Recent Theses
Recent Theses, Dissertations, and Senior Papers in Music History and Musicology at the University of Louisville
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. thesis, University of Louisville, 1983.
