Theses and Dissertations

Hidetoshi Fukuchi (above) successfully defended his dissertation, "Begleitungsmusik zu einer Lichtspielszene, op. 34: Evidence of Arnold Schoenberg's Musikalische Gedanke" on Thursday, April 1. His dissertation committee members were Graham Phipps, major professor; Margaret Notley, minor professor; and Thomas Sovik, third committee member.

Jean Marie Hellner, William McGinney, and Patricia Surman Woodward, and William Hicks, students of Professor Michael Cooper, and Russell Todd Rober, a student of Professor Deanna Bush, recently celebrated successful defenses of doctoral dissertations (Hellner and Rober) and masters theses (McGinney and Woodward). Click on the titles below for an abstract of their work.

Form, Style, Function and Rhetoric in Gottlob Harrer's Sinfonias: A Case Study in the Early History of the Symphony. Russell Todd Rober

Jean-Georges Kastner’s Traité général d'instrumentation: A Translation and Commentary.  Patricia Jovanna Woodward

Robert Schumann's Symphony in D Minor, Op. 120: A Critical Study of Interpretation in the Nineteenth-century German Symphony, Jean Marie Hellner

Social Discourse in the Savoy Theatre's Productions of The Nautch Girl (1891) and Utopia Limited (1893): Exoticism and Victorian Self-Reflection, William L. Hicks

The Whole as a Result of Its Parts: Assembly in Aaron Copland's Score for The Red Pony, William Lawrence McGinney

Becky Ringer (left) and Cynthia Beard (right) celebrate with Dr. Todd Rober at a dinner party honoring his graduation, August 9, 2003.

William McGinney poses for a picture after the graduation ceremony.