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The Musicology Colloquium and Composers’ Forum feature talks by distinguished scholars and composers.

Past Dissertations


Musicology


Adolphe Adam's Ballet Le Corsaire at the Paris Opéra, 1856-1868: A Source Study (2008)
by Willa Collins
Committee: Rebecca Harris-Warrick (chair), Judith Peraino, James Webster, Marian Smith (Music, University of Oregon)

Dedications and the Reception of the Musical Score, 1785-1850 (2009)
by Emily Green
Committee: James Webster (chair), Annette Richards, David Rosen

Revealing the Heart: The Pop Music Industry in Yangon, Burma
(2009)
by Heather MacLachlan
Committee: Martin Hatch (chair), Steven Pond, Magnus Fiskesjo (Anthropology), Ward Keeler (Anthropology, University of Texas, Austin)

Domesticating the Foreign: Hungarian-Gypsy Music in Vienna at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century (2008)
by Catherine Mayes
Committee: James Webster (chair), David Rosen, Kristin Taavola

The Substance of Style:  How Singing Creates Sound in Lieder Recordings, 1902-1939
(2008)
by Rebecca Plack
Committee: Neal Zaslaw (chair), Rebecca Harris-Warrick, Judith Kellock


Performance Practice


Functions, Forms, and Pedagogical Approaches to the Improvised Nineteenth-Century Piano Prelude (2008)
by Shane Levesque
Committee: David Yearsley (chair), Xak Bjerken, Neal Zaslaw


Composition


Historicity, Technology, and Compositional Process: an Analysis of Ingram Marshall's Dark Waters (2008)
by Stephen Gorbos
Committee: Roberto Sierra (chair), Steven Stucky, Kevin Ernste, Steve Pond

Mieczyslaw Karlowicz and the Symphonic Poem at the Turn of the 20th Century
(2008)
by Norbert Palej
Committee: Steven Stucky (chair), David Rosen, Roberto Sierra

Quilting Time and Memory:  Unsuk Chin's Music
(2009)
by Kay Rhie
Committee: Steven Stucky (chair), Roberto Sierra, Xak Bjerken

Flexible Units:  Short Phrases and Intervallic Cells in the Film Music of Bernard Herrmann (2008)
by Tom Schneller
Committee: Steven Stucky (chair), David Rosen

Mutatis Mutandis
(2009)
by David Weaver
Committee: Steven Stucky (chair), Roberto Sierra, Kevin Ernste

An Analysis of the Second Symphony of Aaron Jay Kernis (2009)
by Wang Xi
Committee: Steven Stucky (chair), Roberto Sierra, Scott Tucker