Composition
Thalassin—
2006
Robert Fallon
History & Literature
Messiaen's Mimesis: The Language and Culture of the Bird Styles
Brian Kane
Composition
The Music of Skepticism: Materiality, Intentionality, Forms of Life
Anaphora for string orchestra, harp and piano
Lenore Kitts
Comparative Literature
Lay It Down: The Specter of Slave Music in Toni Morrison's Beloved
Michael Markham
History & Literature
The Heritage of Campaspe: Oral Tradition and Giulio Caccini's "Le Nuove Musiche"
Robert Morales
Composition
Turning Point for Orchestra
Anna Nisnevich
History & Literature
The Silver Age and Its Echo: St. Petersburg Classicism at Home and Abroad, 1890-1921
Kimberly Parke
History & Literature
Engineering Music: A Critical Interpretation of Giambattista Aleotti's "De la Musica"
David Paul
History & Literature>
Converging Paths to Canoncity: Charles Ives, Gustav Mahler, and American Culture
2005
Philipp Blume
Composition
Rausch des Vergessens
Martin Deasy
History & Literature
Donizetti and Naples in the 1830s
Richard Dudas
Composition
Lyric Movement for Violin, Winds, and Electronics
Hubert Ho
Composition
Trilogy for Chamber Orchestra
Pamela Kamatani
History & Literature
Science, Metaphysics, and the Late Works of J.S. Bach
Donna Kwon
Ethnomusicology
Music, Movement, and Space: A Study of the Madang and P'an
in Korean Expressive Folk Culture
Ali Momeni
Composition
Chamber Work for Double Bass, Live Electronics and Ensembles
Peter Slavin
Composition
L'epreuve de la Pucelle: An Opera in One Act
Heather Wiebe
History & Literature
Rituals of a Lost Faith: Britten and the Culture
of Postwar Reconstruction
2004
Fernando Benadon
Composition
Full Semicircle for ten players
David Stanley Bithell
Composition
Lumen: Music Thater for Trumpet, Assistants, and Live Electronics
Melina Esse
History & Literature
Sighs, Tremors, Tears: Conventions of the Body in Italian Opera
Ann Nalini Gwynne
History & Literature
India in the English Musical Imagination
Partow Hooshmandrad
Ethnomusicology
Performing the Belief: Sacred Musical Practice of the Ahl-i Haqq of Guran
Maria Arko Klemenc
Ethnomusicology
Arranging the Nation: Slovenian Choral Singing and Folk Song Arrangements
Keeril Makan
Composition
Bleed Through for Bass Clarinet, Electric Guitar, Percussion, Piano, Violin, and Cello
Roger Moseley
History & Literature
Brief Immortality: Recasting History in the Music of Brahms
Holly Watkins
History & Literature
The Concept of Depth in German Musical Thought, 1800-1950
2003
Dwight Banks
Composition
Scenes and Events
Laura Basini
History & Literature
Reviving the Past: Italian Music History and Verdi
Matthew Gelbart
History & Literature
Scotland and the Emergence of "Folk Music" and "Art Music" in Europe from 1720-1850K
Peter Schmelz
History & Literature
Listening, Memory, and the Thaw: Unofficial Music and Society in the Soviet Union, 1956-1974
Reynold Graham Tharp
Composition
Cold Horizon for Chamber Orchestra
2002
Brian Current
Composition
Scenes from Airline Icarus, A chamber Opera in One Act
Philip Flavin
Ethnomusicology
Sakumono: Textual and Musical Humor in Japanese Music of the Tokugawa Period
Chan N Le
Ethnomusicology
Quan Ho Singing in North Vietnam: A Yearning for Resolution
Beth E. Levy
History & Literature
Frontier Figures: American Music and the Mythology of the American West, 1895-1945
Dmitri Tymoczko
Composition
The Agony of Modern Music
Adriana Verdi De Vas Romero
Composition
Modulatio 4:3 for Bandoneon, Harp, Double Bass and Orchestra
2001
Leslie A. Sprout
History & Literature
Music for a "New Era": Composers and National Identity in France, 1936-1946
Nathaniel Geoffrey Lew
History & Literature
A New and Glorious Age: Constructions of National Opera in Britain, 1945-1951
Henry Spiller
Ethnomusicology
Erotic Triangles: Sundanese Men's Improvisational Dance in West Java, Indonesia
