This collection includes theses and dissertations from the Music History Concentration in the School of Music. It is not exhaustive since most paper theses and dissertations have not been digitized. Generally, paper copies of theses and dissertations published prior to 2014 can be accessed in the University of Louisville Libraries. If you would like to add your thesis or dissertation to this collection, please fill out the Electronic Theses & Dissertations form.
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Fingerprinting cinematic soundtracks: Examining identity in film music through gender and temporality., Sarah Elizabeth Moser
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Rethinking Meredith Monk., Tracy Monaghan
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Liminal aesthetics : perspectives on harmony and timbre in the music of Olivier Messiaen, Tristan Murail, and Kaija Saariaho., Jackson Harmeyer
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
The sounds behind language : three musical settings of Beckett's not I by Heinz Holliger, Paul Rhys, and Agata Zubel., Trevor Roy DeJarnett
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Lieb-, Lied- und Weines Trunkenheit : interrelationships in Hugo Wolf's "Schenkenbuch" Lieder., Theresa Luebbers Cole
Gyorgy Kurtag's Kafka Fragments, OP. 24 : fragment as form., Kaitlin Doyle
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Transforming the past : Luciano Berio's appropriation of folk materials and idioms in "Folk Songs" (1964)., Jamison Tyler Fritts
Shostakovich, Yevtushenko, and criticism in the Thirteenth Symphony., John Peter Hausmann
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
Geometric pitch structure and form in "Deserts" by Edgard Varese., Michael David Sprowles
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
The bilingual motets of the old corpus of the Montpellier Codex., Kimberly Adelle Harris
Theses/Dissertations from 1978
Jean Thomas' American Folk Song Festival : British balladry in Eastern Kentucky., Marshall A. Portnoy
