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Left: An archive of new Bernstein material was launched in 2009 by Professors Oja and Shelemay and colleagues Liza Vick, Luci Mok, Sarah Adams, Therese Condit, Elizabeth Craft, Ryan Banagale. Right: Crosscurrents. American and European Music in Interaction, 1900-2000, where composer Steve Reich was one of the presenters.
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Recent Enrollment (2008-2009)
Undergraduate
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double ("joint") concentrators |
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NEC/Harvard AB/MM program |
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| degree recipients with music as a secondary field |
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non-resident students |
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new students |
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new Ph.D.'s |
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PhD Recipients and their Theses
- Aaron Berkowitz (E) Cognition in Improvisation: the Art and Science of Spontaneous Musical Performance
- Matthew Clayton (E) (March 2009) “M-Base: Envisioning Change for Jazz in the 1980s and Beyond
- Peter Gilbert (C)(November 2008) The bold arch of undreamt bridges assembled compositions
- Jose Luis Hurtado (C) Letargo e Instante for piano soloist and large ensemble
- David Kim (AM) Hairpins and Notation as Metaphor
- Mariam Nazarian (AM) Chopin: In Theory and Practice - A Review and Proposal of Analytical and Pedagogical MethodsNicholas Vines (C) (November 2008) The Hive A Chamber Opera in Seven Tableaux
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AB Recipients in Music 2009
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- Sandra Cameron
Thomas Compton
Anna Graettinger
Daniel Gurney
Eric Lin
Andrew Lowy
Meghan McLoughlin
Matthew Mendez
Michael Schachter
Alex Shiozaki
John Sullivan
AB Recipients in Joint Concentration 2009
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- Matthew Hall (joint with Linguistics)
Katherine Hill (joint with Economics)
John Kapusta (joint with Literature)
Roy Kimmey (joint with History)
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Piano setup for a John Cage performance,
Fromm Festival 2006
2008 Fellowships & Awards (updated 6/25/08)
Graduate Student Awards 2008-09
The Department’s Oscar S. Schafer Award is given to students “who have demonstrated unusual ability and enthusiasm in their teaching of introductory courses, which are designed to lead students to a growing and life-long love of music.” This year’s recipients are David Sullivan and Karola Obermüller. In addition to the Schafer Award Sullivan received a Paine Fellowship for research and travel to make recordings and Obermüller received a Paine Fellowship to work on a composition commission and to attend a workshop production of one of her compositions in Germany.
Richard F. French Prize Fellowships
Ryan Banagale received a French Prize to conduct research on Gershwin in San Francisco and at the
Duke Ellington Archives in Washington, DC.
Sofia Becerra-Licha received a French Prize to conduct field research in Santiago, Chile.
Louis Epstein received a French Prize to conduct research in libraries at Yale, the University of Texas, Austin,
and the New York Public Library.
Ellen Exner received a French Prize and a Morrill Graduate Fellowship to conduct research in Berlin and Rome.
Michael Heller received a French Prize to conduct archival research on Juma Sultan in New York City.
Sheryl Kaskowitz received a French Prize to conduct archival and ethnographic research in New York State and in San Francisco.
Hannah Lewis received a French Prize to study language and interactive media.
Drew Massey received a French Prize to conduct archival research in New York City, at Yale and Cornell
Universities, the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, and in Los Angeles.
Alexandra Monchick received a French Prize to conduct archival research in the Max Brand Archive in Austria.
Micah Wittmer received a French Prize to study French language at Harvard.
Anna Zayaruznaya received a French Prize and a Morrill Graduate Fellowship to conduct research on
manuscripts in the UK, Belgium, Netherlands, France, Switzerland, and Italy.
John Knowles Paine Fellowships
Edgar Barroso received a Paine Fellowship to present a paper in Buenos Aires and to do fieldwork and sonic research in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Jean-Francois Charles received a Paine Fellowship to conduct composition work and develop new compositional tools at the Harvard University Studio for Electroacoustic Composition in Cambridge.
Ashley Fure received a Paine Fellowship to conduct research and analysis for a series of journal articles and to work on new compositions in Michigan and Cambridge, MA.
Bert Van Herck received a Paine Fellowship to work on a composition commission in Cambridge, MA.
Ulrich Kreppein received a Paine Fellowship for composition study in Karlsruhe, Paris, and London, and to attend an orchestra workshop in Stuttgart.
Hannah Lash received a Paine Fellowship for composition work in New York City.
Katherine Lee received a Paine Fellowship to conduct field work in South Korea.
Josiah Oberholtzer received a Paine Fellowship to take a course at Center for New Music, UC Berkeley.
Adam Roberts received a Paine Fellowship to conduct compositional work and to write an article in Cambridge, MA.
Meredith Schweig received a Paine Fellowship for language study and ethnographic research in Taiwan.
Gabriele Vanoni received a Paine Fellowship to study composition in the UK and to meet and work with composers in Europe.
