1989
Stephen Parkany
History & Literature; A. Newcomb, adviser
Kurth’s Bruckner and the Vocabulary of Symphonic Formal Process in the Late Nineteenth Century
Dorit Tanay
History & Literature; R. Crocker, adviser
Music in the Age of Ockham: The Interrelations between Music, Mathematics, and Philosophy in the 14th Century
Evan Ziporyn
Composition; R. Felciano, adviser
Walk
1988
Julie Cumming
History & Literature; D. Heartz, adviser
Concord Out of Discord: Occasional Motets of the Early Quattrocento
Thomas Grey
History & Literature; A. Newcomb, adviser
Richard Wagner and the Aesthetics of Musical Form in the Mid-19th Century
Randall Packer
Composition; E. Dugger, adviser
Gamous Concerto for Percussion Soloist and Chamber Ensemble
1987
Pieter Van den Toorn
History & Literature; A. Imbrie, adviser
Stravinsky and The Rite of Spring
1986
Christopher Fulkerson
Composition; O. Wilson, adviser
The Recognitions for Orchestra
1985
Benjamin Brinner
Ethnomusicology; B.C. Wade, adviser
A Study of Pathetan in Central Javanese Gamelan Music
Scott DeVeaux
History & Literature, O. Wilson, adviser
Jazz in the Late 1930s and early 1940s: The Transition from “Swing” to “Bop”
Patrick Macy
History & Literature; J. Kerman, adviser
Josquin’s Miserere mei Deus: Context, Structure, and Influence
1984
Philip Ballou
Composition; A. Imbrie, adviser
Changes for Orchestra
Robert Ford
History & Literature; J. Kerman, adviser
Minor Canons at Canterbury Cathedral: The Gostlings and Their Colleagues
Robert Greenberg
Composition; A. Imbrie, adviser
Concerto in Three Movements for Piano and Orchestra
Allan Pollack
Composition; O. Wilson, adviser
Ballet for Orchestra
Terrye Yizar
History & Literature; O. Wilson, adviser
Afro-American Music in North America before 1865: A study of “The First of August Celebration” in the United States
1983
Tamar Diesendruck
Composition; A. Imbrie, adviser
Piece for Chamber Orchestra
Richard Festinger
Composition; A. Imbrie, adviser
A Work for Chamber Orchestra
Eric Moe
Composition; E. Dugger, adviser
Kesa and Morito: Opera in One Act
1982
Gerhard Ginader
Composition; R. Felciano, adviser
Violin Concerto
David Goodman
Composition; O. Wilson, adviser
The Tides of Lemuria: A Symphonic Poem for Orchestra
Janice Kleeman
History & Literature; B.C. Wade, adviser
The Origins and Stylistic Development of Polish-American Polka Music
Ellen Reier
History & Literature; R. Crocker, adviser
The Introit Trope Tepertory at Nevers: MSS Paris B.N. lat. 9449 and Paris B.N. n.a. 1235
1981
Larry Archbold
History & Literature; L. Moe, adviser
Style and Structure in the Free Organ Compositions of Dietrich Buxtehude
Graydon Beeks
History & Literature; P. Brett, adviser
“The Chandos Anthems” and Te Deum of George Frideric Handel
Walker Cunningham
History & Literature; A. Curtis, adviser
The Keyboard Music of John Bull
Walter Frisch
History & Literature; J. Kerman, adviser
Brahms’s Sonoata Structures and the Principle of Developing Variation
Frank LaRocca
Composition; E. Dugger, adviser
Three Roethke Songs
Brian Mann
History & Literature; A. Newcomb, adviser
The Secular Madrigals of Filippo di Monte: A Critical Study
William Peterson
History & Literature; A. Imbrie, adviser
Debussy’s “Douze Etudes”
Frank Stemper
Composition; A. Imbrie, adviser
Seamaster
1980
David Beveridge
History & Literature; L. Moe, adviser
