Music Theses and Dissertations
This collection contains theses and dissertations from the Department of Music, collected from the Scholarship@Western Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
The Indomitable Basque: an orchestral work in three movements inspired by the Basque Whalers of Labrador of the Sixteenth Century, Aiden Hartery
Interconnected Pathways on YouTube and Music Education: YouTubers and Their Stories, Donna Janowski
Follow the Leader: Genre Formation and Gendered Reception of Nu Metal Music, Clare L. King
Capital, Christopher J. Miller
Concerto for Piano Duet, Edgar R. Suski
Well, DAW! That’s Why I Don’t Sound Like the Recording: Music Production in Elementary School Music Education, Johnny Touchette
CULTURALLY DIVERSE TRAJECTORIES OF HIGHER INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC EDUCATION IN AZERBAIJAN (1920-2020), Allahyar Vazirov
A Discourse in Strength: Suite for Orchestra, Thomas Yackimec
Decolonizing Music Education: A Journey of Reflection and Reconciliation, Eric J. Zwicker
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Musical Behaviours, Dispositions, and Tendencies: Exploring Church Music-Making Through a Theory of Practice, Laura E. Benjamins
A Comparative Analysis of the Early Twentieth-Century Music Appreciation and Community Music Movements in the United States, Andrew J. Blimke
"That's the Way I Am, Heaven Help Me": The Role of Pronunciation in Billy Bragg's Music, Mary Blake Bonn
Singing Our Stories: Building Community and Developing Self-Empowerment in the Childless Voices Choir, Laura Curtis
Non-Directed Time, Danial Derakhshan
Soundcurrents: Exploring sound’s potential to catalyze creative critical consciousness in adolescent music students and undergraduate music education majors, Jashen i. Edwards
A Study of Art Song Composition and Interpretation by Three Female German Composers in the Mid-Nineteenth Century, Churan Feng
Music Making in Elderly Community Program for Korean Immigrants in Canada, H. Elisha Jo
The Maker - A Multi-Media Opera in Two Acts, Aaron Lee
Vibes at the Village Vanguard: Hauntings, History, and the Construction of Jazz Place, Mark McCorkle
Transference Music: For Electric Guitar Soloist and Amplified Orchestra, Andrew Noseworthy
Prokofiev and the Soviet Dilemma: Censorship, Autonomy, and the Piano Transcriptions, Connor O'Kane
The Collective Unconscious, Yixuan Wang
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Seeing Thro the Musical Eye: Santo Daime, Fuke-shū, 1960s Psychedelia, and the Antipodes of Musical Experience, Forest Anthony-Muran
The Contrabass Tuned in Fifths: Towards an Understanding of Past and Present Applications., Stephen T. Bright
Sound Judgements: Music Education Framework for Guiding Digital Mixing Practice, Artur Kapron
Musical Signification in Biber's Rosary Sonatas, Frangel Lopez Cesena
The Classical Sonata Forms of Franz Schubert’s Great C-Major Symphony: Exploring Tonal Structure in the New Romantic Style, Liam J. McDermott
Secondary Instrumental Ensemble: A Shift Towards Non-Normative Learning Practices, Kristine Musgrove
Voice Image: developing a new construct for vocal identity, Bethany R. Turpin
The Tale of Rowan O'Shera (A Musical Drama), Emma T.L. Verdonk
Exploring Musical Knowledge Within One Canadian School Of Music: Ideology, Pedagogy, And Identity, Kyle Zavitz
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Re-imagining Brazilian Portuguese IPA: A practical guide utilizing Paulo Maron’s new opera Lampião, Jorge Luiz Alves Trabanco Filho
Music Sounds Better With You, M Gillian Carrabre
Coloquio entre dos Perros, Comic Chamber Opera in Nine Scenes, Sandra Rocio Fuya-Duenas
Waves of Lament, Kennedy Kimber-Johnson
Mood, Music Choices, and the Emotional Outcomes of Music Listening: An Examination of the Moderating Role of Rumination using Experience-Sampling Methodology, Elizabeth E. Kinghorn
Speaking Songs: Music-Analytical Approaches to Spoken Word, Chantal D. Lemire
Music for Self-Attention, Jeffrey A T Lupker
Music of Peace and Protest: U.S. Composers and Musical Activism during the Vietnam War (1965-1971), April P. Morris
A Narrative Approach to the Barcarolles for Solo Piano by Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924), Matthew T. Pope
Motivic Metamorphosis: Modelling Intervallic Transformations in Schoenberg’s Early Works, Adam Roy
The Integration of the Style Hongrois into Brahms’s Musical Language in His Chamber Works, Raymond D. Truong
Ann Southam's Solo Piano Music: A Performance Guide, Amelia G. Yates
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Critical Border Crossing: Exploring Positionalities Through Soundscape Composition and Critical Reflection, Kelly Bylica
See It and Believe It: An Investigation into Singers' Imagery Use, Brianna DeSantis
Domenico Dragonetti: A case study of the 12 unaccompanied waltzes, Jury T. Kobayashi
Understanding Viktor Ullmann Through His Liederbuch des Hafis, Chad G. Louwerse
Dreamvision Songbook: Five Songs for Mixed Ensemble, Maxwell R. Lucas Mr.
