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, UCLA, Vassar, Rutgers, Notre Dame, Dickinson, Skidmore, Franklin and Marshall, University of Arkansas, Pennsylvania State University, 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 Philadelphia Orchestra and the Packard Institute for the Humanities.

 

Sylvia Alajaji (2009)

  • dissertation:  Diasporic Communities and Negotiated Identities: Trauma, Recovery, and the Search for the Armenian Musical Voice 
  • advisor:  Ellen Koskoff
 

Adriana Martinez Figueroa (2009)

  • dissertation:  Music and the Binational Imagination: The Musical Nationalisms of Mexico and the United States in the Context of the Binational Relationship, 1890-2009
  • advisor:  Ellen Koskoff
 

Martin Nedbal (2009)

  • dissertation:  Morals Across the Footlights: Viennese Singspiel, National Identity, and the Aesthetics of Morality, c. 1770-1820
  • advisor:  Ralph Locke
 

Alexander Dean (2009)

  • dissertation: The Five-course Guitar and Seventeenth-century Harmony: Alfabeto and Italian Song
  • advisor:  Roger Freitas
 

Katherine Axtell (2009)

  • dissertation: Maiden Voyage: The Genesis and Reception of Show Boat, 1926-1932
  • advisor:  Kim Kowalke
 

Marie Sumner Lott (2008)

  • dissertation: Audience and Style in Nineteenth-Century Chamber Music, c. 1830 to 1880
  • advisor: Ralph Locke
 

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