Santosa
Ethnomusicology
Constructing Images in Gamelan Performances: Communicative Aspects
Among Musicians and Audiences in Village Communities
Rajna Klaser
Ethnomusicology
From an Imagined Paradise to an Imagined Nation:
Interpreting Sarki as a Cultural Play
Margaret Duesenberry
Ethnomusicology
A Study of Gatekeeping and Traditional Music at the BBC in Scotland, 1923-1957
Anthony Kelly
Composition
Africamerica: Sound Images for Piano and Orchestra
Thomas Swafford
Composition
Night Terrors for Orchestra
2000
Marisol Berrios-Miranda
Ethnomusicology
The Significance of Salsa Music to National and Pan-Latino Identity
Danielle Fosler-Lussier
History & Literature
The Transition to Communism and the Legacy of Béla Bartók in Hungary, 1945-56
Andrew Fox
Composition
Bösendorfer Trio for Piano, Violin, and Violoncello
Jennifer Griesbach
History & Literature
Calzabigi and Gassmann, L'Opera seria
Eric Marty
Composition
Lacquer with Thin: Pieces for Exhibition, the First for Orchestra, the Second for Piano
Moon Choo Oh
Composition
From the Revelation for Soprano, Tenor, Bass Soloists, Mixed Chorus, and Orchestra
Steven Pond
Ethnomusicology
Jazz-Rock Fusion
Anya Suschitzky
History & Literature
The Nation on Stage: Wagner and French Opera at the End of the Nineteenth Century
Benjamin Toby Walton
History & Literature
Nationalisms and Romanticisms in Restoration France
Michael Zbyszynski
Composition
Labyrinth for Saxophone and Orchestra
Michael Zwiebach
History & Literature
Marriage of Wits: Comic Archetypes and the Staging of Ideas in Five Comic Operas of Giovanni Paisiello
1999
Bruce Christian Bennett
Composition
Canciones de amor y la noche for voice, electronics, and twelve players on texts by Federico Garc'a Lorca
David Code
History & Literature
A Song Not Purely His Own: Modernism and the Pastoral Mode in Mallarmé, Debussy and Matisse
Mark DeWitt
Ethnomusicology
The Cajun and Zydeco Music and Dance Scene in Northern California: Ethnicity, Authenticity and Leisure
Lisa Gold
Ethnomusicology
The Gender Wayang Repertoire in Theater and Ritual: A Study of Balinese Musical Meaning
Klára Móricz
History & Literature
Jewish Nationalism in Twentieth-Century Art Music
Mitchell Morris
History & Literature
Musical Eroticism and the Transcendent Strain: the Works of Alexander Skryabin, 1898-1908
Joseph Rovan
Composition
Aerial Variations for Alto Saxophone, Chamber Orchestra and Interactive Electronics
Eitan Steinberg
Composition
Moving/Stills for Instruments and Voices
Steven Swayne
History & Literature
Hearing Sondheim's Voices
Maria Luisa Vilar-Paya
History & Literature
The Neoclassical Impulse in Schoenberg's Twelve-tone Music and its Analytical Reception
1998
Eliane Aberdam
Composition
Asteroide 622
Jude Navari
Composition
The Call of the Flute for Orchestra
Stephen Rumph
History & Literature
Beethoven After Napoleon: Political Romanticism in The Late Works
Andrew Weintraub
Ethnomusicology
Construing the Popular: Superstars, Performance, and Cultural Authority in Sundanese Wayang Golek Purwa of West Java, Indonesia
1997
Kevin Bazzana
History & Literature
Glenn Gould: A Study in Performance Practice
Anthony Brown
Ethnomusicology
The Development of Modern Jazz Drumset Performance, 1940-50
Kristi Brown
History & Literature
A Critical Study of the Female Characters in Mozart's Don Giovanni and Die Zauberflöte
Steven Clark
Composition
Gilgamesh: A Musical Monodrama for Vocalists, Live Electronics, and Acoustic Instruments
Anthony De Ritis
Composition
Ballet for Orchestra
Shannon Dudley
Ethnomusicology
Making Music for the Nation: Competing Identities and Aesthetics in Trinidad and Tobago's Panorama Steelband and Competition
Elisabeth Le Guin
History & Literature
As My Compositions Show Me to Be: Physicality as Compositional Technique in the Instrumental Music of Luigi Boccherini
