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Author:

Kelley, Alison

Title:

Inside the Madhouse: Bernard Herrmann's "Psycho"

Graduate Program:

Music Theory

Keywords:

Psycho
film music
music
theory
Herrmann
Bernard
Hitchcock
Alfred

File:

Download AKelleyThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Taylor Aitken Greer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric John Mckee, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Smith, Carole Christiana

Title:

Hearing Voices in Shostakovich: Uncovering Hidden Meanings in the Film "Odna"

Graduate Program:

Music Theory and History

Keywords:

Soviet cinema
film music
Alone
Odna
Dmitri Shostakovich
silent film
sound film

File:

Download Carole_Christiana_Smith_Masters_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric John Mckee, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric John Mckee, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Schaeffer, Jeffrey

Title:

Tonal Ambiguity and Set Relationships in Liszt's Death Pieces

Graduate Program:

Music Theory and History

Keywords:

am grabe richard wagners
la lugubre gondola
death
tonal ambiguity
Liszt
wagner
richard wagner-venezia

File:

Download Schaeffer_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Eric Mc Kee, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Maureen Ann Carr, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Taylor Aitken Greer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric John Mckee, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

O'Brien, Rebekah Kathleen

Title:

The Language of Death in Gabriel Faure's "Pelleas et Melisande" Suite for Orchestra, Opus 80

Graduate Program:

Music Theory and History

Keywords:

Background information
tonal analysis
expressive analysis

File:

Download Faure_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric John Mckee, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Taylor Aitken Greer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Kermit-canfield, Elliot Forrest

Title:

Spatialization in Selected Works of Iannis Xenakis

Graduate Program:

Music Theory

Keywords:

Iannis Xenakis
Xenakis
Eonta
Terretektorh
Persephassa
Space
Spatialization

File:

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Committee Members:

Vincent Perez Benitez Jr., Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric John Mckee, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Mueller, Dorian Alexis

Title:

Dracula Immortalized in Sound: Discourse of Silence and Sound in the Original 1931 Film; Traversing Diegetic, Non-diegetic, and Temporal Soundscape in Philip Glass's Score (1999)

Graduate Program:

Music Theory

Keywords:

Philip Glass
film music
music theory
diegetic
non-diegetic
temporality
topic theory
Dracula
minimalism

File:

Download Dorian_Mueller_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric John Mckee, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Minnich, Mark William

Title:

Maurice Ravel's Tzigane: Performance Practice and the "Gypsy" Influence

Graduate Program:

Music Theory and History

Keywords:

Ravel
Roma
Romani
Gypsy
Tzigane
Sinti
Music Theory
Music History
Violin
Performance Practice
Rhapsody

File:

Download Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark C Ferraguto, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric John Mckee, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Marica Susan Tacconi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Dewoolfson, Emily J

Title:

Harmony Adrift: The Influence Of The “Water Topic” On Compositional Choices In Ravel's Jeux d'eau

Graduate Program:

Music Theory

Keywords:

Ravel
Jeux d'eau
Sonata form
Semiotics
Schenker

File:

Download Jeux_d_eau_thesis_revised_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric John Mckee, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Farrand, Timothy

Title:

Under Wagner's Shadow: Delius's Use of Wagnerian Models in The Magic Fountain

Graduate Program:

Music Theory and History

Keywords:

Frederick Delius
Richard Wagner
Musical Models
Friedrich Nietzsche
Opera
The Magic Fountain
Parsifal
Tristan und Isolde

File:

Download Farrand_-_Under_Wagner_s_Shadow.pdf

Committee Members:

Charles Dowell Youmans, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric John Mckee, Committee Member
R J David Frego, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Davis, Barrell

Title:

Black Culture and Identity in Symphonic Repertoire

Graduate Program:

Music Theory

Keywords:

Music
Music Theory
Black Identity
Black Culture
William Grant Still
William Dawson
Florence Price

File:

Download Davis_Barrell_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Stephen Hopkins, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric John Mckee, Committee Member
Kim Diane Cook, Committee Member
R J David Frego, Program Head/Chair