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2007-2008 (Most Recently Completed)
Music Department Activities

Department Activities since 1990 ARCHIVED
 





Piano setup for a John Cage performance, Fromm Festival 2006


Recent Enrollment (2007-2008)

Undergraduate

music concentrators (includes on leave/studying abroad)

51

double ("joint") concentrators

21

NEC/Harvard AB/MM program

 13
degree recipients 15
students with music as a secondary field 10
   

Graduate

students in residence

48

non-resident students

10

new students

6

new Ph.D.'s

5

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Students examine a balafon after a performance of Malian musician Neba Solo

PhD Recipients 2008

PhD Recipients and Their Theses:
  • Brigid Cohen (H)(November 2007) “Migrant Cosmopolitan Modern: Cultural Reconstruction in Stefan Wolpe’s Musical Thought, 1919-1972”
  • Aaron Girard (T)(November 2007) “Music Theory in the American Academy”
  • Mary Greitzer (T)(November 2007) “Tormented Voices”
  • Robert Hasegawa (T)“Just Intervals and Tone: Representation in Contemporary Music”
  • Anton Vishio (T)“Asymmetries in Post-Tonal Counterpoint"

AB Recipients in Music 2008
  • Athena Adamopoulos
  • Julia Scott Carey
  • Julia Soojin Cavallaro
  • Justin Hurwitz
  • Paul Lawrence Kolb
  • Elizabeth Lim
  • Jesse Wiener

 

AB Recipients in Joint Concentration 2008
  • Nora Izumi Bartosik (joint with Germanic Languages and Literatures)
  • Richard Conrad Cozzens (joint with Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations)
  • Aram Demirjian (joint with Government)
  • Benjamin R. Eisler (joint with Economics)
  • Seth Philip Herbst (joint with English and American Literature and Language)
  • Meghan Christina Joyce (joint with English and American Literature and Language)
  • Alexis Kusy (joint with History of Art and Architecture)
  • Catherine Elizabeth Powell (joint with English and American Literature and Language)

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2008 Fellowships & Awards (updated 6/10/08)

Graduate Student Awards:

The Department’s Oscar S. Schafer Award is given to students “who have demonstrated unusual ability and enthusiasm in their teaching of introductory courses, which are designed to lead students to a growing and life-long love of music.” This year’s recipients are Ashley Fure, Jose Luis Hurtado, Evan MacCarthy, and Hillary Zipper. In addition to the Schafer Award Hurtado received a Paine Fellowship to conduct a residency in Mexico, to attend festivals of music, and to prepare for a performance of his work; Fure received a Paine Fellowship for language study in France and to attend a composition workshop; MacCarthy received a Morrill Graduate Fellowship to conduct archival research in Italy, Portugal, and Germany; and Zipper received a Paine Fellowship and a Morrill Graduate Fellowship to conduct research in Italy and study composition in Germany.

Richard F. French Prize Fellowships

Ryan Banagale received a French Prize to pursue research in Washington, D.C. and in Wyoming.

Andrea Bohlman received a French Prize to conduct research in Serbia and work in archives in Chicago.

Corinna Campbell received a French Prize to conduct field work in Suriname and French Guyana.

Davide Ceriani received a French Prize and a Morrill Graduate Fellowship to conduct archival research in Italy, New York and Princeton.

Ellen Exner received a French Prize to conduct archival research in Germany.

John Knowles Paine Fellowships

Edgar Barroso received a Paine Fellowship for language study in Austria, and to travel to Spain and Mexico to conduct research on new instruments.

Sofia Becerra-Licha received a Paine Fellowship to travel to Chile to conduct pre-dissertation research.

Jean-Francois Charles received a Paine Fellowship to travel to Italy, France, and Switzerland to work on his dissertation and conduct meetings with composers.

William Cheng received a Paine Fellowship for language study in Germany and to conduct archival research in France.

Chris Chowrimootoo received a Paine Fellowship for language study in Germany and to conduct archival research in Italy.

Mathew Clayton received a Paine Fellowship to conduct research and interviews in New York, Massachusetts, and Connecticut.

Elizabeth Craft received a Paine Fellowship for language study in Germany and to conduct archival research in New York.

Marc Gidal received a Paine Fellowship to conduct fieldwork in Brazil.

Peter Gilbert received a Paine Fellowship to travel to France and Germany to attend composition workshops, prepare for a performance of his work, and to teach.

Gabrielle Giron received a Paine Fellowship to study Mongolian at Indiana University.

Bert Van Herck received a Paine Fellowship to travel to composition workshops in Belgium and Germany.

Sheryl Kaskowitz received a Paine Fellowship to work in Washington, D.C. and New York.

David Kim received a Paine Fellowship to conduct research at Cornell and Yale universities.

Ulrich Krepppein received a Paine Fellowship and a Morrill Graduate Fellowship for composition workshops in France and Italy, concert preparation, and teaching in Germany.

Drew Massey received a Paine Fellowship to conduct archival research at Yale Univeristy.

Alexandra Monchick received a Paine Fellowship to conduct archival research in Switzerland and Germany.

Karola Obermueller received a Paine Fellowship to travel to France and Germany to participate in workshops and to prepare for a concert of her work.

Andrew Robbie received a Paine Fellowship for music video transcription.

Adam Roberts received a Paine Fellowship to travel to Austria for composition study.

Dominique Schafer received a Paine Fellowship to conduct pre-composition work in HUSEAC.

Sasha Siem received a Paine Fellowship to conduct archival research in Germany and Washington, DC.

David Trippett received a Paine Fellowship to conduct research at Stanford, NYU, and Princeton.

Gabrielle Vanoni received a Paine Fellowship to travel to France for a composition workshop.

Tolga Yayalar received a Paine Fellowship to travel to Turkey to attend workshops in preparation for the performance of his composition.

The Harry and Marjorie Ann Slim Memorial Fund

Gina Rivera received a Slim Memorial Fund award to conduct archival research.

Matthias Roeder received a Slim Memorial Fund award to conduct archival research in Belgium and Germany.

Ferdinand Gordon & Elizabeth Hunter Morrill Graduate Fellowships

Chris Chowrimootoo received a Morrill Graduate Fellowship to support archival research in Italy.

John McKay received a Morrill Graduate Fellowship to support archival research in Italy. He also received a Morrill Term Fellowship.

Anna Zayaruznaya received a Morrill Graduate Fellowship to travel to Italy for Latin studies.

Nino and Lea Pirotta Graduate Research Fund

Emily Abrams received a Pirotta Graduate Research Fund award to conduct interviews in Washington, DC, and archival work in New York.

Louis Epstein received a Pirotta Graduate Research Fund award to conduct archival research in Germany.

Glenda Goodman received a Pirotta Graduate Research Fund award to conduct research in Washington, DC.

Katherine Lee received a Pirotta Graduate Research Fund award to conduct archival research in California.

University Composition Prizes:

Elizabeth Lim (’08) received the John Green Fellowship for her concert for orchestra, Windfalls. This award was established by friends and family of the late John Green ‘28 in support of excellence in musical composition. It is made annually to an undergraduate or graduate student composer.

The George Arthur Knight Prize was awarded to graduate student Jean Francois Charles for his work Blue 3 for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano.

Junior Concentrator Michael Schachter received the Hugh F. MacColl Prize for his composition, Book of Prayers.

Graduate student Tolga Yayalar received the Adelbert Sprague Prize for his composition, Three Imaginary Spaces after Hadid for orchestra.

Graduate student Edgar Barroso received the Francis Boott Prize for his composition, Miserere for six mixed voices a capella.

Graduate student Gabriele Vanoni received a Bohemians Prize for his work, Space Oddities for solo flute.

Music Students Honored:

Recipients of GSAS Fellowships are Sheryl Kaskowitz (GSAS Merit Fellowship); Katherine Lee (Summer Language and Pre-Dissertation Fellowship); Bert Van Herck (GSAS Graduate Society Summer Pre-Dissertation Fellowship). GSAS Finishing Grants were awarded to Matthias Roeder and Jose Luis Hurtado (Whiting Fellowships); Tolga Yayalar, Dominique Schafer, Petra Gelbart, Aaron Berkowitz, and David Trippett.