Hillary Zipper received a Paine Fellowship for composing, research, and teaching in Boston, Maine, and at the Eugene O’Neill puppetry conference in Connecticut.
The Harry and Marjorie Ann Slim Memorial Fund
James Blasina received a Slim Memorial Fund award for language study in Germany and Austria.
Chris Chowrimootoo received a Slim Memorial Fund award for archival research in Britten-Pears Library in the United Kingdom.
Petra Gelbart received a Slim Memorial Fund award to conduct archival research in Prague and to conduct ethnographic research among the Vietnamese in the Czech Republic.
Luci Mok received a Slim Memorial Fund award for language study at Harvard Summer School.
Matthias Röder received a Slim Memorial Fund award to conduct dissertation research in Cambridge, MA.
Dominique Schafer received a Slim Memorial Fund award to attend the Bard College Conductor’s Institute program in New York.
David Trippett received a Slim Memorial Fund award to conduct dissertation research in the United Kingdom and in Bayreuth.
Ferdinand Gordon & Elizabeth Hunter Morrill Graduate Fellowships
Davide Ceriani received a Morrill Graduate Fellowship to conduct research in libraries at Princeton, in the Metropolitan Opera archives, and in Rome.
Thomas Lin received a Morrill Graduate Fellowship to attend the Middlebury Italian Language Program.
Evan MacCarthy received a Morrill Graduate Fellowship to support professional development and to conduct research in Italy, Belgium, and Germany.
John McKay received a Morrill Graduate Fellowship for archival research in Rome.
Peter McMurray received a Morrill Graduate Fellowship to support fieldwork, conference attendance, and archival research in Italy and the Western Balkans.
Sasha Siem received a Morrill Graduate Fellowship to conduct research at the International Contemporary Dance Colloquium in Venice and to travel to England to attend a premiere of her work.
Gavin Williams received a Morrill Graduate Fellowship for language study in Italy.
Nino and Lea Pirotta Graduate Research Fund
Andrea Bohlman received a Pirotta Graduate Research Fund award for fieldwork and language study in Poland.
Rowland Moseley received a Pirotta Graduate Research Fund award to conduct archival research and interviews with teachers of counterpoint and fugue in England.
Matthew Mugmon received a Pirotta Graduate Research Fund award to conduct research on Mahler’s music in archives in Minnesota, New York, Washington, DC, and Paris.
University Composition Prizes:
Graduate student Karola Obermüller received the John Green Fellowship for her Im Vorraum for orchestra. This award was established by friends and family of the late John Green ‘28 in support of excellence in musical composition. It is made annually to an undergraduate or graduate student composer.
The George Arthur Knight Prize was awarded to graduate student Tolga Yayalar for his work Requiem pour une terre perdue for ensemble.
Undergraduate Matthew Mendez received the Hugh F. MacColl Prize for his composition Two Serious Songs on texts of William Carolos Wiliams for baritone and orchestra.
Graduate student Sasha Siem received the Adelbert Sprague Prize for her composition Ojos del cielo for large orchestra.
Undergraduate Michael Schachter received the Francis Boott Prize for his composition Oseh Salom Bimromav for SATB choir and strings.
Graduate student Edgar Barroso received a Bohemians Prize for his work Catalyst for viola solo.
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Undergraduate awards:
Daniel Gurney (AB ’09) received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to study street busking in Europe and to meet with local musical figures.
Matthew Hall (AB ’09) received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to research harpsichords in the United Kingdom.
John Kapusta (AB ’09) received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to participate in vocal master classes in France, England, and Germany.
Meghan McLoughlin (AB ’09) received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship for Carnatic vocal study in India.
Matthew Mendez (AB ’09) received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to attend the NEC Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice, and to support compositional study in London.
Michael Schachter (AB ’09) received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to study Carnatic music in India.
Alex Shiozaki (AB ’09) received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to attend a chamber music program in Paris.
Music Students Honored:
Several music graduate students received additional awards and fellowships: Andrea Bohlman received a Fulbright Fellowship, a Fulbright Hays Fellowship, and a Sheldon Fellowship, Louis Epstein received a Georges Lurcy Fellowship, Meredith Schweig received a Fulbright Hays Fellowship and a Fulbright IIE, as well as a grant from the Asian Cultural Council. Michael Heller received Warren Center Fellowship and the Kate Neal Kinley Memorial Fellowship from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Glenda Goodman received a Warren Center Fellowship. Ellen Exner received a Radcliffe Dissertation Completion Fellowship. Lucy Mok received a GSAS Summer Tuition Waiver Fellowship, Sarah Wright received the GSAS Graduate Society Summer Pre-dissertation Fellowship, and Ryan Banagale and Anna Zayaruznaya received GSAS Term-Time Fellowships. GSAS Finishing Grants were awarded to Davide Ceriani, Ellen Exner, Sheryl Kaskowitz, Hannah Lash, Evan MacCarthy, Drew Massey, John McKay, Alexandra Monchick, and Adam Roberts. Marc Gidal received a Divinity School Summer Fellowship and a Whiting Finishing Grant.
