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1950 to the present

Ariza, Christopher
An Open Design for Computer-Aided Algorithmic Music Composition: athenaCL.
Ph.D., Composition, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 2005

Atlas, Allan W.
Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Cappella Giulia XIII.27 and the Dissemination of the Franco-Netherlandish Chanson in Italy, c. 1460-c. 1530.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1972

Beliavsky, Daniel
Ph.D., Composition, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 2006

Bennett, Lawrence E.
The Italian Cantata in Vienna, c. 1700-c. 1711.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1980

Bernstein, Lawrence F.
Cantus Firmus in the French Chanson for Two and Three Voices, 1500-1550.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1969

Billington, Steven Miles
The Manuscript Sources of Robert Schumann's Genoveva.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1987

Boswell-Kurc, Lilise
Olivier Messiaen's Religious War-time Works and their Controversial Reception in France (1941-46).
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 2001

Boyce, James John.
Cantica Carmelitana: The Chants of the Carmelite Office.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1984

Brandel, Rose.
The Music of Central Africa.
Ph.D., Music, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1959

Brett, J. Thomas
Ph.D., Ethnomusicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 2006

Brody, Elaine.
The Piano Music of DŽodat de SŽverac: A Stylistic Analysis.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1964

Brofsky, Howard
The Instrumental Music of Padre Martini.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1963

Brooks, Catherine
Antoine Busnois as a Composer of Chansons.
Ph.D., Music, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1951

Buelow, George John
Johann David Heinichen, Der Generalbass in der Composition: A Critical Study.
Ph.D., Music, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1961

Butler, Melvin Lloyd
Songs of Pentecost: Experiencing Music, Transcendence, and Identity in Jamaica and Haiti.
Ph.D., Ethnomusicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 2005

Caldwell, Alice May
Music of the Moravian Liturgische GesŠnge (1791-1823): From Oral to Written Tradition.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1987

Cammarota, Robert Michael
The Repertoire of Magnificats in Leipzig at the Time of J. S. Bach: A Study of the Manuscript Sources.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1986

Cannata, David Butler
Rachmaninoff's Changing View of Symphonic Structure.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1993

Cannon, Clawson.
The 16th- and 17th-Century Organ-Mass: A Study in Musical Style.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1968

Cantor, Montague .
The Liber Magnificarum of Sebastian de Vivanco.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1967

Carson, Sean H..
Trace Analysis: Some Applications to Musical Contour and Voice Leading.
Ph.D., Composition, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 2003

Chapman, James Gliem.
The Works of Pierre Moulu: A Stylistic Analysis.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1965

Clinkscale, Edward.
The Complete Works of Antoine de FŽvin.
Ph.D., Music, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1965

Cobin, Marian W.
The Aosta Manuscript: A Central Source of Early-Fifteenth-Century Sacred Polyphony.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1978

Coburn, Steven D.
Mahler's Tenth Symphony: Form and Genesis.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 2002

Cohen, Albert.
The Evolution of the Fantasia and Works in Related Styles in the Seventeenth-Century Instrumental Ensemble Music of France and the Low Countries.
Ph.D., Music, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1959

Cohen, Howard Robert.
Berlioz on the OpŽra (1829-1849): A Study in Music Criticism.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1973

Colpa, J. Alexander.
Germany's "Zero-Hour Myth" as a Context for the Stylistic Evolution in the Orchestral Music of Wolfgang Fortner (1907-1987).
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 2002

Coupe, Rachel
Ph.D.,
Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 2006

Davis, Shelley G.
The Keyboard Concertos of Johann Georg Lang (1722-1798).
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1972

Dorin, Ryan
Music Information Loops: Described and Analyzed with Sequential Information Analysis
Ph.D., Composition, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 2005

Downs, Anneliese.
The Symphonies of Friedrich Schwindl.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1973

Espinosa, Alma O.
The Keyboard Works of FŽlix M‡ximo L—pez.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1976

Evans, Laura.
Mosaic Structure in Music.
Ph.D., Composition, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 2003

Fairtile, Linda Beard.
Giacomo Puccini's Operatic Revisions as Manifestations of His Compositional Priorities.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1996

Flanders, Peter.
The Madrigals of Benedetto Pallavicino.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1971

Forsberg, Suzanne.
The Symphonies of Placidus von Camerloher.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1990

Fox, Pauline Marie.
Discoveries in the Mirror of Moravian Music: A Study of Two Collections of Manuscript Books in Pennsylvania ca. 1800.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1996.

