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Theses from 2024
Little Seeds, Mighty Trees; The Great American Music Educator and Pioneer: Julia Etta (Ettie) Crane, Yu-Hui Lee
The Kansas Band’s Musical Depictions of Spiritual Quests, Elizabeth Romero
Fin de Siècle Russian Topos and Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Golden Cockerel, Jaidan Ursich
Theses from 2023
Rhythm and Meter as Text Expression: Jake Runestad's "Come to the Woods", Samantha Brewer
An Analysis and Performance Guide of Three New Works For Clarinet and Saxophone Duo, Aaron Patrick Burr
Dan Forrest’s the Breath of Life: A Podium Guide With a Study of the Compositional Techniques and the Integration Of Texts Used to Mirror The Emotional Arc of The Human Life Cycle, Brian Keith Dukeshier
Diversifying Piano Pedagogy: A Comparative Study of Brazilian Piano Works And Established Piano Methods, Helber Fernandes Ribeiro
This Is Me: The Life and Music Of Emily Remler, Denin Michael Koch
Considerations and Pedagogical Approaches For Transitioning From Soprano To Mezzo-Soprano, Caitlin Hammon Moore
Luciano Berio’s Six Encores Pour Piano: A Guide for Performance Preparation, Ivana Muncan
Gendered Singing Training: A Comparison Of Estelle Liebling and Richard Miller’s Strategies for Teaching Across Fach., Kristi Muzzio
Establishing Guidelines for Achieving Optimal Individual Posture In Hornists, Daniel Alan Nebel
Chamber Music in the Dominican Republic: New Arrangements for Ensemble With Piano, Laura Gisselle Pimentel Ferreira
Davidsbündler: Robert Schumann, Theodor Kirchner, and An Intimate Musical World, Dandan Liu Powell
Sounds of Nature: A Jazz Suite for Saxophone and Orchestra, Matteo Sabattini
An Examination of Musical Pitch/Color Correspondence in Music, Arts, And Non-arts Students and Adults, Luciano Silvestri Jr.
Swimming in the Third Stream: A Performance Guide For David Baker’s Singers of Songs/Weavers of Dreams For Cello and Percussion, Kelsey Linnea Smith
Bangkokscape: An Original Composition For Ensemble, Attakorn Sookjaeng
Examining Middle Eastern Influences on Jazz In the 1950s and 1960s, Sopon Suwannakit
Theses from 2022
Composing Mortality: The Voice of Death in the Music of Frédéric Chopin, Jessica Castleberry
“Ici on Chante en Français”: Giving A Voice to Cajun Culture, Tessa Espinosa
The Immigrant - Original Score, Jared Lane
An Analysis and Performance Guide of Olivier Messiaen’s Chants de Terre ET de Ciel, Joseph William McAllister
Blue: A Stylistic Analysis Of Blue Mitchell, David Michael Moore
The Ballybriar Heist: An Original Composition And the Incorporation of Folk Music And Tintinnabuli Influences, Conor Darling Mulroy
Musical Narrative and Cultural Context in the Animated Miniseries Over the Garden Wall, Chloe Resler
The Kid - Original Score, Daniel Wakefield
Theses from 2021
Development and Interactions of Instructor and Student Musical Identities in a University Introductory Music Course for Non-Music Majors, Nicholas Booker
Comprimario Tenor Repertoire: An Alternative Approach to Teaching the Developing Operatic Tenor, Stewart Cramer
Prominent Women Wind Conductors in Higher Education: Trials, Triumphs, And Recommendations for Improving Gender Equity in the Field, Jennifer Lee Grice
The Haitian Méringue Through Stylized Piano Compositions From 1880-1930, William Leroy Harned
Relationships Between Working Class, First Generation College Students and Their Parent(s)/Guardian(s): A Phenomenological Study on the Impacts Of Middle Class Socialization, Lindsay Ellen Mason
A Study in Effective Teaching Methods For Jazz Voice Technique In Higher Education, Jenna McLean
The Lullaby as Art Song: Engaging Repertoire For Study and Performance, Carissa Scroggins
The Voice of Androgyny: A Gender Analysis of the Countertenor Within Opera, Samuel Sherman
Pride and Prejudice, an Operatic Work for Ensemble Based On Jane Austen’s Novel, With Comparisons to Mozart’s Ensemble Opera Works, Sondheim’s Ensemble Musicals, and Mark Adamo’s Little Women, Arlene Brenda Siagian
Romantic Undertones in Revolutionary France: The Case for Tarare as Spark For The Revolution, Sean Robert Stephenson
Queerness in French Baroque Opera: The Relationship Between Achilles and Patroclus in Jean Baptiste Lully’s Achille et Polyxène, Jason Thompson
Dissertations from 2020
Finding Messiaen’s Blackbird: An Investigative Analysis of Birdsong and Other Techniques Used in Le Merle Noir, Alexandra L. Aguirre-Berman
Consequential Saints: A Preliminary Study of Jazz and Religion in New Orleans, David Baker
Transcribing Kuhlau for the Saxophone: A Stylistic Bridge, Nathaniel Clement Berman
A Comparison of Different Reflective Modalities of Pre-Service Music Education Student Teachers, Yolanda Marie Chatwood
Life and Legacy of Luis Gianneo: A Comprehensive Study of His Compositions for Violin, Maria Belen Hernandez
We, Not Me: The Musical Life of Bob Cranshaw, Seth Britton Lewis
Agency and Parallelism in Three Saxophone Works by Dorothy Chang: a Performative Analysis, Courtney Elizabeth Long
An Expansion of Piccolo Trumpet Solo Repertoire: Transcriptions From the Romantic Period, Benjamin Matthew McCarthy
