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Theses/dissertations from 2022 2022.

Where We Live and Learn to Know: An Oral History of the Rochelle High School Music Program , John Sargeant

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

School Music Administration During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Trauma, Loss, Meaning, Change, and Innovation , Christopher Burns

Development and Validation of a Scale to Measure Songwriting Self-Efficacy (SSES) with Secondary Music Students , Patrick K. Cooper

Measuring Parental Involvement as Parental Actions in Children’s Private Music Lessons in China , Cancan Cui

Instrumental Music Instruction and Executive Functions: A Cross-Sectional Study of Romanian Children (10-12 Years) , Adrian Sorin Iordache

Racial and Ethnic Difference in Music Performance Self-Efficacy Among Undergraduate Students , George W. Shannon Ii

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

Vocal Health of Choral Singers from Kenya and the United States: Dysphonia and Vocal Fatigue in Relation to Musical Genres , Morgan Jolley Burburan

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

Two Phenomena in Contemporary Music Education: Mental Toughness and the Law , Jason R. Sivill

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

The Making of a Nationally Recognized Band in a Small, Private Liberal Arts University: The Historical Significance of the Bobby L. Adams Years, 1987-2012 , Joshua David Blair

The Effects of a Self-Regulated Learning Music Practice Strategy Curriculum on Music Performance, Self-Regulation, Self-Efficacy, and Cognition , Kimberly N. Mieder

Music Software in the Compositional Learning Process , Daniel L. Nevels

Behavioral, Affective, and Cognitive Engagement of High School Music Students: Relation to Academic Achievement and Ensemble Performance Ratings , Joel E. Pagán

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

Re-envisioning Music Teacher Education: A Comparison of Two Undergraduate Music Education Programs in the U.S. , Jonathan Ross Kladder

Music Ensemble Participation: Personality Traits and Music Experience , Tracy A. Torrance

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

Influence of Musical Engagement on Symptoms of Tourette’s Disorder , William Christopher Brown

Motivation of Adult, Auditioned Community Choirs: Implications toward Lifelong Learning , David James Redman

The Effects of Technical and Imagery-based Instruction on Aspiring Performing Artists’ Acquisition of Learning Newly Composed Pieces and Improvisation and on Listeners’ Perceived Expressivity , José Valentino Ruiz-Resto

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

Preference of Chinese Undergraduate Music Majors for Chinese Xi-Qu and Western Opera , Hong Chen

Secondary Band Participation and Executive Function , Dakeyan Cha' Dre' Graham

Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014

An Examination of Cooperating Teachers' Observations of Their Student Teachers in the Areas of Personal, Teaching, and Musical Skills in the Elementary Classroom , Mark Remsen Cole

I Did That Wrong and It Sounded Good: An Ethnographic Study of Vernacular Music Making in Higher Education , Victor Ezquerra

Creativity-Based Music Learning: Modeling the Process and Learning Outcomes in a Massive Open Online Course , Nicholas Michael Stefanic

Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012

The Relationship between Death Depression and Death Anxiety among Cancer Patients in Saudi Arabia , Doaa A. Almostadi

World Percussion Approaches in Collegiate Percussion Programs: A Mixed-methods Study , Patrick Michael Hernly

The Impact of Arranging Music for the Large Ensemble on the Teacher: A Phenomenological Exploration , James Teodor Lindroth

Listening in Action: Students' Mobile Music Experiences in the Digital Age , Rebecca Marie Rinsema

Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011

The Performance Production Process of an Outstanding High School Choir , Kathy K. Rolsten

Transitioning from Student to Teacher in the Master-Apprentice Model of Piano Pedagogy: An Exploratory Study of Challenges, Solutions, Resources, Reflections, and Suggestions for the Future , Melissa Maccarelli Slawsky

Self-Efficacy in Music Performance: Measuring the Sources Among Secondary School Music Students , Michael S. Zelenak

Theses/Dissertations from 2008 2008

Analytical Perspectives of Thematic Unity: Applications of Reductive Analysis to Selected Fugues by J.S. Bach and G.F. Handel , Adam C. Perciballi

Theses/Dissertations from 2007 2007

Expanded Tonality: The Treatment of Upper and Lower Leading Tones As Evidenced in Sonata "Undine,” IV by Carl Reinecke , Joshua Blizzard

Theses/Dissertations from 2005 2005

The Compositional Style of Francesco Geminiani: a Reflection of Theory and Practice in His Music and Guida Armonica Treatise , Valerie R. Weber

Theses/Dissertations from 2004 2004

An Application of the Grundgestalt Concept to the First and Second Sonatas for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 120, No. 1 & No. 2, by Johannes Brahms , Devon Burts

The French Art Song Style in Selected Songs by Charles Ives , Christy Jo Talbott

Theses/Dissertations from 2003 2003

Music Programs that Engage Our Communities: Making a Stronger Connection , La Gretta Snowden

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Theses/dissertations from 2023 2023.

Comprehensive Method for Clarinet Latin American Music Heritage Case Study – Venezuela , Carmen Teresa Borregales

A Pedagogical and Analytical Study of the Carnatic Saxophone Performance Tradition of Kadri Gopalnath , Caleb James Carpenter

Symphony No. V: Elements (Julie Giroux, 2018); An Overview Of Programmatic Elements and Performance Devices , Zackery Augustus Deininger

A Conductor’s Guide to Lucrecia Roces Kasilag’s Misang Pilipino (1965) , Denise Ysabel Ellis

The Theory of Intonation: Boris Asafiev and the Russian Piano School Tradition , Polina Golubkova

A Comparative Analysis of Samuel Barber’s Third Essay for Orchestra, Op. 47 , David Abrams Gordon

Injury Prevention Exercise Guidelines for Flutists , Ziqing Guan

Luis Abraham Delgadillo: A Rediscovery of His Piano Music , Fanarelia Auxiliadora Guerrero López

A Holistic Approach for Neurodivergent Learners In the High School Choral Classroom , Peter Allen Haley

An Analysis of Selected Vocal Works by George Walker , Ginger Sharnell Jones-Robinson

An Investigative Analysis of Fernando Sor’s Introduction and Variations on “O Cara Armonia” From Mozart’s The Magic Flute , Luke James Nolan

The Film Score Music of John Williams: A Guide to Selected Works for the Principal Percussionist , Andrew Charles Crozier Patzig

Appalachian Dreams: Traditional Folk Songs in Concert Literature for Classical Guitar , Jackson Douglas Roberson

“Everything Old Is New Again”: The Rise of Interpolation in Popular Music , Grayson M. Saylor

How Do They Do It: A Narrative of Disabled Public School Instrumental Ensemble Conductors and Their Positive Working Relationships With Their Administrators , Lia Alexandria Patterson Snead

The Post-Tonal Evolution of David Diamond: A Theoretic-Analytical Perspective , William John Ton

Fourth-Grade and Fifth-Grade Cover-Band Classes: An Action-Research Project Inspired By Popular Music Education and Music Learning Theory , Julia Turner

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

Social Music Interactions and Vocal Music Improvisations in a Serve and Return Music Community , Kathleen Kaye Arrasmith

Comfort Food for the Ears: Exploring Nostalgic Trends in Popular Music of the Twenty-First Century , April K. Balay

A Performance Guide to “Four Piano Pieces, Opus 1” By Evgeny Kissin , Andrew Choi

Timeless Light: A Singer’s Compendium of Art Songs for Tenor By Black Composers , Johnnie J. Felder

Negotiating Nationalism: Camille Saint-Saëns, Neoclassicism, and the Early Music Renaissance in France , Joshua Arin Harton

An Analysis of the Compositional Technique and Structures Of Nikolai Kapustin’s Piano Sonata No. 6, Opus 62 , Hyun Jung Im

Adapting North American Fiddle Bow Technique to the Double Bass , Spencer Jensen

Approaches to Teaching Music Counting to Piano Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder , Sunghun Kim

Redefining Ornamentation as Formal Functions in 21 st -Century Popular Music , Matthew Kolar

Lost in Translation: The Largely Unknown Life and Contributions of Johann Joachim Quantz , Kayla Ann Low

Broadway Quodlibets as Hybrid Music , Spencer Ann Martin

Redistributing Cultural Capital: Graduate Programs In Wind Conducting at Historically Black Universities; Toward an Alternate Future , Jamaal William Nicholas

Analysis of Selected Pieces Influenced by Taiwanese Aboriginal Music for Solo Violin and String Quartet , Isabel Hsin-Yi Ong

Margaret Rowell: Pedagogical Approach and Teaching Style , Robert-Christian Sanchez

A Performance Guide to Hyo-Geun Kim’s Art Pop for Korean Art Songs , Taeyoung Seon

Examining Sixth-Grade Students’ Music Agency Through Rhythm Composition , Robert Zagaroli Spearman

