Recently completed PhD dissertations in Musicology
Eastman Graduates with a PhD in Musicology are working in universities and colleges across North America. Places of employment include the University of Chicago, UCLA, Washington University in St. Louis, Vassar, Rutgers, Notre Dame, Dickinson, Skidmore, Franklin and Marshall, University of Arkansas, Pennsylvania State University, Georgia State University, Brigham Young University, University of New Hampshire, Cincinnati College Conservatory, North Carolina School of the Arts, Oxford College of Emory University, Bowling Green State University, Western Michigan University, SUNY Geneseo, Nazareth College (Rochester), University of Ottawa, Mount Allison University, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Other graduates work in administrative positions at the New World Symphony (senior vice president of musician advancement and dean), the Packard Institute for the Humanities, and A-R Editions.
Records - of
Author (Last) |
First name |
Year |
Title |
Advisor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fava | Cristina | 2012 | Music and Politics in New York City in the 1930s | Kim Kowalke |
| Morrow | Matthew | 2012 | "Complex Impressions": Nature in the Music and Criticism of Claude Debussy | Holly Watkins |
| Teal | Kimberly | 2012 | Living Traditions: Embodying Heritage in Contemporary Jazz Performance | Melina Esse |
| Kim | Cindy | 2011 | Changing Meanings of Ornamentation in Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera | Melina Esse |
| Mowrey | Hannah | 2010 | The Alamire Manuscripts of Frederick the Wise: Intersections of Music, Art, and Theology | Honey Meconi |
| Ronyak | Jennifer | 2010 | Performing the Lied, Performing the Self: Singing Subjectivity in Germany, 1790-1832 | Holly Watkins |
| Alajaji | Sylvia | 2009 | Diasporic Communities and Negotiated Identities: Trauma, Recovery, and the Search for the Armenian Musical Voice | Ellen Koskoff |
| Martinez Figueroa | Adriana | 2009 | Music and the Binational Imagination: The Musical Nationalisms of Mexico and the United States in the Context of the Binational Relationship, 1890-2009 | Ellen Koskoff |
| Nedbal | Martin | 2009 | Morals Across the Footlights: Viennese Singspiel, National Identity, and the Aesthetics of Morality, c. 1770-1820 | Ralph Locke |
| Dean | Alexander | 2009 | The Five-course Guitar and Seventeenth-century Harmony: Alfabeto and Italian Song | Roger Freitas |
| Axtell | Katherine | 2009 | Maiden Voyage: The Genesis and Reception of Show Boat, 1926-1932 | Kim Kowalke |
| Lott | Marie Sumner | 2008 | Audience and Style in Nineteenth-Century Chamber Music, c. 1830 to 1880 | Ralph Locke |
| Adler | Ayden | 2007 | “Classical Music for People Who Hate Classical Music”: Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops, 1930-1950 | Kim Kowalke |
| Brodsky | Seth | 2007 | Utopian Strains: Berio, Ligeti, Rihm and Lachenmann | Jürgen Thym and Daniel Albright |
| Nicholson | Sara | 2006 | Beyond Quotation: Intertextuality in Popular Music Since 1990 | Martin Scherzinger |
| Wlodarski | Amy | 2006 | The Sounds of Memory: German Musical Representations of the Holocaust, 1945-1965 | Kim Kowalke |
| Roth | Marjorie | 2005 | The Voice of Prophecy: Orlando di Lasso’s Sibyls and Italian Humanism | Kerala J. Snyder |
| Grimshaw | Jeremy | 2005 | Music of a “More Exalted Sphere”: Compositional Practice, Biography, and Cosmology in the Music of La Monte Young | Kim Kowalke |
| Haskins | Robert | 2004 | An Anarchic Society of Sounds: The Number Pieces of John Cage | Jürgen Thym and Robert Morris |
| Mak | Su Yin Suzanna | 2004 | Structure, Design, and Rhetoric: Schubert’s Lyricism Reconsidered | Gretchen Wheelock and David Beach |
| Pelkey | Stanley | 2004 | British National Identities and Keyboard Music in the Later Georgian Period | Ralph P. Locke |
| Wells | Elizabeth | 2004 | West Side Story(s): Changing Perspectives on an American Musical | Ralph P. Locke |
| Carli | Philip | 2003 | Synergy in America's Early Talking Machine Industry: Technological, Commercial, Cultural, and Musical Factors in Band and Orchestral Recordings, 1894-1917 | Ralph P. Locke |
| Kalyn | Andrea | 2002 | Constructing a Nation's Music: Howard Hanson's American Composer's Concerts and Festivals of American Music, 1925-71 | Kim Kowalke |
| Bittmann | Antonius | 2001 | Negotiating Past and Present: Max Reger and Fin-de-siècle Modernisms | Jürgen Thym and Ralph P. Locke |
| Dodds | Michael | 1998 | The Baroque Church Tones in Theory and Practice | Kerala J. Snyder |
| Reynolds | Anne-Marie | 1998 | The Songs of Carl Nielsen | Alfred Mann |
| Frandsen | Mary | 1997 | The Sacred Concerto in Dresden, ca. 1660-1680 | Kerala J. Snyder |
| Loveland | Karl | 1996 | Reading Donizetti's La fille du régiment: Genesis, Transformations, and Interpretations | Ralph P. Locke |
| Pisani | Michael | 1996 | Exotic Sounds in the Native Land: Portrayals of North American Indians in Western Music | Ralph P. Locke |
| McClung | Bruce D. | 1995 | American Dreams: Analyzing Moss Hart, Ira Gershwin and Kurt Weill's Lady in the Dark | Kim Kowalke |
| Parmer | Dillon | 1995 | Brahms the Programmatic? A Critical Assessment | Jürgen Thym |
| Levitz | Tamara | 1994 | Teaching New Classicality: Busoni's Master Class in Composition, 1921-1924 | Kim Kowalke |
| Buch | Laura | 1993 | Seconda prattica and the Aesthetic of Meraviglia: The Canzonettas and Madrigals of Tomaso Pecci (1576-1604) | Patrick Macey |
| Wilson | Richard Todd | 1992 | The Development of the German Keyboard Canzona and its Reflection in the Work of Gottlieb Muffat | Alfred Mann |
| Natvig | Mary | 1991 | The Latin-texted Works of Antoine Busnois | Patrick Macey |
| Archetto | Maria | 1991 | Francesco Portinaro and the Academies of the Veneto in the Sixteenth Century | Patrick Macey |
