Music History Theses & Dissertations
Theses, Dissertations, and Senior Papers in Music History and Musicology at the University of Louisville
Cole, Theresa Leubbers, “Lieb-, leid- und wienes Trunkenheit: Interrelationships in Hugo Wolf’s ‘Schenkenbuch’ Lieder.” M.M. Thesis, University of Louisville, 2011.
Doyle, Kate Cavanaugh. “György Kurtág's Kafka Fragments, Op. 24: Fragment as Form.” M.M. Thesis, University of Louisville, 2011.
Fritts, Jamison Tyler. “Transforming the Past: Luciano Berio’s Appropriation of Folk Materials and Idioms in ‘Folk Songs’ (1964).” M.M. Thesis, University of Louisville, 2010.
Hausmann, John. “Shostakovich and Yevtushenko, and Criticism in the Thirteenth Symphony.” M.M. Thesis, University of Louisville, 2010.
Linder, Michelle. "Through the Lens of the Individual: Messiaen's Trois Petites Liturgies." Senior Paper in Music History, University of Louisville, 2009.
Allnatt, Leslie Jane. "Transforming Love: A Study of Musical Evolution in [Stephen Paulus’] Heloise and Abelard.” M.M. Thesis, University of Louisville, 2008.
Lowery, Christopher. “Between Two Worlds: Musical Style in Mark Anthony Turnage’s Blood on the Floor.” M.M. Thesis, University of Louisville, 2008.
Rowell, David Putnam. “Structure and Musical Convergences in Anthony Braxton’s Solo Saxophone Improvisations.” M.M. Thesis, University of Louisville, 2008.
Taylor, Ty-Juana, “Black Music calls for Movement! It Calls for Feeling, Don’t Let It Get Away!” [quote: Thomas Dorsey]. Senior Paper in Music History, University of Louisville, 2008.
Gilfert, Allen. “Chaos and Dissolution in Elliott Carter’s Opera What Next?” M.M. Thesis, University of Louisville, 2007.
Polzer, Miranda. “Surviving the Holocaust:
Musical Motives in Ad Ora Incerta by Simon Bainbridge.” Senior B.M. paper, University of Louisville, 2007.
Sprowles, Michael David. “Geometric Pitch Structure and Form in Déserts by Edgard Varèse.” M.M. thesis, University of Louisville, 2004.
Harris, Kimberly Adelle. "The Bilingual Motets of the Old Corpus of the Montpellier Codex." M.M. thesis, University of Louisville, 2003.
Bates, James Allyn. "The Music for the Viola da Gamba in Italy, 1540--1640: Its Repertoire and Performance Practice." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Kentucky / University of Louisville, 2002.
Beverly, David, B. "John Adams's Opera The Death of Klinghoffer." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Kentucky / University of Louisville, 2002.
Lindsley, William T. "Conservative and Progressive Elements, and Vocal and Key Characteristics in the First Two Movements of C.P.E. Bach's Prussian Sonata no. 1 in F major, H. 24." M.M. thesis, University of Louisville, 2002.
Odendahl, Marilyn Anne. "The Four Keyboard Concertos of Alessandro Felici." M.M. thesis, University of Louisville, 2002.
Kays, John. "The Music of Chinary Ung: A Synthesis of Asian Aesthetics and Western Technique." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Kentucky / University of Louisville, 2000.
Mullinax, Allen B. "Musicological Hermeneutics and the Musical Humanism of Christoph Bernhard." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Kentucky / University of Louisville, 1998.
Rice, Marc. "The Bennie Moten Orchestra 1918-1935: A Kansas City Jazz Ensemble and its African American Audience." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Kentucky / University of Louisville, 1998.
Karr, John Paul. "The Psalms of Siena Ms K.I.2: Evidence on the Origins of falsobordone." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Kentucky / University of Louisville, 1997.
Hill, Camille Crunelle. "The Synthesis of Messiaen's Musical Language in His Opera Saint François d'Assise." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Kentucky / University of Louisville, 1996.
Hutchinson, Jean Leslie. "The Flute Concertos of Frederick the Great." M.A. thesis, University of Louisville, 1996.
Anderson, Christine. "The Exposition and Development Sections of Schubert's Piano Sonatas." M.A. thesis, University of Louisville, 1994.
Cash, Alice Hudnall. "Wanda Landowska and the Revival of the Harpsichord: A Reassessment." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Kentucky / University of Louisville, 1990.
Mason, Claude Alan. "The Emergence of Ligeti's Post-1956 Style." M.M. thesis, University of Louisville, 1989.
Loftis, Deborah Carlton. "Big Singing Day in Benton, Kentucky: A Study of the History, Ethnic Identity and Musical Style of Southern Harmony Singers." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Kentucky / University of Louisville, 1987.
Schuster-Craig, John William. "Compositional Procedures in Selected Works of Clermont Pépin (1926- )." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Kentucky / University of Louisville, 1987.
Tinnell, Nancy. "Italian Influence on Seventeenth-Century English Song." M.M. thesis, University of Louisville, 1987.
Belfy, Jeanne Marie. "The Commissioning Project of the Louisville Orchestra, 1948-1958: A Study of the History and Music." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Kentucky / University of Louisville, 1986.
Buch, Laura. "Claudio Saracini's Le seconde musiche: A Transcription and Commentary." M.A.
