Year

Name

Dissertation Title


2007 Ljubica Ilic                     Music and the Modern Condition: Investigating the Boundaries
  Lisa Musca The Piano Fragment and the Decomposing of the Musical Subject from the Romantic to the Postmodern
  Erica Scheinberg Music and the Technological Imagination in the Weimar Republic: Media, Machines, and the New Objectivity
  Lawrence Wayte  Bitches Brood: The Progeny of Miles Davis’s Bitches Brew and the Sound of Jazz-Rock

2006 Kate Bartel Portal of the Skies: Four Scenes in the Musical Life of the Virgin Mary ca. 1500-1650
  Olivia Mather "Cosmic American Music": Place and the Country Rock Movement 1965-1974
  Caroline O'Meara New York Noise: Music in the Postindustrial City, 1978-1985

2005 Andrew Berish Swinging Transcontinental Modernity, Race, Place In American Dance Music, 1930-1946
  J. Lester Feder "Song of the South" Country Music, Race, Region, and the Politics of Culture 1920-1974
  Elizabeth Lorenzo Opera and the Ordered Nation: Massenet's Esclarmonde In Performance at the 1889 Paris Exposition
  Yara Sellin DJ: Performer, Cyborg, Dominatrix
  Grace Tam The Penitential Theology of Henry Purcell as Expressed In His Sacred Songs

2004 Maria Cizmic Performing Pain: Music and Trauma in 1970s and 80s Eastern Europe
Charles Hiroshi Garrett Struggling to Define a Nation: American Music in the Twentieth Century
James Kennaway Musical Pathology in the Nineteenth Century: Richard Wagner and Degeneration
  Louis Niebur Special Sound: Electronic Music in Britian and the Creation of the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop
Cecilia Sun

Experiments in Musical Performance: Historiography, Politics, and the Post-Cagian Avant-Garde


2003 Durrell Bowman Permanent Change: Rush, Musicians’ Rock, and the Progressive Post-Counterculture
Dale Chapman Specters of Jazz: Style, Ideology, and Jazz as Postmodern Practice
Mark Martin Jean Sibelius and the Construction of Finnish National Identity
Glenn T. Pillsbury Pure Black, Looking Clear: Genre, Race, Commerce, and the Music of Metallica
  Nadya Zimmerman Sixties Synergy: Musical Strands of the San Francisco Counterculture

2002
Bettie Jo Basinger Liszt's Symphonic Poems and the "New Manifestation of the Human Spirit"
Francesca Draughon Mahler and the Music of Fin-de-siècle Identity
Jacqueline Warwick "I Got All My Sisters With Me": Girl Culture, Girl Identity, Girl Group Music

2001
Steven Baur "Let Me Make the Ballads of a Nation and I Care Not Who Makes Its Laws": Music, Culture, and Social Politics in the United States, c. 1860–1890
  Daniel Goldmark Happy Harmonies: Music and the Hollywood Animated Cartoon
  Michelle Hill The Accompanied Keyboard Sonata: Contributions to the Genre by Women Composers in England ca. 1776-1810
  Marischka Hopcroft Franz Liszt as Libidinal Economy of Enjoyment
  Maiko Kawabata Violin Heroism in the Nineteenth Century

2000
Christopher Page Leonard Bernstein and the Resurrection of Gustav Mahler
  Joni Steshko Igor Stravinsky's 1919 Firebird Suite: Critical Edition, Sources, and Commentary
  Marissa Soloman-St. Laurant The Operas of Paul Wranitzky: Their Position in the Development of German Opera in Vienna, 1789–1808

1999
Nasser Al-Taee The Sultan's Seraglio: Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy in 18th Century Viennese "Turkish" Music
  Joanne Althouse Jose Elias and Late Baroque Organ Music in Spain

1998
David Ake Being Jazz: Images and Identities
  Alison Deadman "Augletti che cantate": Handel, his Woodwind players, and his London
  Steven Gordon Mahler's Seventh Symphony, Modernism and the Crisis of Austrian Liberalism
  Bonnie Gritton The Pedagogy of Friedrich Wieck
  Robert Hutchins Polyphonic Mass Music by Some Early 15th Century Composers from the Diocese of Liege: Lovanio, Nicolaus Natalis, and Hugo de Lantins
  Eunah Kong Music at the Interface of Cultural Identity: Opera of Korea, 1948 to the Present

1997
Guozhong Sun Zhu Jian-er's Symphonies: Context, Style, and Significance
Sandra Yang The Composer and Dance Collaboration in the 20th Century: Darius Milhaud's Ballets, 1918-1958

1996
Jeongmee Kim The Heterophony of Korean-German Musical Culture: A Cultural and Political Examination of Tsang Yum's Music
  Margot Martin Essential Agréments: Arts, Dance, and Civility in Seventeenth-Century French Harpsichord Music

1995
Kay Lipton The Opere Buffe of Pietro Alessandro Gugliemi in Vienna and Esterhaza: Contributions to the Developement of Opera Buffa between 1768-1793

1994
Christina Magaldi Concert Life in Rio de Janeiro, 1837-1900
Blair Sullivan Grammar and Harmony: The Written Representation of Musical Sound in Carolingian Treatises
  Willie Strong Philosophies of African-American Music History

1992 Craig Custer The Russian Choral-Orchestra Cantata from the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century to the Revolution
  Ronald Shaheen Neoclassical Influences in the Two Versions of Giovanni Simone Mayr's Lodoiska

1991 Haiping Hu Das Lied Von Der Erde: The Culmination of Mahler's Artistic Life