Theses
The following is a select list of Ph.D. and M.A. theses completed or currently in progress.
Ph.D.
"Music and Poetry in Mallarmé and Debussy"
"Polystylism in the Works of Alfred Schnittke"
"Opera, or the Doing of Women: The Dramatic Works of Ingeborg von Bronsart (1840-1913)"
"'I Write What I Hear': Genre in Selected Songs by Jane Sibbery"
"Opera, Narrative, and the Modernist Crisis of Historical Subjectivity"
"Mozart's Slow-Fast Rondo Arias: A Contribution to the Study of Aria Types, 1770-91"
"Protestant Funeral Music and Rhetoric in Seventeenth-Century Germany: A Musical-Rhetorical Examination of the Printed Sources"
M.A.
"Cape Breton Fiddling: Preservation, Transformation, and Narrative"
"Sounds of Speechlessness: Helmut Lachenmann's Early Vocal Works"
"The Theory and Practice of A-Modes in Glarean's Dodecachordon, 1547"
"Cecile Chaminade: A Composer at Work"
"Dilating on Life: Ani DiFranco's Musical Structuring of Subjectivity and Pleasure in Dilate"
"Surrealism in Francis Poulenc's Bal Masque"
"Representations of Gender in Barbara Pentland's Disasters of the Sun"
"The Early Years of the Canadian League of Composers"
"The Pre-Leipzig Binary Arias of J. S. Bach"
"Gendered Voices: The Liebesfruehling Lieder of Robert and Clara Schumann"
"Paisiello and St. Petersburg"
"A Flood of Tears: Melancholy as Style in English Music and Poetry (circa 1600)"
"A Study of Franz Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsodies"
"An Inquiry into J.S. Bach's Method of Reworking in his Concerto for Keyboard, Flute, and Violin."