Several music graduate students received additional awards and fellowships: Ellen Exner received a Fellowship from the Center for European Studies; Gina Rivera received the Lurcy Fellowship for study in France; and Ryan Banagale the Howard Mayer Brown Fellowship (from the American Musicological Society).

Derek Bok Distinguished Teaching Awards for this past fall were given to music graduate students and associates Michael Barrett, Phoebe Carrai, Ashley Fure, Robbie Merfeld, Andrew Robbie, Dominique Schafer, David Sullivan, Hillary Zipper, and Anna Zayaruznaya.
Papers, Publications, & Performances 2007-2008

Emily Abrams delivered “Aaron Copland and Cultural Diplomacy: ‘Un-American Composer Meets Cold War Ambassador,’” at the Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, 2007.

Ryan Banagale and Drew Massey won the Award for Achievement in Instructional Technology for their long-term commitment to the American Musicals project at Harvard. This program, sponsored by the Office of the President, was established to have fellows work with schools and faculty to develop and encourage the use of digital course materials with immediate educational benefits.

Edgar Barroso received first prize in “Composition for Soloist Ensemble” of the 4th International Jurgenson Competition for Young Composers. The award ceremony and final concert took place in September, 2007 at Rachmaninov Hall of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory and included performances by Studio For New Music Ensemble and Marc Pekarsky Percussion Ensemble.

Aaron Berkowitz’s article “Generation of Novel Motor Sequences: The Neural Correlates of Musical Improvisation,” co-authored with Daniel Ansari of University of Western Ontario, was published in the journal NeuroImage, and received this journal’s 2008 Editor’s Choice Award in Systems Neuroscience. He was also one of two American participants pre-selected to compete in the International Fortepiano Competition of the Musica Antiqua festival in Bruges, Belgium, where he performed in the city’s Provinciaal Hof. Berkowitz performed two recitals this past fall, one on fortepiano (CPE Bach, Haydn, Clementi, and Mozart), and one on modern piano (all Mendelssohn).

Davide Ceriani presented “Two Masses are Singing: la musica di Charles Ives e gli outdoor religious meetings del New England fra il tardo diciannovesimo e l’inizio del ventesimo secolo” in Pescara, Italy, at the 14th Annual Meeting of the Società italiana di musicologia in October. He presented “Le prime due edizioni delle Mostre musicali italiane: Bologna 1927 e Roma 1930” in Bologna at the 11th Musicological Colloquium of Il Saggiatore Musicale in November.

Ellen Exner co-edited with Uwe Wolf the volume Gottfried August Homilius, Ausgewählte Werke, Serie 4: Instrumentalwerke, Band 1: Choralvorspiele für Orgel und 1-2 obligate Melodieinstrumente; Oboensonate, published by Carus (Stuttgart) in 2008.

Jose Luis Hurtado’s Tres Piezitas Op.15 won second prize in the international Ariel Piano Composition Competition and his L’ardito e quasi stridente gesto for string quartet won the Julián Carrilo Composition Prize in Mexico.

Sheryl Kaskowitz presented a paper entitled “As the Storm Clouds Gather: The Early History of ‘God Bless America,’ 1917-1941” at the annual conference of the Society for American Music in San Antonio, TX in February, as well as at the Boston University Music Society Graduate Student Conference in April.

In April 2008, Katherine In-Young Lee received the James T. Koetting Prize for her paper “P’ungmul, Politics and Protest,” delivered at the Northeast Chapter of the Society of Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting at Amherst College.

Several of Karola Obermueller’s works were performed by White Rabbit at the Goethe-Institut Boston. Additionally, Las cosas, unas conducen a otras, a duo for flutes composed for Carin Levine and Elizaveta Birjukova received its world premiere in May; WindKaskaden (2006) for clarinet and accordion was performed in May at the Nuremberg Musikhochschule and at the Akademie für Tonkunst Darmstadt; and ...silbern (2008), Sapphic stanzas for bass flute solo for Mario Caroli, was premiered at Harvard.

Adam Roberts’s Strange Loops was premiered by le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne in Lyons, France on March 16.

Matthias Roeder and art historian Jessica Berenbeim gave a joint paper at the Ambrosiana Conference at Harvard University (2008) in which they proposed a theory for the origin of an Ambrosian fragment at Houghton Library. Roeder also published two reviews in the Mozart-Jarbuch.

Meredith Schweig presented“This Song Represents My Heart: Performances of Cultural. Plurality and the Hybrid Voice of Teresa Teng,” at the Annual Meeting of the SEM and “This Song Represents My Heart: Performances of Cultural. Plurality and the Hybrid Voice of Teresa Teng,” at the Annual Conference of the Harvard East Asia Society. She was also a featured presenter for EALC Professor Shigehisa Kuriyama’s workshop “Electronic Media and the New Horizons of Academic Life” delivered at the Annual Conference of the Harvard East Asia Society.

David Trippett published an article in the Journal of Musicology entitled “Composing Time: Zeno’s Arrow, Hindemith’s Erinnerung, and Satie’s Instantanéisme.” He published a review of “Liszt and his World” in Notes and also presented “The Composer’s Rainbow: Rudolph Kolisch and the Role of Interpretation in Performance” at this year’s annual AMS meeting in Quebec City.

Anna Zayaruznaya curated the exhibit for “Ambrosiana at Harvard,” and also presented the paper, “In defense of green lines: The notation of B-flat in early Ambrosian antiphoners.” In November, Anna read “What Fortuna can Do to a Minim” at AMS.

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New and Recent PhD Recipients' Activities

Recent PhD recipients who have gone on to join faculties or administration of colleges or universities include:

  • Aaron Allen, University of North Carolina Greensboro
  • Karim Al-Zand, Rice University
  • Noel Bisson, Harvard University
  • Anthony Brandt, Rice University
  • Brigid Cohen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  • Judah Cohen, New York University
  • Myke Cuthbert, MIT
  • Alexander Fisher, University of British Columbia
  • Sean Gallagher, Harvard University
  • Richard Giarusso, Peabody Conservatory
  • Ed Gollin, Williams College
  • Alan Gosman, Michigan State University
  • Mary Greitzer, Harvard University (one year appointment)
  • Jeannie Guerrero, Eastman School of Music
  • Robert Hasegawa, Harvard University (one year appointment)
  • Jonathan Holland, Berklee College of Music
  • Brian Hulse, Christopher Newsport University
  • Arni Ingolfsson, Iceland Academy of the Arts
  • April James, Harlem School of the Arts
  • Roe-Min Kok, McGill University
  • Jon Kregor, University of Cincinnati
  • Jennifer Baker Kotilaine, Oxford University
  • Zoe Lang, University of Southern Florida
  • Lei Liang, University of California, San Diego
  • Lansing McLoskey, Frost School of Music, University of Miami
  • Charles McGuire, Oberlin College
  • Kiri Miller, Brown University
  • Sarah Morelli, Lamont School of Music, University of Denver
  • Ann Morrison Spinney, Boston College
  • Christoph Neidhöfer, McGill University
  • Thomas Peattie, Boston University
  • Lara Pelligrinelli, University of Richmond
  • Julia Randel, Hope College, MI
  • Jesse Rodin, Stanford University
  • Eliyahu Shoot, Tulane University
  • Kurt Stallmann, Rice University
  • Benjamin Steege, Stony Brook University
  • Andrew Talle, Peabody Conservatory; Johns Hopkins University
  • Patricia Tang, MIT
  • Ken Ueno, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
  • Nicholas Vines, Harvard University (one year appointment)
  • Richard Whalley, University of Manchester, England
  • Jon Wild, McGill University 

