Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Engaging Students in Learning Music Theory Fundamentals And Preparing for College Level Music Theory, Marissa Aronson
Digital Orchestration in Media Compositions, Jimmy Bartley
So Much (For) Saving Rock and Roll: The Musical DNA of Fall Out Boy, Blake Buehler
Pedal Points: Harmony and the Double-Action Pedal System in Modern Harp Music, McKenna Jennings
MODES IN HEAVY METAL MUSIC, Richard W. Young Jr.
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
EARLY INSTRUMENTS IN 21ST CENTURY COMPOSITION AND AN ORIGINAL COMPOSITION FOR SAXOPHONES AND VIOLS, Jacob Bitinas
Making Malice Musical: Verdi’s Compositional Journey Through the Eyes of Six Villains, Michael Chadwick
Bloom: A 21st Century Mandolin Concerto, Ashley Hoyer
A Score of Voices: Creating and Scoring an Original Film With A cappella Choir, Zachary James Moore
CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT AND REVOLUTION: USE OF LEITMOTIF IN THE FIRST ACTS OF LES MISÉRABLES AND HAMILTON: AN AMERICAN MUSICAL, Mary Katherine Pezzillo
LA FIESTA DEL ESPIRITU SANTO: AN ORIGINAL WORK FOR CHOIR, SOLOISTS, AND SMALL ENSEMBLE INFLUENCED BY THE SANTERIA MUSIC OF THE AFRICAN-DOMINICAN COMMUNITY IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, Rafael Scarfullery
THE RISE OF WAVETABLE SYNTHESIS IN COMMERCIAL MUSIC AND ITS CREATIVE APPLICATIONS, Garrett Norman Scroggs
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Listen to the River: Dolores, Ophelia, and Female Resistance in Opera, Daniel Aaron Barnidge
Escape Beneath: An Original Game Score Inspired by an Analysis of Garry Schyman's Music, Daniel Cooper
Embodied Cognition in the Music Theory and Aural Skills Classrooms, Leslie Thompson
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Grey Areas: Songs of Memory, Imagination, Intellect, and Death for Baritone Voice and Mixed Instrumental Octet, Scott Stephen Hansen
FOUR JAZZ SOLOS: TRANSCRIPTION, ANALYSIS, AND PEDAGOGICAL APPLICATION, Gina Jung
THE ARRANGING TECHNIQUES OF LEON “SMOOTH” EDWARDS AND THEIR APPLICATION TO CALYPSO-STYLED CLASSICAL MUSIC ARRANGEMENTS FOR STEEL ORCHESTRA, Michelle A. Rudder
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Working with Metal: The Stylistic Characteristics of the Swedish Band Meshuggah and an Original Composition Inspired by Their Work, Adam J. Benefield
Rope: An Original Piece for String Orchestra Played Concurrently with Alfred Hitchcock's Film, Douglas William-Solomon Espie
Folk Music of Atlantis: An Exploration of Water as a Sound Source in Music, Lucy Jackson
COMPARING TRADITIONAL AND MODERN TRENDS IN JAZZ IMPROVISATION, Ryan M. Johnson
CREATIVITY AND THE EVOLUTION OF MUSICAL IDEAS: PUTTING THE CREATIVE PRINCIPLES OF AUSTIN KLEON TO WORK, Dustin Schulze
The Performer as Analyst in the Piano Sonata Opus 12 by Jean Sibelius, Jesse Tingle
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Marvin Gaye's What's Going On and the Civil Rights Movement: A History and Analysis, Jacob Barnhill
The Sound of Adventure: Two Original Compositions That Combine Music, Sound Design, and Post-production, Inspired by Outdoor Experiences, Jason K. Gibson
An Analysis of Musicals by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, and an Original Musical, Fly Like an Eagle, Donna Howard
FROM CHOIR TO BAND: ANALYSIS AND APPLICATION OF ADAPTATION TECHNIQUES AS DEMONSTRATED IN WORKS BY WHITACRE, TICHELI, AND JOHNSON, Deshmond D. Johnson
PEDAGOGY OF VIDEO-GAME SCORING FOR COLLEGIATE APPLICATION AND AN ORIGINAL SCORE FOR THE NINTENDO SWITCH TITLE, RENAINE, Mason Lieberman
Eclectic: A Recording Project of Original Crossover Compositions, Chance Moore
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Analysis of Sampling Techniques by J Dilla in Donuts, Zachary Diaz
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Airiños: For Orchestra and Two-Part Women's Choir, and a Biography of The Poet Rosalía de Castro, Scott T. Stobbe
