PhD Alumni

Graduates of the Ph.D. Program and Their Dissertations

(For full bibliographic records, click on the dissertation title)

• Elmi, Elizabeth (2018)
  Singing Lyric among Local Aristocratic Networks in the Aragonese-Ruled Kingdom of Naples: Aesthetic and Political Meaning in the Written Records of an Oral Practice
  
  
• O'Brien, Kerry(2018)
  Experimentalisms of the Self: Experiments in Art and Technology, 1966-1971
  
  
• Rogers, Daniel (2018)
  Musical Creative Frameworks in the Late Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries
  
  
• Rugger, David (2018)
  Seeing the Voice, Hearing the Body: Countertenors, Voice Type, and Identity
  
  
• Whealton, Virginia (2018)
  Travel, Ideology, and the Geographical Imagination: Parisian Musical Travelogues, 1830–1870
  
  
• Witt, Alexis (2018)
  Networks of Performance and Patronage: Russian Artists in American Dance, Vaudeville, and Opera, 1909-1947
  
  
• Barron, Dana (2017)
  Continental Scribes and the Reception of Fifteenth-Century English Mass Music: A Case Study of the Aosta Manuscript
  
  
• Rorick, Laura (2017)
  The Significance of Accessibility in American Orchestral Music
  
  
• Ables, Mollie (2016)
  Giovanni Legrenzi’s Venetian Career and Musicians’ Networks at Sacred Institutions, 1670-1690
  
  
• Bishop, Daniel (2016)
  Sounding the Past in the New Hollywood Cinema
  
  
• Quevedo, Marysol(2016)
  Cubanness, Innovation, and Politics in Art Music in Cuba, 1942-1979
  
  
• Ryan, Mary Ellen (2016)
  Music as Spiritual Recovery: Political Crisis and the Motet after the Sack of Rome
  
  
• Stokes, Laura (2016)
  Music and Cultural Politics during the Reign of Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia
  
  
• Kim, Hyun Joo (2015)
  The Dynamics of Fidelity and Creativity: Liszt's Reworkings of Orchestral and Gypsy-Band Music
  
  
• Blackburn, Tong (2015)
  In Search of Third Space: Composing the Transcultural Experience in the Operas of Bright Sheng, Tan Dun, and Zhou Long
  
  
• Taylor, Nik (2014)
  The Published Church Cantatas of Georg Philipp Telemann
  
  
• Strandberg, Kristen (2014)
  Art or Artifice?: Violin Virtuosity and Aesthetics in Parisian Criticism, 1831-1848
  
  
• Stauff, Derek (2014)
  Lutheran Music and Politics in Saxony during the Thirty Years' War
  
  
• Mero, Alison (2014)
  The Quest for National Musical Identity: English Opera and the Press, 1834-1849
  
  
• Cooper Vest, Lisa (2014)
  The Discursive Foundations of the Polish Musical Avant-Garde at Midcentury: Aesthetics of Progress, Meaning, and National Identity
  
  
• Yeager, Travis (2014)
  Questiones in musica: A Critical Edition, Translation, and Commentary
  
  
• Yaeger, Jonathan (2013)
  The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in East Germany, 1970-1990
  
  
• Holmes, Christopher (2013)
  "History is Now:" T.S. Eliot's Idea of Tradition in the Music of Peter Maxwell Davies
  
  
• Sewell, Amanda (2013)
  A Typology of Sampling in Hip-Hop
  
  
• Hara, Kunio (2012)
  Staging Nostalgia in Puccini's Operas
  
  
• Bishop, Sherri (2012)
  Authorship, Attribution, and Advertising in Venetial Madrigal Prints, 1538-1580
  
  
• White, Kathryn (2012)
  George Whitefield Chadwick and the American Vernacular in His Chamber Works
  
  
• Baber, Katherine (2011)
  Leonard Bernstein's Jazz:  "Musical Topic and Cultural Resonance"
  
  
• Asai, Rika (2011)
  The Josef Bonime Collection of Radio Music: Music and Advertising in the Golden Age of Radio
  
  
• White, Alisa (2011)
  "No Room for Squares": The Hip and Modern Image of Blue Note Records, 1954-67
  
  
• Goldberg, Randall (2011)
  Clerics and Cavaliers at the Dawn of Modern Music: The Zarlino-Galilei Dispute
  
  
• Boey, Jir Shin (2010)
  Popular Music in the Culture of Ambivalence: The Search for Identity in the Sixteenth-Century Low Countries
  
  
• Laycock, Gary (2010)
  Re-evaluating Olivier Messiaen's Musical Language from 1917 to 1935
  
