Alumni Tracker
Our many successful alumni attest to the extraordinary environment we are proud to offer. The overwhelming majority of our graduates hold teaching and administrative positions in major research universities, liberal arts colleges, and schools of music. This page lists students who have completed the MM and PhD degrees in music theory at Indiana University, including dissertation titles for PhD recipients and last known location. The list is sorted by year the most recent degree was completed.
Alumni: please send updated information on yourself or others you know of to mustheor [at] indiana [dot] edu.
We also maintain a list of current graduate students.
For more information on dissertations, see Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology.
PhD Alumni
MM Alumni
PhD Alumni
Name | PhD Year | MM Year | Dissertation Title | Last known location |
---|---|---|---|---|
Christy Keele | 2018 | 2008 | Reconceptualizing Climax in the Scherzos of Frédéric Chopin | |
Jason Jedlicka | 2018 | 2011 | Interpreting Steve Reich's Later Music (2007–2012) | Indiana University East |
Jessica Sommer | 2018 | Embodiment, Enaction, and Signification in Analyzing Opera | Grand Valley State University | |
Trina Thompson | 2018 | The Rhetoric of Suggestion in Debussy's Mélodies: A Contingent Poetics of Thematicity, Temporality, and Agency | ||
Lucy Liu | 2018 | Musical Prose and Modular Discourse in Select Works by Brahms | ||
Matthew Boyle | 2018 | 2011 | Musical Pleasure in Rossinian Opera | University of Alabama |
Chelsey Hamm | 2016 | Charles Ives and Democracy: Association, Borrowing, and Treatment of Dissonance in His Music | Christopher Newport University (Newport News, VA) | |
Paul Sherrill | 2016 | The Metastasian Da Capo Aria: Moral Philosophy, Characteristic Actions, and Dialogic Form | University of Utah | |
Michael McClimon | 2015 | 2010 | A Transformational Approach to Jazz Harmony | SMT webmaster; software developer, FastMail Pty Ltd |
Diego Cubero | 2014 | 2010 | Brahms the Autumnal and the Romantic Aesthetic of Dissolution | University of North Texas |
John Reef | 2014 | Perspectives on Phrase Rhythm in J. S. Bach's Keyboard Fugues | Nazareth College (Rochester, NY) | |
Stephen Grazzini | 2014 | 2008 | Reconstructing the Improvised Keyboard Prelude of the French Baroque | |
Andreas Metz | 2014 | Temporality, Pace, and Formal Structure in Selected Passages from Brahms's Adagio Genre | Sibelius Academy (Helsinki, Finland) | |
Garrett Michaelsen | 2013 | 2008 | Analyzing Musical Interaction in Jazz Improvisations of the 1960s | University of Massachusetts–Lowell |
Timothy Chenette | 2013 | 2007 | Counterpoint, Transformations, and Musical Spaces in the Late Sixteenth Century | Utah State University |
Sara Bakker | 2013 | Playing with Patterns: Isorhythmic Strategies in György Ligeti's Late Piano Works | Utah State University | |
Grace Yu | 2012 | A Semiotical Interpretation of Liszt's Piano Works in Light of Their Extramusical Sources | Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts | |
Kyle Fyr | 2011 | 2006 | Proportion, Temporality, and Performance Issues in Piano Works of John Adams | Mahidol University (Thailand) |
Justin Lavacek | 2011 | Polyphonic Meaning in the Motets of Machaut | University of North Texas | |
Mitch Ohriner | 2011 | 2007 | Modeling Music Performance: Projected Tension and Durational Contours in Recordings of the Music of Chopin | University of Denver (Lamont School of Music) |
Danny Arthurs | 2011 | 2005 | Reconstructing Tonal Principlesin the Music of Brad Mehldau | University of Tulsa |
Amy Engelsdorfer | 2010 | Pedagogical and Compositional Techniques in Treatises by Augustus Frederic Christof Kollmann and Johann Bernhard Logier | Luther College (Decorah, IA) | |
Tamara Balter | 2009 | 2000 | A Theory of Irony in Music: Types of Irony in the String Quartets of Haydn and Beethoven | Jerusalem, Israel |
Brent Yorgason | 2009 | 1999 | Expressive Asynchrony and Meter: A Study of Dispersal, Downbeat Space, and Metric Drift | Brigham Young University |
Michelle Clater | 2009 | Interposed Between God and Man: Agency in the Requiems of Berlioz and Fauré | Maranatha Baptist University (Watertown, WI) | |