Frankel, Stuart A.
Phonology, Verse Metrics, and Music.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1999

Friedheim, Philip.
Tonality and Structure in the Early Works of Schoenberg.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1963

Fukunaka, Fuyuko.
Wolfgang Rihm and Music as Language.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 2003

Germer, Mark.
The Austro-Bohemian Pastoral Mass and the Popular Outreach of Counter Reform.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1989

Gervers, Hilda F.
A Seventeenth-Century Manuscript of English Keyboard Music: The New York Public Library MS Drexel 5612.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1974

Godt, Irving.
Guillaume Costeley (1531-1606): Life and Works.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1969

Gould, Murray J.
Species Counterpoint and Tonal Structure.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1973

Graham, Sandra J.
The Fisk Jubilee Singers and the Concert Spiritual: The Beginnings of an American Tradition.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 2001

Grave, Floyd Kersey.
The Process of Articulation in Mozart's Piano Concertos.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1973

Grave, Margaret Grupp.
First-Movement Form as a Measure of Dittersdorf's Symphonic Development.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1977

Groesbeck, Rolf.
Pedagogy and Performance in tyampaka, A Genre of Temple Instrumental Music in Kerala, India.
Ph.D., Ethnomusicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1995

Gross, Anne Tatnall.
Sweelinck's Secular Vocal Music in Its Cultural Milieu: Stylistic and Repertorial Problems Seen in the Light of the Printed Anthologies, such as the Livre septieme.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1998

Harkins, Elizabeth Remsberg.
The Chamber Music of Camille Saint-Sa‘ns.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1976

Harwood, Gregory W.
The Genesis of Robert Schumann's Liturgical Works and a Study of Compositional Process in the Requiem, Op. 148.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1991

Hathaway, Janet
Cloister, Court and City: Musical Activity of the Monasterio de las Descalzas Reales (Madrid), ca. 1620-1700.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 2005

Hill, George Robert.
The Concert Symphonies of Florian Leopold Gassmann.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1975

Hoag, Barbara Brewster.
The Performance Practice of Iberian Keyboard Music of the Seventeenth Century.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1980

Hornick, Andrew Michael.
Ensemble and Solo Works of Ignaz Pleyel Originally Composed for Keyboard: A Style-Analytic Review.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1987

Ilnitchi, Gabriela.
Aribo's De musica: Music Theory in the Cross-Current of Medieval Learning.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1997

Iitti, Sanna.
The Feminine in German Song, 1830-1890.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 2003

Izzo, Francesco.
Laughter between Two Revolutions: Verdi's Un giorno di regno and Comic Opera in Italy, 1830-1848.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 2003

Jacobs, Charles.
The Performance Practice of Spanish Renaissance Keyboard Music.
Ph.D., Music, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1962

Jaffee, Kay.
The Medea in French Lyric Theatre of the 17th and 18th Centuries.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 2001

Jensen, Luke Stephen.
Giuseppe Verdi and the Milanese Publishers of His Music from Oberto to La Traviata.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1987

Jimenez-Ramirez, Talía
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 2006

Jones, George Morton.
The First Chansonnier of the Biblioteca Riccardiana, Codex 2794: A Study in the Method of Editing 15th-Century Music.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1972

Karp, Theodore.
The Works of the Ch‰telain de Coucy: An Analytical Study.
Ph.D., Music, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1969

Kaufman, Charles Howard.
Music in New Jersey, 1655-1860: A Study of Musical Activity and Musicians in New Jersey from Its First Settlement to the Civil War.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1974

Kendrick, Robert.
"Le Sirene Celesti": Generations, Genres and Gender in Seicento Milanese Convent Music.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1993