Matthew Mendez (09) won a Bowdoin Prize. The Hoopes Prize awardees and their faculty advisors were Michael Schachter (Nick Vines); Roy Kimmey (Alex Rehding); and Matt Hall (Christopher Hasty). John Kapusta (’09) received a Fulbright Fellowship. Jordan Reddout (‘10) was awarded the David Rockefeller International Experience Grant and a grant from the Harvard College Research Program.
Bok Distinguished Teaching Awards for fall 08 went to the following music graduate students and associates: John Hamilton, Michael Heller, Meredith Schweig, Richard Beaudoin, Gabriele Vanoni, Joseph Morgan, Karola Obermueller, Louis Epstein, Frank Lehman, Adam Roberts, and Robert Merfeld
New and Recent PhD Recipients' Activities
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Recent PhD recipients who have gone on to join faculties or administration of colleges or universities include:
- Aaron Allen, University of North Carolina Greensboro
- Karim Al-Zand, Rice University
- Noel Bisson, Harvard University
- David Black, Research Fellow, Homerton College, Cambridge University
- Anthony Brandt, Rice University
- Brigid Cohen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- Judah Cohen, New York University
- Myke Cuthbert, MIT
- Alexander Fisher, University of British Columbia
- Sean Gallagher, Harvard University
- Richard Giarusso, Peabody Conservatory
- Ed Gollin, Williams College
- Alan Gosman, Michigan State University
- Jeannie Guerrero, Eastman School of Music
- Robert Hasegawa, Eastman School of Music
- Jonathan Holland, Berklee College of Music
- Brian Hulse, Christopher Newsport University
- Arni Ingolfsson, Iceland Academy of the Arts
- April James, Harlem School of the Arts
- David Kaminsky, Harvard University (one-year appointment)
- Roe-Min Kok, McGill University
- Jon Kregor, University of Cincinnati
- Jennifer Baker Kotilaine, Oxford University
- Zoe Lang, University of Southern Florida
- Lei Liang,
University of California, San Diego
- Christina Linklater, RISM Cataloger, Loeb Music Library, Harvard University
- Lansing McLoskey, Frost School of Music, University of Miami
- Charles McGuire, Oberlin College
- Kiri Miller, Brown University
- Sarah Morelli, Lamont School of Music, University of Denver
- Ann Morrison Spinney, Boston College
- Christoph Neidhöfer, McGill University
- Matthew Peattie, University of Cincinatti
- Thomas Peattie, Boston University
- Lara Pelligrinelli, University of Richmond
- Julia Randel, Hope College, MI
- Jesse Rodin, Stanford University
- Eliyahu Shoot, Tulane University
- Erik Spangler, Maryland Institute College of Art
- Kurt Stallmann, Rice University
- Benjamin Steege, Stony Brook University
- Andrew Talle, Peabody Conservatory; Johns Hopkins University
- Patricia Tang, MIT
- Ken Ueno, UC Berkeley
- Bettina Varwig, King's College, London
- Nicholas Vines, Harvard University (one year appointment)
- Anton Vishio, NYU Steinhardt
- Richard Whalley, University of Manchester, England
- Jon Wild, McGill University
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PhD Recipients and Dissertations 1956-present
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1956
- Goldthwaite, Scott (M) “Rhythmic patterns and formal symmetry in the fifteenth century chanson”
- Hughes, David G. (M) “A view of the passing of Gothic music: line and counter-point, 1380-1430”
- Moe, Lawrence (M) “Dance music in printed Italian lute tablatures from 1507 to 1611”
1957
- Heartz, Daniel (M) Sources and forms of the French instrumental dance in the sixteenth century
- Velimirovic, Milos (M) The Byzantine elements in early Slavic chant
- Yellin, Victor (M) The life and operatic works of George Whitefield Chadwick
1958
- Downes, Edward (M) The operas of Johann Christian Bach as a reflection of the dominant trends in opera seria 1750-1780
- Keller, Walter (M) The Italian organ hymn from Cavazzoni to Aresti; a study of the interrelation of Roman plainchant and liturgical keyboard music in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
1959
- Brown, Howard (M) The chanson in the French theater of the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries: moralities, farces, sotties and monologues.
- Wicks, John (M) The motets of Pierre de Manchicourt, ca.1510-1564.
1960
- D’Accone, Frank (M) A documentary history of music at the Florentine Cathedral and Baptistry during the fifteenth century.
- Layton, Billy Jim (M) Italian music for the Ordinary of the Mass, 1300-1450
- Pian, Rulan (M) Musical sources of the Sung dynasty (960-1279)
1961
- Haar, James (M) Musica mundana: variations on a Pythagorean theme
- Slim, H. Colin (M) The keyboard ricercar and fantasia in Italy, c.1500-1550, with reference to parallel forms in European lute music of the same period.