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

Pedagogical Solo Piano Nocturnes: A Progressive Leveling With Annotations on Stylistic, Technical, and Musical Challenges and Benefits , Michaela Anne Boros

Disparities in Programming African American Solo Vocal Music On College Campuses Across the United States , Ramelle Brooks

Quantitative Data Collection on the Fundamental Components Of Saxophone Tone Production , Matthew Troy Castner

Music as Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) Therapy: An Exploratory Literature Review , Amy Arlene Clary

The Music Festival: A Case Study on the Establishment, Development, and Long-Term Success of an Instrumental Music Education Event From a Logistical Perspective , Dakota Corbliss

An Orchestral Conductor’s Guide to the James/Daehler Edition Of The Hinrichs and Winkler Compilation Score to the 1925 Silent Film The Phantom of the Opera , Hayden Richard Denesha

An Annotated Bibliography of Flute Repertoire by Iranian Female Composers , Roya Farzaneh

Composers and Publishers of Parlor Songs and Spirituals from Civil War Richmond: 1861 – 1867 , Michael Gray

A Comparison of Approaches to Pianoforte Technique in the Treatises of Lhevinne, Leimer, and Neuhaus , Louis S. Hehman

The History and Influence of Tim Zimmerman and The King’s Brass , Eric Tyler Henson

A Stylistic Analysis of Edvard Grieg’s Slåtter , Norwegian Peasant Dances, Op. 72 , Zhiyuan He

Transcribing Baroque Lute to Marimba: Viability, Techniques, and Pedagogical Possibilities , Cory James High

One Elementary General Music Teacher’s Uses of and Experiences With Gordon’s Music Learning Theory: A Case Study , Allison Elizabeth Johnson

Cancion Y Danza, Fetes Lointaines, Paisajes By Federico Mompou: A Stylistic Analysis , Qiaoni Liu

The Apprenticeship Structure and the Applied Pedagogical Methods Of the Holy Roman Empire Imperial Trumpeters’ Guild During The 17 th and 18 th Centuries , Noa Miller

Survey of Four North American and Malaysian Theory Methods for Young Pianists , Wen Bin Ong

A Conductor’s Guide to J. N. Hummel’s Forgotten Oratorio: Der Durchzug Durchs Rote Meer , Rebecca J. Ostermann

A Practical Approach for the Applied Voice Instructor Utilizing Limited Piano Skills in the Studio Setting , Lee Whittington Ousley

Adele Aus Der Ohe: Pioneering Through Recital Programming At Carnegie Hall, 1895 , Grace Shepard

Ten Years of Japanese Piano Pedagogy (2009-2018) Through a Survey of Educational Resources , Natsumi Takai

A Comparative Analysis of Selected Works by Chen Qigang: Wu Xing, L’éLoignement, and Luan Tan , Isaac Ormaza Vera

A Pedagogical Analysis of Henglu Yao’s Microkosmos From Chinese Nationalities , Yanting Wang

A Stylistic and Pedagogical Analysis of Select Classical Pieces In Alicia’s Piano Books by Ananda Sukarlan , Karen Kai Yuan Yong

Co-Constructive Music Improvisers: An Ethnographic Case Study , Emma Elizabeth Young

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

Performance History of Mahler’s Das Lied Von Der Erde Focusing on Bruno Walter and Leonard Bernstein , Nisan Ak

The Mathematics of Rubato: Analyzing Expressivetiming in Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Performances of Hisown Music , Meilun An

Electronic Learning: An Educator’s Guide to Navigating Online Learning in a Collegiate Horn Studio , Michelle Beck

The Clarinet Music of Dr. Austin Jaquith: A Performance Guide , Zachary Aaron Bond

Young Children’s Behaviors During Favorite-Music Repertoire And Other-Music Repertoire , Vanessa Caswell

Five Pieces for Piano by Isang Yun and Piano Etude No.1 by Unsuk Chin: An Analysis , Inhye Cho

Natural Reed Enhancement: Establishing the First Universal Reed Break-In Process Through Hydro-Stabilization , Steven Isaac Christ

Performance Edition of Franz Simandl’s 30 Etudes for the String Bass With Critical Commentary , Austin Gaboriau

A Legacy Preserved: A Comparison of the Careers and Recordings of Stanley Drucker and Karl Leister , Peter M. Geldrich

An Index of Choral Music Performed During the National Conventions of the American Choral Directors Association (1991-2019) , Jonathan Randall Hall

A Stylistic Analysis of Reinhold Glière’s 25 Preludes for Piano, Op. 30 , Sunjoo Lee

The Singing Voice Specialist: An Essential Bridge Between Two Worlds , Rebecca Holbrook Loar

A Pedagogical Analysis of DvořáK’s Poetic Tone Pictures, Op. 85 , Nathan MacAvoy

Focal Dystonia Causes and Treatments: A Guide for Pianists , Juan Nicolás Morales Espitia

Cultivating Socially Just Concert Programming Perspectives through Preservice Music Teachers' Band Experiences: A Multiple Case Study , Christian Matthew Noon

The Clarinet Repertoire of Puerto Rico: An Annotated Bibliography of Compositions Written for the Clarinet During the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries , María Ivelisse Ortiz-Laboy

A Stylistic Analysis of Alexander Tcherepnin's Piano Concerto No. 4, Op. 78, With an Emphasis on Eurasian Influences , Qin Ouyang

Time’s Up: How Opera Is Facing Its Own Me Too Reckoning , Craig Price

A Trumpet Player’s Performance Guide of Three Selected Works for Trumpet, Cello, and Piano , Justin Wayne Robinson

The Early Piano Music of Richard Wagner , Annie Rose Tindall-Gibson

A Conductor’s Guide to the Da Vinci Requiem by Cecilia McDowall , Jantsen Blake Touchstone

Composition of Musical and Visual Devices to Create Moments of Resolution in Marching Arts Production Design , Ryan John Williams

Romanticism in Nineteenth-Century Russian Nationalistic Music: Case Studies of Glinka’s Ruslan and Lyudmila and Cui’s Mystic Chorus , Jeffrey Crayton Yelverton Jr.

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

Communicative Language in the Compositional Output of Kirke Mechem , Kirstina Rasmussen Collins

Vladimir Pleshakov: A Historiography And Analysis of his Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom , Andrew Cameron Pittman

An Analysis of the Compositional Technique and Structures of Howard Hanson's Symphony No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 22 “Nordic” , Eunseok Seo

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

Serial Techniques in Works for Unaccompanied Trumpet , William Anonie

Examining Professional Music Teacher Identity: A Mixed Methods Approach with Stringed Instrument Teachers , Elizabeth A. Reed

Guided Music Play Between 2-Year-Old Children and a Music Play Facilitator: A Case Study , Kathleen Kaye Arrasmith

Parents’ Observations Of Their Young Children’s Music Behaviors During Music Classes After Completing The Children’s Music Behavior Inventory , Julia Beck

A Theoretical and Stylistic Analysis of Paul Ben-Haim’s Five Pieces for Piano, Op. 34 and Piano Sonata, Op. 49 , Rachel Bletstein

The Influence Of Mindful Movement On Elementary Students’ Music Listening Enjoyment And Comprehension , Jean Louise Boiteau

Delphine Ugalde: Defying Gender Norms Both On And Off The Stage In 19th Century Paris , Michael T. Brown

A Guide for Playing the Viola Without a Shoulder Rest , Chin Wei Chang

Tertian Relationships In Three Choral Selections By Dan Forrest: A Conductor’s Analysis , Lindsey Cope

Translucent Voices: Creating Sound Pedagogy And Safe Spaces For Transgender Singers In The Choral Rehearsal , Gerald Dorsey Gurss

Seventeen Waltzes For Piano By Leo Ornstein: A Stylistic Analysis , Jared Jones

The Kingma System Flute: Redesigning The Nineteenth-Century Flute For The Twenty-First Century , Diane Elise Kessel

The Effects Of Learning By Rote With La-Based Minor Solmization On Memory Retention For Pre-College Piano Students , Duong Khuc

Diction For Mandarin/Chinese Singers: A Methodology To Achieve Resonant Tone And Vowel Unification In Western Choral Music , Chien-Yi Li

Attitudes And Thoughts On Tone Quality In Historic Piano Teaching Treatises , Jeongsun Lim

A Conductor’s Guide to Camille Saint-Saëns’s Messe de Requiem Op. 54 , Thomas R. Matrone

The Tie That Binds: The History, Conductors, And Music Of The Mystic Area Ecumenical Choir Festival , Mark Daniel Merritt

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This collection contains theses and dissertations from the Department of Music, collected from the Scholarship@Western Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023