Melissa Hoag | 2008 | 2002 | Multiply-Directed Moments in the Music of Brahms | Oakland University (MI) |
Victoria Malawey | 2007 | 2001 | Temporal Process, Repetition, and Voice in Björk's Medúlla | Macalester College (St. Paul, MN) |
Mike Baker | 2007 | Text-Music Relationships in the Solo Songs of Felix Mendelssohn | University of Kentucky | |
Erick Carballo | 2006 | 1994 | De la pampa al cielo: The Development of Tonality in the Compositional Language of Alberto Ginastera | Indiana University Teaching and Learning Technology Center |
Stanley Kleppinger | 2006 | 2000 | Tonal Coherence in Copland's Music of the 1940s | University of Nebraska–Lincoln |
David Thurmaier | 2006 | Time and Compositional Process in Charles Ives's Holidays Symphony | University of Missouri–Kansas City | |
Michael Oravitz | 2005 | 1991 | Metric Patterning and its Effects on Phrasing and Form in Selected Debussy Préludes | University of Northern Colorado |
Elisabeth Honn Hoegberg | 2005 | From Theory to Practice: Composition and Analysis in Marin Mersenne's Harmonie universelle | University of Indianapolis | |
Timothy Shane Pack | 2005 | Axial-Tenor Composition in the Renaissance | University of Oregon | |
Bettina Hahn | 2004 | 1993 | Schoenberg and Bakhtin: Dialogic Discourse in the String Quartet, Op. 10, No. 2 | Texas Performing Chinese Arts Association |
Rusty Jones | 2004 | Key Classes and Textural Dissonance: An Instrument-specific Study of the Idioms, Textures, and Structures of Selected Early Romantic Music for the Guitar (1799-1850) | Butler University | |
Ryan McClelland | 2004 | Tonal Structure, Rhythm, Meter, and Motive in the Scherzo-Type Movements of Brahms's Chamber Music with Piano | University of Toronto (Associate Dean) | |
Mark Butler | 2003 | Unlocking the Groove: Rhythm, Meter, and Musical Design in Electronic Dance Music | Northwestern University | |
Andrew Davis | 2003 | Structural Implications of Stylistic Plurality in Puccini's Turandot | Moores School of Music, University of Houston (Director) | |
Julian Hook | 2002 | Uniform Triadic Transformations | Indiana University | |
Lyn Thornblad Burkett | 2001 | Tensile Involvement: Counterpoint and Compositional Pedagogy in the Work of Seeger, Hindemith, and Krenek | Western Carolina University | |
Vincent Benitez | 2001 | Pitch Organization and Dramatic Design in Saint François d'Assise of Olivier Messiaen | Penn State University | |
Rebecca Jemian | 2001 | Rhythmic Organization in Works by Elliott Carter, George Crumb, and John Adams: Rhythmic Frameworks, Timepoints, Periodicity, and Alignment | University of Louisville | |
Ted Buehrer | 2000 | An Alternative Pedagogical Paradigm for Aural Skills: An Examination of Constructivist Learning Theory and Its Potential for Implementation into Aural Skills Curricula | Kenyon College (Gambier, OH) | |
Arthur Samplaski | 2000 | 1996 | A Comparison of Perceived Chord Similarity with Predictions of Selected Twentieth-Century Chord Classification Schemes, Using Multidimensional Scaling and Cluster Analysis | Ithaca, New York |
Lori Wacker | 2000 | 1991 | Rhythmic and Motivic Procedures in Selected Late Works of S. C. Eckhardt-Gramatté | East Carolina University |
Glenn Wegge | 1999 | Musical References in the Neoplatonic Philosophy of Plotinus | Waldorf College (Forest City, IA) | |
Don Hedges | 1999 | 1986 | Taking Notes: The History, Practice, and Innovation of Musical Diction in English and American Aural Skills Pedagogy | Trinity International University (Director) |
John White | 1999 | Processes of Structuring in Selected Free Improvisations of the Chamber Ensemble "Oregon" | Ithaca College | |
Byron Almén | 1998 | Narrative Archetypes in Music: A Semiotic Approach | University of Texas | |
Teresa (Shelton) Reed | 1997 | Idiosyncrasies of Music Narrative: Hypotheses for Further Investigation | University of Tulsa (Associate Dean) | |
George Boyd | 1996 | The Scacchi/Siefert Controversy with Translations of Marco Scacchi, Cribrum musicum and Paul Siefert, Anticrabratio musica | Indiana University (Bureau of Evaluative Studies and Testing) | |
Jeff Gillespie | 1996 | Difficulty Factors in the Perception of Melody by Skilled Listeners | Butler University | |