Kligman, Mark Loren.
On the Process of Creating Prayers: Fixity and Flexibility in the Sabbath Morning Liturgical Music of Syrian Jews in Brooklyn, New York.
Ph.D., Ethnomusicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1997

Kmetz, John Joseph.
The Sixteenth-Century Basel Songbooks: A Source-critical and Archival Study.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1988

Kravitt, Edward F.
The Late Romantic Lied: Performance, Literary Approach, and the Naturalist Movement.
Ph.D., Music, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1960

KŸgle, Karl.
The Manuscript Ivrea, Biblioteca Capitolare 115: Studies in the Transmission and Composition of Ars nova Polyphony.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1993

Lawry, Eleanor McChesney.
The Psalm Motets of Claude Goudimel.
Ph.D., Music, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1954

Ledbetter, Steven John.
Luca Marenzio: New Biographical Findings.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1971

Libin, Kathryn Shanks.
The Emergence of an Idiomatic Fortepiano Style in the Keyboard Concertos of Mozart.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1998

Litterick, Louise.
The Manuscript Royal 20.A.XVI of the British Library.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1976

Lubin, Steven.
Techniques for the Analysis of Development in Middle Period Beethoven.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1974

Lyder, PŽguy S.
The Latin Sacred Music of Peter Phillips.
Ph.D., Music, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1955

Lynch, Robert Donald.
Opera in Hamburg, 1718-1738: A Study of the Libretto and Musical Style.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1979

Macmillan, John Buchanan.
The Calvinistic Psalmody of Claude Le Jeune.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1966

Main, Alexander.
Costanzo Festa: The Masses and Motets.
Ph.D., Music, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1960

Malyshko, Olga Elizabeth.
The Conductus in England.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1988

Marshall, George Ruffin.
The Harmonic Laws in the Madrigals of Carlo Gesualdo.
Ph.D., Music, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1956

McCabe, Maryann.
Gender and Socio-Musical Process: Mabel Wheeler Daniels (1878-1971) and the Institutionalization of American Compositional Style.
Ph.D., Ethnomusicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1999

McMullin, David
Ph.D., Composotion, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 2006
McQuaide, Rosalie.
The Crozat Concerts, 1720-1727: A Study of Concert Life in Paris.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1978

Moehn, Frederick.
Mixing MPB: Cannibals and Cosmopolitans in Brazilian Popular Music.
Ph.D., Ethnomusicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 2001

Monson, Ingrid Tolia.
Musical Interaction in Modern Jazz: An Ethnomusicological Perspective.
Ph.D., Ethnomusicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1991

Morin, Joseph.
The Genesis of Manuscript Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, Fonds français 146, With Particular Emphasis on the Roman de Fauvel.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1992

Mueller, Rena Charnin.
Liszt's Tasso Sketchbook: Studies in Sources and Revisions.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1986

Muller, Carol.
Ama Nazaretha Women Sing to God: An Analysis of the Articulation of a Women's Musical Language in a South African Indigenous Church.
Ph.D., Ethnomusicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1994

N‡das, John L.
French Elements in Trecento Musical Practice: A Cross-Cultural Study with Particular Emphasis on Ms. Fn26 and Its Readings.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1984

Ness, Arthur.
The Herwarth Lute Manuscripts at the Bavarian State Library, Munich. A Bibliographical Study with Emphasis on the Works of Marco dall'Aquila and Melchior Newsidler.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1984

Onderdonk, Julian Holmes.
Vaughan Williams and the English Pastoral.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1998

Pajerski, Fred Mitchell.
Marco Uccellini (1610-1680) and His Music.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1979

Pearl, Mildred.
The Suite in Relation to Baroque Style.
Ph.D., Music, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1957

Pearsall, Eileen S.
The Secular Musical Establishment of the Early Tudors: An Archival Study.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1986

Perle, George.
Serial Composition and Atonality.
Ph.D., Music, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1956

Perry, Mary D.
Dissonance Treatment in Schumann's Solo Piano Music.
Ph.D., Music, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1991