  
• Cox, Sam (2007)
  Paul Whiteman's Vision for a New American Music as Seen through His Composer Commissions
  
  
• King, Jennifer L. (2007)
  The Proposta e risposta Madrigal, Dialogue, Cultural Discourse, and the Issue of Imitatio
  
  
• Schimpf, Peter (2006)
  A Transcultural Student, Teacher, and Composer: Henry Cowell and the Music of the World's Peoples
  
  
• Butler, Nicholas M. (2004)
  "Votaries of Apollo": The St. Cecilia Society and the Patronage of Concert Music in Charleston, South Carolina, 1766-1820
  
  
• Felicia Miyakawa (2003)
  God Hop: The Music and Message of Five Percenter Rap
  
  
• Patrick R. Warfield (2003)
  "Salesman of Americanism, Globetrotter, and Musician": The Nineteenth-Century John Philip Sousa, 1854-1893
  
  
• Judith Barger (2002)
  "Ladies Not Eligible"?: Elizabeth Stirling and the Musical Life of Female Organists in Nineteenth-Century London
  
  
• Lyle Neff (2002)
  Story, Style, and Structure in the Operas of César Cui
  
  
• Daria A. Depa (2001)
  Wagner and Musikpolitik in the Weimar Republic: Re-appropriations and Re-evaluations
  
  
• Fredrick A. Tarrant (2000)
  John Blow's Verse Anthems with Organ Accompaniment
  
  
• Chris Smith (1999)
  "I can show it to you better than I can explain it to you": Analyzing Procedural Cues in African-American Musical Improvisations
  
  
• Andreas Giger (1999)
  The Role of Giuseppe Verdi's French Operas in the Transformation of His Melodic Style
  
  
• Jean Hoover (1999)
  
  Constructions of National Identities: Opera and Nationalism in the British Isles
  
  
• René Mario Ramos (1997)
  The Symphonies of Gaetano Brunetti (ca. 1744-1798)
  
  
• Susan E. Richardson (1997)
  Defining a Place for Composers: The Early Histories of the American Composers Alliance and American Music Center, 1937-1950
  
  
• Nancy Kinsey Totten (1997)
  The English Victorian Drawing-Room Ballad: A Product of Its Time
  
  
• Luminita Florea Aluas (1996)
  The Quatuor Principalia Musicae: A Critical Edition and Translation, with Introduction and Commentary
  
  
• Mara Emily Parker (1995)
  Soloistic Chamber Music at the Court of Friedrich Wilhelm II: 1786-1797
  
  
• Julie Schnepel (1995)
  The Critical Pursuit of the Great American Symphony: 1893-1950
  
  
• Karen McGaha Bryan (1994)
  An Experiment in Form: The Reform Operas of Saverio Mercadante
  
  
• Brian J. Hart (1994)
  The Symphony in Theory and Practice in France, 1900-1914
  
  
• C. Matthew Balensuela (1993)
  The Ars cantus mensurabilis mensurata per modos iuris: (Coussemaker's Scriptores 3, Anonymous V): An Introduction, Critical Text, and English Translation with Commentary
  
  
• Barbara Blanchard Hong (1992)
  The Five Piano Concertos of Selim Palmgren: A Finnish Nationalist Meets the Challenge of the Twentieth Century
  
  
• James Cade Griesheimer (1990)
  The Antiphon-, Responsory-, and Psalm-Motets of Ludwig Senfl
  
  
• Harold Briggs (1989)
  Richard Wagner and American Music-Literary Activity from 1850 to 1920
  
  
• Claude K. Sluder (1987)
  Music in New Harmony, Indiana, 1825-1865: A Study of the Music and Musical Activities of Robert Owen's Community of Equality (1825-1827) and Its Cultural Afterglow (1827-1865)
  
  
• Blake McDowell Wilson (1987)
  Music and Merchants: The Laudesi Companies of Republican Florence, ca. 1270-1494
  
  
• Peter Marquis Alexander (1986)
  The Chamber Music of Franz Anton Danzi: Sources, Chronology, and Style
  
  
• Paul W. Borg (1985)
  The Polyphonic Music in the Guatemalan Music Manuscripts of the Lilly Library
  
  
• Fredric B. Johnson (1985)
  Tartini's Trattato di musica secondo la vera scienza dell'armonio: An Annotated Translation and Consideration of Its Historical Significance
  
  
• Mary Sue Morrow (1984)
  Concert Life in Vienna, 1780-1810
  
  
• Donald L. Caughill (1983)
  A History of Instrumental Chamber Music in the Netherlands during the Early Baroque Era
  