Eric Lai | 1995 | 1984 | A Theory of Pitch Organization in the Early Music of Chou Wen-Chung | Baylor University |
Ralph Lorenz | 1995 | Pedagogical Implications of Musica Practica in Sixteenth-century Wittenberg | Kent State University (Acting Director) | |
Lisa Derry | 1993 | The Pre-Classical Concerto of Johann Christian Bach: First Movement Design in the Eighteen "London" Keyboard Concertos | Albertson College | |
Scott Harris | 1993 | 1987 | Formal Archetypes, Phrase Rhythm, and Motivic Design in the String Quartets of Alexander Zemlinsky | Schwob School of Music, Columbus (GA) State University (Director) |
Eric Isaacson | 1992 | 1987 | Similarity of Interval-class Content Between Pitch-class Sets: The IcVSIM Relation and Its Application | Indiana University (Director of Graduate Studies) |
Rudy Marcozzi | 1992 | The Interaction of Large-scale Harmonic and Dramatic Structure in the Verdi Operas Adapted from Shakespeare | Roosevelt University (Associate Dean) | |
Stephen Moore | 1992 | The Writings of Emile Jaques-Dalcroze: Toward a Theory for the Performance of Musical Rhythm | California State University, Dominguez Hills | |
Ronald Rodman | 1992 | Thematic and tonal processes in the development-reprise forms of Claude Debussy, 1880-1905 | Carleton College | |
Joe Brumbeloe | 1991 | 1982 | Formal Grouping in the Theory and Musical Practice of the Eighteenth Century | University of Southern Mississippi |
Craig Cummings | 1991 | 1985 | Large-scale Coherence in Selected Nineteenth-century Piano Variations | Ithaca College (Department Chair) |
Sarah Schaffer | 1991 | Analytical Issues in the Segmentation of Atonal Music: An Investigation Based on Selected Pre-Serial Works of Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern | Token Creek Chamber Music Festival (Managing Director) | |
Miguel Roig-Francoli | 1990 | Compositional Theory and Practice in Mid-Sixteenth-Century Spanish Instrumental Music: The Arte de tañer fantasía by Tomás de Santa María and the Music of Antonio de Cabezón | University of Cincinnati | |
Ilene Sears | 1990 | 1971 | The Influence of Rhythm in Selected Chamber Works of Igor Stravinsky | Winston-Salem, NC |
Todd Tucker | 1988 | 1971 | Hindemith's Harmonic Procedure from 1935-1940 | Illinois Wesleyan University |
Timothy Lindeman | 1987 | 1978 | Strategies of Sonata Form in the First Movements of the Beethoven String Quartets | Guilford College (Chair, Music) |
John Schaffer | 1987 | Developing an Intelligent Music Tutorial: An Investigation of Expert Systems and Their Potential for Microcomputer-based Instruction in Music Theory | University of Wisconsin | |
Susan Tepping | 1987 | Fugue Process and Tonal Structure in the String Quartets of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven | Georgia State University; deceased 2016 | |
James Hiatt | 1986 | 1969 | Structure and Style in the Late Instrumental Works of Carl Nielsen | James Madison University (retired) |
Jon Conrad | 1985 | 1969 | Style and Structure in Songs by George Gershwin: Published 1924-1938 | University of Delaware |
James Skoog | 1985 | Set Syntax in Béla Bartók's Mikrokosmos | Bowling Green State University? | |
Alan Todd Jordan | 1984 | Harmonic Style in Selected Sibelius Symphonies | Senior Consultant, Keane, Inc.; Organist & Assistant Music Director, Our Lady of Mt Carmel Catholic Church (Carmel, IN) | |
John Maxwell | 1984 | An Artificial Intelligence Approach to Computer-Implemented Analysis of Harmony in Tonal Music | SAS Institute (Software Manager; North Carolina) | |
William Pflugradt | 1984 | Elliott Carter and the Variation Process | deceased | |
Garry Brodhead | 1983 | 1972 | Structural Time in Twentieth-century Tonal Music | Ithaca College (Associate Provost) (retired) |
Ann Gebuhr | 1983 | 1968 | Structuralism in Music: A Review of Recent Ideas | Houston Baptist University (Director) |
John Ibberson | 1983 | 1965 | A History of Keyboard Theory | Indiana State University (retired) |
Kate Covington | 1982 | 1969 | A Study of Textural Stratification in Twentieth-century Compositions | University of Kentucky |
Robert Hatten | 1982 | 1975 | The Concept of Style Systems in Music Theory: A Model for Interpreting Style Change | University of Texas at Austin |