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Archives

Department Activities

Ph.D. Dissertations (archived from 1956)
Undergraduate Honors Thesis Titles (archived from 1990)
Undergraduate Fellowship Activities (archived from 1990)

PhD Recipients and Dissertations 1956-present

 

1956

  • Goldthwaite, Scott (M) “Rhythmic patterns and formal symmetry in the fifteenth century chanson”
  • Hughes, David G. (M) “A view of the passing of Gothic music: line and counter-point, 1380-1430”
  • Moe, Lawrence (M) “Dance music in printed Italian lute tablatures from 1507 to 1611”

1957

  • Heartz, Daniel (M) Sources and forms of the French instrumental dance in the sixteenth century
  • Velimirovic, Milos (M) The Byzantine elements in early Slavic chant
  • Yellin, Victor (M) The life and operatic works of George Whitefield Chadwick

1958

  • Downes, Edward (M) The operas of Johann Christian Bach as a reflection of the dominant trends in opera seria 1750-1780
  • Keller, Walter (M) The Italian organ hymn from Cavazzoni to Aresti; a study of the interrelation of Roman plainchant and liturgical keyboard music in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

1959

  • Brown, Howard (M) The chanson in the French theater of the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries: moralities, farces, sotties and monologues.
  • Wicks, John (M) The motets of Pierre de Manchicourt, ca.1510-1564.

1960

  • D’Accone, Frank (M) A documentary history of music at the Florentine Cathedral and Baptistry during the fifteenth century.
  • Layton, Billy Jim (M) Italian music for the Ordinary of the Mass, 1300-1450
  • Pian, Rulan (M) Musical sources of the Sung dynasty (960-1279)

1961

  • Haar, James (M) Musica mundana: variations on a Pythagorean theme
  • Slim, H. Colin (M) The keyboard ricercar and fantasia in Italy, c.1500-1550, with reference to parallel forms in European lute music of the same period.

1962

  • Jander, Owen (M) Alessandro Stradella and his minor dramatic works

1963

  • Churgin, Bathia (M) The symphonies of G.B. Sammartini
  • Crawford, John (M) The relationship of text and music in the vocal works of Schoenberg, 1908-1924

1964

  • Bonta, Stephen (M) The church sonatas of Giovanni Legrenzi
  • Chapman, Catherine (M) Andrea Antico
  • Waldbauer, Ivan (M) The cittern in the sixteenth century and its music in France and the low countries

1965

  • Archibald, Bruce (M) Harmony in the Early Works of Alban Berg
  • Berman, Laurence (M) The evolution of tonal thinking in the works of Claude Debussy
  • Fuller, David (M) Eighteenth-century French harpsichord music

1966

  • Bonvalot, Anthony (M) The round of Shakespeare’s age in England and Scotland: three collectors and their store, 1580-1612
  • Gallucci, Joseph (M) Festival music in Florence, ca. 1480--ca. 1520: canti carnascialeschi, trionfi, and related forms
  • Kanazawa, Masakata (M) Polyphonic music for vespers in the fifteenth century
  • Peterson, Floyd (M) Johann Hermann Schein’s Cymbalum Sinoium: a liturgico-musical study.

1967

  • (no recipients)

1968

  • England, Nicholas (M) ) Music among the zu wa-si of South West Africa and Botswana

1969

  • Armstrong, James (M) The Vesper psalms and magnificats of Maurizio Cazzati (ca. 1620-1678)

1970

  • Schwager, Myron (M) Beethoven’s arrangements: the chamber works

1971

  • Planchart, Alejandro (M) The repertory of tropes at Winchester

1972

  • Cardamone, Donna Gina (M) The canzone villanesca alla Napolitana : and related Italian vocal part-music: 1537-1570
  • Connolly, Thomas Hugh (M) The Old Roman Introits
  • Hill, John Walter (M) The life and works of Francesco Maria Veracini.
  • Lindgren, Lowell Edwin (M) A bibliographic scrutiny of dramatic works set by Giovanni and his brother Antonio Maria Bononci
  • Riesman, Michael De Kay (C) Phases, for electronically modulated pianoforte.
  • Troy, Charles Edgar (M) The comic intermezzo in eighteenth-century Italian opera seria.
  • Wright, Craig Milton (M) Music at the Court of Burgundy, 1364-1419

1973

  • Adams, Frank John (M) The place of the piano concerto in the career of Mozart: Vienna, 1782-86
  • Behrens, Jack (C) Accelerando
  • Kelly, Thomas Forrest (M) Responsory tropes
  • Knibbs, Lester Allyson (C) Libra variations, PSI-1, for winds, strings and percussion
  • Kovarik Jr., Edward George (M) Mid fifteenth-century polyphonic elaborations of the plainchant Ordinarium missae
  • Schmidt, Carl Brandon (M) The operas of Antonio Cesti
  • Sur, Donald Young (C) The sleepwalker’s ballad; an accompanied recitative for soprano and chamber ensemble

1974

  • Price, Curtis Alexander (M) Musical practices in Restoration plays, with a catalogue of instrumental music in the plays, 1665-1713.
  • Tawa, Nicholas Edward (M) Musical practices in Restoration plays, with a catalogue of instrumental music in the plays, 1665-1713
  • Wiley, Roland John (M) Tchaikovsky’s Swan lake: the first productions in Moscow and St. Petersburg

1975

  • DeFord, Ruth Irene (M) Ruggiero Giovannelli and the madrigal in Rome, 1572-1599
  • Friedmann, Michael Louis (C) Duos; settings of poems by Rimbaud and Celan: for male and female voice, flute, clarinet in B-flat, piano and string trio.
  • McGilvra, Douglas Price (C) Violin concerto
  • Shapiro, Anne Dhu (M) The Tune-Family Concept in British-American Folk-Song Scholarship
  • Vennum, Jr., Thomas (M) Southwestern Ojibwa music
  • Youens, Susan Lee (M) Music and religion in the French Reformation and Counter-Reformation

1976

  • Burton, David Bryant (C) Nocturnes: 8 songs on poems by W.S. Merwin : for soprano and string trio
  • McClary, Susan Kaye (M) The transition from modal to tonal organization in the works of Monteverdi

1977

  • Kabakov, Joel (C) El jaleo: dance suite for orchestra
  • MacMillan, Alan John (C) Symphony - 1976
  • Patterson, David Nolte (C) Chantier: for violin and piano; The celery flute player: for piano; Pied beauty: for voices, tintinnabula and magnetic tape
  • Thow, John Holland (C) Winged words : for voice and chamber orchestra
  • Yung, Bell (M) The music of Cantonese opera

1978

  • Banchs, William Henry (C) Concerto for bass clarinet and piano
  • Erb, James Bryan (M) Orlando di Lasso’s first Magnificat publicatio : a contribution to the complete edition, with commentary
  • Karchin, Louis Samuel (C) Attuned to the times and Concerto for violin and seven instruments
  • St. Clair, Richard Collins (C) Sonata for piano

1979

  • Block, Geoffrey Holden (M) The genesis of Beethoven’s piano concertos in C major (op. 15) and B-flat major (op. 19): chronology and compositional process
  • Bushnell, Vinson Clair (M) Daniel Read of New Haven (1757-1836): the man and his musical activities
  • Davis, John Douglas (C) Token, for voice and orchestra
  • Freeman, James (M) Opera production in Palermo, 1809 to 1830 : a theater and a collection of scores
  • Greenberg, Gary Joseph (C) Dobeca
  • Hepokoski, James Arnold (M) The compositional history of Verdi’s Falstaff : a study of the autograph score and early editions
  • Leon, Garby (C) Radiation
  • Love, Jacob Wainwright (C) Samoan variations
  • Moshell, Gerald (M) Death,non-death, and rebirth in the neo-classical tragedies of Igor Stravinsky
  • Provine Jr., Robert C. (M) Chinese ritual music in Korean sacrificial rites : music palingenesis in the early fifteenth century
  • Salerni, Paul Frank (C) String quartet
  • Sirota, Robert Benson (C) Bontshe the silent: a chamber opera in three scenes