Musical Behaviours, Dispositions, and Tendencies: Exploring Church Music-Making Through a Theory of Practice , Laura E. Benjamins

"That's the Way I Am, Heaven Help Me": The Role of Pronunciation in Billy Bragg's Music , Mary Blake Bonn

Singing Our Stories: Building Community and Developing Self-Empowerment in the Childless Voices Choir , Laura Curtis

Non-Directed Time , Danial Derakhshan

Soundcurrents: Exploring sound’s potential to catalyze creative critical consciousness in adolescent music students and undergraduate music education majors , Jashen i. Edwards

The Effect of Coping Verses Mastery Models on the Level of Self-Efficacy for Self-Regulated Music Learning, Self-Efficacy for Classical Guitar Playing and Guitar Achievement for Undergraduate Non-Music Majors , Patrick K. Feely Mr

A Study of Art Song Composition and Interpretation by Three Female German Composers in the Mid-Nineteenth Century , Churan Feng

Music Making in Elderly Community Program for Korean Immigrants in Canada , H. Elisha Jo

The Maker - A Multi-Media Opera in Two Acts , Aaron Lee

Transference Music: For Electric Guitar Soloist and Amplified Orchestra , Andrew Noseworthy

Prokofiev and the Soviet Dilemma: Censorship, Autonomy, and the Piano Transcriptions , Connor O'Kane

The Collective Unconscious , Yixuan Wang

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

Seeing Thro the Musical Eye: Santo Daime, Fuke-shū, 1960s Psychedelia, and the Antipodes of Musical Experience , Forest Anthony-Muran

The Contrabass Tuned in Fifths: Towards an Understanding of Past and Present Applications. , Stephen T. Bright

Sound Judgements: Music Education Framework for Guiding Digital Mixing Practice , Artur Kapron

Musical Signification in Biber's Rosary Sonatas , Frangel Lopez Cesena

The Classical Sonata Forms of Franz Schubert’s Great C-Major Symphony: Exploring Tonal Structure in the New Romantic Style , Liam J. McDermott

Secondary Instrumental Ensemble: A Shift Towards Non-Normative Learning Practices , Kristine Musgrove

Gesture in Steve Reich's Music and its Signification: A Referential Approach to His Process, Stylistic, and Postminimalist Works , Martin Ross

Voice Image: developing a new construct for vocal identity , Bethany R. Turpin

The Tale of Rowan O'Shera (A Musical Drama) , Emma T.L. Verdonk

The Ghosts of Madwomen Past: Historical and Psychiatric Madness on the Late Twentieth-Century Opera Stage , Diana Wu

Exploring Musical Knowledge Within One Canadian School Of Music: Ideology, Pedagogy, And Identity , Kyle Zavitz

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

Re-imagining Brazilian Portuguese IPA: A practical guide utilizing Paulo Maron’s new opera Lampião , Jorge Luiz Alves Trabanco Filho

Music Sounds Better With You , M Gillian Carrabre

Coloquio entre dos Perros, Comic Chamber Opera in Nine Scenes , Sandra Rocio Fuya-Duenas

Waves of Lament , Kennedy Kimber-Johnson

Mood, Music Choices, and the Emotional Outcomes of Music Listening: An Examination of the Moderating Role of Rumination using Experience-Sampling Methodology , Elizabeth E. Kinghorn

Speaking Songs: Music-Analytical Approaches to Spoken Word , Chantal D. Lemire

Music for Self-Attention , Jeffrey A T Lupker

Music of Peace and Protest: U.S. Composers and Musical Activism during the Vietnam War (1965-1971) , April P. Morris

A Thematic Analysis Of Nicolas Martynciow’s "Impressions Pour Caisse Claire Et Deux Toms" And A Dissection of the Extended Techniques Required For Performance , Joe Moscheck

A Narrative Approach to the Barcarolles for Solo Piano by Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) , Matthew T. Pope

Motivic Metamorphosis: Modelling Intervallic Transformations in Schoenberg’s Early Works , Adam Roy

The Integration of the Style Hongrois into Brahms’s Musical Language in His Chamber Works , Raymond D. Truong

Ann Southam's Solo Piano Music: A Performance Guide , Amelia G. Yates

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

Critical Border Crossing: Exploring Positionalities Through Soundscape Composition and Critical Reflection , Kelly Bylica

See It and Believe It: An Investigation into Singers' Imagery Use , Brianna DeSantis

Domenico Dragonetti: A case study of the 12 unaccompanied waltzes , Jury T. Kobayashi

Understanding Viktor Ullmann Through His Liederbuch des Hafis , Chad G. Louwerse

Dreamvision Songbook: Five Songs for Mixed Ensemble , Maxwell R. Lucas Mr.

The Alia musica and the Carolingian Conception of Mode , Matthew R J Nace

Music Education in a Liquid Social World: The Nuances of Teaching with Students of Immigrant and Refugee Backgrounds , Gabriela Ocádiz Velázquez

Exploring Being Queer and Performing Queerness in Popular Music , Rosheeka Parahoo

Music in the Moment of "Cyber Culture:" An Outward Spiral , Brandon Sked

The Search for Canadian Art Song: Developing the Framework for a Database of Art Song by Canadian Composers , Leanne Vida

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

Contexts for Musical Modernism in Post-1945 Mexico: Federico Ibarra - A Case Study , Francisco Eduardo Barradas Galván

"It's Obvious Who Plays an Instrument and Who Doesn't": Using Doxa and Illusio to Explore Inequities in English School Music Education , Alison Butler

Creative Collaborations: The Songs/Poems of Canadian Artists Leslie Uyeda and Lorna Crozier , Jennifer Cyr

James Rolfe's Vocal Chamber Music: A Performance Analysis and Interpretation , Laura Duffy

Understanding Game Scoring: Software Programming, Aleatoric Composition and Mimetic Music Technology , Mack Enns

Prufrock: a Monodrama for Baritone and Electronics , Daniel Gardner

The Impact of Expanded, Multimodal Applications during a German Lied Performance , Adam Domenico Iannetta

Forward and Up: An Exploration of Implementations of the Alexander Technique in Post-Secondary Music Institutions , Mei Lee

No Space to Sing: A Narrative Inquiry into the Experiences of Classical Singers with Primary Muscle Tension Dysphonia , Elizabeth Lepock

Playscapes for Piano Trio , James Lowrie

Exploring Stretto: An Investigation into the Use of Stretto in J. S. Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier , Kathryn McDonald

Performing Identities, Performing Possibilities: A Music-Centered and Relational Perspective on Performance in Community Music Therapy and Music Education , Elizabeth Mitchell

The Lieder of Joseph Marx and the Italienisches Liederbuch , Caleb Mora

Musical Ekphrasis in Concert: Case Study of Alexey Khevelev’s Chagall Vitraux , Natalia Skomorokhova

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

...and the songs of another... for Six Voices & Live Electronics , Matthew David Becker

The Art Songs of Kyrylo Stetsenko: Ukrainian Lyric Diction Guide , Olena Bratishko

The Effects of Infertility on Female Vocalist Identity , Laura Curtis

The Significance of Aram Khachaturian and His Piano Concerto , Sarah M. Dardarian

Job: An Oratorio for Voices and Chamber Ensemble , Kevin Gibson

Rachmaninoff's Piano Works and Diasporic Identity 1890-1945: Compositional Revision and Discourse , Renee MacKenzie

Capriccio for Mixed Ensemble and Piano , André McEvenue

Toward A Pedagogical Guide To Argentine Art Song , Matthew B. Pauls

Teaching Prospective Verdi Baritones: A Repertoire-Based Approach , Andrew Rethazi

The Donnelly Opera , Joshua L. Richardson

The Old House , Eric Swiatoschik

The Political Power of Carlos Chávez and His Influence Upon Silvestre Revueltas and Blas Galindo , Yolanda Tapia

Six Blake Songs , Willyn Whiting

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

The Effects of Video Recording on the Level of Expertise and Self-Regulated Learning Ability of Adults in a Beginner Classical Guitar Class , Patrick K. Feely

Teleology in César Franck's Prélude, Choral et Fugue , Stephanie Gouin

Antoinette, an Opera in One Act , Colin McMahon

Audio Mastering as a Musical Competency , Matthew T. Shelvock

Fuzzy Family Ties: Familial Similarity Between Melodic Contours of Different Cardinalities , Kristen Wallentinsen

Felix Mendelssohn and Sonata Form in the Nineteenth Century , Katharine G. Walshaw

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

Requiem , Wendell Glick

Namazu , Sean Kim

Two Movements for Orchestra , Jeff Lupker

Musical Forces in Claude Vivier’s Wo bist du Licht! and Trois airs pour un opéra imaginaire , Emilie L. Marshall

