Composition
“Comme c'est étrange cette musique” (this music is so strange): Claude Vivier's Paris works (1982-1983)
by Amit Gilutz
Committee: Kevin Ernste (chair), Steven Stucky, Fabien Lévy, Xak Bjerken
Musicology
Singing Through the Screen: “Indian Idol” and the Crafting of Selves in Neoliberal India
by Anaar Desai-Stephens
Committee: Steven Pond (chair), Durba Ghosh, Alejandro Madrid, Amanda Weidman
Musical Intentionality: Between Objects and Meaning
by Mike Cheng-Yu Lee
Committee: James Webster (chair), Steven Rings (University of Chicago), Malcolm Bilson, Steven Stucky
Recording Studios on Tour: The Expeditions of the Victor Talking Machine Company through Latin America during the Acoustic Era
by Sergio Ospina-Romero
Committee:
"Keyboarding Song: Luis Venegas de Henestrosa’s 'Libro de Cifra Nueva' (1557) and the mediation of sound in Early Modern Spain"
by Carlos Roberto Ramirez
Committee: Neal Zaslaw; Judith Peraino (chair), Annette Richards, Andrew Hicks
From the Underworld to the Opéra: Representations of the Devil on the Parisian Musical Stage, 1827–69
by Mia Tootill
Committee: Roger Moseley (chair), Rebecca Harris-Warrick, Annette Richards
Performance Practice
Cantabile vs. Sonabile: The Difference between Singing and Playing
by Blaise Bryski
Committee: Malcolm Bilson (chair), John Hsu, Neal Zaslaw
Tempo Fluctuations in the Performance of Joseph Haydn's Keyboard Sonata in F Major, Hob. XVI: 29
by Lars Haugbro
Committee: Malcolm Bilson (chair), Annette Richards, David Yearsley
Francesco Cavalli's Elena (1659): A Study and 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 Frederic Lacroix
Committee: Malcolm Bilson (chair), Neal Zaslaw, David Yearsley
Michel Corrette's Méthodes pour apprendre à jouer de la contre-basse à 3, à 4, et à 5 cordes, de la quinte ou alto et de la viole d'Orphée: A New Translation with Commentary
by Heather Lardin
Committee: John Hsu (chair), James Webster, Neal Zaslaw
Functions, Forms, and Pedagogical Approaches to the Improvised Nineteenth-Century Piano Prelude
by Shane Levesque
Committee: David Yearsley (chair), Xak Bjerken, Neal Zaslaw
Mechanical Virtuosity at the Turn of the 19th Century: Towards the Definition of a Genre
by Stefania Neonato
Committee: Malcolm Bilson (chair), David Yearsley, Neal Zaslaw
Performing Ecstasy: Out of Boundaries with Choral Singing
by John Rowehl
Committee: Rebecca Harris-Warrick (chair), Martin Hatch, Steven Pond, Scott Tucker
Fear of flexibility tempo rubato in Robert Schumann's piano works
by Sezi Seskir
Committee: Malcolm Bilson (chair), David Yearsley, Neal Zaslaw
Nietzsche, Debussy, and the Shadow of Wagner (working title)
by Tekla Babyak
Committee: Judith Peraino (chair), Annette Richards, David Rosen
Aesthetic Fusions: British Asian Music and Diaspora Culture
by Nilanjana Bhattacharjya
Committee: Judith Peraino (chair), Martin Hatch, Steven Pond
Haydn's Dramatic Dissonances: Chromaticism and the Development Process in His String Quartets, Opp. 9 and 17
by Adem Merter Birson
Committee: James Webster (chair), Ziad Fahmy, Roger Moseley
Berlioz and the Culture of the Fantastic: Imagination, Monstrosity, and the Grotesque in French Romanticism
by Francesca Brittan
Committee: Neal Zaslaw (chair), Annette Richards, James Webster
Modern Jazz Trumpet Solos as Spontaneous Compositions: Transcription, Analysis, Synthesis, Exegesis
by Charles Cacioppo
Committee: Steven Stucky (chair), Kevin Ernste, Steven Pond
Opera as spectacle: verbal traces of the visual in nineteenth-century stage manuals
by Alessandra Campana
Committee:
Adolphe Adam's Ballet Le Corsaire at the Paris Opéra, 1856-1868: A Source Study
by Willa Collins
Committee: Rebecca Harris-Warrick (chair), Judith Peraino, James Webster, Marian Smith (Music, University of Oregon)
The Sacred Cantatas of Christoph Graupner: Music at the Intersection of Opera and Theology
by Evan Cortens
Committee: David Yearsley (chair), Annette Richards, Neal Zaslaw
The Virtuoso Under Subjection: How German Idealism Shaped The Critical Reception Of Instrumental Virtuosity In Europe, C. 1815
by Zarko Cvejic
Committee: Judith Peraino (chair), James Webster, Amy Villarejo (Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies)
The Idea of Timbre in the Age of Haydn
by Emily Dolan
Committee: Neal Zaslaw (chair), Annette Richards, James Webster, Richard Leppert (Humanities, University of Minnesota)
The Concept of New Complexity: Notation, Interpretation and Analysis
by Stuart Duncan
Committee: Steven Stucky (chair), Kevin Ernste, Geri Gay (CIS)