John Snyder | 1982 | The De legitimis ordinibus pentachordorum et tetrachordorum of Theinred of Dover | University of Houston | |
J. Kent Williams | 1982 | 1965 | Themes Composed by Jazz Musicians of the Bebop Era: A Study of Harmony, Rhythm, and Melody | UNC Greensboro |
George Winfield | 1981 | Ferruccio Busoni's Compositional Art: A Study of Selected Works for Piano Solo Composed Between 1907 and 1923 | Howard University (Chair) | |
James Bersano | 1979 | Formalized Aspect Analysis of Sound Texture Applied to Selected Works of the 1960's | ||
Eugene Reade | 1979 | A Study of Rhythm in the Serial Works of Igor Stravinsky | ||
Charles Lord | 1978 | 1971 | An Explication of Some Recent Mathematical Approaches to Music Analysis | University of Kentucky (retired) |
Gwyneth Roberts | 1978 | Procedures for Analysis of Sound Masses | Lowellville, Ohio | |
Bruce Thompson | 1978 | 1961 | Musical Style and Compositional Techniques in Selected Works of T. J. Anderson | Winthrop University |
Michael Burdick | 1977 | A Structural Analysis of Melodic Scale-Degree Tendencies in Selected Themes of Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, and Chopin | Chino Valley, Arizona | |
Margery Enix | 1977 | 1961 | The Dissolution of the Functional Harmonic Tonal System: 1850-1910 | Chapman University |
David Kaplan | 1977 | Stylistic Trends in the Small Woodwind Ensemble from 1750-1825 | University of Saskatchewan | |
Richard Domek | 1976 | 1967 | A Syntactic Approach to the Study of Rhythm Applied to the Late Piano Works of Johannes Brahms | University of Kentucky |
Roger Briscoe | 1975 | Rameau's Démonstration du principe de l'harmonie and Nouvelles réflexions de M. Rameau sur sa Démonstration du principe de l'harmonie: An Annotated Translation and Commentary of Two Treatises by Jean-Philippe Rameau | Raritan Valley Community College (NJ) | |
William Edwards | 1975 | The Variation Process in the Music of Stravinsky | Broward Community College | |
Christopher Gallaher | 1975 | 1965 | Density in Twentieth-Century Music | Morehead State University (chair; retired) |
Dorothy Gross | 1975 | A Set of Computer Programs to Aid in Music Analysis | University of Minnesota? | |
Glenn Chandler | 1974 | Rameau's Nouveau système de musique théorique: An Annotated Translation | University of Texas at Austin | |
Sister Jule Adele Espey | 1974 | Formal, Tonal, and Thematic Structure of the Hindemith String Quartets | Our Lady of the Lake University | |
William McCandless | 1974 | Cantus Firmus Techniques in Selected Instrumental Compositions, 1910-1960 | Central Missouri State University (chair; retired) | |
G. Larry Whatley | 1974 | Donald Francis Tovey and His Contributions to the Study of Harmony and Counterpoint | Brevard College (retired) | |
Robert Demaree | 1973 | The Structural Proportions of the Haydn Quartets | Indiana University--South Bend (Dean; retired) | |
Arthur Ostrander | 1973 | 1969 | Style in the Orchestral Works of Karl-Birger Blomdahl | Ithaca College (Dean, retired) |
John Stewart | 1973 | Metrical and Tonal Stability in the Dance Music of the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book | Ohio University (retired) | |
Mary Arlin | 1972 | 1965 | Esquisse de l'histoire de l'harmonie, considérée comme art et comme science systématique of François-Joseph Fétis: An Annotated Translation | Ithaca College (retired) |
Sister Laurette Bellemy | 1972 | The Sonido Trece Theoretical Works of Julián Carrillo: A Translation with Commentary | Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College (Music area coordinator) | |
Asher Zlotnik | 1972 | Orchestration Revisions in the Symphonies of Robert Schumann | Deceased | |
Norman Hessert | 1971 | The Use of Information Theory in Musical Theory | St. Lawrence University | |
Jean Little | 1971 | Architectonic Levels of Rhythmic Organization in Selected Twentieth-Century Music | Monrovia, California | |
Kenneth Mays | 1971 | 1961 | Harmonic Style in the Madrigals of Claudio Monteverdi | The Master's College |
Gary Potter | 1971 | 1969 | The Role of Chance in Contemporary Music | Indiana University (Director of Undergraduate Studies) |
