Dissertations from 2012
Dialogues, dysfunctional transitions, and embodied plot schemas: (Re) considering form in Chopin's sonatas and ballades, Jonathan Edward Mitchell
Hidden music: vowel formant theory and the languages of Verdi's Don Carolos, Justin Andrew Owen
William Blayney - clarinetist and teacher, contributions and influences on clarinet playing in the twenty-first century, Branko Pavlovski
The role of music-making in the identity construction of members of an adult community concert band, Pamela G. Taylor
A church musician's resource guide to the available resources from the Choral Public Domain Library for the Liturgical Year A, Michael John Trotta
Moonlight Shadows and Night Thoughts (Symphony No. 1) and an analysis of Qigang Chen's Extase II, Wennan Wang
A performer's guide to Stephen Paulus' Mad Book, Shadow Book: Songs of Michael Morley, Jin Hin Yap
Dissertations from 2011
The effect of in-school opera performance and related curriculum on music cognition and attitude, Sara Harris Baker
The evolution of the tuba quartet and its repertoire, Bradley Bryant Boone
A Survey of Rudy Davenport's BYNA: Life Songs of a Southern Appalachian Woman of Cherokee Indian Descent (A Chamber Work for Soprano, Piano, Oboe and Cello), Tiffany I. Bostic-Brown
Learning and teaching conducting through musical and non-musical skills: an evaluation of orchestral conducting teaching methods, Jose Mauricio Valle Brandao
Lee Hoiby's I Have a Dream, Terrance DeAce Brown
A performer's interpretation of David Del Tredici's Chana's Story: a cycle of six songs on texts of Chana Bloch, Shelly Lenn Buchanan-Garlotte
Interpretation and expressive imagery in The Butterfly Lovers violin concerto on double bass: transcribed by Yung-Chiao Wei, Min-Tzu Chao
The Devil in the Belfry a rhapsody for viola and orchestra & Edgar Allan Poe, Claude Debussy, and "The Fall of the House of Usher", Maíra Cimbleris
The choral works of Augusta Read Thomas: an examination of Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky and an annotated survey of her complete works, Melinda Sue Doyle
Exploring the french flute school in North America: an examination of the pedagogical materials of Georges Barrère, Marcel Moyse, and René Le Roy, Sarah Kate Gearheart
A performer's guide to Gene Scheer's Voices from World War II, Brandon Paul Hendrickson
The vocal works of Charles Lloyd, Jr.: a performer's guide to selected dramatic works, art songs, and spiritual art songs, Charis Kelly Hudson
A performance guide to Libby Larsen's Sifting Through the Ruins for mezzo-soprano, viola and piano, Kori Lea Jennings
Rotational strategy in selected works by Béla Bartók, Robert C. Keller
Ives's seasonal songs, Warren Kimball
The a cappella motets of Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling: a resource guide, Brian J. Kittredge
Subtle shifts: using the brightest to darkest modal concept to express jazz harmony, John Anthony Madere
Musical allusion to The Rite of Spring in four contemporary works for solo bassoon, Scott Miller
An exploration of secondary level instrumental music educators' receptiveness to select philosophical writings, Robert Neil Nelson
An original composition, "Concerto for Tenor Saxophone and Wind Ensemble," and a comparative analysis of the concerti for orchestra of Béla Bartók and Witold Lutosławski, Joseph Timothy Patrick
Lillian Fuchs: violist, teacher and composer; musical and pedagogical aspects of the 16 Fantasy études for viola, Teodora Dimova Peeva
Brazilian music for youth choir by FUNARTE: exploring issues of pedagogy and authenticity in Brazilian choral music, Diego Daflon Tavares Pinto
A performer's guide to Gwyneth Walker's settings of poetry by Lucille Clifton- No Ordinary Woman! and Three Songs for Lucille, Ebony Darshay Preston
George Enescu's Concertstück for viola and piano: a theoretical analysis within the composer's musical legacy, Simina Alexandra Renea
A comparative study of and performer's guide to selected songs by the Swiss composer Othmar Schoeck, Travis Archie Richter
Polyfocal structures in Franz Schubert's Lieder, Matthew Steinbron
Historical études for oboe: 17th-20th centuries, Linwood William Zoller IV
Dissertations from 2010
The illumination of E. E. Cummings' poetry in J. A. C. Redford's "love is the every only god", Amy Louise Aucoin
Sonata No.1 for Violin and Piano, Op. 80,by Sergei Prokofiev: A Guide to Interpretation, Boris Blagoev
Bel canto rarities: a performance guide to rarely performed tenor arias from the works of Gaetano Donizetti, Zachary Bruton
For orchestra, David Paul Cortello
Jennifer Higdon's Oboe Concerto: the composition, transformation, and a performer's analysis, Janice Elizabeth Crews
"Chromatic Fantasy Sonata" by Davide Brubeck, Vasil Atanasov Cvetkov
A performance guide to Lori Laitman's Living in the Body, Kathryn Mary Drake
Stacy Garrop's settings of sonnets by Edna St. Vincent Millay: a conductor's analysis, Justin W. Durham
Tuba solo discography: a comprehensive guide to solo literature recordings released on compact disc, Brian Gallion
An approach to performing Handel sonatas on the saxophone, Amy Griffiths
Joep Franssens' Harmony of the Spheres: a conductor's analysis, David Andrew Hobson
Homecoming at an old country church, Lindsey M. Jacob
Symphony #2 and A Critical Appraisal of Helmut Lachenmann's Writings and Music, Jeffrey Lipscomb