  
• Mack Clay Lindsey III (1981)
  Klosterneuberg, Augustinerchorherrenstift, Codices 69 and 70:Two Sixteenth-Century Choirbooks, Their Music, and Its Liturgical Use
  
  
• Vincent Justus Corrigan III (1980)
  The Style of the Notre Dame Conductus
  
  
• Robert A. Green (1979)
  
  Annotated Translation and Commentary of the Works of Jean Rousseau: A Study of Late Seventeenth-Century Musical Thought and Performance Practice
  
  
• Leonard M. Phillips (1979)
  The Leipzig Conservatory: 1843-1881
  
  
• Carol Henry Bates (1978)
  The Instrumental Music of Elizabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre
  
  
• Paul Wathen Cox (1978)
  Classic Guitar Technique and Its Evolution as Reflected in the Method Books ca. 1770-1850
  
  
• Alan Lloyd Kagan (1978)
  Cantonese Puppet Theater: An Operatic Tradition and Its Role in the Chinese Religious Belief System
  
  
• Laura Youens (1978)
  Music for the Lutheran Mass in Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek, MS. Thomaskirche 49150
  
  
• Terry E. Miller (1977)
  Kaen Playing and mawlum Singing in Northeast Thailand
  
  
• Ronald F. Cole (1975)
  Music in Portland, Maine, from Colonial Times through the Nineteenth Century
  
  
• Dewey Wayne Howard (1975)
  The Kauthuma, Ranayania, and Jaiminiya Schools of Samavedic Chant
  
  
• Roy V. Magers (1975)
  Aspects of Form in the Symphonies of Charles E. Ives
  
  
• Lawrence A. Oncley (1975)
  The Published Works of Alexander Zemlinsky
  
  
• Richard James White (1975)
  The Battre Fascicle of the Trent Codex 87
  
  
• Lee E. Eubank (1974)
  Spanish Intabulations in the Sixteenth Century
  
  
• J. Evan Kreider (1974)
  The Masses for Five and Six Voices by Pierre de la Rue
  
  
• Ronald L. Miller (1974)
  The Musical Works of Marbriano de Orto: Transcription and Commentary
  
  
• David Clifford Nichols (1974)
  Francisco Delgado and Classicism in Mexican Music as Exhibited in the Missa a Quatro Voces
  
  
• Hugh M. Birmingham (1973)
  Schedel's Song Book and Its Role in the Development of the German Tenor Song
  
  
• Mary Matilda Gaume (1973)
  Ruth Crawford Seeger: Her Life and Works
  
  
• Marlene Joan Langosch (1973)
  The Instrumental Chamber Music of Bernhard Heiden
  
  
• Richard D. Leppert (1973)
  Musical Instruments and Performing Ensembles in Flemish Paintings of the Seventeenth Century
  
  
• Robert Burgess Lynn (1973)
  Renaissance Organ Music for the Proper of the Mass in Continental Sources
  
  
• Wilbur R. Maust (1973)
  The Symphonies of Anthony Philip Heinrich Based on American Themes
  
  
• Michael D. Williams (1973)
  The Violin Concertos of Rodolphe Kreutzer
  
  
• Nancy M. van Deusen (1972)
  An Historical and Stylistic Comparison between the Graduals of Gregorian and Old Roman Chant
  
  
• Jerry Haller Etheridge (1972)
  The Works of Johannes de Limburgia
  
  
• William R. Perryman (1972)
  Walter Damrosch: An Educational Force in American Music
  
  
• John Edward Druesedow Jr. (1971)
  The Missarum Liber (1703) of José de Torres y Mart?nez Bravo (1665-1738)
  
  
• Gordon Kay Greene (1971)
  The Secular Music of Chantilly Manuscript, Musée Condé 564 (olim 1047)
  
  
• William Thomas Hopkins (1971)
  The Short Piano Compositions of Max Reger (1873-1916)
  
  
• Joe Melvin Zimmerman (1971)
  The Psalm Settings and Anthems of William Child (1606-1697)
  
  
• Harry Elzinga (1970)
  The Sacred Choral Compositions of Pavel Gregoryevich Chesnokov (1877-1944)
  
  
• Donald E. Marcase (1970)
  Adriano Banchieri, L'organo suonarino: Translation, Transcription, and Commentary
  
  
• William Richard Shindle (1970)
  The Madrigals of Giovanni de Macque
  
  
• Milton Allen Swenson (1970)
  The Four-Part Italian Ensemble Ricercar from 1540 to 1619
  
  
• Mildred Katherine Ellis (1969)
  The French Piano Character Piece of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
  
