• The merchant's moral eye: money, merchants, and the visualization of morality in Trecento Italy 

  Pollick, Brian A. (2021-06-22)

  My dissertation is a study of how merchants in Trecento Italy used the imagery they commissioned as a form of moral self-representation and as a practical tool in their pursuit of eternal life in heaven. The study is ...
• Wycliffite music: theological and aesthetical critiques of compositional practices within the Wycliffite movement 

  Foss, Kieran Alexander (2021-05-04)

  In his article “The vision of music in a Lollard florilegium: Cantus in the Middle English Rosarium theologie,” Bruce W. Holsinger acknowledges the need for musicological attention to be given to the fourteenth- century ...
• Interrogating the dead: re-assessing the cultural identities of the Samma Dynasty (1351-1522) at the necropolis of Makli, Sindh (Pakistan) 

  Akhtar, Munazzah (2021-01-12)

  During the preliminary phase of analytical discourse on South Asia’s medieval history, the scholarship rigidly demarcated the material cultures of the pre-Islamic societies from those of the Muslim communities that were ...
• Phonetic journey: sound in singable translations 

  Basu, Kyron (2020-08-31)

  Singable translations have a long history as a tool to broaden the reach of foreign language music to new audiences. Current translation theory prioritizes the transfer of poetic meaning and structure. I argue that the ...
• Elusive quartet, Imaginary Songs: understanding and experiencing the music of Morton Feldman and Helge Sten 

  Miskey, Nicholas W. (2020-08-27)

  Many commentators experience difficulties describing and analyzing Morton Feldman's String Quartet no. 2 (1983), implying that the quartet eludes stable ascriptions of meaning. Feldman's own philosophy frames these ...
• You're doing what?! At your age?! Intergenerational, community-based theatre to address social stigma of sexuality across the life course 

  Tidey, Leah (2020-05-06)

  Social stigma about sexuality across the life course is pervasive and deeply rooted in “Anglophone West” and patriarchal society that strives to police the sexuality of youth and older adults in diverse yet interconnected ...
• A re-consideration of participation and ethics in applied theatre projects with internally displaced and internationally displaced persons in Africa and beyond 

  Afolabi, Taiwo (2020-04-27)

  This research started as a quest to understand better the ethics of doing Theatre for Development/Applied Theatre with under-served, marginalized and vulnerable populations especially in post-conflict zones in the Global ...
• The perfect storm of seduction: Investigating tactical femininity in Bizet's Carmen 

  Kazdan, Alanna (2020-02-03)

  Premiered in France in 1875, Georges Bizet’s opera Carmen (with libretto by Henri Meilhax and Ludovic Halévy, based on a novella by Prosper Mérimée) provided audiences with a main character who is not only aware of her ...
• Contemporary independent Theatre for Young Audiences (TYA) in Córdoba, Argentina 2001-2016: documenting a community of practice 

  Bessey, Kate (2019-12-19)

  My premise in this dissertation is that the tradition of independent theatre for young audiences created in Córdoba, Argentina is a worthy community of practice for Applied Theatre study. To provide the much needed ...
• The Wildflowers Around Victoria Painted on Silk 

  Duer, Elizabeth Yeend; Butler-Palmer, Carolyn (ed) (2019-11-24)

  Elizabeth Yeend Duer (1889–1951) was born in Nagasaki, Japan. Her father was an Englishman, Yeend Duer (1846–1921) and her mother a Japanese woman, Yasu Tsunekawa (née Zama, 1859–1936). Elizabeth grew up knowing much about ...
• Undergraduate lighting design curriculum and pedagogy in Canada 

  Carolan, Claire (2019-10-10)

  The purpose of this research is to review the past and present pedagogy and curricula of theatre lighting design in Canada; the factors, values, ideas and theories that inform it; and to recommend an updated pedagogy and ...
• A promise kept: the mystical reach through loss 

  Collins, Jody (2019-10-04)

  The meaning of loss is love. I know this through attention to experience. Whether loss or love is experienced in abundance or in absence, the meaning is mystical with an opening of body, mind, heart and soul to spirit. And ...
• The Toronto New Wave, post-anarchist cinema theory, and the progressive apocalypse 

  Christopher, David (2019-09-06)

  A group of Canadian films emerged in the 1980s and 1990s that has come to be known as the “Toronto New Wave” (TNW). Most scholarship regarding this “wave” considers the films usually identified with it not as an ideologically ...
• A dialogue between friends and foes: transcultural interactions in Ilkhanid capital cities (1256-1335 AD) 

  Hatef Naiemi, Atri (2019-09-03)

  The period following the Mongol conquest of vast areas of Eurasia in the thirteenth century, the so-called Pax Mongolica, witnessed the emergence of a new visual language in Persian art and architecture. Various Islamic ...
• Music expert-novice differences in speech perception 

  Vassallo, Juan Sebastian (2019-08-22)

  It has been demonstrated that early, formal and extensive musical training induces changes both at the structural and functional levels in the brain. Previous evidence suggests that musicians are particularly skilled in ...
• Reflections of a past era: the photography collection of Ernest William Albert Crocker l 908-1946 

  Peel, Ellen Louise (2019-06-26)

  There are many archival photography collections that are forgotten or ignored because of their lack of accompanying written documentation. Despite this, these collections have tremendous value which can be discovered ...
• "Style is national": defining Englishness in the music of the second generation of the English Musical Renaissance 

  Kempenaar, Christina (2019-05-24)

  Members of the second generation of the English Musical Renaissance have long been associated with a break from the Teutonic influence of their predecessors to create a musical idiom that is quintessentially English. ...
• The use of logic and rhetoric in Handel’s selection and adaptation of source material 

  Szeker-Madden, Maria Anne Lisa (2018-11-05)

  The issues surrounding Handel's borrowing practices have been the subject of much debate over the last three centuries. Unfortunately, the field is rife with contradictions, speculation, and theories that have only a limited ...
• Haydn's last heroine: Hanne, The Seasons, and Sentimental Opera 

  Roussin, Rena Marie (2018-08-31)

  Joseph Haydn’s final oratorio, The Seasons (1801), has consistently been neglected in performance and scholarship, particularly when compared to its earlier, more successful counterpart, The Creation (1798). A number of ...
• Beethoven’s Op. 28 piano sonata: the pastoral and the enlightenment 

  Anderson, Dustin (2018-08-29)

  This thesis examines Beethoven’s Op. 28 Pastoral Sonata as a musical work that is dominated by the pastoral topic, and, through its use of this topic, refers to certain ideals of the Enlightenment. The first chapter ...

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