| Author |
Title |
Institution |
Completed |
Adams, Kyle
| A New Theory of Chromaticism from the Late Sixteenth to the Early Eighteenth Century | CUNY Graduate Center | September 2006 | Adlington, Robert C.
| Temporality in post-tonal music | University of Sussex | September 1996 | Akpakpan. Johnson James
| Contemporary Compositional Approach To The Creation Of Ekpo Spirit-Manifest Music Of The Annang People | Department of Music, Faculty of Arts Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka | December 2011 | Alegant, Brian
| The Seventy-Seven Partitions of the Aggregate: Analytical and Theoretical Implications | Eastman School of Music | October 1992 | Amos, Laura Christine
| An Examination of 1920s Parisian Polytonality: Milhaud's Ballet La Creation du monde | The University of Texas at Austin | May 2007 | Andrew I. Aziz
| In Name Only: The Interaction of Title and Genre in the Sonata Forms of Debussy and Ravel
| Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester | February 2013 | Anson-Cartwright, Mark
| The Development Section in Haydn's Late Instrumental Works | City University of New York | August 1998 | Antonio Jardim
| Music: vigency of poetical thinking | UFRJ Doctor in Poetics | December 1997 | Argentino, Joe R
| Transformations and Hexatonic Tonnetz Spaces in Late Works of Schoenberg | The University of Western Ontario | February 2010 | Arndt, Matthew
| Schenker and Schoenberg on the Tone and the Genius | University of Wisconsin–Madison | August 2008 | Arthurs, Daniel J.
| Reconstructing Tonal Principles in the Music of Brad Mehldau | Indiana University, Bloomington | May 2011 | Atkinson, Sean E
| An Analytical Model for the Study of Multimedia Compositions: A Case Study in Minimalist Music | Florida State University | April 2009 | Attar, Ron
| Analysis of Bela Bartok's Performances to Selected Compositions | Bar-Ilan University, Israel | June 2007 | Attas, Robin E.S.
| Meter as Process in Groove-Based Popular Music | The University of British Columbia | April 2011 | Auerbach, Brent, L
| The Analytical Grundgestalt: A New Model and Methodology Based on the Music of Johannes Brahms | University of Rochester - Eastman School of Music | May 2005 | Auerbach, Jennifer Sadoff
| Drafts, Page Proofs, and Revisions of Heinrich Schenker’s Der freie Satz: the Collection at the Austrian National Library and Schenker’s Generative Process | University of North Texas | May 2009 | Austin, Michael L
| The Phenomenological Impact of Interface on the Analysis of Digital Music and Sonic Art | University of Texas at Dallas | June 2011 | Ayotte, Benjamin McKay
| Incomplete Ursatzformen Transferences in the Vocal Music of Heinrich Schenker | Michigan State University | May 2008 | BaileyShea, Matthew L.
| The Wagnerian Satz: The Rhetoric of the Sentence in Wagner's Post-Lohengrin Operas | Yale University | May 2003 | Ballard, Jack D., Jr.
| Part One: The Castle (Ballet for Large Orchestra) and Part Two: Hyperextended Chord Tones: Chromatic Consonance in a Tertian Context | Kent State University | December 2008 | Balter, Tamara
| A Theory of Irony in Music: Types of Irony in the String Quartets of Haydn and Beethoven.
| Indiana University, Bloomington (Music Theory) | November 2009 | Barker, Naomi Joy
| Analytical Issues in the Toccatas of Girolamo Frescobaldi | University of London | July 1995 | Bauer, Amy, M
| Compositional Process and Parody in the Music of Gyorgy Ligeti | Yale University | August 1996 | Beaudoin, Paul E
| Rhetoric as a Heuristic in the First Movement of Beethoven's Third Sonata for Violoncello and Piano, op. 69 | Brandeis University | February 2002 | Bell, Vicki P.
| Shaker Music Theory: The Nineteenth-Century Treatises of Isaac Newton Youngs and Russel Haskell | University of Kentucky | May 1998 | Benoit, John R.
| An Alternative Model of Fundamental Structure in Selected Lieder by Franz Schubert | The University of Texas at Austin | August 1994 | Berry, David Carson
| Stravinsky's "Skeletons": Reconnoitering the Evolutionary Paths from Variation Sets to Serialism | Yale University | March 2002 | Bhogal, Gurminder
| Maurice Ravel, Metric Dissonance, Art Nouveau, Ornament, French Aesthetics, Symbolism, Arabesque | University of Chicago | August 2004 | Biamonte, Nicole V
| The Modes in Romantic Music | Yale University | March 1998 | Bisciglia, Sebastiano
| On Row-Class Equivalence Classes | University of Rochester | April 2013 | Blom-Smith, Richard N. W.
| A Theory of Accent in Tonal Music with an Assessment of Selected Modern Accentologies | King's College London, University of London | April 1994 | Boland, Marguerite M
| The All-Trichord Hexachord: Compositional Strategies in Elliott Carter's "Con Leggerezza" and "Gra". | La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia | December 1999 | Bor, Mustafa
| Contour Reduction Algorithms: A Theory of Pitch and Duration Hierarchies for Post-Tonal Music | University of British Columbia | April 2009 | Botelho, Mauro
| Rhythm, Meter, and Phrase: Temporal Structures in Johann Sebastian Bach's Concertos | University of Michigan | March 1993 | Boyd, James W.