1980

  • Cacioppo, Curtis P. (C) Eclogue: symphonic poem for piano
  • Gajewski, Fred (C) The work sheets to Chopin’s Violoncello sonata
  • Iwatake, Toru (C) Perpetuum mobile: for 16 soloists and Divertimento : for chamber orchestra
  • Reichard, Kathryn Louise (M) Aspects of Weimar’s musical life, 1775-1807
  • Wissmuller, Jan C. (C) Kassandra: for soprano and 15 players

1981

  • Blauvelt, Peter Oliver C. (C) Third piano sonata [op. 28]
  • Capwell, Charles (M) Indian street music sound recording: the Bauls of Bengal
  • Bridges, Thomas Whitney (M) The publishing of Arcadelt’s first book of madrigals microform
  • Lee, Thomas Oboe (C) Phantasia for Elvira Shatayev
  • Mukherjee, Nalin T. (C) The quaternity, for large orchestra
  • Spilsted, Gary Richard (M) The paleography and musical repertory of Codex Tridentinus 93

1982

  • Adams, John (C) Concerto for violin and orchestra
  • Cain, Elizabeth Ann (M) English chant tradition in the late Middle Ages: the introits and graduals of the temporale in the Sarum gradual
  • Harris, Michael Wesley (M) The advent of gospel blues in black old-line churches in Chicago, 1932-33, as seen through the life and mind of Thomas Andrew Dorsey
  • Mauk Jr., Frederick Henry (M) Aspiring to the condition of language : an examination of aesthetic considerations in the application of structural (semiological) principles to musical problems
  • Wilson, John Kenneth (M) Selected Eighteenth-Century Settings of Metastasio’s Libretto

1983

  • Brief, Todd (C) Cantares: for soprano and large orchestra
  • Bourland, Roger (C) Nostos, Three dark paintings, and Scenes from Redon
  • Dautricourt, Jean-Pierre (C) Ceremony 2: for orchestra
  • Grayson, David Alan (M) The genesis of Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande: a documentary history of the opera, a study of its sources, and "Wagnerian" aspects of its thematic revisions
  • Mead Jr., Ernest C. (M) The instrumental ensemble canzonas of Girolamo Frescobaldi
  • Myska, David Bernard (C) Ballade: for piano
  • Reich, Amy (C) The one turning: [for mezzo-soprano and chamber orchestra]
  • Smith, Gregory E. (M)Homer, Gregory, and Bill Evans?: the theory of formulaic composition in the context of jazz piano improvisation
  • Swain, Joseph Peter (M) Limits of musical structure
  • White, Pamela Cynthia (M) Idea and representation: source-critical and analytical studies of music, text and religious thought in Schoenberg’s Moses und Aron

1984

  • Gilliam, Bryan Randolph (M) Richard Strauss’s Daphne microform: opera and symphonic continuity
  • MacPherson, William Alan (M) The music of the English country dance, 1651-1728 microform: with indexes of the printed source
  • Meadors Jr., James M. (M) Italian lute fantasias and ricercars printed in the second half of the sixteenth century
  • Pevsner, Mark (C) Trio: for violin, viola, and piano

1985

  • Hamel, Keith Aime (C) Obsessions 2: for string quartet
  • Merkley, Paul Alfred (M) Conflicting assignments of antiphons in Italian tonaries
  • Saunders Jr., Harris S. (M) The repertoire of a Venetian opera house (1678-1714): the Teatro Grimani di San Giovanni Grisos

1986

  • Cave 3rd, Lawrence Harold (M) Purgatory: a chamber opera in one act after Yeats
  • Diamond, Joseph Aloysius (M) The tradition of three tropes
  • Larson, Keith Austin (M) The unaccompanied madrigal in Naples from 1536 to 1654
  • Meconi, Honey (M) Style and authenticity in the secular music of Pierre de la Rue
  • Romeo, James Joseph (C) Sextet: for flute, Bb clarinet, bassoon, violin, viola, cello

1987

  • Boone, Graeme MacDonald (M) Dufay’s early chansons: chronology and style in the manuscript Oxford, Bodleian Library, Canonici misc. 213
  • Hill, Robert S. (M) The Möller manuscript and the Andreas Bach book: two keyboard anthologies from the circle of the young Johann Sebastian Bach
  • McKinley, Thomas Lawrence (C) Shadows
  • Riggs, Robert Daniels (M) Articulation in Mozart’s and Beethoven’s sonatas for piano and violin: source-critical and analytic studies
  • Shattenkirk, Ray (C) The raven variations
  • Steinberg, Russell Allen (C) String quartet no. 1

1988

  • Bonds, Mark Evan (M) Haydn’s false recapitulations and the perception of sonata form in the eighteenth century
  • Braus, Ira Lincoln (M) Textual rhetoric and harmonic anomaly in selected Lieder of Johannes Brahms
  • Lam, Joseph Sui Shing (M)Creativity within bounds: state sacrificial songs from the Ming dynasty (1368-1644 A.D.)
  • Samuel, Virginia Elizabeth (C) Symphony
  • Yourke, Peter Hannon (C) Sheep in fog

1989

  • Kyr, Robert Harry (C) The fifth season: (Symphony no. 3)
  • Lano, Stephen (C) Sinfonia eikasia
  • Littlefield, James Patrick (C) String quartet no. 1
  • Melamed, Daniel R. (M) J.S. Bach and the German motet
  • Noland, Gary Lloyd (C) String quartet in four movements, op. 12
  • Ossi, Massimo Michele (M) Claudio Monteverdi’s concertato technique and its role in the development of his musical thought
  • Shreffler, Anne Chatoney (M) Webern’s Trakl settings
  • Urquhart, Peter Whitney (M) Canon, partial signatures, and "Musica ficta" in works by Josquin DesPrez and his contemporaries
  • Yim, Jay Alan (C) Geometry and delirium: for small chamber orchestra & electronics

1990

  • Eldridge, William Kilgore (C) String Quartet
  • Marks, Martin Miller (M) " Film Music of the Silent Period 1895-1924"
  • Mertz, Margaret Stover (M) "History, Criticism and the Sources to Benjamin Britten's The
    Rape of Lucretia"
  • Woolf, Randall Benson (C) Chaotic Regime for chamber Orchestra

1991

  • Klumpenhouwer, Henry J. (T) "A Generalized Model of Voice-Leading for Atonal Music"
  • McGrann, Jeremiah W.R. (M) "Beethoven's Mass in C., Op. 86"
  • Nichols, Jeff William (C) Take-Off, for Clarinet doubling Bass Clarinet, Percussion and String Trio
  • Panetta Jr., Vincent J. (M) "Hans Leo Hassler and the Keyboard Toccata: Antecedents, Sources, Style"
  • Stillman, Amy K. (E) "Himenetahiti: Ethnoscientific and Ethnohistorical Perspectivess on Choral Singing and Protestant Hymnody in the society Islands, French Polynesia"

1992

  • Boros, James (C) Bivouac for Reciter and Chamber Ensemble
  • Burns, Lori A. (T) "J.S. Bach's Choral Harmonizations of Modal Cantus Firmi"
  • Kilroy, David M. (M) "Kurt Weill on Broadway: The Postwar Years (1945-50)"
  • Spragg, Deborah T. (C) Face to Face (Ten Sappho Fragments) for Soprano and Five Instruments
  • Stadelman, Jeffrey (C) Beatrice for Mezzo-soprano, Bass Clarinet, Violin and Piano
  • Wesner, Amanda Z. (M) "The Chansons of Loyset Compere: Authenticity and Stylistic Development"

1993

  • Durante, Sergio (M) "Mozart and the Idea of Vera Opera: A Study of La Clemenza Di Tito"
  • Kurth, Richard Burton (T) "Mosaic Isomorphism and Mosaic Polyphony: Balance and Imbalance in Schoenberg's Twelve-Tone Rhetoric"
  • Wollny, Peter (M) "Studies in the Music of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach: Sources and Style"

