Dissertations from 2018
The Flutists of the John Philip Sousa’s Band: A Study of the Flute Section and Soloists, Ramon da Silva Moraes
A Conductor's Guide to Christian Wind Band Literature, Wesley Dykes
Male Belting: An Exploration of Technique and Style From 1967 to Current, Bruce Earnest
Technical and Performance Analysis of Scott McAllister's Devil Sticks, Uncle Sam's Songbag Vol. I, Freebirds, and Funk, James Gruetzner
A Content Analysis of Flow and Music: Teaching, Performance, and Consumption, Lindsey Keay
Finding Euridice: A Singers Introduction to Jonathan Dove's L'altra Euridice, Cody Laun
A Study on the Compositional Style of the Flute Chamber Works of Mel Bonis, Geraldine Margaret Padilla
Cowboy Art Song: A Contextual and Musical Analysis of Libby Larsen's "Cowboy Songs", Ann Gabrielle Richardson
Dissertations from 2017
Re-editing Isaia Billè’s 24 Studi-Capricci Per Contrabbasso a 4 Corde to Modern Notation for Double Bass, Samuel Dahmer
"An Alphabet of Soldiers”: Jake Heggie’s Farewell, Auschwitz, Lori Jo Guy
The Idiosyncratic Language of Brazilian Music: Strategies for Performing Villa-Lobos Choros No. 10, Dennis Paz Leoni
The Influences of the French Flute School on Brazilian Flute Pedagogy, Fabiana Magrinelli Rocha Dahmer
Villa-Lobos's Compositional Techniques and Treatment of Folk Melodies in Cirandas for Piano, Gustavo Schafaschek
Beijing Opera Elements in Qigang Chen’s Piano Concerto Er Huang, Funa Wang
Dissertations from 2016
Character Interpretation in Poulenc's La Voix Humaine: A Performer's Guide, Stefanie Nicole Anduri
Behavioral and Environmental Analysis of Self-Reported Dysphonic and Non-Dysphonic High School Music Teachers, Emily Pence Brown
Exploring Three Colombian-Andean Folk Style (Danza, Pasillo, and Bambuco): An Analysis and Arrangement of Three Colombian Pieces for Flute and Piano, Jesus Castro Turriago
Student Perspectives on the Music-Learning Culture in a Competitive High School Music Program in the United States, Jeremy Scott Kellett
A Quantitative Analysis of the Relationship Between K–12 Music Educators and Collegiate Music Education Researchers and Instructors: Is There a Disconnect?, Meghan Kilpatrick Sheehy
Choral Theatre, Albert Joseph Wolfe Jr.
A Reception History and Conductor’s Guide to William Grant Still’s ...And They Lynched Him on a Tree, Harlan Zackery Jr.
Dissertations from 2015
Musical Portrayals of Death in Mussorgsky’s Songs and Dances of Death, Graham Michael Anduri
First Critical Performing Edition of the Zarzuela Maria la O, by Ernesto Lecuona, Orchestrated by Felix Guerrero, Ivan A. del Prado
A Jamaican Voice: The Choral Music of Noel Dexter, Desmond A. Moulton
Psappha by Iannis Xenakis: Developing Multiple Percussion Literacy, Owen Phillip Rockwell
Dissertations from 2014
British Brass Band Contest Pieces: A Study in Transcriptions for the American Wind Band Repertoire, Jonathan James Helmick
The Application of Contemporary Double Bass Left Hand Techniques Applied in the Orchestra Repertoire, Eric Hilgenstieler