1962
- Jander, Owen (M) Alessandro Stradella and his minor dramatic works
1963
- Churgin, Bathia (M) The symphonies of G.B. Sammartini
- Crawford, John (M) The relationship of text and music in the vocal works of Schoenberg, 1908-1924
1964
- Bonta, Stephen (M) The church sonatas of Giovanni Legrenzi
- Chapman, Catherine (M) Andrea Antico
- Waldbauer, Ivan (M) The cittern in the sixteenth century and its music in France and the low countries
1965
- Archibald, Bruce (M) Harmony in the Early Works of Alban Berg
- Berman, Laurence (M) The evolution of tonal thinking in the works of Claude Debussy
- Fuller, David (M) Eighteenth-century French harpsichord music
1966
- Bonvalot, Anthony (M) The round of Shakespeare’s age in England and Scotland: three collectors and their store, 1580-1612
- Gallucci, Joseph (M) Festival music in Florence, ca. 1480--ca. 1520: canti carnascialeschi, trionfi, and related forms
- Kanazawa, Masakata (M) Polyphonic music for vespers in the fifteenth century
- Peterson, Floyd (M) Johann Hermann Schein’s Cymbalum Sinoium: a liturgico-musical study.
1967
1968
- England, Nicholas (M) ) Music among the zu wa-si of South West Africa and Botswana
1969
- Armstrong, James (M) The Vesper psalms and magnificats of Maurizio Cazzati (ca. 1620-1678)
1970
- Schwager, Myron (M) Beethoven’s arrangements: the chamber works
1971
- Planchart, Alejandro (M) The repertory of tropes at Winchester
1972
- Cardamone, Donna Gina (M) The canzone villanesca alla Napolitana : and related Italian vocal part-music: 1537-1570
- Connolly, Thomas Hugh (M) The Old Roman Introits
- Hill, John Walter (M) The life and works of Francesco Maria Veracini.
- Lindgren, Lowell Edwin (M) A bibliographic scrutiny of dramatic works set by Giovanni and his brother Antonio Maria Bononci
- Riesman, Michael De Kay (C) Phases, for electronically modulated pianoforte.
- Troy, Charles Edgar (M) The comic intermezzo in eighteenth-century Italian opera seria.
- Wright, Craig Milton (M) Music at the Court of Burgundy, 1364-1419
1973
- Adams, Frank John (M) The place of the piano concerto in the career of Mozart: Vienna, 1782-86
- Behrens, Jack (C) Accelerando
- Kelly, Thomas Forrest (M) Responsory tropes
- Knibbs, Lester Allyson (C) Libra variations, PSI-1, for winds, strings and percussion
- Kovarik Jr., Edward George (M) Mid fifteenth-century polyphonic elaborations of the plainchant Ordinarium missae
- Schmidt, Carl Brandon (M) The operas of Antonio Cesti
- Sur, Donald Young (C) The sleepwalker’s ballad; an accompanied recitative for soprano and chamber ensemble
1974
- Price, Curtis Alexander (M) Musical practices in Restoration plays, with a catalogue of instrumental music in the plays, 1665-1713.
- Tawa, Nicholas Edward (M) Musical practices in Restoration plays, with a catalogue of instrumental music in the plays, 1665-1713
- Wiley, Roland John (M) Tchaikovsky’s Swan lake: the first productions in Moscow and St. Petersburg
1975
- DeFord, Ruth Irene (M) Ruggiero Giovannelli and the madrigal in Rome, 1572-1599
- Friedmann, Michael Louis (C) Duos; settings of poems by Rimbaud and Celan: for male and female voice, flute, clarinet in B-flat, piano and string trio.
- McGilvra, Douglas Price (C) Violin concerto
- Shapiro, Anne Dhu (M) The Tune-Family Concept in British-American Folk-Song Scholarship
- Vennum, Jr., Thomas (M) Southwestern Ojibwa music
- Youens, Susan Lee (M) Music and religion in the French Reformation and Counter-Reformation
1976
- Burton, David Bryant (C) Nocturnes: 8 songs on poems by W.S. Merwin : for soprano and string trio
- McClary, Susan Kaye (M) The transition from modal to tonal organization in the works of Monteverdi
1977
- Kabakov, Joel (C) El jaleo: dance suite for orchestra
- MacMillan, Alan John (C) Symphony - 1976
- Patterson, David Nolte (C) Chantier: for violin and piano; The celery flute player: for piano; Pied beauty: for voices, tintinnabula and magnetic tape
- Thow, John Holland (C) Winged words : for voice and chamber orchestra
- Yung, Bell (M) The music of Cantonese opera
1978
- Banchs, William Henry (C) Concerto for bass clarinet and piano
- Erb, James Bryan (M) Orlando di Lasso’s first Magnificat publicatio : a contribution to the complete edition, with commentary
- Karchin, Louis Samuel (C) Attuned to the times and Concerto for violin and seven instruments
- St. Clair, Richard Collins (C) Sonata for piano
1979
- Block, Geoffrey Holden (M) The genesis of Beethoven’s piano concertos in C major (op. 15) and B-flat major (op. 19): chronology and compositional process
- Bushnell, Vinson Clair (M) Daniel Read of New Haven (1757-1836): the man and his musical activities
- Davis, John Douglas (C) Token, for voice and orchestra
- Freeman, James (M) Opera production in Palermo, 1809 to 1830 : a theater and a collection of scores
- Greenberg, Gary Joseph (C) Dobeca