Harriet Chase | 1970 | German, Italian, and Dutch Fugal Precursors of the Fugues in the Well-Tempered Clavier I, 1600-1722 | Westminster Choir College (retired) | |
Robert Hurwitz | 1970 | 1965 | An Investigation into the Perception of Root in Harmonic Intervals | University of Oregon (Associate Dean for Graduate Studies; retired) |
William Mickelsen | 1970 | Hugo Riemann's History of Harmonic Theory with a Translation of Harmonielehre | St. George, Utah | |
James Marks | 1969 | Harmonic Rhythm as a Factor in Form Delineation in Selected Instrumental Works from 1775 to 1850 | Sam Houston State University (retired) | |
Francis McGinnis | 1969 | Chopin: Aspects of Melodic Style | ||
Raymond Stahura | 1969 | 1961 | A Stylistic Study of the Works of John Dunstable | Ripon College (retired) |
George B. Biggs | 1968 | The Return Effect in Works for Orchestra by Stravinsky, Bartók, and Schoenberg, as Determined by Factors other than Theme and Key | Fort Worth, Texas | |
Charles Nick | 1967 | A Stylistic Analysis of the Music of Nicola Vincentino | ||
Louis Pisciotta | 1967 | Texture in the Choral Works of Selected Contemporary American Composers | Manhasset, New York | |
Donald Schwejda | 1967 | An Investigation of the Analytical Technique Used by Rudolph Reti in The Thematic Process in Music | Pacific University | |
Leon Smith | 1967 | An Investigation of the Inherent Qualities of Musical Intervals as Definers of Melodic Tonality | Round Rock, Texas | |
Mary Wennerstrom | 1967 | Parametric Analysis of Contemporary Musical Form | Indiana University (Associate Dean for Instruction, retired) | |
Carl Haenselman | 1966 | Harmonic Rhythm in Selected Works of the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century | ||
Eugene Sterling | 1966 | A Study of the Chromatic Elements in Selected Piano Works of Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, and Brahms | San Jose, California | |
Albert Hanna | 1965 | A Statistical Analysis of Some Style Elements in the Solo Piano Sonatas of Franz Schubert | ||
Harold Lewin | 1965 | Aspects of the Twelve-Tone System: Its Formation and Structural Implications | ||
George Sargent | 1965 | An Edition of Elizabeth Rogers' Virginal Book (British Museum Add. Ms. 10337) | ||
Richard Tappa | 1965 | An Analytical Study of the Use of Imitative Devices in the Keyboard Ricercar from 1520 to 1720 | ||
Glen Gould | 1964 | A Stylistic Analysis of Selected Twelve-Tone Works by Luigi Dallapiccola | Pennsylvania | |
James Krehbiel | 1964 | Harmonic Principles of Jean-Philippe Rameau and His Contemporaries | Eastern Illinois University (retired) | |
Maurice Laney | 1964 | Thematic Material and Developmental Techniques in Selected Contemporary Compositions | ||
Harry Ray | 1964 | An Experimental Approach to the Reading of Pitch Notation | ||
Janet Tupper | 1964 | Stylistic Analysis of Selected Works by Frank Martin | Denver, Colorado | |
Sanford Watts | 1964 | The Stylistic Features of the Bolognese Concerto | Indiana State University (deceased 2009) | |
James Burke | 1963 | A Study of Theories of Non-Chord Tones Pertaining to the Music of the Period ca. 1650 to ca. 1875 | Acadiana Symphony Orchestra | |
Mary Fiore | 1963 | The Formation and Structural Use of Vertical Constructs in Selected Serial Compositions | Buffalo State College (deceased 2014) | |
William Jones | 1963 | The Music of Ernest Bloch | ||
John Mitchell | 1963 | A History of Theories of Functional Harmonic Progression | ||
Glen Morgan | 1963 | Stylistic Features of the Music of Guillaume de Machaut | ||
Edward Murphy | 1963 | Harmony and Tonality in the Large Orchestral Works of Richard Strauss | University of Arizona | |
Louis Richardson | 1963 | The Effect of Certain Harmonic Considerations upon Tuning Preferences for the Major Third | Fredonia, New York | |
John Egan | 1962 | Marin Mersenne: Traité de l'harmonie universelle: Critical Translation of the Second Book | St. Joseph's University? | |
Charles Knox | 1962 | The Orchestral Violin Tone | Georgia State University (retired) | |
John Nagosky | 1962 | Timbre Thresholds of Sinusoidal Mixtures | Indiana University (retired) | |