1994

  • Alexander, Peter (C) Symphony No. 1
  • Brandt, Anthony (C) Septet-a-Tete for Flute, Bass Clarinet, Two Percussion, Piano, Violin, and Cello
  • Beller-McKenna, Daniel (M) "Brahams, the Bible, and Post-Romanticism: Cultural Issues in Johannes Brahms' Later Settings of Biblical Texts, 1877-1896"
  • Leafstedt, Carl (M) "Music and Drama in Bela Bartok's Opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle"
  • Neill, Roger (C) Enemy Way Music

1995

  • Abdel-Gawad, Riad (C) Taqaseem for Chamber Orchestra
  • Amati-Camperi, Alexandra (M) "An Italian Genre in the Hands of a Frenchman: Philippe Verdelot as Madrigalist, with Special Emphasis on the Six-Voice pieces"
  • Kalogeras, Alexandros (C) Anax Apollon
  • Kozachek, Thomas (M) "The Repertory of Chant for Dedicating Churches in the MIddle Ages: Music, Liturgy, and Ritual"
  • Jun Fu Road to Shu
  • Stone, Anne (M) "Writing Rhythm in Late Medieval Italy: Notation and Musical Style in the Manuscript Modena Alpha.M.D, 24"

1996

  • Abbate, Elizabeth (M) "Myth, Symbol, and Meaning in Mahler's Early Symphonies"
  • Andre, Naomi Adele (M) "Azucena, Eboli, and Amneris: Verdi's Writing for Women's Lower Voices"
  • Awad, Emil (C) Zazil for Orchestra
  • Greer, Mary (M) "The Sacred Duets and Terzets of Johann Sebastian Bach: A Study of Genre and Musical Text Interpretation"
  • Gokita, Takehiko (C) Autumn Tear for Orchestra
  • Johnson, John A. (M) "Gershwin's 'American Folk Opera': The Genesis, Style, and Reputation of Porgy and Bess (1935)"
  • Koto, Takashi (C) The Distant Stars for Orchestra
  • Lukes, Roberta (M) "The Poeme electronique of Edgard Varese"
  • Rindfleisch, Andrew (C) Fun House
  • Risinger, Mark (M) "Handel's Compositional Premises and Procedures: Creative Adaptation and Assimilation in Selected Works, 1733-44"
  • Yu, Siu Way (M) "The meaning and Cultural Functions of Non-Chinese Musics in the 18th -Century Manchu Court"

1997

  • Ahn, Suhnne (M) "Genre, Style, and Compositional Procedure in Beethoven's 'Kreutzer' Sonta"
  • Davis, Mary (M) "Irony, Logic and Form" Sources for the Esprit Galois in the Piano Works of Erik Satie"
  • Koczela, Jason (C) Octet
  • Krims, Adam (T) "Some Structuralist and Post-Structuralist Models for Music Theory"
  • Morrison, Ann (E) "Music That Moves Between Worlds: Wabanaki Music as Tradition and History"
  • Shimizu, Ken (C) Orchestral Work

1998

  • Gallagher, Sean (M) "Models of Varietas: Studies in Style and Attribution in the Motets of Johannes Regis and His Contemporaries"
  • Kozachek, Laura (M) "The Specialnik Dodex, Hradec Kralove, Krajske Muzeum Knihovna (Regional Museum Library), MS II A7"
  • McGuire, Charles (M) "Epic Narration: The Oratorios of Edward Elgar"
  • Raul Romero (E) "Debating the Pasts: Music, Identity and Mestijaje in the Central Peruvian Andes"
  • Andrew Shenton (M) "The Unspoken Word: Olivier Messiaen's 'Langage Communicable"
  • Kathryn Welter (M) "Johann Pachelbel: Organist, Teacher, Composer: A Critical Reexamination of His Life, Work, and Liturgical Significance"

1999

  • Kotilaine, Jennifer Baker (M) "Culture Bearers, Culture Brokers: Ratilio and folk Music in Post-Soviet Lithuania"
  • Bisson, Noel (M) "English Polyphony for the Virgin Mary: The Votive Antiphon, 1420-1500"
  • Horne, David (C) A Friend of the People--Opera in Three Acts with a Prologue
  • Hulse, Brian (C) Clarinet Quintet
  • Kidger, David (M) "The Masses of Adrian Willaert: A Critical Study"
  • Neidhofer, Christoph (T) "An Approach to Interrelating Counterpoint and Serialism in the Music of Igor Stravinsky, Focusing on the Principal Diatonic Works of his Transitional Period"
  • Stallmann, Kurt (C) String Quartet #1
  • Taddie, David (C) Mutant: for Chamber Orchestra and Electronic Tape

2000

  • Al-Zand, Karim (T) "The Improvisational Style of Julian 'Cannonball' Adderley"
  • Chen, Jen-yen (M) "The a cappella Style in Viennese Sacred Music of the Later 18th Century"

2001

  • Fisher, Alexander (M) "Music in Counter-Reformation Augsburg: Musicians, Rituals and Repertories in a Religiously Divided City"
  • Gollin, Edward (T) "Representations of Space and Conceptions of Distance in Transformational Music Theories"
  • Gosman, Alan (T) "Compositional Approaches to Tonal Canon"
  • Hakenberg, Stefan (C) Oder River Image
  • Holland, Jonathan (C: November, 2000) Actions Rendered: Interpretations of Pollock for Three Orchestras
  • Ito, Hiroko (C) Aperture II for Eleven Players
  • Tang, Patty (E) "Masters of the Sabar: Wolof Griots in Contemporary Senegal"

2002

  • McLoskey, Lansing (C) (November, 2001) Requiem, ver. 2.001x
  • James, April (M) "Her Highness' Voice: Maria Antonia, Music and Culture at the Dresden Court"
  • Cohen, Judah (E) "Becoming a Reform Jewish Cantor: a Study in Cultural Investment"
  • Gyger, Elliott (C) Polishing Firewood for cello and ensemble
  • Charles Starrett (E) A.M. degree

2003

  • Roe-Min Kok (H) "Romantic Childhood, Bourgeois Commercialism and the Music of Robert Schumann"
  • Arni Ingolfsson (H) "'These Are The Things You Never Forget': The Written and Oral Traditions of Icelandic Tvísöngur"
  • Thomas Peattie (H) (November, 2002) "The fin-de-siecle metropolis, memory, modernity and the music of Gustav Mahler"

2004

  • Andrew Talle (H)"J. S. Bach's Keyboard Partitas and Their Early Audience"
  • Stephanie Treloar (H) "The Madrigals of Giaches de Wert: Patrons, Poets and Compositional Procedures"
  • Jeannie Guerrero (T) "Text-setting techniques in Luigi Nono's choral work (1956-1960)"
  • Erik Spangler (C) Mandala of the Four Directions: a ritual cantata for 4 singers and 4 ensembles
  • Richard Whalley (C), A Wisp of Spring Cloud

2005

  • Kiri Miller (E) "A Long Time Traveling: Song, Memory, and the Politics of Nostalgia in the Sacred Hard Diaspora"
  • Matthew Peattie (H) "The Beneventan Antiphon and the Influence of Beneventan Style in the South Italian Office"
  • Lara Pellegrinelli (E) "The Song is Who? Beyond 'Doubleness' in Mainstream, Contemporary Jazz Singing"
  • Julia Randel (H) (November, 2004) "Visual Hearing: Balanchine's Choreography as Analysis and Interpretation of Stravinsky's Late Works"
  • Ken Ueno (C) Iku