- Hepokoski, James Arnold (M) The compositional history of Verdi’s Falstaff : a study of the autograph score and early editions
- Leon, Garby (C) Radiation
- Love, Jacob Wainwright (C) Samoan variations
- Moshell, Gerald (M) Death,non-death, and rebirth in the neo-classical tragedies of Igor Stravinsky
- Provine Jr., Robert C. (M) Chinese ritual music in Korean sacrificial rites : music palingenesis in the early fifteenth century
- Salerni, Paul Frank (C) String quartet
- Sirota, Robert Benson (C) Bontshe the silent: a chamber opera in three scenes
1980
- Cacioppo, Curtis P. (C) Eclogue: symphonic poem for piano
- Gajewski, Fred (C) The work sheets to Chopin’s Violoncello sonata
- Iwatake, Toru (C) Perpetuum mobile: for 16 soloists and Divertimento : for chamber orchestra
- Reichard, Kathryn Louise (M) Aspects of Weimar’s musical life, 1775-1807
- Wissmuller, Jan C. (C) Kassandra: for soprano and 15 players
1981
- Blauvelt, Peter Oliver C. (C) Third piano sonata [op. 28]
- Capwell, Charles (M) Indian street music sound recording: the Bauls of Bengal
- Bridges, Thomas Whitney (M) The publishing of Arcadelt’s first book of madrigals microform
- Lee, Thomas Oboe (C) Phantasia for Elvira Shatayev
- Mukherjee, Nalin T. (C) The quaternity, for large orchestra
- Spilsted, Gary Richard (M) The paleography and musical repertory of Codex Tridentinus 93
1982
- Adams, John (C) Concerto for violin and orchestra
- Cain, Elizabeth Ann (M) English chant tradition in the late Middle Ages: the introits and graduals of the temporale in the Sarum gradual
- Harris, Michael Wesley (M) The advent of gospel blues in black old-line churches in Chicago, 1932-33, as seen through the life and mind of Thomas Andrew Dorsey
- Mauk Jr., Frederick Henry (M) Aspiring to the condition of language : an examination of aesthetic considerations in the application of structural (semiological) principles to musical problems
- Wilson, John Kenneth (M) Selected Eighteenth-Century Settings of Metastasio’s Libretto
1983
- Brief, Todd (C) Cantares: for soprano and large orchestra
- Bourland, Roger (C) Nostos, Three dark paintings, and Scenes from Redon
- Dautricourt, Jean-Pierre (C) Ceremony 2: for orchestra
- Grayson, David Alan (M) The genesis of Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande: a documentary history of the opera, a study of its sources, and "Wagnerian" aspects of its thematic revisions
- Mead Jr., Ernest C. (M) The instrumental ensemble canzonas of Girolamo Frescobaldi
- Myska, David Bernard (C) Ballade: for piano
- Reich, Amy (C) The one turning: [for mezzo-soprano and chamber orchestra]
- Smith, Gregory E. (M)Homer, Gregory, and Bill Evans?: the theory of formulaic composition in the context of jazz piano improvisation
- Swain, Joseph Peter (M) Limits of musical structure
- White, Pamela Cynthia (M) Idea and representation: source-critical and analytical studies of music, text and religious thought in Schoenberg’s Moses und Aron
1984
- Gilliam, Bryan Randolph (M) Richard Strauss’s Daphne microform: opera and symphonic continuity
- MacPherson, William Alan (M) The music of the English country dance, 1651-1728 microform: with indexes of the printed source
- Meadors Jr., James M. (M) Italian lute fantasias and ricercars printed in the second half of the sixteenth century
- Pevsner, Mark (C) Trio: for violin, viola, and piano
1985
- Hamel, Keith Aime (C) Obsessions 2: for string quartet
- Merkley, Paul Alfred (M) Conflicting assignments of antiphons in Italian tonaries
- Saunders Jr., Harris S. (M) The repertoire of a Venetian opera house (1678-1714): the Teatro Grimani di San Giovanni Grisos
1986
- Cave 3rd, Lawrence Harold (M) Purgatory: a chamber opera in one act after Yeats
- Diamond, Joseph Aloysius (M) The tradition of three tropes
- Larson, Keith Austin (M) The unaccompanied madrigal in Naples from 1536 to 1654
- Meconi, Honey (M) Style and authenticity in the secular music of Pierre de la Rue
- Romeo, James Joseph (C) Sextet: for flute, Bb clarinet, bassoon, violin, viola, cello
1987
- Boone, Graeme MacDonald (M) Dufay’s early chansons: chronology and style in the manuscript Oxford, Bodleian Library, Canonici misc. 213
- Hill, Robert S. (M) The Möller manuscript and the Andreas Bach book: two keyboard anthologies from the circle of the young Johann Sebastian Bach
- McKinley, Thomas Lawrence (C) Shadows
- Riggs, Robert Daniels (M) Articulation in Mozart’s and Beethoven’s sonatas for piano and violin: source-critical and analytic studies
- Shattenkirk, Ray (C) The raven variations
- Steinberg, Russell Allen (C) String quartet no. 1
1988
- Bonds, Mark Evan (M) Haydn’s false recapitulations and the perception of sonata form in the eighteenth century
- Braus, Ira Lincoln (M) Textual rhetoric and harmonic anomaly in selected Lieder of Johannes Brahms
- Lam, Joseph Sui Shing (M)Creativity within bounds: state sacrificial songs from the Ming dynasty (1368-1644 A.D.)