Ethos , William T. Nicolaou

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

A Study of Form and Structure in Pierre Boulez's Pli selon Pli , Emily J. Adamowicz

Family Music Listening Legacies: A Case Study-based Investigation of the Intergenerational Transmission of Music Listenership Values in Five Families , Jillian Bracken

J. S. Bach's Modal Compositional Practice in the Chorale Preludes for Solo Organ: A Schenkerian Perspective , Michael Fitzpatrick

A cross-generational examination of learner engagement and agency in non-traditional music education programs , Jennifer M. J. Lang

Amor Fati , Aaron Lee

In Search Of Transformative Music Learning Experiences: Voices From The Margins In Northeastern Brazil , Nan Qi

Heteroglossia: Novella For Orchestra , Andrzej J. Tereszkowski

Sophie, A Music Drama for Solo Soprano and Chamber Ochestra , Alondra Vega-Zaldivar

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A Comparative Analysis of Neoliberal Education Reform and Music Education in England and Ontario, Canada , Stephanie Horsley

Functional Transformations and Octatonality in Selected Works by George Crumb , Peter Lea

Interpretive Reproduction and Informal Music Learning in the Grade One Classroom , Leslie S. Linton

From Communism To Democracy: Choral Music Education In Czechoslovakia (1948 – 1992) And The Czech Republic (1993 – 2011) as Experienced by Four Prominent Czech Musicians , Jakub Martinec

Toward a Postmodern Avant-Garde: Labour, Virtuosity, and Aesthetics in an American New Music Ensemble , John R. Pippen

Aspects of Newtonianism in Rameau’s Génération harmonique , Abigail Shupe

Evolve , Brian L. Topp

Concerto Suite: For Viola da Gamba and String Soloists , Matthew W. Tozer

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Dissertations from 2021 2021.

Horn and Live Electronics a Survey of and Performance Guide for a Neglected Repertoire , Garrett Krohn

Basque and Modernist Influences in Gabriel Erkoreka's Qorks for Solo Piano (1994-2019) , Ariel Magno da Costa

Dissertations from 2020 2020

"Africa! Africa! Africa!" Black Identity in Marlos Nobre's Rhythmetron , Henrique Medeiros Batista

The Shaping of Time in Kaija Saariaho's Émilie: a Performer's Perspective , Maria Mercedes Diaz Garcia

Pathways to the Practice of Free Improvisation , Derek Emch

Contextualizing Traditional Influences within Romanian Contemporary Music: Stylistic Elements in Selected Works for Solo Flute by Doina Rotaru, Violeta Dinescu, and Carmen Carneci , Octavian Moldovean

Mindfulness and Metacognition: A Guide to Implementing Beneficial Mental Habits in Music Teaching , Christopher Murphy

Japanese Contemporary Piano Music: Cultural Influence and Identity , Stephanie Titus

Dissertations from 2019 2019

The Composer's Guide to the Tuba: Creating a New Resource on the Capabilities of the Tuba Family , Aaron M. Hynds

Analyzing Gender Inequality in Contemporary Opera , Hillary LaBonte

Heartening Folk: Frederic Rzewski's North American Ballads as an Extension of Folk Culture , Zachary D. R. Nyce

Analyzing the Intersections of Saxophone and Digital Media Through Media Theory , Nick Zoulek

Dissertations from 2018 2018

"Because there is no basis for comparison": The Self-Accompanying Singer and Roger Reynolds' Sketchbook for The Unbearable Lightness of Being , Elizabeth A. Pearse

Dissertations from 2017 2017

The Music of Marc Battier, Kee Yong Chong and Gene Coleman: Compositions for Traditional Asian Instruments and Electronics in the Twenty-First Century , Hong-Da Chin

Found Composition: Ecological Awareness and its Impact on Compositional Authority in Music Employing Electronics , Cory Ryan Kasprzyk

The Vocalizing Pianist: Embodying Gendered Performance , Michiko Saiki

The Saxophone Music of Alex Mincek and Eric Wubbels: Uses of Form, Repetition, and Extended Technique , Matthew Edward Younglove

Dissertations from 2016 2016

Pedagogical Approaches to Conducting Gesture in Contemporary Music , Katherine Margaret Kilburn

Fearless Programming: Invigorating the American Orchestral Tradition through New Music , Octavio Más-Arocas

Dissertations from 2015 2015

Telematic Music: History and Development of the Medium and Current Technologies Related to Performance , Mark Cook

Self-Actualization: Transcendentalist Discourse in the Work of Stuart Saunders Smith , Jose Augusto Duarte Lacerda

But why is it so Long?: Eschatology and Time Perception as an Interpretation of Morton Feldman's 'For Philip Guston' , Jeffrey M. Manchur

The Stillness of the Silent Sound: A Tantric Analysis of Karlheinz Stockhausen's Aus den sieben Tagen , Mihai Popean

Dissertations from 2014 2014

Examining François Rossé's Japanese-Influenced Chamber Music with Saxophone: Hybridity, Orality, and Primitivism as a Conceptual Framework , Noa Even

Creative Musical Improvisation in the Development and Formation of NEXUS Percussion Ensemble , Olman Piedra

Continuity, Motion, and Energy through the Spectrum: An Analysis of Philippe Leroux's Un Lieu Verdoyant - Hommage à Gérard Grisey , Andrew Smith

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A Comparison of Teacher-Guided Instruction and Self-Guided Student Practice Strategies , Spencer Prewitt

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Ingressive Phonation in Contemporary Vocal Music , Amanda DeBoer

Reimagining the Story of Lu You and Tang Wan: Ge Gan-ru's Wrong, Wrong, Wrong! and Hard, Hard, Hard! , Yen-Lin Goh

The Solo Piano Music of David Lang , Karl Larson

A Study of the Relationship Between Traditional Peking Opera and Contemporary Western Percussion Music in Mu Kuei-Yin in Percussion by Chien-Hui Hung , Isabelle Streng

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Anatomy and Evolution of Morton Subotnick’s In Two Worlds for Alto Saxophone and Interactive Computer , Jeffrey Heisler

A Cultural Analysis of Chen Yi's Si Ji (Four Seasons) For Orchestra , Timothy Stulman

The Piano Etudes of David Rakowski , I-Chen Yeh

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Konohana , Jean-Patrick Besingrand

Ways of Silence and Other Absences in the Music of George Crumb , Jean-Patrick Besingrand

Play Makes Perfect: An Exploration of Game and Play Elements in Composition and Performance , Gabrielle Chou

Bow Articulations in the Late Galant (1775–1812): An Analysis of Bow Strokes in Selected Violin Sonatas of Mozart and Beethoven , Julia E. Danitz

Beat Construal, Tempo, Metric Dissonance, and Transgressing the Groove in Heavy Metal , Drew Fleming

Form in Hip-Hop Music: Sections, Songs, and History , Stephen M. Gomez

Identity and Complexity in Chaya Czernowin’s INA , Eliav Kohl

Mediated Locality: Assembling the Independent Music Scene in Brooklyn, New York , Frank Meegan

Sonorous Movement: Cellistic Corporealities in Works by Helmut Lachenmann, Simon Steen-Andersen, and Johan Svensson , John Popham

“All the Evil Music Has:” Musical Representations of the Vamp in Interwar American Popular Media , Martha Schulenburg

Voice Leading in Fugue , Yuval Shapira

Pleasure and Power in a Cover Culture: Audiences, Musicians, and Venues in İzmi̇r’s Popular Music Scene , Yılmaz Onur Sönmez

André Mocquereau's Theory of Rhythm , Charles Weaver

Germanic Latin Lyric Diction: Regional Variations in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria , James A. Worley

Dissertations from 2022 2022

Strength and Vulnerability in Maurice Ravel’s Sonata for Violin and Cello and Osvaldo Golijov’s Mariel for Cello and Marimba : An Analysis through Performance and Composition , Andrea Casarrubios

Analog Matters: Labels, Cassettes, and Alternative Economies in Argentina’s Independent Music Scenes , Maria Agustina Checa

Music and Madness: Three Critical Case Studies , Beth A. Cooper

Disposizione Scenica per L’Opera Simon Boccanegra : An Insight into Verdi’s Sense of Drama and a Valuable Tool for Contemporary Performance , Giordana Rubria Fiori

Experiencing Sonic Change: Acoustic Properties as Form- and Meter-Bearing Elements in Popular Music Vocals , Kristi D. Hardman

"Cerulean Skies" by Maria Schneider: A Formal and Semiotic Analysis , Jonathan Heim

Assembling the African City: Music Streets and Associational Life in Dakar's Médina , Brendan Kibbee

A Bird’s Eye View: Large-Scale Tonal Structures in Robert Schumann’s Four Song Cycles (op. 42, 24, 39, and 48) , Peter Kramer