  
• Robert Edward Gerken (1969)
  The Polyphonic Cycles of the Proper of the Mass in the Trent Codex 88 and Jena Choirbooks 30 and 35
  
  
• John Waldorf Wagner (1969)
  James Hewitt: His Life and Works
  
  
• Norman Kirt Nunamaker (1968)
  The Virtuoso Violin Concerto before Paganini: The Concertos of Lolli, Giornovicchi, and Woldemar (1750-1815)
  
  
• David Alden Sheldon (1968)
  The Chamber Music of Johann Friedrich Fasch
  
  
• Theodore McKinley Jennings Jr. (1967)
  A Study of 503 Versos in the First and Second Volumes of Antonio Martín y Coll's Flores de Musica
  
  
• Donna Kay Anderson (1966)
  The Works of Charles Tomlinson Griffes: A Descriptive Catalogue
  
  
• Robert Gordon Campbell (1966)
  Johann Gottfried Müthel, 1728-1788
  
  
• Jean Elizabeth Knowlton (1966)
  Some Dances of the Stuart Masque Identified and Analyzed
  
  
• Byron A. Wolverton (1966)
  Keyboard Music and Musicians in the Colonies and United States of America before 1830
  
  
• Carl Reginald Morey (1965)
  The Late Operas of Alessandro Scarlatti
  
  
• Jaroslav Mrácek (1965)
  Seventeenth-Century Instrumental Dances in Uppsala, University Library IMhs 409: A Transcription and Study
  
  
• Donald D. Colton (1964)
  The Conducti of Ms. Madrid 20486
  
  
• Carl Earl Forsberg (1964)
  The Clavier-Violin Sonatas of W. A. Mozart
  
  
• Wyatt Marion Insko (1964)
  The Cracow Tablature
  
  
• Clare Grill Rayner (1963)
  A Little-Known Seventeenth-Century Composer, Christopher Gibbons (1615-1676)
  
  
• Helen Margaret Smith (1963)
  
  F. M. Veracini's Il Trionfo della prattica musicale
  
  
• Samuel Emmons Brown Jr. (1962)
  The Motets of Ciconia, Dunstable, and Dufay
  
  
• Barton Hudson (1961)
  A Portuguese Source of Seventeenth-Century Iberian Organ Music: MS 1577, loc. B, 5, Municipal Library, Oporto, Portugal
  
  
• Hadley Yates (1961)
  A History of the Cadence in Polyphonic Vocal Music through the Fifteenth Century
  
  
• Maurice Brooks Haynes (1960)
  The Keyboard Works of Bernardo Pasquini (1637-1710)
  
  
• Edward Joseph Pease (1960)
  An Edition of the Pixérécourt Manuscript: Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds fr. 15123
  
  
• John David Robinson (1959)
  The Vocal Canon of the Classical Era
  
  
• Arnold Salop (1959)
  The Masses of Jacob Obrecht (1450-1505), Structure and Style
  
  
• Dominique-René DeLerma (1958)
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Works and Influences of His First Ten Years
  
  
• Donald M. McCorkle (1958)
  Moravian Music in Salem: A German-American Heritage
  
  
• Miriam Karpilow Whaples (1958)
  Exoticism in Dramatic Music, 1600-1800
  
  
• Klaus Speer (1956)
  A Portuguese Manuscript of Keyboard Music from the Late Seventeenth Century: MS No. 1607, loc. G, 7, Municipal Library, Oporto, Portugal
  
  
• Roy Hart Jesson (1955)
  Ambrosian Chant: The Music of the Mass
  
  
• Mildred Jane Johnson (1955)
  The Motets of the Codex Ivrea
  
  
• Carol Cook MacClintock (1955)
  The Five-Part Madrigals of Giaches de Wert
  
  
• Frederick T. Wessel (1955)
  The Affektenlehre in the Eighteenth-Century
  
  
• Paul Edward Mueller (1954)
  The Influence and Activities of English Musicians on the Continent during the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries
  
  
• Bruno Nettl (1953)
  American Indian Music North of Mexico: Its Styles and Areas
  
  
• Donald Ira Sonnedecker (1953)
  Cultivation and Concepts of Duets for Four Hands, One Keyboard, in the Eighteenth Century
  
  
• Don Lee Earl (1952)
  The Solo Song-Cycle in Germany (1800-1850)
  
  
• Joseph Nathan Garton (1952)
  The Thesaurus harmonicus of J. B. Besard 1603
  
  
• John Reeves White (1952)
  Music of the Early ltalian Ars nova (ca. 1325-1375)