Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Music and peacebuilding: A survey of two Israeli ensembles using music and dialogue to build understanding, empathy, and conflict transformation, Benjamin Philip Bergey
Music for a new era: Selected works dedicated to flutist Louis Fleury (1878-1926), Lydia Carroll
Tone production, musicianship training, repertoire development, performance practice: A pedagogical overview of selected international children's choirs, Janet Hostetter
Beethoven Symphony No.5 in C minor, Op.67: Connecting tonality to tempo, character, and interpretation, Chyh Shen Low
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Nikolai Medtner: A new source for Sonata in F Minor, Op. 5, Clement Barrera Acevedo
String fundamentals for the non-string-playing conductor, Dianna Fiore and Dianna Marie Fiore
Selected folksong arrangements of Zoltán Kodály: An analysis and performer’s guide, Sebastian A. Haboczki
A performer’s guide to the role of Aspasia, Melissa McCann
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
La Chasse: The legacy of hunting calls in French Compositions for solo horn and piano, Daniel J. Atwood
The Development of a Fach System for the Tenor Oratorio Repertoire, Randall C. Ball
The role of narrative in performing Schumann and Chopin’s music, Yu-Wen Chen
The art songs of Zachary Wadsworth: A guide to style performance, and literature, Jordan R. Davidson
Connection between visual arts and music: The painting and music of I-Uen Wang Hwang, Yining Jenny Jiang
A musical crusade: Reviving the music of Berlioz’s Benvenuto Cellini through a comparative statistical, pedagogical, and theoretical analysis, Jessica R. Spafford
College orchestra director programming decisions regarding classical twentieth-century music, Mark D. Taylor
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Finding Jean-Blaise Martin: An italianate approach for a modernized baryton-Martin Fach, Aaron D. Agulay
The creation of a skills-based grading system for Solo Trumpet Repertoire, Charles R. Ahlhorn
The origins and development of the euphonium concerto with brass band, Joel M. Collier
Afro-Caribbean stylistic elements as topics in the music of Silvestre Revueltas: Conveying a political discourse in Caminando, No sé por qué piensas tú, and Sensemayá, Elsy M. Gallardo-Diaz
Meditation and awakening: An exploration of the wind music of Eric Guinivan, Henry C. Hess Jr.
Notes for a writer: The role of the flute as narrator in Jon Lord's To Notice Such Things, Brianne Little
Rhetoric and wit in Nicolas Bernier's Le Caffé, Anne C. Wick
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
'More divine than human': Early Tudor plainchant and polyphony of the Lenten Compline Office in the Use of Salisbury, 1485-1558, Mark Wayland Ardrey-Graves
What do I assume? An applied lesson approach integrating critical thinking and student-directed learning, Ayn T. Balija
Effective elements of conducting: A study of high school orchestra directors, Matthew J. Brooks
Choro of Gordon Stout: Representation in a living art, Elayne Harris
Use your words: A lyrical guide to the opera-inspired paraphrases of Antonino Pasculli (1842-1924), Aaron S. Hill
The Hungarian Rhapsodies and the 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs: Historical and ideological parallels between Liszt and Bartók, David B. Hill
Debussy and Schoenberg: Two musical reactions to late romanticism, Priscila Ott Falcao Oliveira
Olivier Messiaen: A performance guide for selected mélodie, Melissa M. Sumner
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Violin pedagogy through time: The treatises of Leopold Mozart, Carl Flesch, and Ivan Galamian, Steffany Ann Shock
Early music influences in Paul Hindemith's Compositions for the Viola, Domenico L. Trombetta
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
A stylistic analysis and performance guide to selected compositions of Dave Douglas for the Tiny Bell Trio, Taylor Roy Barnett
Robert Schumann's Piano Sonata no. 1 in f-sharp minor, op. 11–style and structure, Stephanie Abigail Emberley
Pedagogical use of cinematic imagery in Augusta Read Thomas's Piano Etudes, Luis Bernardo Gonzalez
Artistic influence, stylistic irony, and musical reference in Dmitri Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 1, Ryan Michael Hoffman
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
J. S. Bach and the high school choir: A resource guide for teachers of intermediate and advanced level high school choirs, Lynn G. Atkins Jr.
The illusion of chaos: The compositional structure of Olivier Messiaen’s Le Merle Noir, Tiana Lynn Grise
A conductor's analysis: The birthday cantatas of Christoph Graupner (1683-1760), John Patrick McCarty
Early flute pedagogy: The utilization of alternative types of flutes for young children, Erin Murphy
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Continuing Abby Whiteside's legacy--The research of pianist Sophia Rosoff's pedagogical approach, Carol Ann Barry
Franz Liszt: The Sonata in B Minor as spiritual autobiography, Jonathan David Keener
The evolution of style in the neoclassical works of Stravinsky, Kyle Szabo