Interpreting Jean Coulthard's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1963): A Pianist's Perspective , Jocelyn Lai

The Feminine Harp as Feminist Tool: Early Professional Footing for Women in Mid-Twentieth-Century America , Chelsea Lane

Unsuk Chin’s Hyper-Sheng: Sonic and Structural Development in Šu for Sheng and Orchestra , Hyun-Kyung Lee

“The Formation of a Personality”: Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony and the Politics of Its Hermeneutic Reception , Ki Ki Leung

Voice, Arabness, and the Vocal Talent Competition Arab Idol , Insia Malik

Negative Dialectics in Elliott Carter: Toward an Adornian Aesthetics of Carter's Music , Gregory J. Menillo

Rima , Gregory J. Menillo

The Development of Slurs in Violin Bowing During the Italian Seicento : Printing and Rhetoric , Joan Plana Nadal

Non-Tonal Pitch Hierarchies and Dramatic Narratives in Oliver Knussen’s Variations, Op. 24 , Joseph Prestamo

The Music of Sylvano Bussotti and Its Interpretation: Biopolitics, Intersubjectivity, and Modernist Canon Formation , Charles A. Rudig

Clarinet and Shadow , Jacob Sachs-Mishalanie

“The Theory is Not Yet Music”: An Analysis of Pierre Schaeffer’s Etude aux allures , Jacob Sachs-Mishalanie

7 preludes for "Music can sleep" for pierrot ensemble , Matthew Sandahl

An Analysis of György Kurtág’s Officium breve in memoriam Andræ Szervánszky for string quartet op. 28 , Matthew S. Sandahl

Music Pedagogy in Venezuela’s Plains: Making Space in Alma Llanera , Elaine Sandoval

Dissertations from 2021 2021

The Quartet’s Death: Embodiment, Performativity, and Physicality in Heinz Holliger’s 1973 String Quartet , Vicente Alexim

The Art of Listening: A Conversational Approach to Lecture Recitals , Javor Bracic

“Leisure with Decorum”: Gentlemen Making Music in the Georgian era , Lidia A. Chang

Salvatore Sciarrino's Sei Capricci for Solo Violin: Analysis and Performance Guide , Caroline Eva Chin

Between Occitania and Al-Andalus: Reconsidering the Emergence of Troubadour Melody Through Algorithmic Analysis , Veronica Maria da Rosa Guimaraes

Astor Piazzolla's Cinco piezas para guitarra : A Performer's Guide to the "Unwritten" , Federico J. Díaz Páez

Gendering the Virtual Space: Sonic Femininities and Masculinities in Contemporary Top 40 Music , Michèle Duguay

The Singing Self: An Exploration of Vocality and Selfhood in Contemporary Vocal Practice , Emily C. Eagen

Listen Like This: Audiovisual Argument in Rockumentary , Lindsey Eckenroth

Indian Classical Music in the New York Metropolitan Area: The Development of a Transnational Ecosystem , Andre Fludd

For the Love of Inner Voices: Miriam Gideon, Orchestration, and Fortunato , Whitney E. George

Princess Maleine , Whitney E. George

The American Symphony Orchestra Today: Problems in Community, Diversity, and Representation , Hilary Slade Jansen

A Schema-Theoretic Approach to Hierarchy in Eighteenth-Century Tonality , Simon K. S. Prosser

Extracting Theory from Practice: A Computational Analysis of the Persian Radif , Sepideh Shafiei

Plainchant Accompaniment and Modal Harmony in Nineteenth-Century France , Ruka Shironishi

Performing Empowerment: Children's Rights and Musical Participation in Dakar, Senegal , Lynne Stillings

The Making of an Avant-gardist: A Study of Rafael Aponte-Ledée’s Early Life and Works (1957–1966) , Noel Torres-Rivera

Emulating the "Country Fiddler": A Performance Analysis of Fiddle Parodies and Impressions in Charles Ives's Second Violin Sonata , Emily Vold Weiss

New Chinese Music in New York City: From Revival to Musical Transnationalism , Serena Yiai Wang

Teaching Choral Music of the African Diaspora in the United States: Toward a “Living Black History” , H. Roz Woll

Dissertations from 2020 2020

Encounters: System for Creative Improvisation , Drake R. Andersen

The Limits of Indeterminacy: The Performance and Analysis of Selected Indeterminate Compositions by John Cage and Earle Brown , Drake R. Andersen

A Heavy Rain Has Fallen Upon My People: Sindhi Sufi Poetry Performance, Emotion, and Islamic Knowledge in Kachchh, Gujarat , Brian E. Bond

All Day in the Trey-Fold: Sound, Objecthood, and Place in the Mixtapes of DJ Screw , Matthew K. Carter

Corporeal Analysis: The Performing Body as Analytic Site , Laura Cocks

“From The Heart, May It Go To The Heart”: Liturgy and Embodiment in Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis , Brigid J. Coleridge

International Influence on the Development and Reception of Cello Playing in England, 1870–1930: Robert Hausmann, Auguste Van Biene, and Guilhermina Suggia , Hannah E. Collins

The Modes of Intervention in Alvin Lucier’s I Am Sitting in a Room , Daniel Fox

Coltrane Plays the Blues: Multi-Level Coherence and Stylistic Tendencies , Lukas Gabric

Chinese Aesthetics and Performance Practice in Three Works for Piano by Chen Yi: Tunes from My Home, Northern Scenes, and Four Spirits , Cong Ji

Mashing through the Conventions: Convergence of Popular and Classical Music in the Works of The Piano Guys , Alina Kiryayeva

Martial Caillebotte’s Mélodies and Scènes Lyriques : Analytical Essays and Performance Guide , Dominique McCormick

The Performance and Patronage of Baloch Culture through Music (and Related Arts) in the Eastern Arabian Peninsula , George Murer

Macroharmony in Ligeti's Etudes, Book 3 , Nicolas Namoradze

Audio Quality as Content: Everyday Criticism of the Lo-fi Format , Elizabeth Newton

Two Cello Works of Pēteris Vasks: Structure, Symbolism, and Identity , Caroline Bean Stute

Object-Oriented Musicology: Some Implications of Graham Harman's Philosophy for Music Theory, History, and Criticism , Eric Taxier

Occitan Musicians, Immigration, and Postcolonial Regionalism in Southern France , Sarah E. Trouslard

The Mutability of the Score: An Examination of the Value of Score Alteration in Virtuosic Piano Repertoire , Wayne Weng

Korngold’s Compositional Style: A Comparison of his Violin Concerto and the film scores of Another Dawn , Anthony Adverse , and The Prince and the Pauper , Ji in Yang

Dissertations from 2019 2019

Piano at the Conservatoire de Paris During the Interwar Period: A Study in Pedagogy and Performance Practice , Audrey Abela

Music and Jewish Practice in Contemporary Istanbul: Preserving Heritage, Bending Tradition , Joseph M. Alpar

Cyber-Narrative in Opera: Three Case Studies , Naomi Barrettara

Reimagining the Flute Masterclass: Case Studies Exploring Artistry, Authority, and Embodiment , Sarah Carrier

Baroque Pianism: Perspectives on Playing Baroque Keyboard Music on the Piano, with Emphasis on Bach’s Fugues in the Well-Tempered Clavier , Chih-tung Cheng

Meaning Beyond Words: A Musical Analysis of Afro-Cuban Batá Drumming , Javier Diaz

The Incorporated Hornist: Instruments, Embodiment, and the Performance of Music , M. Elizabeth Fleming

Afro-Cuba Transnational: Recordings and the Mediation of Afro-Cuban Traditional Music , Johnny Frias

Poems to Open Palms: Praise Performance and the State in the Sultanate of Oman , Bradford J. Garvey

The Musical World of Joseph Rumshinsky’s Mamele , D. A. Geller

Women's Contributions to Viola Repertoire and Pedagogy in the Twentieth Century: Rebecca Clarke, Lillian Fuchs, and Rosemary Glyde , Eva R. Gerard

Early Twentieth Century Vocal Performance Practice and the French School: An Exploration of the Lectures and Selected Songs by Reynaldo Hahn , Mary P. Hubbell

Support vs. Steady Airflow: The Effect of Two Different Instructions on Subglottal Pressure, Sound Pressure Level, and Airflow Rate during Singing and Speaking , Sunyoung Kim

Sighs of the German People: An Emotional History of Musical Sigh-Compositions during the Thirty Years War (1618–1648) , Thomas Marks

Chamber Music, Cyclic Form, and the Ideal of the Absolute in French Music and Literature, 1890–1918 , Naomi Perley

Johann Nauwach's Teütscher Villanellen : A Critical Performance Edition with Performance Practice Commentary , Christopher Pfund

Music Making in Iran: Developments Between the Sixteenth and Late Nineteenth Centuries , Amir Hosein Pourjavady

Exploring Political Action and Socialization through Group Improvisation within the Music of Frederic Rzewski and Cornelius Cardew , Marcel Rominger

Performing Rhythmic Dissonance in Ligeti’s Études, Book 1: A Perception-Driven Approach and Re-notation , Imri Talgam

Leonora Duarte (1610–1678): Converso Composer in Antwerp , Elizabeth A. Weinfield

Analyzing Harmonic Polarities: A Tonal Narrative Approach , Stephen J. Whale

Tonicizations, Periods, and Period-Like Structures in the Music of Dvořák , Xieyi Zhang

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Alessandri, E. (2014) Evaluating recorded performance: an investigation of music criticism through Gramophone reviews of Beethoven piano sonata recordings. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Aljabri, K. (2017) Exploring strategies for developing Western classical music education in the Sultanate of Oman. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Ascenso, S. (2022) Musicians’ wellbeing: a cross-sectional investigation within the framework of Positive Psychology. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Aufegger, L. (2016) The investigation of musicians’ physiological and psychological responses to performance stress. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Austen, C. (2020) 'I’m not injured, this is just my life': an exploration of the experiences of conservatoire students with chronic playing-related musculoskeletal disorders. Masters thesis, Royal College of Music.