Petersen, Barbara Ellingson.
"Ton und Wort": The Lieder of Richard Strauss.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1977

Phillips, Nancy Catherine.
Musica and scolica enchiriadis: The Sources, Musical, Literary, and Theoretical.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1984

Pritchett, James.
The Development of Chance Notation in the Music of Cage, Brown, and Feldman.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1987

Richardson, Dana.
Dallapiccola's Formal Architecture.
Ph.D., Composition, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 2001

Roesner, Edward H.
The Manuscript WolfenbŸttel, Herzog-August Bibliothek, 628 Helmstadiensis: A Study of Its Origins and of Its Eleventh Fascicle.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1974

Roesner, Linda Correll.
Studies in Schumann Manuscripts: With Particular Reference to Sources Transmitting Instrumental Works in the Large Forms.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1973

Rosand, Ellen.
Aria in the Early Operas of Francesco Cavalli.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1971 

Rosenberg, Jesse.
The Experimental Music of Pietro Raimondi.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1996

Runowicz, John
Ph.D., Ethnomusicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 2006

Schavran, Henrietta.
The Manuscript Pavia, Biblioteca Universitaria, Codice Aldini 362: A Study of Song Tradition in Italy Circa 1440-1480.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1978

Schmidt, John C.
The Life and Works of John Knowles Paine .
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1979

Schuetze, George C. Jr.
The Works of Guillaume Faugues.
Ph.D., Music, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1960

Schwartz, Charles M.
The Life and Orchestral Works of George Gershwin.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1969

Schwartz, Judith Leah.
Phrase Morphology in the Early Classic Symphony (ca. 1720-ca. 1765).
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1973

Shamgar, Beth Friedman.
The Retransition in the Piano Sonatas of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1978

Shine, Josephine M.
The Motets of Jean Mouton.
Ph.D., Music, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1953

Sine, Nadine.
Tonality and Structure in Gustav Mahler's First, Third, and Fifth Symphonies.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1984

Southern, Eileen J.
The Buxheim Organ Book.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1961

Spector, Irwin.
Robert White, Composer: Between Two Eras.
Ph.D., Music, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1952

Steinberg, Lester.
The Piano Trios of Joseph Haydn: Analysis of Style in
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1976

Steinhardt, Milton.
Jacobus Vaet and His Motets.
Ph.D., Music, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1950

Suttoni, Charles R.
Piano and Opera: A Study of the Piano Fantasies Written on Opera Themes in the Romantic Era.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1973

Tanenbaum, Faun.
The Partbook Collections from the Ospedale della Pietˆ and the Sacred Music of Giovanni Porta.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1993

Thompson, James C.
The Works of Caron: A Study in Fifteenth-Century Style.
Ph.D., Music, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1959

Thurston, Ethel H.
The conductus Compositions in Manuscript WolfenbŸttel 1206.
Ph.D., Music, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1954

Trivers, Juliana B.
Directed Motion in Stravinsky's Mass.
Ph.D., Music, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 2004

van Epenhuysen Rose, Maria
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 2006

Vassiliades, Evangeline.
Overture and Symphony in Eighteenth-Century Russia.
Ph.D., Music, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1977

Wade, Rachel W.
The Keyboard Concertos of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Sources and Style.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1979

Ward, John M.
The vihuela de mano and Its Literature (1536-1576).
Ph.D., Music, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1953

Warner, Thomas Everett
Indications of Performance Practice in Woodwind Instruction Books of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1964

Weiss, Sarah
Gender and Gender: An Analysis of Female Roles and Musical Performance in Central Java.
Ph.D., Ethnomusicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1998

Wexler, Richard
The Complete Works of Johannes Prioris.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1974

Wolf, Eugene K.
The Symphonies of Johann Stamitz: Authenticity, Chronology, and Style.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1972

Wright, Josephine R. B.
The Secular Cantatas of Francesco Mancini: 1672-1736.
Ph.D., Music, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1975

Wythe, Deborah
Conrad Graf (1782-1851), Imperial Royal Court Fortepiano Maker in Vienna.
Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1990 Sonata-Form Movements.





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