Romantic Ideas in a Classical Frame: The Sonata Forms of Dvořák
Kathleen Hansell
History & Literature; D. Heartz, adviser
Opera and Ballet at the Region Ducal Teatro of Milan, 1771-1776: A Musical and Social History
William Kinderman
History & Literature; J. Kerman, adviser
Beethoven’s Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli: Genesis and Structure
Davitt Moroney
History & Literature; J. Kerman, adviser
Under Fower Sovereygnes: Thomas Tallis and the Transformation of English Polyphony
Neil Rolnick
Composition; R. Felciano, adviser
No Strings
1979
Robert Dickow
Composition; A. Imbrie, adviser
Concert for Horn and Orchestra
Mary Groman
History & Literature; D. Heartz, adviser
The Mannheim Orchestra under the Leadership of Christian Cannabich
Roger Hickman
History & Literature; D. Heartz, adviser
Six Bohemian Masters of the String Quartet in the Late Eighteenth Century
Charles McDermott
History & Literature; A. Curtis, adviser
The Canzoni d’Intavolatura of Claudio Merulo: A guide to the Art of Imporvised Ornamentation
Gary Tomlinson
History & Literature; D. Heartz, adviser
Rinuccini, Peri, Monteverdi, and the Humanist Heritage of Opera
Kent Werth
History & Literature; A. Newcomb, adviser
Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust: A Manuscript Study
1978
David Fallows
History & Literature; P. Brett, adviser
Robert Morton’s Songs: A Study of Styles in the Mid-Fifteenth Century
Douglas Johnson
History & Literature; J. Kerman, adviser
Beethoven’s Early Sketches in the ‘Fischof Miscellan’: Berlin Autograph 28
James Ladewig
History & Literature; A. Newcomb, adviser
Frescobaldi’s Recercari, et canzoni franzese (1615): A Study of the Contrapuntal Keyboard Idiom in Ferrara, Naples, and Rome
Peter Lopez
Composition; E. Dugger, adviser
The Ship of Death
Marita McClymonds
History & Literature; D. Heartz, adviser
Niccolo Jommelli: The Last Years
John Roberts
History & Literature; D. Heartz, adviser
The Genesis of Meyerbeer’s L’Africaine
Paula Sabin
History & Literature; A. Imbrie, adviser
Mozart’s Piano Concertos: The First Movements Viewed from the Perspective of Metric and Rhythmic Analysis
1977
Thomas Bauman
History & Literature; D. Heartz, adviser
Music and Drama in Germany: A Traveling Company and Its Repertor, 1767-1781
Kerry Grant
History & Literature; V. Duckles, adviser
Charles Burney as Historian and Critic of Music
Charlotte Greenspan
History & Literature; J. Kerman, adviser
The Operas of Vincenzo Bellini
Jay Nicolaisen
History & Literature; J. Kerman, adviser
Italian Opera in Transition, 1871-1893
Pamela Susskind
History & Literature; R. Crocker, adviser
Clara Schumann, Composer: A Critical Study of the Works and Influence of Clara Schumann
1976
David Bjork
History & Literature; R. Crocker, adviser
The Kyrie Repertory in Aquitanian Manuscripts of the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries
Gerald LaPierre
Composition; O. Wilson, adviser
Triptych for Tenor and Orchestra
James McCalla
History & Literature; R. Felciano, adviser
Between Its Human Accessories: The Art of Stephane Mallarmè and Pierre Boulez
Frederick Millner
History & Literature; D. Heartz, adviser
The Operas of Johann Hasse
David Rosen
History & Literataure; R. Crocker, adviser
The Genesis of Verdi’s “Requiem<”
C. Jane Wilkinson