A Conducting Student's Guide to the Solving and Execution of Major Gestural Issues in Beethoven's First Eight Symphonies, Nathanael Thomas Lambert
Blue Mountain: A Chamber Opera for Winds and Voices by Justin Dello Joio: A Unique Contribution for Wind Band Literature, Armando Saldarini
A Document in Death and Madness: A Cultural and Interdisciplinary Study of Nineteenth-Century Art Song Settings on the Death of Opelia, Jennifer Leigh Tipton
Dissertations from 2013
Performing Jonathan Newman's "Symphony No. 1: My Hands Are A City", Joseph Corey Francis
Adapting J.S. Bach's Solo Violin Sonatas and Partitas for the Marimba: Broken Chord and Arpeggio Performance Practices, Jason Eugene Mathena
An Examination of the Requirements and Preparation Required forTubists Desiring a Career in the Military, with Emphasis on Premier Band Auditions, Patrick Charles Rettger
The Published Choral Folk Songs of Cyrillus Kreek, Estonian Nationalist, Jonathan Patrick Rodgers
A Pedagogical Guide to Roberto Carpio's Music for Solo Piano, Pablo Ernesto Sotomayor Kamiyama
A Stylistic Analysis and Performance Guide for James Sclater's "Variations and Toccata on a Theme by Paganini", David Michael Ward
Dissertations from 2012
An Analysis and an Historical Contextualization of Frank Ticheli’s “Cajun Folk Songs”, Jody Anthony Besse
Werner Jaegerhuber's “Messe Folklorique Haitïenne”: A Conductor's Guide, Lauren Michelle Brandon Lindsey
An Introductory Guide to Vibraphone: Four Idiomatic Practices and a Survey of Pedagogical Material and Solo Literature, Brian Scott Cheesman
Extended Techniques and Electronic Enhancements: A Study of Works by Ian Clarke, Christopher Leigh Davis
Interpretations of Student Engagement in the Context of the Orff Schulwerk Music Classroom at the DuBard School for Language Disorders, Anna Rebecca Bondurant Halliday
The Spirit of Triumph, James Anderson DePreist: The Life, Career and Music of an American Conductor, Darryl Eric Harris Sr.
A Performer’s Guide to Six Song Cycles Composed Between 1959 and 2010 by Mississippi Composers, Sarah Hogrefe Mabary
WJ Julian: His Life and Career with Emphasis on His Tenure as Director of Bands at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1961 to 1993, John Tilford Martin
A Conductor’s Guide to the Poetic and Musical Style of the Cante Jondo Based on the Work of Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s Romancero Gitano, Op.152, for Choir and Guitar with Selected Poems of Federico Garcia Lorca’s Poema del Cante Jondo, Elsa Patricia Ramierz-Hacker
A Pedagogical Guide and Argument for Using the Harmonic Series in Teaching Beginning and Intermediate Level Horn Students, Patrick James Richards
What Makes Finzi Finzi? The Convergence of Style and Struggle in the Life of Gerald Finzi and in His Set Before and After Summer, op. 16, Trevor Dangerfield Smith
Joseph Kreines: A Biographical Sketch, an Analysis of American Song Set for Band and a Descriptive Catalogue of His Original Compositions and Transcriptions for Wind Band, Paul Eugene Weikle Jr.
