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

Current Dissertations

see also Current Graduate Students


Musicology


Nietzsche, Debussy, and the Shadow of Wagner (working title)
by Tekla Babyak
Committee: Judith Peraino (chair), Annette Richards, David Rosen

Music and National Identity in Nepal
by Steve Curtis
Committee: Martin Hatch (chair), Judith Peraino, Steve Pond, and Kathryn March (Anthropology)

The Nineteenth-Century Reconceptualization of Music and Virtuosity, and Its Impact on Music Reception
by Zarko Cvejic
Committee: Judith Peraino (chair), James Webster, Amy Villarejo (Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies)

Theoretical Approaches to Musical Prosody in the Eighteenth Century (working title)
by Martin Küster
Committee: James Webster (chair), David Yearsley, Annette Richards

Bordering on Desire: Music, Lesbian Migration, and Contemporary Independent Film
by Rachel Lewis
Committee: Steven Pond (chair), Rebecca Harris-Warrick, Amy Villarejo (Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies)

Moving Statues: The Rise and Fall of Pygmalion 1770-1820 (working title)
by Ellen Lockhart
Committee: Annette Richards (chair), Rebecca Harris-Warrick, David Rosen, James Webster

A History of the Partsong in Germany, ca. 1750-1820
by Balázs Mikusi
Committee: James Webster (chair), David Rosen, Neal Zaslaw

Heightened Speech and the Problem of Female Agency in Three Rossini Operas
by Gary Moulsdale
Committee: Neal Zaslaw (chair), Rebecca Harris-Warrick, David Rosen, Arthur Groos


Performance Practice


Francesco Cavalli, Elena:  A Critical Edition
by Kristin Kane
Committee: Rebecca Harris-Warrick (chair), David Rosen, James Webster, Scott Tucker

Balance and Texture in the Keyboard and Violin Sonatas of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
by Frédéric Lacroix
Committee: Malcolm Bilson (chair), Neal Zaslaw, David Yearsley

Himself in Flames:  C. P. E. Bach and Eighteenth-Century Theories of the
Emotions

by John Rowehl
Committee: Annette Richards (chair), Scott Tucker, Judith Kellock


Composition


Utilizing OpenMusic as a Tool for the Analysis of Lutoslawski's Music
by Mandy Fang
Committee: Steven Stucky (chair), Roberto Sierra, Xak Bjerken, Mikhail Malt (IRCAM Paris)

The Interaction of Rhythmic Strata in Music without Meter
by Chris Gendall
Committee: Roberto Sierra (chair), Steven Stucky

Harmony and Syntax in the Music of Henri Dutilleux
by Sean Shepherd
Committee: Steven Stucky (chair), Roberto Sierra, Chris Kim

A Computational Approach to Pattern Deformation in Music Analysis (working title)
by Spencer Topel
Committee: Steven Stucky (chair), Roberto Sierra, Kevin Ernste, Carol Krumhansl (Psychology)