Theses from 2023
Understanding Mignon: Androgyny in Schubert’s and Schumann’s Song Cycles based on Goethe’s Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, Kathleen S. Kilcommons, Music
Feeling Uneasy on Easy Street: Decoloniality, Mental Health, and Social Culture Within a University Department of Music, Ucee-Uchenna L. Nwachukwu, Music
"Voices in My Head:" Representations of Mental Illness in Contemporary American Musical Theater, McKay Perry, Music
Theses from 2022
Perspectives of International Music Teachers in the United States, Pedro Gomes Lobato, Music
Gustav Mahler's Symphonies and the Search for Identity, Brian Hailes, Music
Theses from 2021
Imagining the Trans Symphony: Integrating Transgender Composer Identity in Music Analysis, Penrose M. Allphin, Music
The Voice of the Other: The Influence of Capitalism on The Representation of Gender and Race in Western Classical Music, Marie Comuzzo, Music
Viewing Heinrich Schenker through the Lens of Disability, Charles Hsueh, Music
Theses from 2020
The Reception of Liszt’s Faust Symphony in the United States, Chloe Danitz, Music
Theses from 2019
Live to Play: Musical Labor, Branding, and the Percussive Marketplace, Alexander S. Beltran, Music
Theses from 2018
Motion as Music: Hypermetrical Schemas in Eighteenth-Century Contredanses, Alison N. Stevens, Music
Theses from 2017
Gender Ambivalence in Late-Renaissance Italy: The Career and Reception of Tarquinia Molza, Kathryn Firth, Music
Recursive Properties of srdc Structures in Golden Age Musical Theater Songs, Morgan Markel, Music
A Transformational Approach to Japanese Traditional Music of the Edo Period, Kenneth J. Pasciak, Music
METER IN FRENCH AND ITALIAN OPERA, 1809–1859, Nicholas Shea, Music
Islamophobia, Anti-Semitism, and Censorship: Reflections on Religious and Political Radicalism in John Adams’s The Death of Klinghoffer, Allison R. Smith, Music
Theses from 2016
Cultural Subtexts and Social Functions of Domestic Music-making in Jane Austen’s England, Lidia A. Chang, Music
Erwin Bodky as Musicologist, Pedagogue, and Performer: A German Émigre in The United States, Andrew A. D'Antonio, Music
Teaching Piano to Students with Disabilties: A Collective Case Study, Anthony Tracia, Music
Theses from 2015
Discerning Harmonic Progressions in the First Movement of Zoltán Kodály's String Quartet No. 1, Op. 2 in C Minor (1910), Martin Ross, Music
Sound-off! An Introduction to the Study of American Military Marching Cadences, Travis G. Salley, Music
Hanns Eisler's "Das Vorbild" and the Rebuilding of Musical Culture in the German Democratic Republic, Alyssa Wells, Music
Theses from 2014
A Geometrical Approach to Two-Voice Transformations in the Music of Bela Bartok, Douglas R. Abrams, Music
From Rage (and Love) to Stage: Musical Reinforcement of Narrative Themes in the Stage Musical American Idiot, James M. Delorey, Music
The Impact of Rhythm and Meter on Form in Two Works by David Maslanka: Mother Earth: A Fanfare (2003) and Symphony No. 8 (2008), Renee K. Morgan, Music
Venerable Style, Form, and the Avant-Garde in Mozart’s Minor Key Piano Sonatas K. 310 and K. 457: Topic and Structure, Andrew L. Moylan, Music
Problem-Solving Pedagogy: A Foundation for Restructuring, Updating, and Improving Undergraduate Theory and Musicianship Curricula, Michael T. Simonelli, Music
Theses from 2013
Death and Transfiguration?: Late Style in Gustav Mahler's Last Works, Kristen E. Edwards, Music
A Hierarchical Approach to the Analysis of Intermediary Structures Within the Modified Contour Reduction Algorithm, Kristen M. Wallentinsen, Music
Memory and Production of Standard Frequencies in College-Level Musicians, Sarah E. Weber, Music
Theses from 2012
"a Music Unquestionably Italian in Idiom": Nationalism as an Evolutionary Process in the Music of Alfredo Casella, Corinne M. Salada, Music
Theses from 2011
The Form of the Preludes to Bach's Unaccompanied Cello Suites, Daniel E. Prindle, Music
Theses from 2010
The affective properties of keys in instrumental music from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Maho A. Ishiguro, Music
A History of Opera in Boston, John R. Tedesco, Music
Intonation in the Aural-Skills Classroom, Carolyn A. Walker, Music
Theses from 2009
Issues Involved in the Acquisition of Atonal Aural Skills, Mark E. Wieske, Music
Theses from 2008
Ficino's Musica Humana: Musico-Astrological Improvisation, Greg A. Clauss, Music
Franz Liszt's Settings Of “was Liebe Sei?”: A Schenkerian Perspective, Michael Vitalino, Music
Theses from 2007
The Role of Organicism in the Original and Revised Versions of Brahms's Piano Trio in B Major, Op. 8, Mvt. I: A Comparison by Means of Grundgestalt Analysis, Jessica L. Embry, Music