Adult Community Bands and Personality Type as Defined By the Myers-Briggs: A Study of the Personality Types and Music Participation Preferences of Adult Musicians, Daniel Charles Welborn
A Model of an Effective Approach to Studio Voice at the Undergraduate Level: The Vocal Method of Dr. Raquel Cortina, Kathleen Gorman Westfall
The Life and Music of Brian Israel with an Emphasis on His Music for Saxophone, David James Wozniak
Dissertations from 2011
The Life and Selected Piano Works of David Burge, Mary Chung
A Century of Singing: 100 Years of Choral Music at The University of Southern Mississippi, John Howard
Retention of Music Teachers Working with High Concentrations of At-Risk Students in Metro Atlanta Schools: A Qualitative Case Study, Theron Roy Petway III
Two Lecture Recitals of Percussion Music: "Notation for Stroke-Type Analyses" and "Tabla and Indian Musical Concepts in Modern Drum Set Performance", David Robert Whitman
Dissertations from 2010
Presenting Jamaican Folk Songs on the Art Music Stage: Social History and Artistic Decisions, Byron Gordon Johnson
An Analysis of the Career and Solo Style of Jazz Trombonist Carl Fontana, John Wesley Parker
Dissertations from 2009
Leo Brouwer's Estudios Sencillos for Guitar: Afro-Cuban Elements and Pedagogical Devices, Carlos Isaac Castilla Penaranda
Comparative Analysis of Representative Marimba Works by Nebojsa Jo Van Zivkovic, Jefferson Lavelle Grant III
A Comparative Analysis of Roman Palester's Concertino Pour Saxophone Alto Et Orchestre A Cordes, Brian Donald Kauth
A Performance Project with an Historical and Analytical Perspective on the Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra, Op. 31 by Peter Jona Korn, Brian Sanford Ransom
The Music of Jerry Sieg: A Descriptive Catalogue of His Piano Music and an Analysis of the Five Miniatures for Piano, Nuria Mariela Royas
Dissertations from 2008
The Efficacy of SmartMusic® Assessment as a Teaching and Learning Tool, Michael William Buck
An Analytical Conductor's Guide to the SATB A Capella Works of Arvo Part, Kimberly Anne Cargile
Instrumental Tango Idioms in the Symphonic Works and Orchestral Arrangements of Astor Piazzolla. Performance and Notational Problems: A Conductor's Perspective, Alejandro Marcelo Drago
A Comparison of Two Distinctive Jazz Trombone Artists, David Steinmeyer and Curtis Fuller, Eddie Lee Elsey Jr.
A Comparative Analysis of Poetic Structure as the Primary Determinant of Musical Form in Selected A Cappella Choral Works of Gerald Finzi and Benjamin Britten, Andrew Malcolm Jensen
Four Twentieth-Century Mass Ordinary Settings Surveyed Using the Dictates of the Motu Proprio of 1903 as a Stylistic Guide, Jonathan Candler Kilgore
A Performer's Analysis of Eric Ewazen's Sonata for Trumpet and Piano, Joseph Daniel McNally III
Jack Stamp: A Biographical Sketch and Analysis of Symphony No. 1 - "In Memoriam David Diamond", Dawn Anna Perry
A History of the Tara Winds Community Band, Jonesboro, Georgia, 1988-2008, Myra King Rhoden
Luigi Zaninelli: Rehearsing, Performing, and Conducting Selected Works 2005-2008, James Ernest Standland
Fantasy Variations on George Gershwin's Prelude II for Piano: An Analysis and Conductor's Guide, Brian Stevon Taylor
A Stylistic Analysis of Six Pieces for Solo Piano by Rodion Shchedrin and a Stylistic Analysis of Trespreludiosa Modo de Toccata, Dos Danzas Cubanas, and Estudio de Contrastes by Harold Gramatges, Amanda Virelles del Valle
Dissertations from 2006
Trends in Historic and Modern Performance Practice For the Trumpet In Richard Wagner’s Der Ring Des Nibelungen, Michael Ryan Ellzey
Teaching Music Theory In the Traditional Wind Band Rehearsal: A Rationale, Survey of Materials, and Recommendations, Eric Lynn Harris
Martin Ellerby: A Biographical Sketch of the Composer and Descriptive Analysis of Paris Sketches and Symphony For Winds, Jeffrey Cliff Mathews
A Conductor’s Guide to Wind Instrument Deficiencies: A Practical Addendum to the Undergraduate Conducting Text, Donald Bradley Snow
An Overview of Gerald R. Prescott’s 1935 “The Prescott Technic System” With Recommendations for a Contemporary Edition, Carson Lee Vermillion
Dissertations from 2003
A Guide for Conducting Teachers: Physical Movement Taught in Six Selected Instrumental Conducting Textbooks and an Annotated Bibliography, William Geoffrey Carlton
Dissertations from 1981
The Status of Music Education in the Public High Schools of Mississippi, 1979-80, Martha Land Adkins