Music ETDs
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Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Building Community Through Learning Traditional Irish Music, Laura Olson
Composition portfolio, Axel Norman Velazquez Retif Altmann
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
"Azat, Ankakh, Artsakh": Music, Memory, and the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War, Sasha Linn Arteaga
Composition Portfolio, Gabriel I. Gonzales
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
'Ahora estamos más unidos': Claiming Resilience in the Musical and Visual Aftermath of the El Paso Mass Shooting, Eduardo Garcia
COMPOSITION PORTFOLIO, Jose E. Orea Dominguez
Composition Portfolio, Sourena Sefati
A THEORY OF TEXT SETTING CONTOUR: A PROPOSED THEORY THAT PLACES TEXT AT THE STRUCTURAL FOREGROUND OF THE ANALYSIS OF VOCAL MUSIC, Grace K. Weaver
Jesus Woodlą́ą́jí Sin: Sounding a Self-Determined Navajo Christian Church, Renata Yazzie
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Composition Portfolio, Joshua A. Aguiar
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Composition Portfolio, Levi Raleigh Brown
Mindfulness, Flow and Self-Care for Double Bass Musicians, Samuel R. Brown
Sounding the Nile: River Politics, Environment and Nubian Musical Expression, Regan L. Homeyer
THE METAMORPHOSIS OF MARCHING BAND: A CASE STUDY EXPLORING THE EVOLUTION OF MARCHING BANDS FROM A SPECIFIC STATE IN THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES, Addison Murphree
Musical Wonder and Awe in Narnia: Comparing Two Related Emotions, Laura Steiner
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
NPR'S TINY DESK CONCERT SERIES: VOCALITIES OF OUTRAGE AND ACTS OF GAIETY, Aubrie M. Powell
Freirean Pedagogy in Music Education, Tyler Slamkowski
A New Theory of Musical Semiosis, Matthew Stanley
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Selected Works of Steven Matthew Gomez (Diaz) 2015-2018, Steven M. Gomez
Characteristics of High Achieving High School Band Programs in Low Socioeconomic Settings, Steven W. Iliff
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Mixing In Too Much Jewish: American Klezmorim in New York City from 1950-1970, Clara Byom
Indeterminacy as Social Practice in Contemporary Art Music, Lauren V. Coons
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Chant and Transformation: The Benedictine Monks of Christ in the Desert Monastery, Amy Suzanne Gillespie
Composition Portfolio, Thomas McVeety
Selected Musical Works from 2013 - 2016, Christian M. Newman
Modeling Compositional Grammars in Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story (1957), Thomas William Posen
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
RECONSIDERING FIBICH’S ŠÁRKA: MYTH, GENDER, AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NATION, Barbora Gregusova
THE EDGE-MAN OF BAYREUTH: RICHARD WAGNER, LIMINAL SPACE, AND THE POWER OF POTENTIAL, Heidi Lee Jensen
One of the Guys: The Experiences of Three Women Conductors in Collegiate Band Programs, Courtney Jones
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Micah J. Hood - Selected Musical Works from 2011-2013, Micah Hood
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Salvation Triptych, Jeremy Bakken
Composition Portfolio, Jonah Elrod
Part I: Composition Portfolio ; Part II: The Integration of Free-Improvisation in the College Music Curriculum, Andrew Saletta
CULTIVATION OF PERSONALITY:I. FESTER, II. INVICTUS, III. STRING THEORY, IV. THIS TOO, SHALL PASS, Issac Trujillo
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Cave Paintings By Firelight, Michael Amend
A Comprehensive Approach to Teaching the Blues in the Music Classroom, James Balagurchik
Prélude, Christopher Bayley
More: for Solo Violin and Orchestra, Jessica L. Harvey
From Ear to Foot: How Intuitive Choreographers Interpret Music., Sabine Wilden
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
On a Rose of Coals: Scherzo and Variations for String Quartet, Robert Rothschild
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Life: Blood. Water. Seeds. Water. Oxygen., Zack Kear
Use Your Words: For Clarinet and Chamber Orchestra, James Shields
Theses/Dissertations from 1979
An Analysis Of The Use Of Parody In Hervé's Le Petit Faust, Sally J. Bissell
Weinen, Hagen [i.e. Klagen] Organ Transcription by Franz Liszt Arranged for Band, Richard Wayne Guidry
Theses/Dissertations from 1976
The Manuel Areu Collection Of 19Th Century Zarzuelas, Mary Caroline Montaño
Theses/Dissertations from 1975
Music Listening Guide: A Conceptually Arranged Index of Listening Examples for an Elementary Music Program, Gail R. Springer
Theses/Dissertations from 1974
Otello: Rossini - Verdi, Kathryn Eckart
Theses/Dissertations from 1973
First Symphony for Band, C. William Wach
Theses/Dissertations from 1970
The Development of a Method Book for Teaching Adults Beginning Piano, Carolyn Meier Flora
Theses/Dissertations from 1969
A Social History of Table Music From Ancient Egypt Through the Eighteenth Century, George Calvin Foreman
Utilization of Televised Music Instruction at the Fifth Grade Level in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Kathleen McVicker
Theses/Dissertations from 1968
Impact of a New Budgeting System on a Science Agency, Jeffery Thomas Kite-Powell
The Preclassical Symphony With An Analysis Of Representative Works By Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Michael Thomas Roeder
The Establishment of Guidelines for Standards of Performance by High School Choral Groups, Floyd E. Vasquez
Theses/Dissertations from 1967
A Manual and Checklist for Planning and Construction of Secondary School Music Facilities, Jimmy D. Edmondson
Theses/Dissertations from 1964
A Selective Study of the Music Education Curriculum of the North Central School Systems of Arkansas in Grades Seven Through Twelve, Roosevelt Martin Jr.
Theses/Dissertations from 1963
Musica Alegre: A Mexican Potpourri, Edmundo G. Hernandez
Theses/Dissertations from 1961
Organizing And Teaching A String Program, Dale Eugene Kempter
Six Compositions for Elementary Instrumental Music Classes, Roger Louis Woodle
Theses/Dissertations from 1960
Selecting Students For The Public School Instrumental Music Program, Frank W. Pinkerton
Theses/Dissertations from 1958
Bachata by Gail Kubik Transcribed for Wind Ensemble, Harry Leonard Hansen
Theses/Dissertations from 1957
Theses/Dissertations from 1956
Symphony For Strings and Soprano, Alan McKerrow
Theses/Dissertations from 1954
A Study of Non-Harmonic Nomenclature in Harmony Textbooks Published in the United States Since 1920, Beverly Eakins Feld
Theses/Dissertations from 1949
Moussorgsky and the Melodic Style of Sunless, Donald McRae