Composition; R. Felciano, adviser
“Job” (A Cantata for Soloists, Chorus, and Instrumental Accompaniment)
1975
Robert Adams
Composition; O. Wilson, adviser
Concerto for Organ and Orchestra
Charles Buck
History & Literature; A. Imbrie, adviser
Structural Coherence in the “Preludes” for Piano by Claude Debussy
Mary Cyr
History & Literature; A. Curtis, adviser
Rameau’s Les Fêtes d’Hebe
Paul Machlin
History & Literature; A. Newcomb, adviser
Genesis, Revisions, and Publication History of Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman
Walter Winslow
Composition; E. Dugger, adviser
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
1974
Jane Bernstein
History & Literature; P. Brett, adviser
The Chanson in England 1530-1640: A Study of Sources and Styles
Craig Monson
History & Literature; P. Brett, adviser
The Verse-idiom in Pre-Restoration English Music
1973
David Lawton
History & Literature; J. Kerman, adviser
Tonality and Drama in Verdi’s Early Operas
Richard Loyan
History & Literature; E. Sparks, adviser
The Music in the Manuscript Florence, Biblioteca Naztionale Centrale, Fondo Magliabechiano XIX, 112bis
Michael Martin
Composition; E. Dugger, adviser
Movement for Violin and Piano
Allen Shearer
Composition; A. Imbrie, adviser
Composition for Chamber Ensemble and Vocal Sextet on an Original Poem
1972
Lawrence Starr
History & Literature; A. Imbrie, adviser
Mikrokosmos: The Total Universe of Béla Bartók
1971
Tharald Borgir
History & Literature; A. Curtis, adviser
The Performance of the Basso Continuo in Seventeenth-Century Italian Music
Jane Bowers
History & Literature; P. Brett, adviser
The French Flute School from 1700 to 1760
Daniel Coren
History & Literature; J. Kerman, adviser
A Study of Richard Wagner’s Siegfried
Edward Houghton
History & Literature; E. Sparks, adviser
Rhythmic Structure in the Masses and Motets of Johannes Ockeghem
Jane Troy Johnson
History & Literature; V. Duckles, adviser
The English Fantasi-Suite, ca. 1620-1660
Jules Langert
Composition; A. Imbrie, adviser
Duo for Cello and Piano
Donald Walker
Composition; E. Dugger, adviser
Symphony 1970
1970
Robert Basart
Composition; A. Imbrie, adviser
Composition for Cello and Piano
Margaret Hasselman
History & Literature; R. Crocker, adviser
French Chanson Music of the Mid-Fourteenth Century
Nors Josephson
History & Literature; E. Sparks, adviser
The Missa De Beata Virgins of the Sixteenth Century
E. Gardner Rust
History & Literature; E. Sparks, adviser
The First Movements of Beethoven’s Piano Concertos
1969
Gordon Cyr
Composition; E. Dugger, adviser
String Quartet
Jonathan Kramer
Composition; R. Felciano, adviser
Variations for Band
Oliver Ellsworth
History & Literature; R. Crocker, adviser
Fourteenth-Century Music Theory in Relation to the Newly Acquired Berkeley Manuscript (Olim Phillipp 4450)
Sarah Fuller
History & Literature; R. Crocker, adviser
Aquitanian Polyphony in the “Saint Martial” Manuscripts
Donald Loach
History & Literature; R. Crocker, adviser
Aegidius Tschudi’s Songbook (St. Gall, MS 463): A Humanistic Document from the Circle of Heinrich Glarean
Herbot Riedel
History & Literature; L. Moe, adviser
Recognition and Re-Cognition: Bach and the Well-Tempered Clavier I
1968
Ellen Amsterdam
History & Literature; V. Duckles, adviser
The String Quintets of Luigi Boccherini: An Historical Study and a Stylistic Analysis