- Samuel, Virginia Elizabeth (C) Symphony
- Yourke, Peter Hannon (C) Sheep in fog
1989
- Kyr, Robert Harry (C) The fifth season: (Symphony no. 3)
- Lano, Stephen (C) Sinfonia eikasia
- Littlefield, James Patrick (C) String quartet no. 1
- Melamed, Daniel R. (M) J.S. Bach and the German motet
- Noland, Gary Lloyd (C) String quartet in four movements, op. 12
- Ossi, Massimo Michele (M) Claudio Monteverdi’s concertato technique and its role in the development of his musical thought
- Shreffler, Anne Chatoney (M) Webern’s Trakl settings
- Urquhart, Peter Whitney (M) Canon, partial signatures, and "Musica ficta" in works by Josquin DesPrez and his contemporaries
- Yim, Jay Alan (C) Geometry and delirium: for small chamber orchestra & electronics
1990
- Eldridge, William Kilgore (C) String Quartet
- Marks, Martin Miller (M) " Film Music of the Silent Period 1895-1924"
- Mertz, Margaret Stover (M) "History, Criticism and the Sources to Benjamin Britten's The
Rape of Lucretia"
- Woolf, Randall Benson (C) Chaotic Regime for chamber Orchestra
1991
- Klumpenhouwer, Henry J. (T) "A Generalized Model of Voice-Leading for Atonal Music"
- McGrann, Jeremiah W.R. (M) "Beethoven's Mass in C., Op. 86"
- Nichols, Jeff William (C) Take-Off, for Clarinet doubling Bass Clarinet, Percussion and String Trio
- Panetta Jr., Vincent J. (M) "Hans Leo Hassler and the Keyboard Toccata: Antecedents, Sources, Style"
- Stillman, Amy K. (E) "Himenetahiti: Ethnoscientific and Ethnohistorical Perspectivess on Choral Singing and Protestant Hymnody in the society Islands, French Polynesia"
1992
- Boros, James (C) Bivouac for Reciter and Chamber Ensemble
- Burns, Lori A. (T) "J.S. Bach's Choral Harmonizations of Modal Cantus Firmi"
- Kilroy, David M. (M) "Kurt Weill on Broadway: The Postwar Years (1945-50)"
- Spragg, Deborah T. (C) Face to Face (Ten Sappho Fragments) for Soprano and Five Instruments
- Stadelman, Jeffrey (C) Beatrice for Mezzo-soprano, Bass Clarinet, Violin and Piano
- Wesner, Amanda Z. (M) "The Chansons of Loyset Compere: Authenticity and Stylistic Development"
1993
- Durante, Sergio (M) "Mozart and the Idea of Vera Opera: A Study of La Clemenza Di Tito"
- Kurth, Richard Burton (T) "Mosaic Isomorphism and Mosaic Polyphony: Balance and Imbalance in Schoenberg's Twelve-Tone Rhetoric"
- Wollny, Peter (M) "Studies in the Music of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach: Sources and Style"
1994
- Alexander, Peter (C) Symphony No. 1
- Brandt, Anthony (C) Septet-a-Tete for Flute, Bass Clarinet, Two Percussion, Piano, Violin, and Cello
- Beller-McKenna, Daniel (M) "Brahams, the Bible, and Post-Romanticism: Cultural Issues in Johannes Brahms' Later Settings of Biblical Texts, 1877-1896"
- Leafstedt, Carl (M) "Music and Drama in Bela Bartok's Opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle"
- Neill, Roger (C) Enemy Way Music
1995
- Abdel-Gawad, Riad (C) Taqaseem for Chamber Orchestra
- Amati-Camperi, Alexandra (M) "An Italian Genre in the Hands of a Frenchman: Philippe Verdelot as Madrigalist, with Special Emphasis on the Six-Voice pieces"
- Kalogeras, Alexandros (C) Anax Apollon
- Kozachek, Thomas (M) "The Repertory of Chant for Dedicating Churches in the MIddle Ages: Music, Liturgy, and Ritual"
- Jun Fu Road to Shu
- Stone, Anne (M) "Writing Rhythm in Late Medieval Italy: Notation and Musical Style in the Manuscript Modena Alpha.M.D, 24"
1996
- Abbate, Elizabeth (M) "Myth, Symbol, and Meaning in Mahler's Early Symphonies"
- Andre, Naomi Adele (M) "Azucena, Eboli, and Amneris: Verdi's Writing for Women's Lower Voices"
- Awad, Emil (C) Zazil for Orchestra
- Greer, Mary (M) "The Sacred Duets and Terzets of Johann Sebastian Bach: A Study of Genre and Musical Text Interpretation"
- Gokita, Takehiko (C) Autumn Tear for Orchestra
- Johnson, John A. (M) "Gershwin's 'American Folk Opera': The Genesis, Style, and Reputation of Porgy and Bess (1935)"