An overview of the choral music of Michael McGlynn with a conductor's preparatory guide to his Celtic Mass, Karen Marrolli
A case study of music-making in a Ghanaian village: applications for elementary music teaching and learning, Sara Rachel McCall
An annotated catalogue of selected Cuban piano works from the 18th-20th centuries, Nikie Oechsle
The Louisiana Sinfonietta, a new orchestral model, and an original composition, Concerto for Guitar and Symphony Orchestra, Op. 12, Ronaldo Cadeu de Oliveira
Sofia Gubaidulina: Chaconne for solo piano in the context of her life and work, Kadisha Onalbayeva-Coleman
Bioluminescence, Zachary Pfeifer
A conductor's analysis of Theodore Morrison's War and Reconciliation, Alissa Ann Mercurio Rowe
Draganski and Schafer: a perspective on works for voice and woodwind quintet, Susan Elizabeth Ruggiero
The effect of directed attention score study procedures on music majors' error detection in three-part instrumental music, Amanda Lynn Schlegel
Why they stay and why the go: a study of retention and attrition during the transition from middle to high school in the large-ensemble instrumental music classroom, Kathryn Elizabeth Strickland
A survey of professional operatic entertainment in Little Rock, Arkansas: 1870-1900, Jenna M. Tucker
A survey and guide to the most frequently programmed Lieder in the undergraduate studios of selected major music institutions in the United States, Joseph Christopher Turner
Dissertations from 2009
Latin Rhapsody for Clarinet and Orchestra and magical realism in Alejandro Cardona's String Quartet No. 4, Alejandro José Arguello
Herminie a performer's guide to Hector Berlioz's Prix de Rome cantata, Rosella Lucille Ewing
All My Pretty Ones by Stephen Paulus; A Song Cycle for Soprano and Piano on a Text by Michael Dennis Browne, Emily Grundstad Hall
The effect of rhythm-based computer-assisted music instruction designed for individual learning style preferences on the learning of preservice elementary education majors, Judy Arnette Guilbeaux-James
A performer's analysis of Isang Yun's Monolog for bassoon with an emphasis on the role of traditional Korean influences, Laura Hauser
High school students' attitudes toward single-sex choir versus mixed choir, Jenna Leigh Jackson
The effect of participation in performing ensembles on listening practices of adolescents, Katie Kalota
The Pasquale Amato correspondence at Louisiana State University, Sarah Wells Kaufman
A performer's guide to Jake Heggie's "The Deepest Desire: Four Meditations on Love", Alanna Keenan
An investigation of creative potential in high school musicians: recognizing, promoting, and assessing creative ability through music composition, Elizabeth Menard
Lori Laitman and Sara Teasdale: a performer's guide to The Metropolitan Tower and Other Songs, Mystery, and The Years, Andrea Mueller
Crime and punishment: one act ballet, Ronaldo Cadeu de Oliveira
Les Mains Désenlaceuses: unlocking the relationship of text and music in the Proses Lyriques, Sacha Alexandra Grace Peiser
A performer's guide to Oskar Morawetz' From the Diary of Anne Frank, Jami Rhodes
Joseph Messner's organ music: evolution of a style, Julie Powell Rozman
Drum taps: a performance guide to the song cycle by Richard Pearson Thomas, William Clay Smith
A historical analysis and performer's guide to Sergei Prokofiev's Sonata for Solo or Unison Violins, Op.115, Joanna Steinhauser
An introduction to the life and music of Javier Busto and a conductor's analysis of Missa pro Defunctis (1997), David D. Wells
The direction we grow, Reid Willis
Dissertations from 2008
The effects of peer teaching on undergraduate music majors' achievement and attitude toward sight-reading in the group piano setting, Nancy Elizabeth Baker
A Symphonic Poem on Dante's Inferno and a study on Karlheinz Stockhausen and his effect on the trumpet, Michael Joseph Berthelot
Sound Frames, Maira Cimbleris
A performer's guide to Libby Larsen's: Try Me, Good King : Last Words of the Wives of Henry VIII, Angela R. Day
The Mise en Scène of Rossini's Le Siège de Corinthe and the conventions of staging at the Paris Opéra in the 1820s, Tina Huettenrauch
Night, Nick Hwang
A pedagogical analysis of selected pieces from Preludes, Op. 38, by Dmitri Kabalevsky, Sayaka Kanno
Isang Yun and his selected cello works, Jee Yeoun Ko
The Consensual Assessment Technique as a measure of creativity in children's musical compositions motivated by visual and verbal stimuli, Katie Elizabeth Toups
"Shui Diao Ge Tou" from Poems of the Sung Dynasty, Wennan Wang
Analyses of high school band students' and directors' perceptions of verbal and nonverbal teaching behaviors, Jennifer A. Whitaker
Theses from 2007
The first movement of Bartók's Second String Quartet: sonata form and pitch organization, James N. Bennett
An analytical approach to vibraphone performance through the transcription and analysis of Gary Burton's solo on Blue Monk, Charles Bryant Brooks
An original composition, Vestiges of Kubla and an analysis of George Crumb's Quest for guitar, soprano saxophone, harp, contrabass, and percussion, John Manuel Crabtree
Quintet for two violins, viola, cello and piano, and string quartet no. 1 by Lazar Nikolov, Alexandra Dotcheva
African art music for flute: a study of selected works by African composers, Wendy Kristin Hymes Onovwerosuoke
Yardbird cello: adapting the language of Charlie Parker to the cello through solo transcription and analysis, Kristin Isaacson