Sherwood Dudley
History & Literature; D. Heartz, adviser
Music for Winds under the Revolution and First Empire
Keith Polk
History & Literature; D. Heartz, adviser
Flemish Wind Bands in the Late Middle Ages: A Study of Improvisatory Instrumental Practices
Marvin Tartak
History & Literature; J. Kerman, adviser
The Comic Operas of Rossini
1967
none
1966
none
1965
none
1964
Roland Jackson
History & Literature; J. Kerman, adviser
The Keyboard Music of Giovanni Maria Trabaci
P. Sigurd Odegard
History & Literature; J. Kerman, adviser
The Variation Sets of Arnold Schoenberg
1963
none
1962
Donald Hersh
History & Literature; J. Kerman, adviser
Verdelot and the Early Madrigal
1961
Martin Chusid
History & Literature; E. Sparks, adviser
The Chamber Music of Schubert
1960
Martin Picker
History & Literature; Lewinsky, adviser
The Chanson Albums of Marguerite of Austria: Manuscripts 228 and 11239 of the Bibliotheque Royale de Belgioue, Bruxelles
1959
Sydney Charles
History and Literature
The Music of the Pepys Ms 1236
1958
Louis Gottlieb
History & Literature; E. Sparks, adviser
The Cyclic Masses of Trent Codex 89
1957
none
1956
Margaret Lyon
History & Literature; Bukofzer, adviser
Early Tudor Church Music: The Lambeth and Caius Manuscripts
1955
none
1954
Edwin Simon
History & Literature; M. Bukofzer, adviser
The Double Exposition in Classic Concerto Form
1953
Vincent Duckles
History & Literature; M. Bukofzer, adviser
John Gamble’s Commonplace Book: A Critical Edition of New York Public Library MS Drexel 4257
1952
none
1951
none
1950
Edgar Sparks
History & Literature; M. Bukofzer, adviser
Cantus-Firmus in Fifteenth-Century Music
1949
none
1948
Louis P. Nash
Stylistic Aspects of the Church music of William Byrd (Master’s thesis)
Robert M. Morton
Duo Sonata for Violin and Piano (Master’s thesis)
L. Jane Hohfeld
The Use of the Variation Principle in Instrumental Music of the Early-Middle Baroque (Master’s thesis)
1947
Leonard Gilbert Ratner*
History & Literature; M. Bukofzer, adviser
Harmonic Aspects of Classic Form
*1947: first History and Literature dissertation filed
1947
Harrison Olaf Hayes
The function and Evolution of the Operatic Overture (MA, D. Boyden, adviser)
Andrew Welch Imbrie
Ballad in D for Full Orchestra (Composition; R. Sessions, adviser)
1946
Arthur John Bryon
String Quartet (Composition: A. Elkus, adviser)
Haig Kafafian
A Study of Certain Triade and Their Inversions in the Bach Chorales
Sister Therese Cecile Murphy
Dissonance Treatment in the Works of Lassus (M. Bukofzer, adviser)
Ralph Schellehous Smith
The Harmonic System of Paul Hindemith and its Application to Somo Harmonic Devices of Twentieth Century Composers (M. Bukofzer, adviser)
1945
Mary Louise Clement
The Approach to the Cadence in High Renaissance Music (M. Bukofzer, adviser)
Eugene Carol Meltzer
A Stylistic Analysis of the Songs of Robert Schumann (D. Boyden, adviser)
Grace Wares Moore
Instrumental Idiom in the Seventeenth Century (D. Boyden, adviser)
Roschelle Zella Paul
Song Tradition of the University of California at Berkeley
Water Tullis
Variations and Fugue on an Original Theme for Piano (Composition; A. Elkus, adviser)
1943
Rise Resnick
Studies of Humor in Instrumental Music of the late 18th and 19th Centuries
1942
Warren Miles Anderson
Sonata for Violin and Piano.