- Koto, Takashi (C) The Distant Stars for Orchestra
- Lukes, Roberta (M) "The Poeme electronique of Edgard Varese"
- Rindfleisch, Andrew (C) Fun House
- Risinger, Mark (M) "Handel's Compositional Premises and Procedures: Creative Adaptation and Assimilation in Selected Works, 1733-44"
- Yu, Siu Way (M) "The meaning and Cultural Functions of Non-Chinese Musics in the 18th -Century Manchu Court"
1997
- Ahn, Suhnne (M) "Genre, Style, and Compositional Procedure in Beethoven's 'Kreutzer' Sonta"
- Davis, Mary (M) "Irony, Logic and Form" Sources for the Esprit Galois in the Piano Works of Erik Satie"
- Koczela, Jason (C) Octet
- Krims, Adam (T) "Some Structuralist and Post-Structuralist Models for Music Theory"
- Morrison, Ann (E) "Music That Moves Between Worlds: Wabanaki Music as Tradition and History"
- Sadko, Keith (M)
- Shimizu, Ken (C) Orchestral Work
1998
- Gallagher, Sean (M) "Models of Varietas: Studies in Style and Attribution in the Motets of Johannes Regis and His Contemporaries"
- Kozachek, Laura (M) "The Specialnik Dodex, Hradec Kralove, Krajske Muzeum Knihovna (Regional Museum Library), MS II A7"
- McGuire, Charles (M) "Epic Narration: The Oratorios of Edward Elgar"
- Raul Romero (E) "Debating the Pasts: Music, Identity and Mestijaje in the Central Peruvian Andes"
- Andrew Shenton (M) "The Unspoken Word: Olivier Messiaen's 'Langage Communicable"
- Kathryn Welter (M) "Johann Pachelbel: Organist, Teacher, Composer: A Critical Reexamination of His Life, Work, and Liturgical Significance"
1999
- Kotilaine, Jennifer Baker (M) "Culture Bearers, Culture Brokers: Ratilio and folk Music in Post-Soviet Lithuania"
- Bisson, Noel (M) "English Polyphony for the Virgin Mary: The Votive Antiphon, 1420-1500"
- Horne, David (C) A Friend of the People--Opera in Three Acts with a Prologue
- Hulse, Brian (C) Clarinet Quintet
- Kidger, David (M) "The Masses of Adrian Willaert: A Critical Study"
- Neidhofer, Christoph (T) "An Approach to Interrelating Counterpoint and Serialism in the Music of Igor Stravinsky, Focusing on the Principal Diatonic Works of his Transitional Period"
- Stallmann, Kurt (C) String Quartet #1
- Taddie, David (C) Mutant: for Chamber Orchestra and Electronic Tape
2000
- Al-Zand, Karim (T) "The Improvisational Style of Julian 'Cannonball' Adderley"
- Chen, Jen-yen (M) "The a cappella Style in Viennese Sacred Music of the Later 18th Century"
2001
- Fisher, Alexander (M) "Music in Counter-Reformation Augsburg: Musicians, Rituals and Repertories in a Religiously Divided City"
- Gollin, Edward (T) "Representations of Space and Conceptions of Distance in Transformational Music Theories"
- Gosman, Alan (T) "Compositional Approaches to Tonal Canon"
- Hakenberg, Stefan (C) Oder River Image
- Holland, Jonathan (C: November, 2000) Actions Rendered: Interpretations of Pollock for Three Orchestras
- Ito, Hiroko (C) Aperture II for Eleven Players
- Tang, Patty (E) "Masters of the Sabar: Wolof Griots in Contemporary Senegal"
2002
- McLoskey, Lansing (C) (November, 2001) Requiem, ver. 2.001x
- James, April (M) "Her Highness' Voice: Maria Antonia, Music and Culture at the Dresden Court"
- Cohen, Judah (E) "Becoming a Reform Jewish Cantor: a Study in Cultural Investment"
- Gyger, Elliott (C) Polishing Firewood for cello and ensemble
- Charles Starrett (E) A.M. degree
2003
- Roe-Min Kok (H) "Romantic Childhood, Bourgeois Commercialism and the Music of Robert Schumann"
- Arni Ingolfsson (H) "'These Are The Things You Never Forget': The Written and Oral Traditions of Icelandic Tvísöngur"
- Thomas Peattie (H) (November, 2002) "The fin-de-siecle metropolis, memory, modernity and the music of Gustav Mahler"
2004
- Andrew Talle (H)"J. S. Bach's Keyboard Partitas and Their Early Audience"
- Stephanie Treloar (H) "The Madrigals of Giaches de Wert: Patrons, Poets and Compositional Procedures"
