Doctoral Dissertations in Progress
Tozer, Matthew
MMus (Western)
Advisor: David Myska
Second reader: Paul Frehner
Dissertation in progress: “Concerto Suite for Viola da Gamba and String Orchestra”
Murrell, Lindsay
MA (Western)
Advisor: Catherine Nolan
Second Reader: John Cuciurean
Dissertation in progress: “Galina Ustvolskaya (1919-2006): Analytical Approach into the Pitch Content of Selected Compositions”
Fitzpatrick, Laura
Advisor: Ruth Wright
Second Reader: Kari Veblen
Dissertation in progress: “Teacher Perceptions of Music Education in Ontario Public Secondary Schools”
Fenton, Kathryn
MA (Notre Dame)
Advisor: Ed Goehring
Second Reader: Emily Ansari
Dissertation in progress: “Frontiers, Borders, Boundaries: “Cross-Cultural Encounters in New York City's Reception of La fanciulla del West”
Morse, Kevin
MMus (Western)
Advisor: David Myska
Second Reader: Paul Frehner
Dissertation in progress: “A Modest Proposal: A Chamber Opera in One Act”
Adamowicz,Emily
MA (McGill)
Advisor: Kevin Mooney
Second reader: Catherine Nolan
Dissertation in progress: “Indiscipline as a Concept and Technique in the Music of Pierre Boulez”
Mikawa, Makoto
MA (SUNY at Buffalo)
Advisor: Kevin Mooney
Second reader: Richard Parks
Dissertation in progress: "Anarchy in the Unity? Compositional and Aesthetic Tensions in Mauricio Kagel's Antithese fur einen Darsteller mit elektronischen und offentlichen Klange (1962)."
Cushing, Anthony
MMus (University of Southern Maine)
Co-Advisors: Norma Coates and Richard Semmens
Second reader: Jay Hodgson
Dissertation in progress: "Three Solitudes and a DJ."
Byers, Kerry
MMus (Western)
Advisor: Harold Fiske
Second reader: Susan O’Neill
Dissertation in progress: "A Philosophy of Music Therapy: Seeking Points of Unification."
Horsley, Stephanie
MMus (Western)
Advisor: Paul Woodford
Second reader: Susan O’Neill
Dissertation in progress: "The Politics of Curriculum: A Critical History of the Development, Implementation and Delivery of Ontario's 1998 Elementary Music Curriculum"
Ching, Karen
MMus (Western)
MA (Western)
Advisor: Catherine Nolan
Second reader: Richard Parks
Dissertation in Progress: "Narrativity and Structural Unity in 'Polystylistic' Music: A Study of Selected Works of Alfred Schnittke."
Boyden, Anna
MA (Western)
Supervisor: Kevin Mooney
Second Reader: Catherine Nolan
Dissertation in progress: “Elektra's Truth Content: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Opera Analysis.”
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