The Alia musica and the Carolingian Conception of Mode, Matthew R J Nace
Music Education in a Liquid Social World: The Nuances of Teaching with Students of Immigrant and Refugee Backgrounds, Gabriela Ocádiz Velázquez
Exploring Being Queer and Performing Queerness in Popular Music, Rosheeka Parahoo
Music in the Moment of "Cyber Culture:" An Outward Spiral, Brandon Sked
The Search for Canadian Art Song: Developing the Framework for a Database of Art Song by Canadian Composers, Leanne Vida
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Contexts for Musical Modernism in Post-1945 Mexico: Federico Ibarra - A Case Study, Francisco Eduardo Barradas Galván
"It's Obvious Who Plays an Instrument and Who Doesn't": Using Doxa and Illusio to Explore Inequities in English School Music Education, Alison Butler
Creative Collaborations: The Songs/Poems of Canadian Artists Leslie Uyeda and Lorna Crozier, Jennifer Cyr
James Rolfe's Vocal Chamber Music: A Performance Analysis and Interpretation, Laura Duffy
Understanding Game Scoring: Software Programming, Aleatoric Composition and Mimetic Music Technology, Mack Enns
Prufrock: a Monodrama for Baritone and Electronics, Daniel Gardner
The Impact of Expanded, Multimodal Applications during a German Lied Performance, Adam Domenico Iannetta
No Space to Sing: A Narrative Inquiry into the Experiences of Classical Singers with Primary Muscle Tension Dysphonia, Elizabeth Lepock
Playscapes for Piano Trio, James Lowrie
Exploring Stretto: An Investigation into the Use of Stretto in J. S. Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, Kathryn McDonald
Performing Identities, Performing Possibilities: A Music-Centered and Relational Perspective on Performance in Community Music Therapy and Music Education, Elizabeth Mitchell
The Lieder of Joseph Marx and the Italienisches Liederbuch, Caleb Mora
Musical Ekphrasis in Concert: Case Study of Alexey Khevelev’s Chagall Vitraux, Natalia Skomorokhova
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
...and the songs of another... for Six Voices & Live Electronics, Matthew David Becker
The Art Songs of Kyrylo Stetsenko: Ukrainian Lyric Diction Guide, Olena Bratishko
The Effects of Infertility on Female Vocalist Identity, Laura Curtis
The Significance of Aram Khachaturian and His Piano Concerto, Sarah M. Dardarian
Job: An Oratorio for Voices and Chamber Ensemble, Kevin Gibson
Rachmaninoff's Piano Works and Diasporic Identity 1890-1945: Compositional Revision and Discourse, Renee MacKenzie
Capriccio for Mixed Ensemble and Piano, André McEvenue
Toward A Pedagogical Guide To Argentine Art Song, Matthew B. Pauls
Teaching Prospective Verdi Baritones: A Repertoire-Based Approach, Andrew Rethazi
The Donnelly Opera, Joshua L. Richardson
The Old House, Eric Swiatoschik
The Political Power of Carlos Chávez and His Influence Upon Silvestre Revueltas and Blas Galindo, Yolanda Tapia
Six Blake Songs, Willyn Whiting
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
The Effects of Video Recording on the Level of Expertise and Self-Regulated Learning Ability of Adults in a Beginner Classical Guitar Class, Patrick K. Feely
Teleology in César Franck's Prélude, Choral et Fugue, Stephanie Gouin
Antoinette, an Opera in One Act, Colin McMahon
Audio Mastering as a Musical Competency, Matthew T. Shelvock
Fuzzy Family Ties: Familial Similarity Between Melodic Contours of Different Cardinalities, Kristen Wallentinsen
Felix Mendelssohn and Sonata Form in the Nineteenth Century, Katharine G. Walshaw
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Requiem, Wendell Glick
Namazu, Sean Kim
Two Movements for Orchestra, Jeff Lupker
Musical Forces in Claude Vivier’s Wo bist du Licht! and Trois airs pour un opéra imaginaire, Emilie L. Marshall
Ethos, William T. Nicolaou
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
A Study of Form and Structure in Pierre Boulez's Pli selon Pli, Emily J. Adamowicz