C. Allen Winold | 1962 | The Effects of Changes in Harmonic Tension upon Listener Response | Indiana University (retired) | |
Molly Gustin | 1961 | A Theory of Tonality | Thomas Aquinas College | |
Raymond Haggh | 1961 | Hugo Riemann's Geschichte der Musiktheorie im IX-XIX. Jahrhundert, Books I and II: A Translation with Commentary and Annotated Bibliography | University of Nebraska-Lincoln (retired) | |
Hans-Jörgen Holman | 1961 | The responsoria prolixa of the Codex Worcester F 160 | ||
Frederick Homan | 1961 | Cadence in Gregorian Chant | ||
Vernon Kliewer | 1961 | The Concept of Organic Unity in Music Criticism and Analysis | Indiana University (retired) | |
Joel Mandelbaum | 1961 | Multiple Division of the Octave and the Tonal Resources of 19-Tone Temperament | CUNY-Queens College | |
Judson Maynard | 1961 | An Anonymous Scottish Treatise on Music from the Sixteenth Century: British Museum, Add. MS 4911, Edition and Commentary | Denton, Texas | |
W. Thomas Atcherson | 1960 | Modal Theory of Sixteenth-Century German Theorists | University of Iowa (deceased) | |
Donald Morrison | 1960 | Influences of Impressionist Tonality on Selected Works of Delius, Griffes, Falla, and Respighi: Based on the Concept Developed by Robert Mueller | Sarasota, Florida | |
Charles Smith | 1960 | Leonhard Euler's Tentamen novae theoriae musicae: A Translation and Commentary | Dover, Delaware | |
Tom Ritchie | 1960 | A Study of the Effects of Diatonic Harmony upon the Aural Perception of Selected Melodic Fragments | Truman State University | |
Joseph Youngblood | 1960 | Music and Language: Some Related Analytical Techniques | University of Miami (retired) | |
Ronald Jesson | 1958 | The Third Relation in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries | ||
Dale Jorgenson | 1957 | A History of Theories of the Minor Triad | ||
Parviz Mahmoud | 1957 | A Theory of Persian Music and Its Relation to Western Practice | ||
William Abbott | 1956 | Certain Aspects of the Sonata-Allegro Form in Piano Sonatas of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries | ||
David Appleby | 1956 | A Study of Selected Compositions by Contemporary Brazilian Composers | Eastern Illinois University | |
Wayne Wise | 1956 | Tonal Relationship through Interchangeability of Mode in the Music of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries | ||
Quentin Nordgren | 1955 | Texture: A Consideration of Spacing, Doubling, Range, and Instrumentation, Based upon Selected Orchestral Works of Certain Nineteenth-Century Composers | ||
Wilbur Lee Ogdon | 1955 | Series and Structure: An Investigation into the Purpose of the Twelve-Note Row in Selected Works of Schoenberg, Webern, Krenek, and Leibowitz | UC San Diego | |
Helen Rogers | 1955 | The Development of the Concept of Modulation in Theory from the Sixteenth to the Early Eighteenth Century | ||
Mark Walker | 1955 | Thematic, Formal, and Tonal Structure of the Bartók String Quartets | ||
Robert Lamm | 1954 | The Evolution of the Secondary Dominant Concept | ||
George List | 1954 | An Analysis of the Relationship of Non-Stepwise Melodic Movement to Tonality in Selected Works of W. A. Mozart | Indiana University (ethnomusicology; retired) | |
Robert Mueller | 1954 | The Concept of Tonality in Impressionist Music: Based on the Works of Debussy and Ravel | Southern Illinois University (retired) | |
Ernest Trumble | 1954 | Early Renaissance Harmony | Norman, Oklahoma | |
Grace Yerbury | 1953 | Styles and Schools of the Art Song in America, 1720-1850 | ||
William Thomson | 1952 | A Clarification of the Tonality Concept | University of Southern California (Dean) (retired) | |
Arthur Darack | 1951 | Aesthetics of Music: Early Greek Views | Critic, author (deceased 2007) |
MM/MA Alumni
MM/MA alumni who completed a PhD in music theory at Indiana University appear in the list of PhD alumni above. Other MM/MA alumni are listed below. (The current master's degree is the MM. The MA degree was awarded until 2005.)
Chelsea Brinda | 2018 | |
Tyler Erickson | 2018 | PhD student at IU |
Stephen Gomez-Peck | 2018 | PhD student at CUNY |
Madeleine Howey | 2018 | PhD student at IU |
Emily Lamb | 2018 | PhD student at IU |
Stephen McFall | 2018 | PhD student at IU |