Dracula Trio, Justino Perez
Performance Guide and Recording of Three Twenty-First-Century Compositions for Solo Cello, Katarina Majcen Pliego
Three in One: The Style, Structure, And Sound of Thad Jones as a Jazz Trumpeter, Shawn Edward Williams
Camagu: A Multimovement Work Exploring the IsiXhosa Culture of South Africa, Nkululeko Zungu
Theses from 2019
Stephen Heller Composes Jean Paul: The Blumen-, Frucht-, Und Dornestücke, Op. 82, Nicholas R. Alexander
Achieving Musical Peak Performance: The Impact of an Online Self-Efficacy and Performance Anxiety Management Program Based on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, Melynie Joy Campbell
A Topical and Narrative Analysis of Napoleonic Era Battle Pieces, Robert J. Gassner
Adapting the Ward Method for Use in the Private Voice Studio, Michael Patrick Kilcoyne
Vocal Jazz in the Choral Classroom: A Pedagogical Study, Lara Marie Moline
Traditional Sounds on Western Instruments: The Use of Traditional Music of Mainland Southeast Asia in Western Orchestral Works, Tachinee Patarateeranon
The Flute Works of Erwin Schulhoff, Sara Marie Schuhardt
Chroma: An Original Composition for Violin, Cello, Vibraphone and Interactive Electronics, Todd Swingle
A Comprehensive Analysis of Jazz Elements in Nikolai Kapustin’s Violin Sonata Opus 70 and String Quartet Number 1, Opus 88, Ching-Hsuan Wang
History and Development of British Secular Song for Solo Voice and Clarinet, Nancy Williams
The Effects of Pitch Singing Training on Recognizing and Enunciating Chinese Tones, Danqing Zhou
Dissertations from 2018
Grant Green: An Analysis of the Blue Note Guitarist’s Musical Vocabulary, Teague Stefan Bechtel
Secular Song of the Spanish Renaissance: Portrayals of Moors and Christians During the Reign of Isabel and Fernando, the Reconquest, and the First Morisco Rebellion, Katharyn Reishus Benessa
Concerto for Jazz Trombone and Wind Ensemble, Michael Joseph Conrad
Hand and Wrist Overuse Injuries in Flutists: Physical Causes and Prevention, Xin Jing
Edward Elgar’s the Music Makers: A Choral Conductor’s Analysis and Score Preparation Guide, David Klement
A Selective Study of the Art Songs of Franz Lehár, Amy Nielsen
A Comparison of Saxophone Mouthpieces Using Fourier Analysis to Quantify Perceived Timbre, Mark Robert Pipes
An Analysis of Beginning Percussion Education Through Wind Band Repertoire and Method Books, Christopher Evan Wilson
A Study of Prominent African-American Orchestral Trumpet Players from 1970 to 2018, Demarr Ray Woods
The Influence of Minimalist Compositional Techniques on Literature for Wind Ensemble, Justin Thomas Zanchuk
Dissertations from 2017
Building Blocks of a National Style: An Examination of Topics and Gestures in Nineteenth-Century American Music as Exemplified in Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha, Elisabet Omarene de Vallee
Modern Interpretation of Ornamentation in Naftule Brandwein’s Firn Di Mekhutonim Aheym and Der Heyser Bulgar, Michael Aaron Gersten
Israel Crosby (1919-1962): An Analysis of His Bass Line Construction with the Ahmad Jamal Trio from 1958-1962, Gibran Anees Khan
Two Works by Isang Yun and Byungdong Paik for Harpsichord or Piano: Analysis and Performance Guide, Mijung Kim
An Analysis and Performance Guide of Three Works by Brazilian Composers Featuring the Violin, João Paulo Machado
In the Presence of an Unknown Light, Joseph R. Scardetta
Cedar Walton: an Analytical Study of His Improvisational Style Through Selected Transcriptions, Katherine Lee Skinner
Infância: a Brazilian Suite in Three Movements for Jazz Orchestra, Cassio Fernando Barbosa Vianna
Dissertations from 2016
A Study of Selected Taiwanese Pedagogical Solo Piano Music of the Twentieth Century, Hsun-Yin Chang
Trombone Obbligati of Johann Ernst Eberlin: Historical Contexts, Analyses, and Performance Editions for Inclusion to the Trombonist Lexicon, Francis Ring Cook
Theatrical Elements in Toru Takemitsu's Voice and Karlheinz Stockhausen's Zungenspitzentanz, Brielle Marie Frost
Joe Henderson: A Biographical Study of His Life and Career, Joel Geoffrey Harris
Towards an Informed Pedagogy of Modern New Orleans Style Music, Matthew D. Leder
The Musical Alternatives of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor: An Analysis and Guide for Performance Practice, Carol J. Money
Edmundo Villani-Côrtes’ Works for Violin and Piano: Analysis and Performance Guide, Larissa Paggioli de Carvalho
Developing a Rhythmic Vocabulary: Exercises Derived from the West African Influence on Jazz, Brian Anthony Rodesch
A Comparative Analysis of Three Jazz Bassists’ Walking Bass Lines, Joshua Wayne Skinner
The Songs of Mexican Nationalist, Antonio Gomezanda, Juanita Ulloa
Dissertations from 2015
Beyond Harmony: Incorporating Rhythmic Elements of Jazz Improvisation through Pedagogy and Curriculum, Jonathan M. Campbell
Study and analysis of "woman.life.song" by Judith Weir, Heather Drummon Cawlfield
A Design for a National Music Examination Board in Thailand, with Particular Reference to Viola, Juckrit Charoensook