Theses from 2007
University of Pennsylvania MS Codex 436: a description and analysis of contents, Jeannette Di Bernardo Jones
Narratives in music: Schelmo, Hebraic Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra, Asu Perihan Karadut
The Apologia of Franchino Gafurio: a critical edition and translation, Patrick Joseph Kaufman
First flute: the pioneering career of Doriot Anthony Dywer, Kristen Elizabeth Kean
Three sonatas for piano by Emma Lou Diemer, Chin-Ming Michelle Lin
Judith Weir's King Harald's Saga: innovations of character and virtuosity in contemporary opera, Kelly Fiona Lynch
A pedagogical analysis of selected pieces from Albumblätter, Op. 124, by Robert Schumann, Amanda Elizabeth Montgomery
An original composition, Diamundo, and a historical survey of music spatialization, Amaro Borges Moreira Filho
A performer's guide to Ross Lee Finney's song cycle Chamber Music, Joseph Charles Perniciaro
John Mackey: the composer, his compositional style and a conductor's analysis of Redline Tango and Turbine, Rebecca L. Phillips
The selected sacred solo vocal motets of Claudio Monteverdi including Confitebor tibi, Domine, Kimberly Ann Roberts
A performer's guide to the songs for soprano by the Austro-American composer Eric Zeisl (1905-1959), Katharina Roessner
The formation of a style: selected early works by Hugo Wolf, Jure Rozman
A taxonomy of the effects and affects of surface-level metric dissonance, Jennifer Rae Shirley
A conductor's theoretical and performance analysis of Nicholas Maw's "American Games" for symphonic wind ensemble, Adam Corey Spurlin
Brahms's Ein deutsches Requiem: dialectic and the chromatic middleground, Patrick Tuck
Theses from 2006
The effect of music tempo on movement responses of preschool children, Melanie Woods Alexander
The solo piano music of Andrzej Dutkiewicz, Christine Burczyk Allen
Symphony III, Michael Berthelot
Musical time and revealed timelessness, Michael Vincent Blandino
Brazilian nationalistic elements in the Brasilianas of Osvaldo Lacerda, Maria Jose Bernardes Di Cavalcanti
The violin concerto and its development in Bulgaria, Mario Dimitrov
Compositional techniques in Thomas Kerr, Jr.'s Anguished American Easter, 1968 and their application to the theme of African American theology, Jane Fitz-Fitzharris
Symphonic Revelations, Carlo Vincetti Frizzo
A conductor's study of Ruth Watson Henderson's Voices of Earth, Ryan Jeffrey Hebert
Semiotic modeling: relevance to trumpet performance and musical interpretation using Paul Hindemith's Sonata for Trumpet and Piano, Craig David Heinzen
The choral music of Anthony Burgess and a conductor's study of four Anthony Burgess choral pieces, Randall L. Hooper
Peter Christoskov's Twelve Caprices for Solo Violin, opus 1: a historical and theoretical analysis of the work and its connection to Bulgarian folk music, Borislava A. Iltcheva
The French songs of Lee Hoiby, Scott LaGraff
Formal convention in Verdi's Falstaff, Joseph Salvatore La Rosa
Symphony No.1, Jessica Mahan
Mindfulness meditation: creative musical performance through awareness, Sheri Oyan
The Musical Journey of Opera Singer Lenora Lafayette: A Louisiana Treasure, Kyla Dean Pitcher
A performer's and conductor's analysis of Ingolf Dahl's for Alto Saxophone and Wind Orchestra, Christopher Scott Rettie
Structural elegance and harmonic disparity in selected solos by jazz trumpeters Freddie Hubbard and Woody Shaw, Edward Rex Richardson
The effects of contextual interference on the acquisition, retention, and transfer of a music motor skill among university musicians, Leslie Paige Rose
An introduction to the music of Tania León and a conductor's analysis of Indígena, James Spinazzola
Background conglomerates in Alkan's Quasi-Faust, op. 33, no. 2, Matthew James Steinbron
Theses from 2005
Rhetoric, form, and sovereignty in Schubert's "Prometheus," D. 674, Erica Brady Angert
A catalogue of twentieth-century cello ensemble music, Ivan M. Antonov
Concerto for orchestra, Alejandro Jose Arguello
Erik Satie's ballet Parade: an arrangement for woodwind quintet and percussion with historical summary, Tracy A. Doyle
Chorale and Canon in Alfred Schnittke's Fourth String Quartet, Aaminah Durrani
Tonality and drama in Verdi's "La Traviata", David Bradley Easley
An original composition, La Cosecha for orchestra, and La Clave: a cultural indentity, Rafael Enrique Gonzalez Bothwell
An original composition, Symphony No. 1, and the realization of Western and Japanese influences in Takemitsu's November Steps, Charles Douglas Haarhues
The music salon of Pauline Viardot: featuring her salon opera Cendrillon, Rachel Miller Harris
The Violin Sonata of Amy Beach, Yu-Hsien Judy Hung
Gerald Finzi and John Ireland: a stylistic comparison of compositional approaches in the context of ten selected poems by Thomas Hardy, Richard Michael Jupin
Interactive computer music: a performer's guide to issues surrounding Kyma with live clarinet input, Roland Anton Karnatz
Three choral compositions by Alice Parker: a conductor's analysis of Songstream, Angels and Challengers, and Songs from "The Dragon Quilt", Jennifer Sue King
Selected intermediate-level solo piano music of Enrique Granados: a pedagogical analysis, Harumi Kurihara
A survey of the operettas of Emmerich Kálmán, Jessie Wright Martin
