Music ETDs
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Theses/Dissertations from 2023
"Azat, Ankakh, Artsakh": Music, Memory, and the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War, Sasha Linn Arteaga
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
Theses/Dissertations from 1974
Otello: Rossini - Verdi, Kathryn Eckart
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
Theses/Dissertations from 1967
A Manual and Checklist for Planning and Construction of Secondary School Music Facilities, Jimmy D. Edmondson
Theses/Dissertations from 1963
Musica Alegre: A Mexican Potpourri, Edmundo G. Hernandez
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