Barton, D. C. M. (2020) The autonomy of private instrumental teachers: its effect on valid knowledge construction, curriculum design, and quality of teaching and learning. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Betts, N. (2020) The personal and social impact of non-accredited music education in prison: a transformative mixed methods approach to research in custodial settings. Masters thesis, Royal College of Music.

Bowen, D. K. (2022) The bass clarinet in bassoon form: its history, repertoire and acoustics. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Bower, B. (2016) The Crystal Palace Saturday Concerts, 1865-1879: a case study of the nineteenth-century programme note. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Bradford, N. (2021) What is the effect of active music participation on well-being among adults with Down's syndrome? Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Casey, E. (2020) Exploring the perceived impact of extensive training in the Alexander technique on the day-to-day lives of professional musicians. Masters thesis, Royal College of Music.

Chen, A. (2022) Synthrumentation, revisited: towards a new method of additively synthesising speech in acoustic instrumental contexts. Masters thesis, Royal College of Music.

Christensen, A. M. (2018) The solo for a violin: a new perspective on the Italian violinists in London in the eighteenth century. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Delgado, I. (2020) How can musicians make music with people with dementia?: an investigation of musician-led musical practices for those living with dementia. Masters thesis, Royal College of Music.

Destounis, K. (2019) The solo piano works of Theodore Antoniou in the context of contemporary Greek piano repertoire: a performer’s approach. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Falconer, E. (2022) The case for Casella: towards new methods of understanding and interpreting the Italian Modernist pianist-composer. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Feshareki, S. (2019) A quest to find ‘real': September 2014 – February 2017. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Fonte, V. (2020) Reconsidering memorisation in the context of non-tonal piano music. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Garcia-Tomas, R. (2019) Interdisciplinarity: an expansion of my creative approach. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Gentili, B. (2019) The invention of the ‘modern’ voice: changing aesthetics of vocal registration in Italian opera singing 1870-1925. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Gibbs, F. J. (2018) The Royal Albert Hall: a case study of an evolving cultural venue. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Hexel, V. (2014) Understanding contextual agents and their impact on recent Hollywood film music practice. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Hillier, E. (2022) Composing with timbre: saturation, (dis)integration and space. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Huang, W. L. (2019) An investigation into Taiwanese music college students' self-management of musical performance anxiety. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Illean Finnis, L. (2021) Vanishing points: a personal approach to non-tempered tuning. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Lam, C. Y. (2023) In the process of becoming: an ethnographic case study of the development of community music practice in Hong Kong. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Lapshin, K. (2019) Expressive inflection: applying the principles of Sergey Rachmaninoff’s performance in my own practice. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Liu, Y. (2019) An exploration towards the enrichment of a personal musical language in musical composition. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Low, J. (2020) A pianist’s perspective on song transposition, focusing on Robert Schumann’s Liederreihe nach Kerner Op. 35. Masters thesis, Royal College of Music.

Lucas, N. (2020) Informing performance of Prokofiev's piano music: researching the musical score. Masters thesis, Royal College of Music.

Mannion, R. (2019) Mise en Abyme: immersive performance and composition practices through interdisciplinarity, collaboration and music technology. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Mantovani, L. (2019) Ferdinand Rebay and the reinvention of guitar chamber music. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

McHugh, E. R. (2018) The vocality of the dramatic soprano voice in Richard Strauss's Salome and Elektra. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Morgan, F. (2020) Common cents: the experiences of low-income students in high-profile conservatoires. Masters thesis, Royal College of Music.

Morrish, N. (2021) Braiding time: in search of sounds from within. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Neergaard, B. (2018) Schumann as aspiring pianist: technique, sonority, and composition. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Paolantonio, P. (2022) Music in the community: investigating the effects of group music making programmes on older adults and higher education music students. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Querns Langley, K. E. (2021) Reconstructing the tenor ‘pharyngeal voice’: a historical and practical investigation. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Razumovskaya, M. (2014) Heinrich Neuhaus: aesthetics and philosophy of an interpretation. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Rees, C. (2014) Collaboration in practice: developing a repertoire of extended techniques for the Kingma System alto and bass flute. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Scotting, R. (2018) Unknown Senesino: Francesco Bernardi’s vocal profile and dramatic portrayal, 1700-1740. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Taylor, K. A. C. (2021) An investigation of musicians' goals as motivators and regulators. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Taylor-West, L. (2023) Modularity, technology, and geometry in compositional practice: a portfolio of original compositions. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Thompson, T. D. (2016) The vocality of Sibyl Sanderson in Massenet’s Manon and Esclarmonde. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Verschuren, W. (2023) Giants of the dulcian family: an exploration of the doppelfagott and the fagotcontra in music of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Waddell, G. (2019) Time to decide: a study of evaluative decision-making in music performance. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Windle, G. (2019) The impact of engagement with the arts on the health and wellbeing of hospital inpatients with dementia. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Wong, M. H. Y. (2023) Arrangements as a creative tool towards the performance of J. S. Bach’s Six Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin BWV 1001–1006. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Štšura, M. (2021) Translating twenty-first-century orchestral scores for the piano: transcription, reduction and performability. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

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Graduate students in the Don Wright Faculty of Music are actively engaged in research in all areas of music. Recent PhD dissertations and master's theses are listed below. Those theses submitted electronically (generally since 2011) are available through  Western's  Electronic Theses & Dissertation Repository  while earlier theses are available through Western's libraries . 

DMA Monographs

Performance .

Connor O'Kane. (2023). Prokofiev and the Soviet Dilemma: Censorship, Autonomy, and the Piano Transcriptions . Supervised by Dr. Catherine Nolan. 

Frangel Lopez Cesena. (2022). Musical Signification in Biber's Rosary Sonatas . Supervised by Dr. Jonathan De Souza. 

Bethany Turpin. (2022).  Voice Image: Developing a New Construct for Vocal Identity . Supervised by Dr. Sophie Roland and Dr. Rachel Calogero. 

Matthew Pope. (2021). A Narrative Approach to the Barcarolles for Solo Piano by Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) . Supervised by Dr. Catherine Nolan.

Amelia Yates. (2021). Ann Southam's Solo Piano Music: A Performance Guide . Supervised by Dr. Catherine Nolan.

Jorge Luiz Alves Trabanco Filho. (2021). Re-imagining Brazilian Portuguese IPA:  A practical guide utilizing Paulo Maron’s new opera Lampião . Supervised by Dr. Todd Wieczorek and Dr. Patrick Schmidt.

Raymond D. Truong. (2021). The Integration of the Style Hongrois into Brahms’s Musical Language in His Chamber Works . Supervised by Dr. Peter Franck.

Joe Moscheck. (2021). A Thematic Analysis Of Nicolas Martynciow’s "Impressions Pour Caisse Claire Et Deux Toms" And A Dissection of the Extended Techniques Required For Performance . Supervised by Dr. Jill Ball and Dr. Kevin Watson.

Brianna DeSantis. (2020). See It and Believe It: An Investigation into Singers' Imagery Use . Supervised by Dr. Sophie Roland and Dr. Craig Hall.

Leanne Vida. (2020). The Search for Canadian Art Song: Developing the Framework for a Database of Art Song by Canadian Composers . Supervised by Dr. Sophie Roland.

Chad Louwerse. (2020). Understanding Viktor Ullmann Through His Liederbuch des Hafis . Supervised by Dr. Catherine Nolan and Dr. John Hess.