David Roche
Ethnomusicology
Devi Amba's Drum: Mina Miracle Chant and the Ritual Ostinato of Spirit-Possession Performance in Southern Rajasthan
David Schneider
History & Literature
Expression in Time of Objectivity: Nationality and Modernity in Five Concertos by Béla Bartók
Trevor Weston
Composition
Biorhythm: An Orchestral Work
1996
Ellen Harrison
Composition
Chimeras Come Singly
Marc Lowenstein
Composition
The Fisher King Suite
Seow Chin Ong
History & Literature
Source Studies for Beethoven's Piano Trio in B-flat Major, op. 97 ("Archduke")
1995
Robert Andreoni
Composition
Chamber Concerto in Two Movements
Brian Banks
Composition
St. Francis Mass
Robert Fink
History & Literature
Arrows of Desire: Long-Range Linear Structure and the Transformations of Musical Energy
Georg Hajdu
Composition
Der Sprung-First Act
Peter Mercer-Taylor
History & Literature
Mendelssohn and the Musical Discourse of the German Restoration
Judith A. Peraino
History & Literature
New Music, Notions of Genre, and the "Manuscrit du Roi" circa 1300
1994
Simon Andrews
Composition
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
Stephen Blumberg
Composition
Nouvelles Fleurs, Nouveaxu Astres for bass clarinet solo, with harp, two percussionists and twelve solo strings
Miguel Chuaqui
Composition
Luna for Chamber Orchestra
Jeffrey Hollander
History & Literature
Shaping the Interpretation, Interpreting the Shape: A Comparative Performance Study of Selected Works of Frédéric Chopin
Alan Lewis
History & Literature
"Un certo che di grandezza": Nicolas Gombert's First Book of Four-Part Motets
Catherine Nez
Composition
Afterimages
George Ruckert
Ethnomusicology
Music of Ali Akbar Khan: An Analysis of His Musical Style through the Examination of His Composition in Three Selected Ragas
Wei-Hua Zhang
Ethnomusicology
The Musical Activities of the Chinese American Communities in the San Francisco Bay Area: A Social and Cultural Study
1993
Maria Johnson
Voices of Struggle: An Exploration of the Relationship between African-American Women's Music and Literature
David Pereira
Chrysalis
Laura Schwendinger
Chamber Concerto for Piano and Chamber Orchestra
Ronald Smith
Kyrie Eleison: A Memorial of the 6th of December, 1989, Montreal
1992
David Eagle
Crossing Currents for Orchestra
David Tayler
The Solo Lute Music of John Dowland
Daniel Weymouth
Concerto for Cello and Orchestra
1991
David Breckbill
The Bayreuth Singing Style around 1900
Thomas Brothers
Genre, Style and Compositional Technique in French Music of the Fifteenth Century
Andrew Faustino Augusto Dell'Antonio
Syntax, Form, and Genre in Sonatas and Canzons, 1621-1635
Margaret Dilling
Music of the Seoul Olympic Ceremonies
Patricia Gidwitz-Lewy
Vocal Profiles of Four Mozart Sopranos
1990
Lori Dobbins
Composition
Tres Recuerdos Del Cielo
Martin Herman
Composition
Hawthorne Symphony
Douglas Johnson
Composition
The Birthday of the Infanta Ballet in One Act after Oscar Wilde
Nanette Cooper McGuinness
History & Literature
Orlando di Lasso's Motets in the Patrochinium Musices, volume 1 (1573)
John Sackett
Composition
Serenade for Orchestra
Curt Veeneman
Composition
Symphonie No. 2: Alcuin's Riddle
1989
Stephen Parkany
History & Literature
Kurth's Bruckner and the Vocabulary of Symphonic Formal Process in the Late Nineteenth Century
Dorit Tanay
History & Literature
Music in the Age of Ockham: The Interrelations between Music, Mathematics, and Philosophy in the 14th Century
Evan Ziporyn
Composition
Walk
1988
Julie Cumming
History & Literature
Concord Out of Discord: Occasional Motets of the Early Quattrocento
Thomas Grey
History & Literature
Richard Wagner and the Aesthetics of Musical Form in the Mid-19th Century
Randall Packer
Composition
Gamous Concerto for Percussion Soloist and Chamber Ensemble