 2006

  • Cynthia Gonzales (T) (November 2005) "Text-Music Relationships in the Early Songs of Arnold Schoenberg"
  • David Kaminsky (E) (November 2005) "Hidden Traditions: Conceptualizing Swedish Folk Music in the Twentieth Century"
  • Zoe Lang (H) (November 2005) "Light" Music and Austrian Identity: the Strauss Family Legacy in Austrian Politics and Culture, 1918-1938
  • Helen Lee (C) (November 2005) reflections
  • Lei Liang (C) septet
  • Christina Linklater (H) Popularity, Presentation and the Chansonnier Saint-Germain-des-Prés
  • Scott Metcalfe (November 2005) (MM Performance Practice) Motolinía on music: an anthology, translation, and study of writings about music in the works of fray Toribio de Benavente, called Motolinía (c. 1490-1569)
  • Bettina Varwig (H) “Expressive Forms: Rethinking Rhetoric in the Music of Heinrich Schütz”
  • Du Yun (C) Zolle: a music-theatre

2007

  • Aaron Allen (H)(November 2006) “Beethoven’s Music in Nineteenth-Century Italy: A Critical Review
    of its Reception through the Early 1860s"
  • David Black (H)“Mozart and the Practice of Sacred Music 1781–91”
  • Michael Cuthbert(H) (November 2006) “Trecento Fragments and Polyphony Beyond the Codex"
  • Richard Giarusso (H)“Dramatic Slowness: Adagio Rhetoric in Late Nineteenth-Century Austro-German Music”
  • Christopher Jon Honett (C) Courtesy of Blue
  • Natalie Kirschstein (E) “Reclaiming the Future: Communal Space, Collective Memory, and Political Narrative
    on Uruguay’s Murga Stage”
  • Jonathan Kregor (H) “Franz Liszt and the Vocabularies of Transcription, 1833–65”
  • Sarah Morelli (E) “‘From Calcutta to California’ Negotiations of Movement and Meaning in Kathak Dance”
  • Jessie Rodin (H)“Josquin and the Polyphonic Mass in the Sistine Chapel”
  • Julie Rohwein (C) Shattered Glass
  • Eliyahu Shoot (C)(March 2007) Passage. A Musical Portfolio
  • Benjamin Steege (H) “Material Ears: Hermann von Helmholtz, Attention, and Modern Aurality”
  • Nicholas Vines (C) The Hive: A Chamber Opera in Seven Tableaux
  • Jonathan Wild (T)(March 2007) “Tessellating the Chromatic: Combinatorial Resources of Pitch Space”

2008

  • Brigid Cohen (H)(November 2007) “Migrant Cosmopolitan Modern: Cultural Reconstruction in Stefan Wolpe’s Musical Thought, 1919-1972”
  • Aaron Girard (T)(November 2007) “Music Theory in the American Academy”
  • Mary Greitzer (T)(November 2007) “Tormented Voices”
  • Robert Hasegawa (T)“Just Intervals and Tone: Representation in Contemporary Music”
  • Anton Vishio (T)“Asymmetries in Post-Tonal Counterpoint”

Undergraduate Honors Theses


1990 (data to come)

Tallis Sebastien Barker
Matthew Lynn Buchanan
Shu-Ching Evelyn Chen
Hugh David Alden Hinton
Dalya Sarai Khan
Vanessa Dale Lann
Jeffrey Joseph Tennessen
Daniel Thompson
Karen Linette Thompson
Elizabeth D. Wint

1991 (data to come)

Colum Frances Amory
Jen-Yen Chen
David Augustus Eggar
Christopher William Gattis
Christopher A. Libertino
Charles Daniel Starrett
Jonathan Victor Wallenberger
Michael Joshua Wartofsky

1992 (data to come)

Maximillian David Fleischman
Jennifer Lynn Giering
Pamela Deirdre Holmes
Sara E. Jobin
Teresa Anne Marrin
Sarah Daphne Patek
Mark James Pletcher
Larissa Helen Sokoloff
Steven Llewellyn Thomas

1993 (data to come)

Anselm Russell Barker
Evan Alexis Christ
Ariadne Maria Daskalaskis
Ethan Bruce Haley
Ian Gerald Henderson
Sarah Hatsuko Hicks
Eugene C. Kim
Aras Lapiskas
Craig Tillman Peters
Joshua Hillel Ranz
Gideon Baker Rubin

1994

Randall Eng A House Divided: A Music Drama in Two Acts
Erik Karl Gustafson Rhapsody for Cello and Piano
Rachel Santiago Manalili "Reverent Cadence and Subtle Psalm: Benjamin Britten's Wartime Choral Settings of Christian Poetry"
Geoffrey Robert Shamu "Richard Strauss as Conductor"
Peter Craig Stern "Ezra Pound and the Music of Poetry"
Carlton Jay Voss String Quartet No. 4

1995

Dominic Matthew Dousa Symphony in E
Matthew Benjamin Gelbart "Felix Mendelssohn and the Place of Folk Music in Art: A Case Study of the Scottish Symphony"
Russell Todd Graham The Snow Queen
Steven Wei-ming Huang "Rhythm and Gestus in Kurt Weill's Mature Style: An Analysis of Der Silbersee and Die sieben Todsunden"
Channing Aloysius Paluck "The Effect of Music on Children's Success in the School Environment"
Elisabeth Megan Remy "Transforming Persephone through Music and Words"
Amy Maya Shimbo Missa Brevis for solo soprano and baritone, mixed chamber chorus, and wind quintet
Janet Unyoung Sung "Authenticity: Preserved or Re-Invented?Examining Authenticity Through the Ideas of Hungarian Nationalism an dthe Works of Bela Bartok"

1996

Awet Andemicael "Modeling Repertoire Choice in Professional American Opera Companies"
Alexander Barylski "The Critic as Composer: Sir Donald Francis Tovey's Cello Concerto in C, Opus 40
John Capello "Ethnography of Jazz at Lincoln Center"
Matthew Haimovitz "A Dialogue of Analytical, Musicological, and Performance Perspectives on Beethoven's Opus 102, No. 2"
Orin Johnson The Green Lady
Jefferson Packer "Monteverdi's response to text and drama in L'Orfeo and L'incoronazione di Poppea: A Comparative Analysis"
Michael Puri Adorno
Adam Rose "The Historical Context, Musical Americanism, and Compositional Style of Aaron Copland's Third Symphony"
Juliana Trivers Cello Concerto
Seth Weinstein Ordinary People: A Musical
Luna Woolf Still Life Suite: Five Dances for Orchestra

1997

Brent Auerbach Summer's End
Matthew Best "Intabulations for Lute of Italian Secular works in Rome 1608..."
Amy Brown Heart Song
Caprice Corona "Representations of Ethnicity in the Chicano/Latino Rap Music and Hiphop Culture of Los Angeles, California"
Catherine deLima "Showboat from Novel to Musical"
Katherine Evans "Shakespeare and Verdi: A Study of Macbeth"
Mary Farbood Missa for Chorus and Orchestra
Helen French "Vaughan Williams' Eighth Symphony: A Late Experiment
Darin Goulet Not Much Fun
Olivia Herman Echoes on Stone
Andrew Jacobs Waiting for My Life for Soprano and Ensemble
Robert Lagueux "Writing the Fleury Play-Book"
Caroline Mallonee Three Nocturnes for Soprano and Orchestra
Ruth Ochs "Amy Beach's Mass in E flat, Op. 5
Jonathan Yates String Quartet

1998

Michael Barrett "Issues of Performance Practice in Cantata 79 of J.S. Bach"
Michael Cuthbert "Fragments of Polyphonic Music from the Abbey of S. Giustina: Codices, Composers, and Context in Late-Medieval Padua"
Jonathan Deily-Swearingen Suite for piano quintet
Clifford Ginn Chamber Symphony
Hubert Ho A Vision of Time
Matthew Lima Gamut: Six Movements for Eleven Players
Judith Quinones "Irish Pub Sessions, Let's See What the 'Craic' Is"
Sami Shumays Variations for Octet (for clarient and string quartet)
Christopher Thorpe "The Application of Stochastic Processes in the Harmonization of Bach chorale Melodies"
Andra Voldins "Women in the Classical Music Industry"

