Student theses
Theses published by our graduates
- Choral Singing in Prisons: How Group Singing Programmes Contribute to Self-Esteem, Identity and Reintegration. Angela Chu, 2025.
- A Girl of Constant Sorrow: The Sad Girl, Authenticity and Personas in Popular Music. Rebekah Leon, 2025.
- Gloves à la Chopin: Androgyny, Disability, and the Performance of Consumption. James Thomas, 2025.
- "She Drew Forth Its Strongest Sounds": Tracing the Historical Throughline of Women Harpists. Phoebe Durand-McDonnell, 2024.
- What About My Voice? Music Pedagogy and Trans Identity. Murray Nielsen, 2024.
- Music, Madness, & the Mainstream: The Communication of Bipolar Disorder in the Art and Reception of Kanye West & Mariah Carey. Maria Spear, 2024.
- Toward a Mi'kma'ki Art Music: Implications of the Peace and Friendship Treaties for Western Art Music in Nova Scotia. Ben Marmen, 2023.
- The Early Reign of Oleg: Catherine the Great's Grand Ambition towards Russia. Ailynn Ang, 2023.
- Jazz Improvization as Conversation: A Pragmatics Approach to Jazz Studies. Jorge Lopez-Brandt, 2023.
- The Bel Canto Revival in Pedagogy and Performance: Presenting Madness and the Great Lucias. Julia Jordan, 2022.
- Imagining the Past Forward: Flamenco, Andalusian Music, Identity, and Cultural Diplomacy in the Festival des Andalousies Atlantiques d'Essaouira. Daniel MacNeil, 2021.
- “Tunc Tu Clamas Clara Voce”: Mariological Allusion and the Music of St. Hildegard of Bingen. Lucia Denk, 2021.
- Joculatores Domini: Music and Franciscan Spirituality in Hagiographic and Liturgical Sources. Sr. Ilaria Culshaw, 2020.
- Melodic Variance in Anglo-Saxon Pontificals. Brayden Olson, 2020.
- Composer-Legislators in Fascist Italy: Distinguishing the Personal and Legislative Voices of Adriano Lualdi. Kevin Robb, 2020.
- The Role of Recurrent Melismas in Alleluias of the St Gall Cantatorium. Andrea Klassen, 2019.
- “Komm Hoffnung!”: Hope, Opera and Diplomacy at the Congress of Vienna. Hilary McSherry, 2019.
- Differentiae in the Cantus Manuscript Database: A Cross-Manuscript Analysis. Rebecca Shaw, 2019.
- “More Life, More Everything”: Drake’s Relational Place. Ian Skinner, 2019.
- We Gon’ Be Alright: Race, Representation and Jazz Rhetoric in Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly. Dilshan Weerasinghe, 2019.
- Diegetic Music and Identity in Hou Hsiao-hsien’s A City of Sadness (1989). Tangmuyang Zhang, 2019.
- "Fire of Unknown Origin": Patti Smith, Androgyny, and the New York Underground. Brittany Greening, 2018.
- Sounding Disability in Musical Theatre: Sonic Markers of Mental Impairment for Female Characters on the Contemporary Broadway Stage. Shawn Henry, 2018.
- "Quietly Present in the Land and Wind": Maria Schneider's Musical Land Ethic. Joel Oliver-Cormier, 2018.
- "Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs": Marty Robbins's Quest into the LP Record Frontier. Jill Chambers, 2017.
- The Soul of 1971: Rethinking Understandings of Protest Music. Zack Harrison, 2017.
- Jonny Greenwood Scores the Western: Music as Generic Subversion in There Will Be Blood. Neven Prostran, 2017.
- Free Thinkers are Dangerous! Millennial Counterculture and the Music of System of a Down. Clare Neil, 2016.
- Mass Romantics: Grappling with Genre in 2000s Indie Rock. Ryan McNutt, 2015.
- Neo-orientalism in the Operas of Tan Dun. Nan Zhang, 2015.
- “I Hate My Generation”: Canadian Male Identity in Sloan's Twice Removed. Corey Henderson, 2014.
- Theodor Adorno’s Theory of Listener Regression. Frank Van Wie Penick, 2014.
- Sonic Awareness, Alienation, and Liberation Through Soundscape Rhythmanalysis. Jason Eastwood, 2013.
- “A Girl Called Dusty With the Sound of Motown:” Dusty Springfield, Mimesis, and the Genealogy of a Persona. Carolyn Brunelle, 2013.
- He's Got Great Feel, but What Do You Mean? Discovering the Nature of Groove Through Drumming of Mitch Mitchell. Alex Cook, 2013.
- "The Hardest Button to Button" - A Critical Analysis of Jack White and the White Stripes. Garrett Thorson, 2013.
- The String Music of Iancu Dumitrescu: Reflections on Musical Phenomenology. Ryan Kirk, 2012.
- Bad Reputation: Joan Jett and Questions of Canon. Jessica Brown, 2011.
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