Theses from 2016
Zhenfang Zhao’s Widow Xianglin [xianglin sao] and New Directions in Modern Huai Opera, Yuxi Zhao
Dissertations from 2015
Dmitri Kabalevsky: A Pedagogical Analysis of Five Sets of Variations, Op. 51 and Easy Variations, Op. 40, Patrick Collin Bachmann
The Stylistic Variance and Underlying Unity in Selected Organ Works by Clarence Mader, Jacob Richard Benda
High School Musicians' and Non-musicians' Listening Preference for Authentic Versus Transcribed Musical Excerpts, Colin Douglas Caldarera
Ernst Mahle: A Pedagogical Edition of His Four Concertinos for Piano and Orchestra, Joao Paulo Casarotti
A Performer's Guide to Ivor Gurney's The Western Playland (and of Sorrow), Ridley Chauvin
The Saxophone in Puerto Rico: History and Annotated Bibliography of Selected Works, Marcos David Colón-Martín
A Performer's Guide to Sergei Lyapunov's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.1, Op.4, Irina Cunev
Straight Ahead: The Life, Pedagogy, and Influence of Dennis L. Schneider, Louie Colton Sperry Eckhardt
Evidence of Pedagogical Content Knowledge Among High School Band Directors and University Applied Music Teachers in the Context of Student Self-Evaluation, Danielle Jeanette Emerich
Costa Rican Composer Luis Diego Herra and His Symphony I An Annotated Edition, Norman Armando Gamboa
A Conductor’s Analysis of Almeida Prado’s Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ According to Saint Mark, Cléusia Carreira Gonçalves
Bratya, A Symphonic Poem, Tamyka Rochelle Jordon
The Saxophone Symposium: An Index of the Journal of the North American Saxophone Alliance, 1976-2014, Ashley Kelly
Alexander Moyzes and His Piano Sonata in the Context of Slovak Music Between the Wars, Ivan Koska
Homenaje a García Lorca, A Conductor’s Approach, Alejandro Artemio Larumbe Martínez
Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra, Xing Li
Thomas Davis, The Nation, and Songs of Irish Nationalism, Timothy Mason Love
The Journeys of Humboldt: A Guide to Efrain Oscher’s Composition for Orchestra, Bernardo Virgilio Miethe
Olivier Messiaen's Influence in the Violoncello Works of Toru Takemitsu, Susannah Violet Montandon
A Model of the Tonal-Chromatic System and Its Application to Selected Works of Gustav Mahler, Andrew David Nicolette
Symphony No. 1, William Earl Novak
Southeast Asian Youth Chamber Orchestra (SEAYCO): A Musical Bridge within the Southeast Asian Region, Paraschos Paraschoudis
For the Sake of St. Cecilia: Analysis and Re-Orchestration of Gerald Finzi's For St. Cecilia, Op. 30, Christopher Brent Rosborough
Musical Explorations in Creation and Performance: A School's Alternative Approach to Music Education, LaTerence Edward Varnado
A Performer's Guide to Richard Danielpour's A Woman's Life, Carline Waugh
Dissertations from 2014
The Good Friday Cantatas of Christoph Graupner (1683-1760), Marius Bahnean
A Performance Guide to "Five Musings on the Past" by Elisenda Fábregas for Soprano and Piano, Megan Elizabeth Barrera
"Music Down in My Soul:" Achieving a Sound Ideal for Moses Hogan Spirituals, Loneka Wilkinson Battiste
Conducting Elgar's Wand of Youth suites : programming possibilities and perspectives on performance, Vaughn Aristides Cardona
Symphony No. 1: On the Creation and Chromaticism and Harmony in Henry Purcell's Sacred Music, Joshua Adam Carver
Roque Cordero Soliloquio No. 6 and Sonata for Cello and Piano: Structure and Analysis, Isaac Miguel Casal R.
The Life and Work of Mark Jacobi: Clarinet Repair in Philadelphia and the Influence of Hans Moennig, John Anthony Coppa
Bells in tower at evening toll : a performer's guide to the songs of David P. Rossow on the texts of William Shakespeare and A. E. Housman for baritone voice and piano, Matthew Joseph Daniels
Wolf's Spanisches Liederbuch: The Story of Redemption, Michael Stanley Durham, Jr.