1999

Christopher Ariza Comma, for Large Ensemble
Wesley Chinn "Madonna"
Brendan Daly "Glossed Music and Glossed Verse: Reconstructing the Poetics of the 16th Century Villancico as Represented in the Volume 'Villancicos de diversos autores...'(1556)"
Iris Lan "Finding Choreography for Stravinsky's 'Tango' (1940)"
Benjamin Lebwohl "The Act I Finale of Mozart's Don Giovanni: An Analysis"
Jennifer Morales "From Broadside Ballads to Ballad Opera: A Study of the Popular Music Genres of 17th and 18th-Century England"
Daniel Roihl Mass (Movements I and II)
Fleur de Vie Weinstock An Electronic Composition in Memory of Ivan Tcherepnin

2000

John Baxindine "The Trouble with Candide": Analysis of an Operetta
Elena Cho "The virtuoso as paradox: binary opposition in Franz Liszt and sir Arthur Conan Doyle' Sherlock Holmes"
John Driscoll Concerto for solo flute, clarinet and violin and chamber orchestra
Aaron Einbond Chamber Symphony (for 14 players)
Shawn Feeney The boy who became a twittering machine
Alexandre Freedman "So What and More: Interation in the Miles Davis Quintet of 1964"
Martijn Hostetler Preludes (12 preludes for film and piano)
Benjamin Rous A Bagatelle and Five Etudes
Jonathan Russell Quartet for Four Clarinets
Lane Shadgett "Pierre Bourdieu and Richard Wagner: a study of the bipartite elite through the lens of the music drama of the latter nineteenth century"
Jennifer Young The Road Goes Ever On and On (songs for male voices)

2001

Jesse Billett "A Newly Identified Thirteenth-Century Franciscan Antiphoner: Houghton Library, pfMS Typ 198
Alexander Boroson "Emotion and Meaning in Film Music"
John Ashley Burgoyne "Cinderella Stories. Vladimir Propp and the Analysis of Opera"
Jennifer Caine,"Revealing Intentions: A Literary and Musical Analysis of Shostakovich's Six Poems of

Marina Tsvetaeva, op. 143
Theodore Hine Requiem
Grace Kao "Performance Pitch of Sixteenth-Century English Sacred Music: An Interdisciplinary Approach"
Jennifer Lee "From Imagination to Realization: Notions of a Distinct Cello Community"
Ayano Ninomiya "The 19th Century French Salon as Exemplified by Pierre Baillot and George Sand"
David Salvage Concerto for Piano and Orchestra

2002

John Bachman "Exploring SoundSpace: The Musical and Technical Foundations of Virtual Interactive Sound Environments"
Daniel-Lembit Beecher Where Wind Becomes Song for Chamber Ensemble and Small Chorus
Gabrielle Clark "The 'Société académique des enfants d'Apollon': Musicians and Intellectuals in French Society, ca. 1741-1891"
Peter Dong Les Phys: a musical
Christopher Hossfeld Miss Julie: an opera in one act
Elizabeth Kessler "The Music Pedagogy of the Bar Mitzvah Ceremony"
Jihwan Kim A Korean Story: original composition
Joseph Lake Shortly Before Dawn, Port Clyde, ME: Improvisations for MIDI-Controlled Serge and Buchla Analog Modular Synthesizers Processed in Realtime with MSP
Sarah Meyers "Surviving Salzburg: Rethinking the Relationship of Identity in Operatic Works"
Gregory Padgett "Space, Serialism, and Simultaneity: Einstein, Schoenberg, and Cultural Modernism, 1900-1930"
Christopher Trapani Songs from the Plays: Creating a Musical Reflection of Kenneth Koch's Poetry
Nathaniel Whitman Dark Dark Music: A Rock Opera: Act I

2003

Jason Deane Armstrong "A Close Analysis of the Prelude in C Minor (BWV 871), Using Articulation and Grouping to Describe Subjective Understandings"
Michelle Elizabeth Yael Braunschweig "Mahler's Tristan and the Politics of Wagnerian Aesthetics, 1897-1907"
Mona Caitlin Lewandoski Cantata on Sacred Themes: original composition
Kristin Elisabeth Naragon "The Perception of Timbre as an Organizational Structure in Twentieth Century Nontonal Music"
Jacob Charles Richman anyone lived in a pretty how town (for trombone trio, narrator and film): original composition
Daniel Dushan Sedgwick Quintet for Piano and Strings (for Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello and Double Bass: original composition
Meredith Lynne Schweig "Made in Taiwan: Hybrid Voices and the Performance of Cultural Plurality in Taiwan's Popular Music, from Teresa Teng to Samingad"
Kathleen Abernathy Stetson Fly Me to the Moon Saloon Three Dance Episodes: original composition

2004

William Jeffrey Adams
"Media-Space: The Constructed Experience of International Pop Music in Contemporary China"
William Aronson
Three to Five Pages: original composition
Michael Callahan
"Aspects of Pitch Structure in Anton von Webern's Fünf Sätze für Streichquartett, Op.5"
Anthony S. Cheung
"Revisiting Ah Q: Misreading Intent and Rhetoric in The True Story of Ah Q and An Operatic Adaptation in Ten Scenes"
Miki-Sophia Justina Dorothy Cloud
Visions of the Daughters of Albion: A Musical Drama in Two Acts
Carson Cooman
Spectrum: Concerto-Cantata for Oboe, Chorus, and Chamber Orchestra: original composition
Adrien Cote Finlay
"Towards French Opera: The First Production of Lully's Academy of Music, Les Fetes de l'Amour et de Bacchus"
Marisa Wickersham Green
"Virgil in Rome, Dido in Venice: The Aeneid in 17th-Century Italian Musical Drama"
Moira Hill
"Matthias Weckmann's Four Sacred Concertos of 1663: Sources, Structures, and Influences from Italian Music in KN 206 and KN 145"
John McMunn
"Perceiving Carter: a Phenomenological Analysis of String Quartet No. 1"
Alexander Ness
The Lure of the Deep: original composition
Matthew O'Malley
On the Playa: original composition

2005

Michael Joseph Abbriano, Jr.
Invisible Cities (in thirteen parts for small orchestra, after Italo Calvino)
Bradley Robert Balliett
"36 Etudes for Bassoon; Volume One: The Conception of the Keys; Volume Two: Exercises for the Contemporary Bassoonist"
Warren Grant Behr (Joint with Mathematics)
"Stravinsky's Neoclassical Counterpoint"
John Gunnar Carlsson (Joint with Mathematics)
"SCRAWL, an Optical Music Recognition System"
Joseph P. Fishman (Joint with Religion)
"The Collective Memory of a Memorial: The American Reception of Dmitri Shostakovich's Second Piano Trio in E minor, Op. 67"
Megan Elizabeth Goldstein (Joint with Social Anthropology)
"Black & White and Blue: Jazz in Film Noir"
Lara Marie Hirner (Joint with Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies): "Completing the Circle: Singing Women's Universality and the Music of Libana"
DoanNhi Dona Le (Joint with Germanic Languages & Literatures)
"The Sound of Silence, as written by Paul Celan and composed by Harrison Birtwistle: A Contemporary Setting of 'Tenebrae'"
Laura Stephanie Manion (Joint with History)
"The WPA Music Programs: Conflicting Claims Concerning American Identity, 1930-1943"
Frank Carmine Napolitano (Joint with Religion)
"The Song of Songs: Musical and Theological Trajectories and Depiction in the 16th-Century Latin Sacred Motet"
Anicia Chung Timberlake (Joint with Germanic Languages & Literatures)
"Turnings Inwards: Musical Tradition and German Identity in the Weimar Republic"
Berenika Dorota Zakrzewski (Joint with Government)
"Urban Revitalization, Municipal Politics, and the Value of Performing Arts Center (January 2005 Graduate)