A wind ensemble adaptation and conductor's analysis of selected movements of Darius Milhaud's Saudades do Brazil, with an examination of the influences of Ernesto Nazareth, Monty Roy Musgrave
An introduction to the life and a cappella music of Sven-David Sandström and a conductor's prepatory guide to Etyd nr 4, som i e-moll and Laudamus Te, Karl Erik Nelson
A conductor's study of Villa-Lobos's Magnificat-Alleluia and Bendita Sabedoria, Hoffmann Urquiza Pereira
A conductor's analysis of Amaral Vieira's Stabat Mater, op.240: an approach between music and rhetoric, Vladimir A. Pereira Silva
Concertino for Piano and Chamber Orchestra, by Mozart Camargo Guarnieri: a performing edition with reduction of the orchestra for second piano, Francisco Coelho Ribeiro da Silva
Dragos Tanasescu's Treaties of Pianistic Technique, Lucian B. Zidaru
Dissertations from 2004
The significance of selected piano compositions by Pancho Vladigerov, Boriana Kojouharova Buckles
An original composition, Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, and an analysis of Camargo Guarnieri's Concerto No. 5 para Piano e Orquestra, Liduino Jose Pitombeira De Oliveira
A practical guide to twentieth-century violin etudes with performance and theoretical analysis, Aaron Michael Farrell
A historical approach to training the vocal registers: can ancient practice foster contemporary results?, Taylor Lee Ferranti
Effects of practice strategies, metronome use, meter, hand, and musical function on dual-staved piano performance accuracy and practice time usage of undergraduate, Melody A. Hanberry
Symphony No.1 - a Symphony of the Christ, James White Hellums, III
An original composition Symphony No. 1 "Night Symphony" and an analysis of selected traditional and non-traditional elements of harmony in Credo by Krzvsztof Penderecki, Aaron Edward Johnson
A study of the Quintet for Piano and Strings by Richard Danielpour, Myung Jin Kuh
A basic interpretative analysis of instrumental music education majors' approaches to score study in varying musical contexts, Jeremy S. Lane
The influence of Bulgarian folk music on Petar Christoskov's Suites and Rhapsodies for solo violin, Blagomira Paskaleva Lipari
An analysis of György Ligeti's Nonsense Madrigals, Dennis Malfatti
An analytical study of Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Op.13, by Costa Rican composer Carolos Enrique Vargas, Manuel Matarrita
An introduction for the singer to the solo vocal works of Nigel Butterley with particular emphasis on his works between 1976 and 2003, Alison Rosemary McCubbin
An original work: "Brothers and Sisters" and Songs from Letters by Libby Larsen : an analysis, Andrea J. Mitternight
Compelled to compose: an introduction to the life and music of Paul Basler , with a conductor's analysis of Missa Kenya, Gary Packwood
An original composition, Symphony No. 1, Pollock and an analysis of the evolution of Frank Zappa's "Be-Bop Tango", William Morris Price
The organ works of Fela Sowande: a Nigerian organist-composer, Godwin Simeon Sadoh
The style of meditation: a conductor's analysis of selected motets by Rihards Dubra, Kevin Doyle Smith
American Verismo?: insights into The Padrone, and opera by George Whitefield Chadwick (13 November 1854 - 4 April 1931), Jon Steffen Truitt
A performer's guide to Virgil Thomson's Five Songs from William Blake, Andrew David Whitfield
Dissertations from 2003
A performance edition of the opera Kaspar der Fagottist by Wenzel Müller (1767-1835), as arranged for Harmonie by Georg Druschetzky (1745-1819), Susan Nita Barber
Matthaeus Pipelare's "Fors seulement chanson (II)" and its related motet and mass performance editions and commentary, George H. Black, Jr.
Miriam Gideon's cantata, The Habitable Earth: a conductor's analysis, Stella Panayotova Bonilla
A structured content analysis of five contemporary etude books for the violin, Michael Kim Buckles
The role of Turkish percussion in the history and development of the orchestral percussion section, D. Doran Bugg
Frank Ferko's The Hildegard motets: a conductor's preparatory guide, David Neil Childs
Erwin Schulhoff (1884-1942) - a brief history: examination of the sonata for violin and piano (WV91), Eka Gogichashvili
The correlation between college students' familiarity with potentially offensive popular music and self-reported tolerance of obscene language and sexual behavior, Harry Emons Martin
The solo style of jazz clarinetist Johnny Dodds: 1923 - 1938, Patricia A. Martin
An old form newly clothed: exploration and conductor's analyses of Morten Lauridsen's Madrigali: Six "Fire-Songs" on Italian Renaissance Poems, C. Leonard Raybon, Jr.
The use of the cornet in the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan, John Christopher Schuesselin
A study and an approach to historical performance practices in the French Baroque based on François Couperin's Treiziéme Concert à 2 instrumens à L'unisson, James Jeffery Womack
Dissertations from 2002
A model for evaluation of selected compositions for unaccompanied solo trumpet according to criteria of serious artistic merit, Michael Craig Bellinger
The effects of singing on blood pressure in classically trained singers, Kimberly Jaye Broadwater
Text and structure in Schoenberg's Op. 50, and an original composition, symphony #1, Thomas, Jr. Michael Couvillon