Elizabeth Lepock. (2019). No Space to Sing: A Narrative Inquiry into the Experiences of Classical Singers with Primary Muscle Tension Dysphonia . Supervised by Dr. Cathy Benedict and Dr. Sophie Roland.

Mei Lee. (2019). Forward and Up: An Exploration of Implementations of the Alexander Technique in Post-Secondary Music Institutions . Supervised by Dr. Kari Veblen.

Jennifer Cyr. (2019). Creative Collaborations: The Songs/Poems of Canadian Artists Leslie Uyeda and Lorna Crozier . Supervised by Dr. Kari Veblen.

Natalia Skomorokhova. (2019). Musical Ekphrasis in Concert: Case Study of Alexey Khevelev’s Chagall Vitraux . Supervised by Dr. Catherine Nolan.

Adam Iannetta. (2019). The Impact of Expanded, Multimodal Applications during a German Lied Performance . Supervised by Dr. Patrick Schmidt and Dr. John Hess.

Laura Duffy. (2019). James Rolfe's Vocal Chamber Music: A Performance Analysis and Interpretation . Supervised by Dr. Catherine Nolan and Dr. John Hess.

Francisco Barradas Galván. (2019). Contexts for Musical Modernism in Post-1945 Mexico: Federico Ibarra - A Case Study . Supervised by Dr. Emily Abrams Ansari and Dr. Thomas Wiebe.

Caleb Mora. (2019). The Lieder of Joseph Marx and the Italienisches Liederbuch . Supervised by Dr. Catherine Nolan and Dr. John Hess.

Olena Bratishko. (2018). The Art Songs of Kyrylo Stetsenko: Ukrainian Lyric Diction Guide . Supervised by Dr. Catherine Nolan and Dr. John Hess.

Yolanda Tapia. (2018). The Political Power of Carlos Chávez and His Influence Upon Silvestre Revueltas and Blas Galindo . Supervised by Dr. Emily Abrams Ansari and Dr. John Hess.

Matthew Pauls. (2018). Toward A Pedagogical Guide To Argentine Art Song . Supervised by Dr. Catherine Nolan and Dr. John Hess.

Renee MacKenzie. (2018). Rachmaninoff's Piano Works and Diasporic Identity 1890-1945: Compositional Revision and Discourse . Supervised by Dr. Catherine Nolan.

Andrew Rethazi. (2018). Teaching Prospective Verdi Baritones: A Repertoire-Based Approach . Supervised by Dr. Todd Wieczorek and Dr. John Cuciurean.

Sarah Dardarian. (2018). The Significance of Aram Khachaturian and His Piano Concerto . Supervised by Dr. Catherine Nolan and Dr. Leslie Kinton.

Stéphanie Gouin. (2017). Teleology in César Franck's Prélude, Choral et Fugue . Supervised by Dr. Catherine Nolan.

PhD Dissertations

Music education .

Laura Curtis. (2023). Singing Our Stories: Building Community and Developing Self-Empowerment in the Childless Voices Choir.  Supervised by Dr. Patrick Schmidt.

Heesun Elisha Jo. (2023). Music Making in Elderly Community Program for Korean Immigrants in Canada . Supervised by Dr. Kari Veblen.

Patrick Feely. (2023). The Effect of Coping Verses Mastery Models on the Level of Self-Efficacy for Self-Regulated Music Learning, Self-Efficacy for Classical Guitar Playing and Guitar Achievement for Undergraduate Non-Music Majors . Supervised by Dr. Kevin Watson.

Laura Benjamins. (2023). Musical Behaviours, Dispositions, and Tendencies: Exploring Church Music-Making Through a Theory of Practice . Supervised by Dr. Ruth Wright and Dr. Stephen McClatchie.

Jashen Edwards. (2023).  Soundcurrents: Exploring sound’s potential to catalyze creative critical consciousness in adolescent music students and undergraduate music education majors . Supervised by Dr. Patrick Schmidt.

Artur Kapron. (2022). Sound Judgements: Music Education Framework for Guiding Digital Mixing Practice . Supervised by Dr. Paul Woodford.

Kyle Zavitz. (2022).  Exploring Musical Knowledge Within One Canadian School Of Music: Ideology, Pedagogy, And Identity . Supervised by Dr. Ruth Wright.

Kristine Musgrove. (2022). Secondary Instrumental Ensemble: A Shift Towards Non-Normative Learning Practices . Supervised by Dr. Cathy Benedict.

Elizabeth Kinghorn. (2021). Mood, Music Choices, and the Emotional Outcomes of Music Listening: An Examination of the Moderating Role of Rumination using Experience-Sampling Methodology . Supervised by Dr. Kevin Watson and Dr. Jessica Grahn.

Kelly Bylica. (2020). Critical Border Crossing: Exploring Positionalities Through Soundscape Composition and Critical Reflection . Supervised by Dr. Patrick Schmidt.

Gabriela Ocádiz Velázquez. (2020). Music Education in a Liquid Social World: The Nuances of Teaching with Students of Immigrant and Refugee Backgrounds . Supervised by Dr. Patrick Schmidt.

Alison Butler. (2019). "It's Obvious Who Plays an Instrument and Who Doesn't": Using Doxa and Illusio to Explore Inequities in English School Music Education. Supervised by Dr. Ruth Wright and Dr. Wolfgang Lehmann.

Elizabeth Mitchell. (2019). Performing Identities, Performing Possibilities: A Music-Centered and Relational Perspective on Performance in Community Music Therapy and Music Education . Supervised by Dr. Kari Veblen.

Nan Qi. (2015). In Search of Transformative Music Learning Experiences: Voices From The Margins In Northeastern Brazil . Supervised by Dr. Kari Veblen.

Jennifer Lang. (2015). A Cross-generational Examination of Learner Engagement and Agency in Non-traditional Music Education Programs . Supervised by Dr. Ruth Wright.

Jillian Bracken. (2015).  Family Music Listening Legacies: A Case Study-based Investigation of the Intergenerational Transmission of Music Listenership Values in Five Families . Supervised by Dr. Ruth Wright.

Stephanie Horsley. (2014).  A Comparative Analysis of Neoliberal Education Reform and Music Education in England and Ontario, Canada . Supervised by Dr. Paul Woodford.

Leslie Linton. (2014).  Interpretive Reproduction and Informal Music Learning in the Grade One Classroom . Supervised by Dr. Ruth Wright.

Jakub Martinec. (2014).  From Communism to Democracy: Choral Music Education in Czechoslovakia (1948-1992) and the Czech Republic (1993-2011) as Experienced by Four Prominent Czech Musicians . Supervised by Dr. Paul Woodford.

Laura Fitzpatrick. (2013).  Factors Affecting Music Education in Ontario Secondary Schools: Teachers' Perspectives . Supervised by Dr. Ruth Wright.

Kerry Byers. (2012). Philosophical Inquiry of Music Therapy:Seeking Points of Unification. Supervised by Dr. Fiske.

Music Theory 

Mary Blake Bonn. (2023).  "That's the Way I Am, Heaven Help Me": The Role of Pronunciation in Billy Bragg's Music. Supervised by Dr. Kevin Mooney.

Martin Ross. (2022).  Gesture in Steve Reich's Music and its Signification: A Referential Approach to His Process, Stylistic, and Postminimalist Works . Supervised by Dr. John Cuciurean.

Chantal Lemire. (2021).  Speaking Songs: Music-Analytical Approaches to Spoken Word . Supervised by Dr. John Cuciurean.

Adam Roy. (2021).  Motivic Metamorphosis: Modelling Intervallic Transformations in Schoenberg’s Early Works . Supervised by Dr. Catherine Nolan.

Matthew Nace. (2020).  The Alia musica and the Carolingian Conception of Mode . Supervised by Dr. James Grier.

Katharine Walshaw. (2017). Felix Mendelssohn and Sonata Form in the Nineteenth Century . Supervised by Dr. John Cuciurean.

Kristen Wallentinsen. (2017). Fuzzy Family Ties: Familial Similarity Between Melodic Contours of Different Cardinalities . Supervised by Dr. Catherine Nolan.

Emilie Marshall. (2016).  Musical Forces in Claude Vivier’s Wo bist du Licht! and Trois airs pour un opéra imaginaire . Supervised by Dr. Catherine Nolan.

Emily Adamowicz. (2015). A Study of Form and Structure in Pierre Boulez's Pli selon Pli . Supervised by Dr. Catherine Nolan.

Michael Fitzpatrick. (2015). J. S. Bach's Modal Compositional Practice in the Chorale Preludes for Solo Organ: A Schenkerian Perspective . Supervised by Dr. Catherine Nolan and Dr. Peter Franck.

Abigail Shupe. (2014).  Aspects of Newtonianism in Rameau's Génération harmonique . Supervised by Dr. Kevin Mooney.