Emily Barbosa | 2017 | PhD student at IU |
Gabrielle Gaudreault | 2017 | DMus student (choral conducting) at McGill |
Rogério Shieh Barbosa | 2017 | PhD student at Columbia |
Lauren Wilson | 2017 | PhD student at Eastman |
Clifton Boyd | 2016 | PhD student at Yale |
John Heilig | 2016 | PhD student at IU |
Katelyn Kozinski | 2016 | |
Jinny Park | 2016 | PhD student at IU |
Knar Abrahamyan | 2015 | PhD student at Yale |
Matthew Bilik | 2015 | |
Ethan Edl | 2015 | PhD student at Yale |
Stephen Komer | 2015 | PhD student at IU |
Nathaniel Mitchell | 2015 | PhD student at Princeton |
Zachary Zinser | 2015 | PhD student at IU |
Alyssa Barna | 2014 | PhD student at Eastman |
John Kluge | 2014 | |
Nikolas Bauchat | 2013 | PhD candidate at IU |
Calvin Peck | 2013 | PhD candidate at IU |
Bruno Alcalde | 2012 | PhD student at Northwestern |
Nathan Blustein | 2012 | PhD candidate at IU |
Paul Child | 2012 | |
Colin DeJong | 2012 | |
Joseph Noëlliste | 2012 | |
Simon Prosser | 2012 | PhD student at CUNY |
Stanley Fink | 2011 | PhD student at Florida State |
Alvin Yu | 2011 | |
Nicole DiPaolo | 2010 | PhD candidate at IU |
Ruthie Chase (Umthun) | 2010 | PhD candidate at IU |
Aisha Ahmad-Post | 2009 | |
Mark Chilla | 2009 | WFIU radio |
Emily Mattson | 2009 | |
Abigail Shupe | 2009 | PhD, Western University (Ontario); teaching at Colorado State University |
Andrew Wilson | 2009 | PhD candidate at CUNY, teaching at Oberlin |
Sarah Climis (Wangberg) | 2008 | |
Jonathan Guez | 2008 | PhD, Yale; teaching at College of Wooster |
Matthew Hoffman | 2007 | |
Lara Langeneckert | 2007 | |
William Guerin | 2006 | PhD candidate at IU |
Jordi Torrent | 2006 | Pianist, based in Spain |
Jason Hooper | 2005 | Earned PhD at CUNY; teaching at University of Massachusetts–Amherst |
Jamshed Turel | 2005 | PhD student at McGill |
Sheila Cullen | 2004 | |
Michael DeMarco | 2004 | |
Erin Toelcke | 2004 | |
Loren Serfass | 2003 | |
Megan Schindele | 2002 | |
Matthew Boyer | 2001 | |
Meryl Krieger | 2001 | Earned PhD in ethnomusicology at IU |
Pei Ling Lee | 2001 | |
Claudia Millicent | 2001 | Band director in Laguna Salada Union School District |
T Kareem Powell | 2001 | Dayton, Ohio |
Min Jung Koh | 2000 | |
Paul Robbins | 2000 | |
Christopher Stafford | 2000 | Founder, Stafford Music Academy, Bloomington |
Molly Speicher | 1999 | |
Monica Steger | 1998 | |
Gwynne Kuhner (Brown) | 1997 | Earned PhD in musicology, University of Washington; faculty at University of Puget Sound |
Kimberly Carballo | 1997 | IU Opera Coach |
Erik Gustafson | 1997 | |
Kevin Medows | 1997 | M.L.S. from the University of Illinois; Music Technical Services Librarian, Northwestern University |
Shelly Annette Redfield Jurcevic | 1997 | Teaches music theory at Armstrong Community Music School and maintains a private studio teaching voice, piano, flute, and recorder; adjunct faculty in music department at St. Edward's University |
Thomas Townsend | 1997 | |
Jonathan Brooks | 1996 | Earned PhD from the University of North Texas. Faculty at Anderson University (Indiana) |
Jessica Corbin | 1996 | Faculty at Brooklyn Conservatory of Music and director of the Bella Voce Singers |
Larry Tomlin | 1996 | Works for Citrix |
Michele Addino-Colchin | 1995 | Liturgical music director, University of St. Francis (Fort Wayne, IN) campus ministry |
Michael Lister | 1995 | |
Leonard Sanders | 1995 | |
Kristina Zuelicke (Campbell) | 1995 | believed living in New Zealand |
David Ernst | 1994 | Executive Director, HoosierNet (Bloomington) |
Elizabeth Bortka | 1993 | |
James Halliday | 1993 | Programmer for IU's Digital Library Program |
Celia Hurwitz | 1993 | Earned PhD in music theory from Columbia in 2002 ("Tonality and form in the first movements of Britten's String Quartets Opp. 25 and 36") |
Donna Johnston-Martel | 1993 | Piano teacher, Regina, Sask. |
David Williams | 1993 | MM in conducting from CCM; Lecturer in Aural Studies, Vanderbilt University |
Anita Albert | 1992 | Private piano teacher, Toronto |
Patrick Budelier | 1992 | |
James Gregory | 1992 | |
Alisa Smallwood | 1992 | Director of Development for the Robert Ferst Center for the Arts at Georgia Tech |
