Dissertations 1970-1979

1979

James Robert Briscoe
The Compositions of Claude Debussy's Formative Years (1879-1887)
(under the direction of Thomas Warburton)

James C. B. Fogle
Seventeenth-Century English Vocal Music as Reflected in British Library Additional Manuscript 11608
(under the direction of Howard E. Smither)

Jan Patrick Lee
Musical Life and Sociopolitical Change in Warsaw, Poland: 1944-1960
(under the direction of Howard E. Smither)

Craig L. George Lister
Traditions of Keyboard Technique from 1650 to 1750
(under the direction of Calvin Bower)

Nathaniel Leon Orr
Liszt's Christus and Its Significance for Nineteenth-Century Oratorio
(under the direction of Howard E. Smither)

1978

Leslie Ellen Brown
The Tragédie lyrique of André Campra and His Contemporaries
|(under the direction of Howard E. Smither)

Ross Wesley Ellison
Unity and Contrast in Mendelssohn's Elijah
(under the direction of Calvin Bower)

Julia Ann Griffin
The Oratorios of Giovanni Paolo Colonna and the Late Seventeenth-Century Oratorio in Bologna and Modena
(under the direction of Howard E. Smither)

1977

Lance W. Brunner
The Sequences of Verona, Biblioteca Capitolare CVII and the Italian Sequence Tradition
(under the direction of Calvin Bower)

James Forbes
The Nonliturgical Vocal Music of Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger (1580-1651)
(under the direction of Howard E. Smither)

Don Chance Gillespie
John Becker: Midwestern Musical Crusader
(under the direction of Thomas Warburton)

Karen S. Wilson
A Historical Study and Stylistic Analysis of Franz Liszt's Années de pèlerinage
(under the direction of William S. Newman)

1976

Anne Hui-Hua Chan
Beethoven in the United States to 1865
(under the direction of William S. Newman)

Molly Nelson
The First Italian Opera Season in New York City: 1825-1826
(under the direction of William S. Newman)

1975

Charles M. Atkinson
The Earliest Settings of the Agnus Dei and Its Tropes
(under the direction of Calvin Bower)

Suzanne G. Cusick
Valerio Dorico, Music Printer in Sixteenth-Century Rome
(under the direction of Thomas Warburton)

Thomas H. McGuire
The Piano Works of Charles Koechlin (1867-1950)
(under the direction of Thomas Warburton)

Gordon P. Spice
Johann Gottfried Gebhard: Moravian Musician
(under the direction of James Pruett)

Glenda Goss Thompson
Benedictus Appenzeller: Maître de la chapelle to Mary of Hungary and Chansonnier
(under the direction of Thomas Warbuton)

1974

James R. Hines
Musical Activity in Norfolk, Virginia, 1680-1973
(under the direction of Calvin Bower)

Sherrill Virginia Martin
The Passamezzo in Germany in the Sixteenth Century
(under the direction of Thomas Warbuton)

Linton E. Powell, Jr.
The Piano Music of Joaquin Turina (1882-1949)
(under the direction of William S. Newman)

William F. Prizer
Marchetto Cara and the North Italian Frottola
(under the direction of James Pruett)

Zay V. David Sevier
The Theoretical Works and Music of Johann Georg Ahle (1651-1706)
(under the direction of Howard E. Smither)

Mary Vinquist
Recorder Tutors of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Technique and Performance Practice.
(under the direction of Howard E. Smither)

1973

Mary Frances Boyce
The French School of Violin Playing in the Sphere of Viotti: Technique and Style
(under the direction of Edger Alden)

James Monroe Chamblee
The Cantatas and Oratorios of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
(under the direction of James Pruett)

Sonja S. Ingram
The Polyphonic Salve Regina, 1425-1550
(under the direction of Thomas Warburton)

Gary L. Maas
The Instrumental Music of Joseph Joachim
(under the direction of William S. Newman)

Larry Wayne Peterson
Messiaen and Rhythm: Theory and Practice
(under the direction of Howard E. Smither)

Jane Illingworth Pierce
Hans Gerle: Sixteenth-Century Lutenist and Pedagogue
(under the direction of James W. Pruett)

Addison W. Reed
The Life and Works of Scott Joplin
(under the direction of Calvin Bower)

Walter Westafer
Over-All Unity and Contrast in Brahms' German Requiem
(under the direction of William S. Newman)

1972

Cenieth Catherine Elmore
Some Stylistic Considerations in the Piano Sonatas of Nikolai Medtner
(under the direction of William S. Newman)

Susan Clydette Harden
The Music for the Stage Collaborations of Weill and Brecht
(under the direction of William S. Newman)

Jeanne Holland
Chopin's Teaching and His Students
(under the direction of William S. Newman)

Susan Patrick
Hans von Bülow as Music Critic
(under the direction of William S. Newman)

1971

Marcia Judith Citron
Schubert's Seven Complete Operas: A Musico-Dramatic Study
(under the direction of William S. Newman)

John Joseph Hindman
Concert Life in Ante Bellum Charleston
(under the direction of Calvin Bower)

James Thomas Igoe
Performance Practices in the Polyphonic Mass of the Early Fifteenth Century
(under the direction of Calvin Bower)

Eleanor Fowler McCrickard
Alessandro Stradella's Instrumental Music: A Critical Edition with Historical and Analytical Commentary
(under the direction of Howard E. Smither)

Douglas R. Nelson
The Life and Works of Lamar Stringfield (1897-1959)
(under the direction of Edger Alden)

Rudolf Schnitzler
The Sacred Dramatic Music of Antonio Draghi
(under the direction of Howard E. Smither)

Charles Edgar Stevens
The Musical Works of Christian Ignatius Latrobe
(under the direction of Calvin Bower)

Nyal Zeno Williams
The Masses of Giovanni Francesco Anerio: A Historical and Analytical Study with a Supplementary Critical Edition
(under the direction of Howard E. Smither)

1970

Jerrold C. Baab
The Sacred Latin Works of Kaspar Förster (1616-73)
(under the direction of Howard E. Smither)

Jackson Hill
The Music of Kees van Baaren: A Study of Transition in the Music of the Netherlands in the Second Third of the Twentieth Century
(under the direction of Harold Andrews)