Peter Lea. (2014).  Functional Transformations and Octatonality in Selected Works by George Crumb . Supervised by Dr. John Cuciurean.

Lindsay Murrell. (2013). Galina Ustvolskaya (1919-2006): Analytical Approach To The Pitch Content of Selected Compositions . Supervised by Dr. Catherine Nolan.

Karen Ching. (2012).  Narrativity in Postmodern Music: A Study of Selected Works of Alfred Schnittke . Supervised by Dr. Catherine Nolan.

Makoto Mikawa. (2012).  Anarchy in the Unity: Compositional and Aesthetic Tensions in Mauricio Kagel's Antithese für einen Darsteller mit elektronischen und öffentlichen Klängen (1962) . Supervised by Dr. Kevin Mooney.

Joe Argentino. (2010). Transformation and Hexatonic Cycles in Schoenberg's Late Religious Works. Supervised by Dr. Catherine Nolan.

Musicology 

Diana Wu. (2022). The Ghosts of Madwomen Past: Historical and Psychiatric Madness on the Late Twentieth-Century Opera Stage . Supervised by Dr. Emily Abrams Ansari.

Stephen Bright. (2022). The Contrabass Tuned in Fifths: Towards an Understanding of Past and Present Applications . Supervised by Dr. James Grier.

April Morris. (2021). Music of Peace and Protest: U.S. Composers and Musical Activism during the Vietnam War (1965-1971) . Supervised by Dr. Emily Abrams Ansari.

M Gillian Carrabre. (2021). Music Sounds Better With You . Supervised by Dr. Jay Hodgson.

Mackenzie Enns. (2019). Understanding Game Scoring: Software Programming, Aleatoric Composition and Mimetic Music Technology . Supervised by Dr. Jay Hodgson.

Matthew Shelvock. (2017). Audio Mastering as a Musical Competency . Supervised by Dr. Jay Hodgson.

John Pippen. (2014).  Toward a Postmodern Avant-Garde: Labour, Virtuosity, and Aesthetics in an American New Music Ensemble . Supervised by Dr. Emily Abrams Ansari.

Anthony Cushing. (2013).  Three Solitudes and a DJ: A Mashed-up Study of Counterpoint in a Digital Realm . Supervised by Dr. Norma Coates.

Kathryn Fenton. (2012).  Frontiers, Borders, Boundaries: Cross-Cultural Encounters in the New York City Reception of La fanciulla del West . Supervised by Dr. Edmund Goehring.

Morgan Jones. (2011).  The Other Sides of Billy Joel: Six Case Studies Revealing the Sociologist, the Balladeer, and the Historian . Supervised by Dr. James Grier.

Shannon Benson. (2010). The Twentieth-Century Operas of Robert Ward. Supervised by Dr. Don Neville.

Anita Hardeman. (2010). Representing Venus: Music, Drama, and Allegory in André Campra's and Antoine Danchet's Hésione. Supervised by Dr. Richard Semmens.

Composition 

Aaron Lee. (2023). The Maker - A Multi-Media Opera in Two Acts . Supervised by Dr. Paul Frehner.

Andrew Noseworthy. (2023). Transference Music: For Electric Guitar Soloist and Amplified Orchestra . Supervised by Dr. Paul Frehner.

Jeffrey Lupker. (2021). Music for Self-Attention . Supervised by Dr. Paul Frehner.

Matthew Becker. (2018). . ..and the songs of another... for Six Voices & Live Electronics . Supervised by Dr. Omar Daniel.

Wendell Glick. (2016). Requiem . Supervised by Dr. Peter Paul Koprowski.

Sean Kim. (2016). Namazu . Supervised by Dr. Paul Frehner.

Andrzej Tereszkowski. (2015). Heteroglossia: Novella For Orchestra . Supervised by Dr. Peter Paul Koprowski.

Matthew Tozer. (2014).  Concerto Suite: For Viola da Gamba and String Soloists . Supervised by Dr. David Myska.

Kevin Morse. (2012).  A Modest Proposal: A Chamber Opera in One Act . Supervised by Dr. David Myska.

Master's Theses

Our Master's degree programs  are available as course-based or thesis-based streams. These publications represent recent work completed by students in the thesis stream of our master's programs.

MMus in Composition 

Yixuan Wang. (2023). The Collective Unconscious . Supervised by Dr. Omar. Daniel.

Danial Derakhshan. (2023). Non-Directed Time . Supervised by Dr. Paul Frehner.

Emma Verdonk. (2022). The Tale of Rowan O'Shea (A Musical Drama) . Supervised by Dr. Paul Frehner.

Kennedy Kimber-Johnson. (2021). Waves of Lament . Supervised by Dr. Omar Daniel.

Sandra Rocio Fuya-Duenas. (2021). Coloquio entre dos Perros, Comic Chamber Opera in Nine Scenes . Supervised by Dr. Paul Frehner.

Maxwell Lucas. (2020). Dreamvision Songbook: Five Songs for Mixed Ensemble . Supervised by Dr. Omar Daniel.

Daniel Gardner. (2019). Prufrock: a Monodrama for Baritone and Electronics . Supervised by Dr. Omar Daniel.

James Lowrie. (2019). Playscapes for Piano Trio . Supervised by Dr. Omar Daniel.

Kevin Gibson. (2018). Job: An Oratorio for Voices and Chamber Ensemble . Supervised by Dr. Omar Daniel.

André McEvenue. (2018). Capriccio for Mixed Ensemble and Piano . Supervised by Dr. David Myska.

Joshua Richardson. (2018). The Donnelly Opera . Supervised by Dr. Omar Daniel.

Eric Swiatoschik. (2018). The Old House . Supervised by Dr. Peter Paul Koprowski.

Willyn Whiting. (2018). Six Blake Songs . Supervised by Dr. Paul Frehner.

Colin McMahon. (2017). Antoinette, An Opera in One Act . Supervised by Dr. David Myska.

Jeffrey Lupker. (2016). Two Movements for Orchestra . Supervised by Dr. Peter Paul Koprowski. 

William Nicolaou. (2016). Ethos . Supervised by Dr. Omar Daniel.

Joseph Aaron Lee. (2015).  Amor Fati . Supervised by Dr. David Myska.

Alondra Vega-Zaldivar. (2015).  Sophie, A Music Drama for Solo Soprano and Chamber Orchestra . Supervised by Dr. Omar Daniel.

Brian Topp. (2014).  Evolve . Supervised by Dr. Paul Frehner.

Carolann De Young. (2013).  Green Glass for Orchestra . Supervised by Dr. Paul Frehner.

Michael Lukaszuk. (2013).  Kontakt . Supervised by Dr. Omar Daniel.

Alice Hansen. (2012).  Mythologies: Three Tableaux for Flute, Harp, Strings and Percussion . Supervised by Dr. Peter Paul Koprowski.

Patrick Arteaga. (2012).  Garden Theatre . Supervised by Dr. Paul Frehner.

Jeffrey McClellan. (2012).  Dawn: A Symphonic Sketch for Orchestra . Supervised by Dr. David Myska.

MMus in Literature and Performance 

Allison Luff. (2012).  Charles Ives and Musical Borrowing . Supervised by Dr. Emily Abrams Ansari.

MMus in Music Education 

Laura Curtis. (2018). The Effects of Infertility on Female Vocalist Identity . Supervised by Dr. Ruth Wright.

Patrick Feely. (2017). The Effects of Video Recording on the Level of Expertise and Self-Regulated Learning Ability of Adults in a Beginner Classical Guitar Class . Supervised by Dr. Kevin Watson.

MA in Musicology 

Forest Anthony-Muran. (2022).  Seeing Thro the Musical Eye: Santo Daime, Fuke-shū, 1960s Psychedelia, and the Antipodes of Musical Experience . Supervised by Dr. Jonathan De Souza.

Brandon Sked. (2020). Music in the Moment of "Cyber Culture:" An Outward Spiral. Supervised by Dr. Norma Coates.

Jury Kobayashi. (2020). Domenico Dragonetti: A Case Study of the 12 Unaccompanied Waltzes . Supervised by Dr. James Grier.

Rosheeka Parahoo. (2020). Exploring Being Queer and Performing Queerness in Popular Music . Supervised by Dr. Norma Coates.

MA in Music Theory 

Liam McDermott. (2022). The Classical Sonata Forms of Franz Schubert’s Great C-Major Symphony: Exploring Tonal Structure in the New Romantic Style . Supervised by Dr. Peter Franck.

Kathryn McDonald. (2019). Exploring Stretto: An Investigation into the Use of Stretto in J. S. Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier . Supervised by Dr. Peter Franck.

A list of published theses by our former MA in Popular Music and Culture students is available at the Faculty of Information and Media Studies website.

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