1941
Winifred Bliss Howe
A Comparative Study of Selected Ballad Tune Variants of the Present Day
Kathleen Mavourneen Hughes
The Decline of the Viola da Gamba and the Rise of the Violoncello
Louis Ferdinand Schliemann
A Study of Stylistic Changes in the works of Dufay
Austin Henry Thomson
Modifications of the “Cantus Firmus” Technique Evidenced in “Introits” by Heinrich Isaac and Blasius Amon
1940
Joan Castledine Habis-Reutinger
The Historical approach to Purcell’s Chamber Opera “Dido and Aeneas,” with special reference to Blow’s “Venus and Adonai”
Margaret Marie Kirchhofer
“Mister Aesop” Fables for Baritone and Women’s Chorus, with piano accompaniment: I. The Fox and the Crow; II. The Milkwoman and Her Pail; III. The Lion and the Mouse; IV. The Hare and the Tortoise; V. The Bald Knight
Elizabeth May
Claude Lejeune and his music
1939
Maurice Barryte
The Symphonies of Schumann: Their form and their relation to the Symphonies of Beethoven
Marjorie Jackson
The Evolution of the Oboe and of its use in the Symphony Orchestra, with a section on Reed Making
James Mitchell
Inquiry into the Vertical Significance of the Counterpoint of Duynstable, and into the Extent and Treatment of Organized Tonal Combinations
Leonard Gilbert Ratner
Unusual and Composite Forms in Beethoven’s Instrumental Works, with Especial Reference to the Persistent Recurrence of Rondo-like form (Master’s thesis)
1937
Mary Elizabeth Johnston
String Quartet (No. 1) (Composition)
Sirvart Vartan Poladian
The Folk Songs of Asia Minor
Dale Edmund Sandifur
“Suite” for String Quartet (Composition)
1936
Georgie Rees Cason
An Introduction to a study of California Indian Music
1935
Ernst Bacon
A Choral Cantata (Composition)
1934
Walter Horace Bundy
A Survey of Vocal Music in Bay District High Schools
Isaac Lloyd Hibberd
A study of the Cadence in the Works of Henry Purcell
Water David Hirschl
The Styles of Victoria and Palestrina: A comparative Study, with special reference to Dissonance Treatment
1933
Philip Johan Adolf Sehinhan
“Passacaglia” (Fourth Movement) From “Fourth Symphony” by Johannes Brahms, arranged for Organ (Composition)
Barbara Lee Maede
A Study of the Treatment of the Words in “Pelleas et Melisande”
Henry George Mishkin
The Augmented Second: A Study in the Evolution of a Prejudice
Philip Brown Norman
A System of Harmony Based on the Chromatic Scale and Illustrated with Examples from Wagner
Beatrice Ada Colton
Quartet for Piano and Strings (Composition)
William Douglas Denny
Concerto in D for Violin and Orchestra (Composition)
1932
Theodore Gorbacheff,
“The Russian Liturgy,” For Mixed, Men’s, and Women’s choirs, “A Cappella” (Composition)
Donald William Rowe
Survey of Instrumental Music in High Schools of the San Francisco Bay District (Composition)
1931
Leslie Paul Clausen
Liszt’s “Faust” Symphony as an Art Form
Eileen Louise McCall
“The Great Angel”, A Cantata for Mixed Voice (Composition)
1930
Dorothy Gillespie Knowlton
Spanish California: A Symphonic Picture (Composition)
Marjorie Wentworth Leach
Sonata in C Minor for the Piano (Composition)
1929
Charles Cook Cushing
String Quartet in F Minor (Composition; M. Alloo, adviser)
1927
Arthur Maurel Hunkins
String Quartet in G Major (Composition)
1924
Mary Catherine Glen
An Original Composition: Pianoforte Concerto, with Accompaniment by Full Orchestra; First Movement, “Allegro Moderato” (Composition)
1921
Glen Haydon
The Evolution of the Woodwind Section of the Modern Orchestra.
Mary Elizabeth Millard
String Quartette in B Flat Major. Four Movements (Composition)
Jay Leon Ruddick
The Evolution of the Structure and Technique of the Brass Instruments of the Modern Orchestra