Completed Doctoral Dissertations
" The Other Sides of Billy Joel: Six Case Studies Revealing the Sociologist, the Balladeer, and the Historian"
Jones, Morgan, 2011
Supervisor: James Grier
"Representing Venus: Music, Drama and Allegory in Andre Campra's and Antoine Danchet's Hesione."
Hardeman, Anita, 2010.
Supervisor: Richard Semmens
“Transformations and Hexatonic Tonnetz Spaces in Late Works of Schoenberg."
Argentino, Joe, 2010.
Supervisor: Catherine Nolan
“The Twentieth-Century Operas of Robert Ward.”
Benson, Shannon, 2010.
Supervisors: Don Neville; Richard Parks
“The Challenges of Democratization, Globalization and European Integration for Music Education in Romania, 1947-.”
Bute, Daniela, 2009.
Supervisor: Paul Woodford
"Freddie Mercury and Queen: Technologies of Genre and the Poetics of Innovation"
Barry Promane, 2009.
Supervisor: James Grier
“Adult Community Choirs: Toward a Balance Between Leisure Participation and Musical Achievement”
Rachel Rensink-Hoff, 2009
Supervisor: Victoria Meredith
Rachel teaches choral music and music education at McMaster University.
"Performing Liveness: Musicians, Machines, and Mediatization.”
Paul Sanden, 2008.
Supervisors: Jonathan Burston; Sandra Mangsen
Paul teaches at the University of Western Ontario and McMaster University.
"Henry Purcell: A Reception/Dissemination History 1695-1770."
John Higney, 2008.
Supervisor: Richard Semmens
John teaches at Carleton University.
"Music, Metaphor, and Ideology: Toward a Critical Theory of Forms in Music Education."
Paul Louth, 2008.
Supervisor: Paul Woodford
Paul is an Assistant Professor at McMaster University.
"Teaching Popular Music as Embodied Knowledge: A Phenomenological Model of Music Teaching and Learning."
Karen Snell, 2007.
Supervisor: Paul Woodford
Karen teaches at Boston University.
"Composition and Creative Potential: Considering the Interaction of Developmental Psychology and Creative Behaviour."
Megan Parry, 2005
Supervisor: Harold Fiske
"A Decade of Change: Music Education in Ontario Secondary Schools from 1993-2002 and the Don Wright Faculty of Music from 1994-2003."
Nora Vince, 2005
Supervisor: Harold Fiske
"From Octatonicism to Dodecaphony: A Study of Pitch Organization in Selected Works by Donald Martino."
Andrew Kizas, 2005.
Supervisor: Catherine Nolan
Andrew teaches in the Toronto Public Schools.
"The Chant of Early Franciscan Office."
Andrew Mitchell, 2003.
Supervisor: Terence Bailey
Andrew is an Assistant Professor at McMaster University.
"Transformation and Generic Interaction in the Early Serial Music of Igor Stravinsky."
Bill Richards, 2003.
Supervisor: Catherine Nolan
Bill is an Instructor and Section Head at Grant MacEwan College.
"Interpreting the Performed Work: Studies in Methodology."
Alan Dodson, 2003.
Supervisor: Richard S. Parks
Alan is an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia.
"The Effect of Music Listening on the Quality of Design of Computer Information Systems Developers."
Teresa Lesiuk, 2002.
Supervisor: Harold Fiske
Teresa is an Assistant Professor at the University of Miami.
"Music and Dance in Peter the Great's Russia as recounted in Friedrich Wilhelm von Burgholz's Tagebuch (1721-1725)."
Elizabeth Sander, 2002.
Supervisor: Richard Semmens
"The Social Construction of Music Theory: The Quest for Meaning in Referentialist and Non-referentialist Research."
Karen Fournier, 2001.
Supervisor: Richard S. Parks
Karen is an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan.
"The Rhetoric of the Madrigal: Claudio Monteverdi's Madrigali guerrieri et amorosi."
David Angles, 2001.
Supervisor: Robert Toft
"Performance Practices in Chopin's Piano Sonatas, Op. 35 and 58: A Critical Study of Nineteenth-Century Manuscript and Printed Sources."
Annabelle Paetsch, 2001.
Supervisor: Robert Toft
"Curiously Fitted and Contriv'd: Production Strategies Employed by John Walsh, from 1695 to 1712, with a Descriptive Catalogue of his Instrumental Publications."
Richard L. Hardie, 2000.
Supervisor: Sandra Mangsen
Richard teaches at the University of Victoria, Wellington, N.Z.
"A Manuscript and Repertory Study of the Klosterneuburg Office: The Place of Klosterneuburg within the East-Frankish Chant Tradition."
Debra S. Lacoste, 1999.
Supervisor: Terence Bailey
Debra Lacoste is associated with the CANTUS database project at UWO.
"Pitch and Interval Structures in George Perle's Theory of Twelve-tone Tonality."
Gretchen Foley, 1999.
Supervisor: Catherine Nolan
Gretchen is an Associate Professor at the University of Nebraska.
"'Now Performing with Universal Applause': Music at the Theatre-Royal, Drury Lane, 1747-1776."
Pauline M. Minevich, 1998.
Supervisor: Richard Semmens
Pauline is an Assistant Professor at the University of Regina.
"The Attitude of the French towards Metastasio as Poet and Dramatist in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century."
Alison Stonehouse, 1997.
Supervisor: Donald Neville
"The Perception of Rhythm and Tempo Modulation in Music."
Matthew S. Royal, 1995.
Supervisor: Harold Fiske
Matthew is an Assistant Professor at Brock University.
"Tonality and Atonality in Alban Berg's Four Songs, Op. 2."
Gary Richard Tucker, 1995.
Supervisor: Richard S. Parks
Gary is an Associate Professor at Mount Allison University.
"A Theory of Set-class Salience for Post-tonal Music, with Analyses of Selected Lieder by Anton Webern."
John F. Doerksen, 1994.
Supervisor: Richard S. Parks
John is an Associate Professor at the University of Western Ontario.
"Alfred Lorenz as Theorist and Analyst."
Stephen McClatchie, 1994.
Supervisor: Jeffrey L. Stokes
Stephen McClatchie is Principal of Huron University College (University of Western Ontario).
"Musical Form and Tonal Structure in Troubadour Song."
Claudio Vanin, 1994.
Supervisor: Terence Bailey
"Johann Kuhnau's Hermeneutics: Rhetorical Theory and Musical Exegis in his Works."
Lora L. Matthews, 1989.
Supervisor: Terence Bailey
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