2006

Damian Blättler “L’artiste-magicien et ses sortilèges: Exoticism, Literary Currents, and Ravel’s Compositional Aesthetic”
Benjamin E. Green (Joint with Computer Science) “Using Hierarchical Models of Mode to Construct a General Model for Melody”
David Kronig (Joint with Government) “Shostakovich in Stalinist Russia: Resisting Totalitarianism and Maintaining Individuality Through Music”
Stephanie Johanna Lai (Joint with Social Studies) “The Pacific Music Festival: Myth, Ritual, and Utopia “
Annelisa Helene Pedersen (Joint with English and American Literature and Language) “Except me. Accept me. Expect me. Except me: The Collaborative Contrariness of Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson”
David L. Richmond “Debussy in Boston’s Imagination: The Performance of Sensuality”
Emily Claire Richmond “Domesticating Die Soldaten: A Critical Interpretation of Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s Opera based on Character Relationships, Small-Scale Politics, and the Domestic Sphere”
Jordan Bennett Louis Smith (Joint with Physics) “Testing Zipf’s Law: The Mathematics and Aesthetics of Performance”
Derrick Wang Trajectories (for piano and orchestra)
Emily Carolyn Zazulia “Johannes Puyllois (d. 1478) and His Sacred Music: A Reassessment, with a Critical Edition of His Complete Works”

2007

Doug Balliett The Retelling (for Rock Bank and Orchestra)
Shira Brettman (Joint with History) “Bernstein and Hellman’s Candide: the Politics of Failure in Post-War American Musical Theater”
Laurence Coderre (Joint with East Asian Studies) “Pihuang, Violins, and Infallible Heros: Internal Contradictions of the Model Operas”
Chrix Finne (Joint with Mathematics) “Tonal Tori and Other Iddities: A Neo-Riemannian Survey”

2008

Nora Izumi Bartosik (joint with Germanic Languages and Literatures)
Keeping the Hills Alive: Conflicts of Tradition in Swiss Appenzeller Folk Music
Julia Scott Carey
Three orchestral songs
Richard Conrad Cozzens (joint with Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations)
“We’re not Gs—We’re Arabs”: Arab Identity in the Politics and Poetics of Rap in Jordan, Syria, and Palestine
Aram Demirjian (joint with Government)
From Musical Consonance to Institutional Dissonance: The U.S. Government and the Internationalization of American Music
Benjamin R. Eisler (joint with Economics)
Art for Art’s Sake: Classical Music’s Rebellion Against the Market, and the Price We Pay
Seth Philip Herbst (joint with English and American Literature and Language)
Two Dramas Both Alike: Words, Music, and Imagination in Shakespeare’s and Prokofiev’s Versions of Romeo and Juliet
Meghan Christina Joyce (joint with English and American Literature and Language)
Synthesizing the Arts: James Joyce’s and Tennessee Williams’s Applications of Richard Wagner’s Gesamtkunstwerk
Paul Lawrence Kolb
Rethinking Tradition: A Comprehensive Analysis of the Psalm Settings in Claudio Monteverdi’s Selva morale e spirituale (1641)
Elizabeth Lim
Windfalls (Concerto for Orchestra)
Catherine Elizabeth Powell (joint with English and American Literature and Language)
King Arthur’s Anatomy: Semi-Opera on the Restoration Stage
Jesse Wiener
Finding Danny (song cycle for mezzo-soprano and chamber orchestra)

Undergraduate Fellowship Activities

1990

Vanessa Lann received the John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to study composition at the Konoinklijk Conservatorium of The Hague.

1991

no data available

1992

Sara Jobin received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to study conducting at the Pierre Monteux Conducting School in Hancock, Maine, and in San Francisco with Alasdair Neale, Assistant Conductor of the San Francisco Symphony.

1993

Evan Christ received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to study as a special student at the Liszt Academy in Budapest, Hungary in order to further develop his musicianship and conducting skills.

Aras Lapinskas received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to spend the summer studying Lithuanian folklore an dfolk music in Vilnius, Lithuania.

1994

Sam Hilton received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to pursue ethnomusicological research in Vietnam, primarily at the Hanoi Conservatory.

Geoffrey Shamu received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to study trumpet in Paris with Pierre Thibaut and Baroque trumpet performance practice with teachers in London and Cologne.

1995

Matthew Benjamin Gelbart received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to pursue musicological research in London, Berlin, and Krakow.

Simon Tom received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to study piano performance in London wiht Maria Curcio and to travel to musical historical sites in Austria and elsewhere.

1996

Michael Puri received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship for further study at several European music schools.

Juliana Trivers received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to study composition in Paris with composer Betsy Jolas.

Luna Woolf received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship for the study of composition in France.

1997

none

1998

Sami Shumays received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to study Arab music with Simon Shaheen in New York City.

1999

 Iris Lan received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to study representations of the tango and other Western ballroommusic and dance in East Asia.

2000

Shawn Feeney received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to study at the Elam School of Art at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, towards a Masters Degree in Intermedia.

2001

Jennifer Caine received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship for travel in conjunction with her study at the Royal College of Music in London.

Jennifer Lee received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship for travel in Europe in conjunction with her study at Oxford University.

2002

John A. Bachman received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to study North Indian classical drumming in Nepal.

Sarah Darling received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to study viola and baroque violin performance with Nobuko Imai at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam.

Christopher Trapani received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to support his postgraduate composition studies in Europe.

 2003

Kristin Naragon received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to attend the McGill Summer Organ Academy, the International Summer Music Academy in Leipzig, Germany, and the Smarano International Organ, Clavichord and Improvisation Academy near Milan, Italy.

Sean Henry Ryan received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to travel to Stockholm, Sweden to study with Maestro Alan Gilbert of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.

Meredith Schweig received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to support a post-graduate project on the sound, origin, and development of the "quintessential Taiwanese" music voice, 1950-present.

Kathleen Stetson received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to study French at the Alliance Francaise in Paris while studying French vocal literature and voice.

 2004

Anthony Cheung received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to attend the Acanthes composition workshop.

Katharine Dain received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship for voice study at Guildhall School in London.

Adrien Finlay received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to search in Paris and Cambridge.

Moira Hill received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship for organ study at Trossingen, Germany.

LeMinh Ho received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship for a Lisztian European tour.

John McMunn received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship for travel and living expenses at King's College, England.

Alexander Ness received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to travel to University of Wisconsin international program - India.

2005

Francesca Anderegg received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to visit and study period orchestras in England.

Joseph Fishman received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to pursue an M. Phil in historical musicology at the University of Cambridge, studying Dmitri Shostakovich's Thirteenth Symphony as a musical response to the Holocaust.

Anicia Timberlake received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to research the reception and treatment of modern international music in the German Democratic Republic.

Berenika Zakrzewski received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to study at Oxford University, collaborate with Oxford composers, and conduct research at arts councils in Germany and France.

2006

Stephanie Lai received a Paine Traveling Fellowship to visit Mozart-related sites and hear concerts of Mozart’s work in Salzburg, Vienna, and Prague, and to conduct research on the Elgar Cello Concerto.

Annelisa Pederson received a Paine Traveling Fellowship to support her trip to Zambia where she will conduct ethnographic research and implement a summer music program for children, teens and adults in the Meheba Refugee Settlement.

David Richmond received a Paine Traveling Fellowship to study oboe with George Sakakeeny and to work with orchestral bassoonists in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle and Portland, Oregon.

Emily Zazulia received a Paine Traveling Fellowship to conduct research at the Paris Bibliotheque Nationale

2007

Kurt Crowley (AB ’07) received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to conduct research in Punjab, India on Sikh tradition.

2008

Nora Bartosik (AB ’08) received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to study piano in Poland, Austria, France, and England.

Julia Cavallaro (AB ’08) received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to study voice in England.

Aram Demirjian (AB ’08) received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to study conducting and participate in competitions in Czech Republic, France, and Germany.

Paul Kolb (AB ’08) received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to study theory and composition at Oxford.

Elizabeth Lim (AB ’08) received a John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship to study composition and opera in California, Italy, and Austria.