Recently completed PhD dissertations in Musicology
Eastman Graduates with the PhD in Musicology are working in universities and colleges across North America. Places of employment include Yale, CUNY Graduate Center, Vassar, Rutgers, Notre Dame, Dickinson, Skidmore, Brigham Young, 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, Ithaca College, Nazareth College (Rochester), University of Ottawa, University of Toronto, Mount Allison University, and the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. Other graduates work in administrative positions at the Atlanta Symphony and the Packard Institute for the Humanities.
Ayden Adler (2007) (double degree, PhD and DMA horn)
- dissertation: “Classical Music for People Who Hate Classical Music”: The Influence of Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orchestra on the Culture of Classical Music in America
- advisor: Kim Kowalke
Seth Brodsky (2007)
- dissertation: Utopian Strains: Berio, Ligeti, Rihm and Lachenmann
- advisors: Jürgen Thym and Daniel Albright
Sara Nicholson (2006)
- dissertation: Beyond Quotation: Intertextuality in Popular Music Since 1990
- advisor: Martin Scherzinger
Amy Wlodarski (2006)
- dissertation: The Sounds of Memory: German Musical Representations of the Holocaust, 1945-1965
- advisor: Kim Kowalke
Marjorie Roth (2005) (double degree, PhD and DMA flute)
- dissertation: The Voice of Prophecy: Orlando di Lasso’s Sibyls and Italian Humanism
- advisor: Kerala J. Snyder
Jeremy Grimshaw (2005)
- dissertation: Music of a “More Exalted Sphere”: Compositional Practice, Biography, and Cosmology in the Music of La Monte Young
- advisor: Kim Kowalke
Robert Haskins (2004) (double degree, PhD and DMA harpsichord)
- dissertation: An Anarchic Society of Sounds: The Number Pieces of John Cage
- advisors: Jürgen Thym and Robert Morris
Su Yin Suzanna Mak (2004) (double degree, PhD in Musicology and Theory)
- dissertation: Structure, Design, and Rhetoric: Schubert’s Lyricism Reconsidered
- advisors: Gretchen Wheelock and David Beach
Stanley Pelkey (2004)
- dissertation: British National Identities and Keyboard Music in the Later Georgian Period
- advisor: Ralph P. Locke
Elizabeth Wells (2004)
- dissertation: West Side Story(s): Changing Perspectives on an American Musical
- advisor: Ralph P. Locke
Philip Carli (2003)
- dissertation: Synergy in America’s Early Talking Machine Industry: Technological, Commercial, Cultural, and Musical Factors in Band and Orchestral Recordings, 1894-1917
- advisor: Ralph P. Locke
Andrea Kalyn (2002)
- dissertation: Constructing a Nation's Music: Howard Hanson's American Composer's Concerts and Festivals of American Music, 1925-71
- advisor: Kim Kowalke
Antonius Bittmann (2001) (double degree, PhD and DMA organ)
- dissertation: Negotiating Past and Present: Max Reger and Fin-de-siècle Modernisms
- advisors: Jürgen Thym and Ralph P. Locke
Michael Dodds (1998)
- dissertation: The Baroque Church Tones in Theory and Practice
- advisor: Kerala J. Snyder
Anne-Marie Reynolds (1998)
- dissertation: The Songs of Carl Nielsen
- advisor: Alfred Mann
Mary Frandsen (1997)
- dissertation: The Sacred Concerto in Dresden, ca. 1660-1680
- advisor: Kerala J. Snyder
Karl Loveland (1996)
- dissertation: Reading Donizetti's La fille du régiment: Genesis, Transformations, and Interpretations
- advisor: Ralph P. Locke
Michael Pisani (1996)
- dissertation: Exotic Sounds in the Native Land: Portrayals of North American Indians in Western Music
- advisor: Ralph P. Locke
bruce d. mcclung (1995)
- dissertation: American Dreams: Analyzing Moss Hart, Ira Gershwin and Kurt Weill's Lady in the Dark
- advisor: Kim Kowalke
Dillon Parmer (1995)
- dissertation: Brahms the Programmatic? A Critical Assessment
- advisor: Jürgen Thym
Tamara Levitz (1994)
- dissertation: Teaching New Classicality: Busoni’s Master Class in Composition, 1921-1924
- advisor: Kim Kowalke
Laura Buch (1993)
- dissertation: Seconda prattica and the Aesthetic of Meraviglia: The Canzonettas and Madrigals of Tomaso Pecci (1576-1604)
- advisor: Patrick Macey
Richard Todd Wilson (1992)
- dissertation: The Development of the German Keyboard Canzona and its Reflection in the Work of Gottlieb Muffat
- advisor: Alfred Mann
Mary Natvig (1991)
- dissertation: The Latin-texted Works of Antoine Busnois
- advisor: Patrick Macey
Maria Archetto (1991)
- dissertation: Francesco Portinaro and the Academies of the Veneto in the Sixteenth Century
- advisor: Patrick Macey