Kip Montgomery | 1991 | PhD, Music History, SUNY Stony Brook, 2002 ("Cyclic Form in the Music of Brahms"); Associate Professor and Chair of Music Department at Queensborough Community College of the City University of new York |
Ma Lourdes Diaz | 1990 | |
Richard Littlefield | 1990 | PhD from University of Helsinki? Taught at Central Michigan University. |
Clair Melton | 1990 | Austin, Texas |
Judith Bixler | 1989 | Adjunct instructor of Violin and String Pedagogy, Hillsdale College |
Carolyn MacGregor (Saunders) | 1989 | Living in Seattle |
Wayne Huck | 1988 | Works for UITS, IU Office of the Registrar |
Yuk-Yue Rebecca Chan | 1987 | |
Shereen Su-Wen Ivey | 1987 | |
Elizabeth DeSouza | 1986 | |
John Bullard | 1984 | |
Janet McQuarrie | 1984 | |
Gil-Ju Ri | 1984 | |
Scott Schafer | 1984 | |
Larry Babb | 1983 | |
Luanne Fose | 1983 | PhD in music theory from University of North Texas; Instructional Designer/Information Technology Consultant for Information Technology Services, California Polytechnic State Univeristy |
Janice Hunton | 1983 | Faculty, Perpich Center for Arts Education (Golden Valley, Minn.) |
David Newby | 1983 | Earned MM and DM in Instrumental Conducting (IU), faculty at Antelope Valley College |
Betsy Peregoy | 1983 | |
Norin Saxe | 1983 | |
David Bradshaw | 1982 | PhD in Music Psychology from the University of Washington in Seattle; Assistant Research Professor, Dept. of Anesthesiology, University of Utah Pain Research Center |
Rose Chisholm | 1982 | |
Stephen Dombek | 1982 | |
Jack Greenhouse | 1982 | |
Daniel Kramlich | 1982 | |
Marcus St. Julien | 1982 | |
Robert Weeks | 1982 | |
Joseph Kraus | 1981 | Earned PhD at Eastman School of Music; faculty at Florida State University |
Sharon Boylan | 1980 | |
Robert Knight | 1980 | |
Ray Liddle | 1980 | |
Michele Murray | 1980 | |
Carl Parnella | 1980 | |
Susan Rossinelli-McLean | 1980 | |
Christy Dana | 1979 | DM in Brass Pedagogy (IU), faculty at UC–Berkeley, professional jazz trumpeter and band leader |
Roger Knox | 1979 | |
Charles Ogoe | 1979 | |
Christine Paputsas | 1979 | |
Ron Levy | 1978 | |
James McMillan | 1978 | |
Rita Olsen | 1978 | |
Catherine Overhauser | 1978 | |
Roy Whelden | 1978 | |
Rosalee Nerheim | 1976 | |
Allen Regueiro | 1976 | |
William Skinner | 1976 | |
Neil Tatman | 1976 | |
Susan Bakshi | 1975 | |
Elmer Kudo | 1975 | |
William Lake | 1975 | Earned PhD at University of Michigan; faculty at Bowling Green State University |
Charles Manning | 1975 | |
John Warner | 1975 | |
Kuija Yune | 1975 | |
Mary Anne Rees | 1974 | |
Dianne Vars | 1974 | |
Peter Lengyel | 1973 | |
Suzanne Loucky | 1973 | |
William McGee | 1973 | |
Charles Stokes | 1973 | |
Genevieve Crane | 1972 | |
Dan Lind | 1972 | |
Thomas Biebl | 1971 | |
Paul Cox | 1971 | |
John Fisher | 1971 | |
John Hyslop | 1971 | |
Keith King | 1971 | |
Patricia Prause | 1971 | |
Merelyn Davis | 1970 | |
Carol Edison | 1970 | |
Karen Gifford | 1970 | |
Richard Mueller | 1970 | |
Margaret Turney | 1970 | |
John Arnn | 1969 | |
Douglas Besemer | 1969 | |
Susan Engle | 1969 | |
Lee Garrett | 1969 | |
Willis Hackman | 1969 | |
Margaret Hawn | 1969 | |
Rosemary Hogsett | 1969 | |
Elizabeth Morris | 1969 | |
Michael Mosley | 1969 | |
Esther Olin | 1969 | |
Gwyneth Rollin | 1969 | |
Louis Pape | 1968 | |
Marjorie Porterfield | 1968 | Faculty at Ithaca College (retired) |
John Riley | 1968 | |
Ronald Ross | 1968 | |
Robert Brewer | 1967 | |
Kathryn Hoppe | 1967 | |
James Martin | 1967 | |
James Stewart | 1967 | |
Anthony Thein | 1967 | |
Steven Zvengrowski | 1967 | |
Rita Czarnecki | 1966 | |
Rudyard McGary | 1966 | |
Jay Williams | 1966 | |
Arlene Woehl | 1966 | |
William Hazelbauer | 1965 | |
Charles Lee Humphries | 1965 | |
William Milner | 1965 | |
David H. Watkins | 1965 | MM Thesis: The Use of Polytonality in Selected Works of Aaron Copland. DM in Music Literature and the Pedagogy of Brass Instruments (IU, 1985, "Teaching Baroque Style Characteristics Through Solo Literature for the Horn"). Retired faculty member, Indiana State University 1965-1997 |
Mary Friedmann | 1963 | |
Curtis Wolfe | 1963 | |
Lon Doudna | 1962 | |
Allan Green | 1962 | |
Virginia Green | 1962 | |
Barbara Inzana | 1961 | |
Marius Broekheuzen | 1960 | |
Duncan Courvoisier | 1957 |