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Author:

Divino, Michael

Title:

Rethinking "The Black Mozart": "It"-ification, Mythification and Canonization

Graduate Program:

Musicology

Keywords:

Joseph Bologne
Chevalier
Saint-Georges
Saint-George
Black Mozart
Le Mozart Noir
Mozart
Beethoven
Mythification
Philosophy
Martin Buber
Critical Race Theory
Canon
Composer
Composers
Classical Music

File:

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Committee Members:

Mark C Ferraguto, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles Dowell Youmans, Committee Member
R J David Frego, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Hornberger, Sheila

Title:

In the Shadow of Greatness: Women Composers and Their Flute Sonatas at the Prussian Court, 1730-1771

Graduate Program:

Musicology

Keywords:

flute sonatas
Wilhelmine von Bayreuth
Princess Anna Amalia of Prussia
Anna Bon di Venezia
Frederick the Great
Prussian flute music

File:

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Committee Members:

Marica Susan Tacconi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark C Ferraguto, Committee Member
R J David Frego, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Mc Alister, Caitlin

Title:

Heavy Metal Historiography: Historical Subject Matter in the Music of Iron Maiden

Graduate Program:

Musicology

Keywords:

Iron Maiden
Historical subject matter in music
Heavy metal music
Metal studies

File:

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Committee Members:

Mark C Ferraguto, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles Dowell Youmans, Committee Member
R J David Frego, Program Head/Chair

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:

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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:

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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

Author:

Bidding, Britney

Title:

Listen To That Baby Purr!: The Aesthetic Pleasure of Car Engine Sounds

Graduate Program:

Music (MA)

Keywords:

music
music theory
film music
cars
engine sounds

File:

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Committee Members:

R J David Frego, Program Head/Chair
Erik McKee, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Taylor Aitken Greer, Committee Member

Author:

Mooney, Micah

Title:

Musical Topic as an Embodiment of Community in Two Musical-Dramatic Works of the 1940s

Graduate Program:

Music (MA)

Keywords:

Topic theory
Benjamin Britten
Peter Grimes
Rodgers and Hammerstein
Oklahoma!
Tempesta
Pastoral
Church Musical
Opera
Musical Theatre
Theory
Analysis

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Committee Members:

R J David Frego, Program Head/Chair
Taylor Aitken Greer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric John Mckee, Committee Member

Author:

Rhine, Benjamin

Title:

Chromaticism, Word Painting, and the Tenebrae Responsories: The Stylistic Connections Between Carlo Gesualdo and Pomponio Nenna

Graduate Program:

Music (MA)

Keywords:

Carlo
Gesualdo
Pomponio
Nenna
Renaissance
music
motet
Tenebrae
Responsory
Responsoria
Responsories
chromaticism
harmony
O vos omnes
Caligaverunt oculi mei
Tenebrae factae sunt
Italian
chromatic
Riemann
Neo-Riemannian
theory
musicology
style
sacred
service
services
Holy Week
Easter
Good Friday
Holy Saturday
Maundy Thursday

File:

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Committee Members:

R J David Frego, Program Head/Chair
Marica Susan Tacconi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric John Mckee, Committee Member

Author:

Sipe, Jessica

Title:

Beyond Victimization: Confronting Narratives of Gender-Based Violence through Contemporary Opera

Graduate Program:

Music Theory and History

Keywords:

Opera
Contemporary opera
sexual violence
prism
breaking the waves

File:

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Committee Members:

Charles Dowell Youmans, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Marica Susan Tacconi, Committee Member
R J David Frego, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Belknap, Celeste

Title:

Brothers in Philosophy: Interpreting Mahler’s Third and Fourth Symphonies through a Dostoevskian Lens

Graduate Program:

Music

Keywords:

Mahler
Dostoevsky
Mahler and Dostoevsky
The Brothers Karamazov
Mahler's Third Symphony
Mahler's Fourth Symphony

File:

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Committee Members:

Charles Dowell Youmans, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Marica Susan Tacconi, Committee Member
R J David Frego, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Kucenski, Andrew

Title:

Miyazaki's Peace: The Role of Pacifism and the Soundscape in the Films of Studio Ghibli

Graduate Program:

Music (MA)

Keywords:

musicology
music theory
film music
film studies
music
pacifism
soundscape
Hayao Miyazaki
Studio Ghibli
Anime
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Princess Mononoke
Howl's Moving Castle

File:

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Committee Members:

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

Author:

Yoo, Seul Ki

Title:

Reform and Renewal in Paul Dukas’s Variations, Interlude, et Finale sur un Thème de Rameau

Graduate Program:

Music Theory (MA)

Keywords:

Paul Dukas
fin-de-siècle
French keyboard work
Variation
Théodore Dubois
Variations Interlude et Finale sur un Thème de Rameau

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Committee Members:

Taylor Aitken Greer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric John Mckee, Committee Member
R J David Frego, Program Head/Chair