- Jeannie Guerrero (T) "Text-setting techniques in Luigi Nono's choral work (1956-1960)"
- Erik Spangler (C) Mandala of the Four Directions: a ritual cantata for 4 singers and 4 ensembles
- Richard Whalley (C), A Wisp of Spring Cloud
2005
- Kiri Miller (E) "A Long Time Traveling: Song, Memory, and the Politics of Nostalgia in the Sacred Harp Diaspora"
- Matthew Peattie (H) "The Beneventan Antiphon and the Influence of Beneventan Style in the South Italian Office"
- Lara Pellegrinelli (E) "The Song is Who? Beyond 'Doubleness' in Mainstream, Contemporary Jazz Singing"
- Julia Randel (H) (November, 2004) "Visual Hearing: Balanchine's Choreography as Analysis and Interpretation of Stravinsky's Late Works"
- Ken Ueno (C) Iku
2006
- Cynthia Gonzales (T) (November 2005) "Text-Music Relationships in the Early Songs of Arnold Schoenberg"
- David Kaminsky (E) (November 2005) "Hidden Traditions: Conceptualizing Swedish Folk Music in the Twentieth Century"
- Zoe Lang (H) (November 2005) "Light" Music and Austrian Identity: the Strauss Family Legacy in Austrian Politics and Culture, 1918-1938
- Helen Lee (C) (November 2005) reflections
- Lei Liang (C) septet
- Christina Linklater (H) Popularity, Presentation and the Chansonnier Saint-Germain-des-Prés
- Scott Metcalfe (November 2005) (MM Performance Practice) Motolinía on music: an anthology, translation, and study of writings about music in the works of fray Toribio de Benavente, called Motolinía (c. 1490-1569)
- Bettina Varwig (H) “Expressive Forms: Rethinking Rhetoric in the Music of Heinrich Schütz”
- Du Yun (C) Zolle: a music-theatre
2007
- Aaron Allen (H)(November 2006) “Beethoven’s Music in Nineteenth-Century Italy: A Critical Review
of its Reception through the Early 1860s"
- David Black (H)“Mozart and the Practice of Sacred Music 1781–91”
- Michael Cuthbert(H) (November 2006) “Trecento Fragments and Polyphony Beyond the Codex"
- Richard Giarusso (H)“Dramatic Slowness: Adagio Rhetoric in Late Nineteenth-Century Austro-German Music”
- Christopher Jon Honett (C) Courtesy of Blue
- Natalie Kirschstein (E) “Reclaiming the Future: Communal Space, Collective Memory, and Political Narrative
on Uruguay’s Murga Stage”
- Jonathan Kregor (H) “Franz Liszt and the Vocabularies of Transcription, 1833–65”
- Sarah Morelli (E) “‘From Calcutta to California’ Negotiations of Movement and Meaning in Kathak Dance”
- Jessie Rodin (H)“Josquin and the Polyphonic Mass in the Sistine Chapel”
- Julie Rohwein (C) Shattered Glass
- Eliyahu Shoot (C)(March 2007) Passage. A Musical Portfolio
- Benjamin Steege (H) “Material Ears: Hermann von Helmholtz, Attention, and Modern Aurality”
- Nicholas Vines (C) The Hive: A Chamber Opera in Seven Tableaux
- Jonathan Wild (T)(March 2007) “Tessellating the Chromatic: Combinatorial Resources of Pitch Space”
2008
- Brigid Cohen (H)(November 2007) “Migrant Cosmopolitan Modern: Cultural Reconstruction in Stefan Wolpe’s Musical Thought, 1919-1972”
- Aaron Girard (T)(November 2007) “Music Theory in the American Academy”
- Mary Greitzer (T)(November 2007) “Tormented Voices”
- Robert Hasegawa (T)“Just Intervals and Tone: Representation in Contemporary Music”
- Anton Vishio (T)“Asymmetries in Post-Tonal Counterpoint”
2009
- Aaron Berkowitz (E) Cognition in Improvisation: the Art and Science of Spontaneous Musical Performance
- Matthew Clayton (E) (March 2009) “M-Base: Envisioning Change for Jazz in the 1980s and Beyond
- Peter Gilbert (C)(November 2008) The bold arch of undreamt bridges assembled compositions
- Jose Luis Hurtado (C) Letargo e Instante for piano soloist and large ensemble
- David Kim (AM) Hairpins and Notation as Metaphor
- Mariam Nazarian (AM) Chopin: In Theory and Practice - A Review and Proposal of Analytical and Pedagogical Methods
- Nicholas Vines (C) (November 2008) The Hive A Chamber Opera in Seven Tableaux
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