This collection includes theses and dissertations from 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
Life beyond the Port of Beirut, album & drum triggering system., Ayman Abi Kheir
Aspects of style in selected works by Takashi Yoshimatsu., K. Alex Hatton
Exploring cultural enrichment and musical development: The role of the Brazilian ensemble in the jazz program at the University of Louisville., Diego Jose da Silva
Fingerprinting cinematic soundtracks: Examining identity in film music through gender and temporality., Sarah Elizabeth Moser
Do what you love, an opera in one act., Kamil Jozef Pedziwiatr
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Perceptions of preparedness regarding administrative responsibilities: a comparative analysis of preservice and in-service secondary music educators., Ashley Ann Hokenson
The perpetual hell of your own undoing., Emery Tackett
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
The last straw for mixed ensemble and electronis., Nicholas Hall
Maria on the moon: a chamber opera., Tanner Jones
Ashley: a chamber opera in four scenes., Rron Karahoda
Clickbait., Roger Knight
on the subject of loneliness., Isaac Raymond Smith
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Winter suite., Timothy Amalavage-Smith
Vestiges and dry-erase ghosts., Isaac Barzso
The high school choral classroom as a platform for cross-cultural education: a content evaluation of the 2020 TNMEA SATB all-state repertoire., Michael Ian Colavita
Becoming culturally responsive: A guide for music educators., Bailey Haynes
Clube Da Esquina 1970-1972: a compositional analysis according to Ron Miller's modal jazz concepts., Tullio Mesquita Cunha
Formula, moment, and IPS in Stockhausen's Evas Erstgeburt., Jonathon Pan
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Medusa for three sopranos and chamber orchestra., Joshua Baerwald
Backing tracks/play-along materials: origins of several currently popular platforms and strategies for their use., Giovanni De Castro Sena
Rethinking Meredith Monk., Tracy Monaghan
The dinner: An opera in one act., Rachael Smith
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Dreamscape no. 2, "Songs for the woman in the sun hat"., Derek D Carter
Amalgam., Tim Clay
Brazilian rhythms on the drum set: stylizations of baiao, frevo and maracatu by drummers Airto Moreira, Nene and Marcio Bahia., Lucas Gomes Maia Tome Pimentel
Liminal aesthetics : perspectives on harmony and timbre in the music of Olivier Messiaen, Tristan Murail, and Kaija Saariaho., Jackson Harmeyer
mabalêl., Johannes Visser
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Breathing instruction of successful high school marching band directors., Michael A. Alsop
The spectral atom : cohesion of spectral particles in the music of Alvin Lucier., Timothy Carl Bausch
When the ground shakes., James May
Score study procedures and processes among instrumental music teachers and students of varying experience., Jacob Mark Mitchell
Asylum for mezzo-soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, & chamber orchestra., Cullyn D. Murphy
Jazz bass method books versus actual performance : the case study of Charlie Haden., Hamilton Pinheiro
The far green country., Lincoln A. Sandham
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
Winds of courage a mallet concerto for solo mallets and wind ensemble., Ross Elliott
Deceptions., Travis Huff
"Given time..." for soprano and orchestra., Alex Isackson
Genesis : for orchestra., Zachary Dwight Lowery
Sight-singing pedagogy : a survey of high school choral directors., Marissa Lee Pollock
Tonal shift, cadence and transition in the brass sonatas of Paul Hindemith., Blake Taylor
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Factors that lead students to study music education : a descriptive study., Alexander T. Hamilton II
Iet., Andrew Maxbauer
Baby book for soprano and orchestra., Lauren Spavelko
Why we love music : a case study of high school principals., D. Benjamin Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Adarna : for flute & orchestra., Jabez Co
Dess(o)us Paris : for viola and chamber orchestra., Justin Giarrusso
Cephalophore : a chamber opera., Chris Kincaid
Stars for large orchestra., Matt Wetmore 1989-
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Cognitive vs. aesthetic musical experiences : an examination of the relationships between music aptitude and musical preference in third grade students., Erin Archer Elliott
Life on Mars : for soprano and orchestra., Bryce Fuhrman
Fearfully, wonderfully : for solo tenor, solo baritone, and orchestra, Anna E. Garman 1990-
To awaken a god., Kris Peysen
A realization and analysis : the manifestation of Franz Schubert within Manuel Maria Ponce's Sonata romantica., Parker S. Scinta
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Eighteenth-century reception of Italian opera in London., Kaylyn Kinder
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Administrator and band director perceptions of the implementation of KY Core Content for Assessment in Music., David A. Buchholz 1985-
The KMEA and its string program : teaching techniques of string teachers., Lyndsay Blair Joseph 1984-
The effect of singing on the intonation of middle school flute players., Ashley Marie Mattingly 1983-
Self-regulated practice : a comparison between senior and freshman trumpet students., Jennifer Pope 1988-
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
Sound image and organic form in Höller's "Regen-Kanon" (Sphären, IV)., Adriana Guzman 1977-
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Passion for little people : personal paths for teaching elementary general music., Rebecca Dennis 1983-
The compositional language of Maurice Durufle as manifested in Prelude, Adagio, et Choral Varie, Op. 4 and Quatre Motets, Op.10., Charlyn Dumm 1953-
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
The effect of practice with the Beatnik Rhythmic Analyzer on rhythm accuracy of non-percussion undergraduate music majors., Aaron Patrick Klausing 1981-
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
New theories for old music : an analysis of Lamentations settings by Thomas Tallis and William Byrd., Enoch Samuel Alan Jacobus 1983-
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
Syllable systems : four students' experiences in learning rhythm., Tammy Renee Fust
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