An introduction to the piano music of Manuel M. Ponce, Luis Francisco Gaytan
Human Perception of Piano Timbre Variations Relative to the Piano's Dynamic Range, Pitagoras Goncalves
Tonal and topical coherence in Brahms's op.10 ballades, Jacob Joel Gran
Music, action, and narrative in film : an energetic and gestural approach to film score analysis, Zachary Hazelwood
Concerto for Laptop Ensemble and Orchestra: The Ship of Theseus and Problems of Performance for Electronics With Orchestra: Taxonomy and Nomenclature, Jonathan Corey Knoll
Supporting your instrument in a body-friendly manner : a comparative approach, Emanuela Maria Lacraru
Fantini and Frescobaldi in Rome, Circa 1634: A Study of Context and Practice, Shelby Allen Lewis
Joseph Joachim Raff: A Biographical Sketch and a Conductor's Analysis of his Sinfonietta, Op. 188, James Fuller Lyon IV
A Performance Guide To Jake Heggie's From 'The Book of Nightmares', Kristen Bauer Marchiafava
A Great Korean Music Pioneer Min-Chong Park: A Performance Guide of His Selected Violin Works, Sin Myung Min
You are set free, Jennifer Leigh Mitchell
The magic nesting doll, Michael Paul Mitchell
A historical and theoretical look at the percussion ensemble work 'October Mountain' by Alan Hovhaness, Joe Willie Moore III
A Forgotten Composer and His Music: Two Viola Compositions by Arends, Monica Pamela Rodriguez de la Hoz
Analysis and expressive performance : four selected works by Chopin, Timothy David Saeed
Alberto Ginastera's Twelve American Preludes : descriptive analysis and performer's guide, Alejandra Saez
A Perfomance Guide to Anthony Brandt's Creeley Songs, Penny Reid Shumate
The World of Tan Dun: The Central Importance of Eight Memories in Watercolor, Op. 1, Lin Tian
Poised between two worlds : Nikolai Kapustin's Piano Sonata No. 1 and the classical and jazz tradition, Kit Loong Yee
Clarinet Thumb-rest Function: The Pedagogy of Positioning and Electromyography Evidence, Kathryn Elise Young
A tale of lovers : Chopin's Nocturne Op. 27, No. 2 as a contribution to the violist's repertory, Rafal Zyskowski
Dissertations from 2013
Toward a redefinition of musical learning in the saxophone studios of Argentina, Mauricio Gabriel Aguero
Interactive Musical Partner: A System for Human/Computer Duo Improvisations, Jeffrey Vernon Albert
"Cinematic Suite for Orchestra" and notable composers in the evolution of film music from Hollywood's golden age to the present, Edward C. Anderson
Musical achievement and attitude of beginning piano students in a synchronous videoconferencing lesson environment, Rebecca Carter Bellelo
"It's easier if you have a system" : analysis and applications of the Milanov violin method, Paula Farias Bujes
The musical life of Carmen Petra-Basacopol and her various contributions to the harp literature, Gabriela Chihaescu
Sicong Ma's Amei Suite & Gaoshan Suite : historical background and performer's guide, Ming-Ying Chiu
Tyzen Hsiao's Memories of Home as a pedagogical tool to introduce Romantic and Impressionistic styles to intermediate piano students, Pei-Hsuan Chung
Julie, & Aaron Copland's Development of The Opening Idea Through Quartal Harmonies, Pitch Space, and Register in the first movement of his Third Symphony, David Paul Cortello
An original composition, "...And It Was Good For Orchestra" and a new century, a new audience : concert music's evolution into pop and the music producer as maestro, Matthew David Evancho
Explicit Instruction in Self-Regulatory Skills and Deliberate Practice, Kimberly Joy Gedde
Peter Klatzow's Six Concert Etudes for Marimba : a performer's guide, Daniel Brian Heagney
Harmony, voice leading, and drama in three Sondheim musicals, Adam M. Hudlow
Walter Burle Marx's cello concerto, Pedro Augusto Huff
A performance guide to Jean-Yves Malmasson's Opus 6 : Trois poémes de Charles Baudelaire and Opus 30: Les fleurs du désir, Zuly Elizabeth Inirio
Songs without words : the forgotten piano works on Nadine Dana Suesse, Sarah Jane Johnson
Moonlight Sprite, Sungho Kim
Practical performance considerations for the Andante con moto of Beethoven's Piano Concerto in G Major, Op. 58, Young Eun Kim
Investigating "experimentalism" : a case study of the tuba and its repertoire, Andrew Brian Larson
Beethoven Sonata No. 10, Op. 96 for piano and violin in G major (1812) : looking ahead, Cheng-Yin Lin
An examination of middle school band students' ability to match pitch following short-term vocal technique training, Abby Bush Lyons
Max Neuhaus and the musical avant-garde, Megan Elizabeth Murph
Transcription and analysis of Ravi Shankar's Morning Love for Western flute, sitar, tabla and tanpura, Bethany Padgett
Zoltán Kodály's Sonata for Unaccompanied Cello, Op. 8 : one cellist's path to performance, Celeste Power
The seven last words of Christ : a comparison of three French romantic musical settings by Gounod, Franck, and Dubois, Vaughn Roste
An original composition, Symphony No. 1, "Eustace the Monk" and compositional techniques used to elicit musical humor, Samuel Howard Stokes
The effect of real-time pitch tracking and correction on high school instrumentalists' tuning accuracy, Kathryn Elizabeth Strickland
Background, analysis, and performance guide for Edison Denisov's Sonata for flute and piano, Esther June Waite
Scriabin's transpositional wills : a diachronic approach to Alexander Scriabin's late piano miniatures (1910-1915), Jeffrey Yunek
A performer's guide to John Corigliano's Mr Tambourine Man - Seven Poems to text by Bob Dylan, Jovan Zivkovic
Theses from 2012
A study of children's musical play at the Little Gym, Alison Elaine Alexander
A permutational triadic approach to jazz harmony and the chord/scale relationship, John Bishop
Chinese piano music: an approach to performance, Xi Chen
Direction of mistuning, magnitude of cent deviation, and timbre as factors in musicians' pitch discrimination in simultaneous and sequential listening conditions, Norman Alan Clark
The unaccompanied choral works of Vytautas Miškinis with texts by Rabindranoth Tagore: a resource guide, Nicholaus B. Cummins
Preparing a world premiere: a conductor's analysis of Ronaldo Cadeu's "Crime and Punishment: one act ballet", Raul Gomez Rojas
Applicability of periodization to orchestral audition preparation on trombone: a case study, Christopher Evan Green
Two sides of the ancient vase: eastern and western principles in the works of Keiko Abe, Christopher K. Hoefer
A performance guide to Leonard Lehrman's A Light in the Darkness, Timothy Adam Holcomb
The solo string works of J. S. Bach: the relationship between dance and musical elements, Chung-Hui Hsu
Three case studies in twentieth-century performance practice, Tina Huettenrauch