Beethoven's Fourth Symphony: Reception, Aesthetics, Performance History
by Mark Ferraguto
Committee: James Webster (chair), Neal Zaslaw, Annette Richards
New Musical Rhythm: Toward a Reductive Analytical Method for Music Since 1900
by Christopher Gendall
Committee: Roberto Sierra (chair), Steven Pond, Steven Stucky
Historicity, Technology, and Compositional Process: an Analysis of Ingram Marshall's Dark Waters
by Stephen Gorbos
Committee: Roberto Sierra (chair), Steven Stucky, Kevin Ernste, Steve Pond
Three Chamber Music Works (Part I)
by Yotam Haber
Committee:
Survey And Methodology Of Fixed-Register Pitch Fields
by Takuma Itoh
Committee:
Theoretical Approaches to Musical Prosody in the Eighteenth Century
by Martin Küster
Committee: James Webster (chair), David Yearsley, Annette Richards
The Musical Uncanny in Early Nineteenth-Century German Culture
by Amanda Lalonde
Committee: Annette Richards (chair), Arthur Groos Jr., James Webster
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 Stephanie Ellen Lockhart
Committee: Annette Richards (chair), Rebecca Harris-Warrick, David Rosen, James Webster
Revealing the Heart: The Pop Music Industry in Yangon, Burma
by Heather MacLachlan
Committee: Martin Hatch (chair), Steven Pond, Magnus Fiskesjo (Anthropology), Ward Keeler (Anthropology, University of Texas, Austin)
The Concert of Nations: Music, Political Thought, and Diplomacy in Europe, 1600s-1800s
by Damien Mahiet
Committee: Annette Richards (Music, Cornell University) (chair), Isaac Kramnick (Government, Cornell University), James Webster (Music, Cornell University), Richard Leppert (Cultural Studies, University of Minnesota)
Telling Objects, Performing Tales: Chinese Themes, Characters, and Stories in Contemporary Balinese Musical Arts
by Bethany Collier Malone
Committee: Martin Hatch (chair), Steven Pond, Kaja McGowan (Art History)
Utilizing Openmusic as a tool for the Analysis of Lutoslawski's Chain 2
by Fang Man
Committee: Steven Stucky (chair), Roberto Sierra, Xak Bjerken, Mikhail Malt (IRCAM Paris)
Beethoven's "Populist" Works 1808-1815 and the Idea of the "Heroic Style"
by Nicholas Mathew
Committee: Annette Richards, James Webster (chair), David Yearsley, Annette Schwarz
Domesticating the Foreign: Hungarian-Gypsy Music in Vienna at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century
by Catherine Mayes
Committee: James Webster (chair), David Rosen, Kristin Taavola
From Convivial Pastime to Nationalist Propaganda: A History of the Secular Partsong in Germany c1780-c1815
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
Homage in the Music of György Kurtág
by Eric Nathan
Committee: Steven Stucky (chair), Roberto Sierra, Xak Bjerken, Carol Krumhansl
Musical Exchange in Early Southeast Asia: The Philipinnes and Indonesia, ca. 100 to 1600
by Arsenio Nicolas
Committee: Martin Hatch (chair), Erik Tagliocozzo (History), Andrew Willford (Anthropology)
Mieczyslaw Karlowicz and the Symphonic Poem at the Turn of the 20th Century
by Norbert Palej
Committee: Steven Stucky (chair), David Rosen, Roberto Sierra
The Substance of Style: How Singing Creates Sound in Lieder Recordings, 1902-1939
by Rebecca Plack
Committee: Neal Zaslaw (chair), Rebecca Harris-Warrick, Judith Kellock
Opera buffa and the American Revolution
by Pierpaolo Polzonetti
Committee:
Quilting Time and Memory: Unsuk Chin's Music
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
by Tom Schneller
Committee: Steven Stucky (chair), David Rosen, Roberto Sierra
Harmony and Syntax in the Music of Henri Dutilleux
by Sean Benjamin Shepherd
Committee: Steven Stucky (chair), Roberto Sierra, Chris Kim
Anders Hillborg and His Music
by Christopher Stark
Committee: Roberto Sierra (chair), Steven Stucky, Judith Peraino
From Big House to Longhouse: Continuity and Change of the Delaware Skin Dance
by Susan Taffe Reed
Committee: Steven Pond (chair), Steven Pond, Martin Hatch, Troy Richardson
Extensible Spectralism: Revealing Latent Structures in Audio for Composition, Analysis, and Retrieval
by Spencer Topel
Committee: Steven Stucky (chair), Michael Casey (Dartmouth), Kevin Ernste, and Roberto Sierra
Britten's Fixed Triads: Tonal Stasis and Arpeggiation in Three of His Operas
by Zachary Wadsworth
Committee: Steven Stucky (chair),
Mutatis Mutandis
by David Weaver
Committee: Steven Stucky (chair), Roberto Sierra, Kevin Ernste
An Analysis of the Second Symphony of Aaron Jay Kernis
by Wang Xi
Committee: Steven Stucky (chair), Roberto Sierra, Scott Tucker