• Dave Brubeck and White Middlebrow: A case study of Time Out 

  Kashfi Yeganeh, Babak (2023-01-03)

  My thesis investigates the tension between popular appeal and critical failure in Brubeck’s most flourishing years – during the ‘50s and early ‘60s – through the notion of “middlebrow” music. Middlebrow is a term originally ...
• Aspects of cyclical structure in Schubert's "Schwanengesang" 

  Reintjes, Mikki (2022-10-26)

  Schubert's Schwanengesang has never been understood as a song cycle in the same way as Die Schone Mullerin and Winterreise. Lacking a cogent narrative structure or unity of musical style, Schwanengesang has traditionally ...
• Dreaming up a Main Character: Persona and Vocal Agency in Debussy’s “De rêve” 

  Hayes, Alana Ruth (2022-09-01)

  This thesis stems from a performance I gave of Claude Debussy’s song cycle Proses lyriques in March 2020, and from the particular difficulties I encountered during the preparation process. In most art song, it is not ...
• Jazz music: the technological mediation of an aural tradition 

  Jarvis, Brent (2021-09-28)

  Jazz music is transmitted by aural and oral means. As recording and broadcast mediums became increasingly ubiquitous, starting in the mid twentieth-century, an ever greater proportion of jazz’s aural transmission would be ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• "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 ...
• The piano music of Jean Coulthard 

  Colton, Glenn David (2018-08-01)

  “The Piano Music of Jean Coultthard” provides a musicological assessment of keyboard literature by one of the leading composers in the history of Canadian music. Coulthard's piano works are discussed from aesthetic, ...
• An investigation of periodicity in music, with reference to three twentieth-century compositions: Bartok's Music for trings, percussion & celesta, Lutoslawski's Concerto for orchestra, Ligeti's Chamber concerto 

  Mountain, Rosemary (2018-07-10)

  An investigation into the nature and functions of periodicity is presented through analysis and discussion. Periodicity is established by the repetition of any musical event at regular intervals in time. The three works ...
• "The time gives it proofe": paradox in the late music of Beethoven 

  Imeson, Sylvia Maureen (2018-07-06)

  It is a given that the late works of Beethoven occupy a special place in our musical life; that they continue to speak so directly to audiences more than a century and a half after they were written says much for the ...
• The orchestral music of Jean Coulthard: a critical assessment 

  Duke, David (2018-07-05)

  During a long and distinguished career, the Canadian composer Jean Coulthard (b. 1908) has become widely recognized for her many works for voice, keyboard, choir and chamber ensembles. Until recently, however, her large ...
• Tooters and tutors: flute performance practice derived from pedagogical treatises of the Paris Conservatoire, 1838-1927 

  Byrne, Mary Catherine Jett (2018-07-05)

  Throughout the two hundred years of the Paris Conservatoire, the Professors of Flute have carefully documented their philosophies in numerous large-scale, comprehensive treatises. Building on the biographical and historical ...
• Explicatio Textus or Dramma per Musica?: the function of the church cantatas by Georg Friedrich Kauffmann 

  Janson, Peter (2018-06-28)

  Georg Friedrich Kauffmann (1679-1735), a contemporary of J. S. Bach, was a prolific composer who wrote about 150 organ chorales, a theoretical treatise, an Ascension Oratorio, and a great number of church cantatas. Most ...
• Non-invasive gesture sensing, physical modeling, machine learning and acoustic actuation for pitched percussion 

  Trail, Shawn (2018-05-07)

  This thesis explores the design and development of digitally extended, electro- acoustic (EA) pitched percussion instruments, and their use in novel, multi-media performance contexts. The proposed techniques address the ...

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