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 2015
J. S. Bach's Modal Compositional Practice in the Chorale Preludes for Solo Organ: A Schenkerian Perspective, Michael Fitzpatrick
A cross-generational examination of learner engagement and agency in non-traditional music education programs, Jennifer M. J. Lang
Amor Fati, Aaron Lee
Heteroglossia: Novella For Orchestra, Andrzej J. Tereszkowski
Sophie, A Music Drama for Solo Soprano and Chamber Ochestra, Alondra Vega-Zaldivar
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
A Comparative Analysis of Neoliberal Education Reform and Music Education in England and Ontario, Canada, Stephanie Horsley
Functional Transformations and Octatonality in Selected Works by George Crumb, Peter Lea
Interpretive Reproduction and Informal Music Learning in the Grade One Classroom, Leslie S. Linton
Toward a Postmodern Avant-Garde: Labour, Virtuosity, and Aesthetics in an American New Music Ensemble, John R. Pippen
Aspects of Newtonianism in Rameau’s Génération harmonique, Abigail Shupe
Evolve, Brian L. Topp
Concerto Suite: For Viola da Gamba and String Soloists, Matthew W. Tozer
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Three Solitudes and a DJ: A Mashed-up Study of Counterpoint in a Digital Realm, Anthony B. Cushing
Green Glass for Orchestra, Carolann K. DeYoung
Factors Affecting Music Education in Ontario Secondary Schools: Teachers' Perspectives, Laura E. Fitzpatrick
Kontakt, Michael Lukaszuk
Galina Ustvolskaya (1919-2006): Analytical Approach To The Pitch Content of Selected Compositions, Lindsay S. Murrell
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Garden Theatre, Patrick F. Arteaga
Narrativity in Postmodern Music: A Study of Selected Works of Alfred Schnittke, Karen K. Ching
Frontiers, Borders, Boundaries: Cross-Cultural Encounters in the New York City Reception of La fanciulla del West, Kathryn Marie Fenton
Mythologies: Three Tableaux for Flute, Harp, Strings and Percussion, Alice J. Hansen
Charles Ives and Musical Borrowing, Allison C. Luff
Dawn: a symphonic sketch for orchestra, Jeff McClellan
A Modest Proposal: A Chamber Opera in One Act, Kevin Morse
Audio Mastering as Musical Practice, Matt Shelvock
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
The Other Sides of Billy Joel: Six Case Studies Revealing the Sociologist, the Balladeer, and the Historian, A. Morgan Jones