| Mahler and Directional Tonality | University of Michigan | September 1993 | Brasky, Jill Tovah
| 'Far Have I Flown': Chromatic Dominants and Functional Transformations in Schoenberg's Gurrelieder | University of Buffalo | May 2005 | Brass, Christophe
| La basse fondamentale dans le Clavier bien tempéré de J. S. Bach | Université Strasbourg II (= Université Marc Bloch) | September 2001 | Bribitzer-Stull, Matthew, P.
| Thematic Development and Dramatic Association in Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen | Eastman School of Music | July 2001 | Brover-Lubovsky, Bella
| Vivaldi's Harmony: Practice and Theory | Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel | October 2000 | Brown, Stephen C.
| Dual Interval Space in Twentieth-Century Music | Yale University | May 1999 | Bruno, Luca
| Theory and Analysis of Harmony in Adrian Willaert's Canzone villanesche alla napolitana (1542-1545) | University of Trento, Italy | January 2009 | Bryden, Kristy A.
| Musical Conclusions: Exploring Closural Processes in Five Late Twentieth-Century Chamber Works | University of Wisconsin-Madison | May 2001 | Buchler, Michael H.
| Relative Saturation of Subsets and Interval Cycles as a Means for Determining Set-Class Similarity | Eastman School of Music | October 1997 | Buehrer, Theodore E.
| An Alternative Pedagogical Paradigm for Aural Skills: An Examination of Constructivist Learning Theory and its Potential for Implementation into Aural Skills Curricula | Indiana University | December 1998 | Buhler, James
| Informal Music Analysis: A Critique of Formalism, Semiology, and Narratology As Discourses on Music | University of Pennsylvania | May 1996 | Burkett, Lyn Ellen Thornblad
| Tensile Involvement: Counterpoint and Compositional Pedagogy in the Work of Seeger, Hindemith, and Krenek | Indiana University | April 2001 | Burns, Kristine H.
| The History and Development of Algorithms in Music Composition, 1957-93 | Ball State University | April 1994 | Burton, Deborah, E.
| An Analysis of Puccini's Tosca: a heuristic approach to the unifying elements of the opera | University of Michigan | May 1995 | Butterfield, Matthew W.
| Jazz Analysis and the Production of Musical Community: A Situational Perspective | University of Pennsylvania | May 2000 | Byron, Avior
| Schoenberg as Performer: An Aesthetics in Practice | Royal Holloway, University of London | June 2007 | Cahn, Steven J.
| Variations in Manifold Time: Historical Consciousness in the Music and Writings of Arnold Schoenberg | SUNY at Stony Brook | August 1996 | Cairns, Zachary A.
| Multiple-Row Serialism in Three Works by Edison Denisov | University of Rochester (Eastman School of Music) | April 2010 | Campbell, Edward
| Boulez and Expression: A Deleuzoguattarian Approach | University of Edinburgh | June 2000 | Capuzzo, Guy
| Variety Within Unity: Expressive Ends and their Technical Means in the Music of Elliott Carter, 1983-1994 | Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester | December 1999 | Carey, Norman, A
| Distribution Modulo 1 and Musical Scales | University of Rochester | February 1998 | Carter, Chandler
| The Progress in "The Rake's" Return | The City University of New York | January 1995 | Castine, Peter
| Set Theory Objects: Abstractions for Computer-Aided Analysis and Composition of Serial and Atonal Music | Technische Universitaet Berlin | January 1994 | Castren, Marcus
| RECREL: A Similarity Measure for Set-Classes | Sibelius Academy | December 1994 | Cavanagh, Lynn, M.
| Tonal Multiplicity in Schoenberg's First String Quartet, Op. 7 | The University of British Columbia | June 1996 | Chang, Sangtae
| Boulez's Sonatine and the Genesis of his Twelve-tone Practice | The University of North Texas | March 1998 | Chong, Eddy K. M.
| Extending Schenker’s Neue musikalische Theorien und Phantasien: Towards a Schenkerian | University of Rochester, Eastman School of Music | May 2002 | Chor, Ives
| Cognitive Frameworks for the Production of Musical Rhythm | Northwestern University | June 2010 | Clement, Brett
| A Study of the Instrumental Music of Frank Zappa | University of Cincinnati | July 2009 | Clevenger, John R.
| The Origins of Debussy's Style | University of Rochester | March 1993 | Coenen, Alcedo, E.
| Meta-Plus: Stockhausen's Plus-Minus computerized and analyzed | University of Amsterdam | November 1995 | Collaros, Pandel, L.
| Quanti-MAS: A Quantitative System of Melodic Analysis | Ohio State University | December 1996 | Cornicello, Anthony M.
| Timbral Organization in Tristan Murail's "Désintégrations" and "Rituals" | Brandeis University | May 2000 | Cotner, John S.
| Archetypes of Progressive Rock, ca. 1966-1973 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | December 1999 | Cox, Arnie W.
| The Metaphoric Logic of Musical Motion and Space | University of Oregon | June 1999 | Cramer, Alfred W.
| Music for the Future: Sounds of Early Twentieth-Century Psychology and Language in Works of Schoenberg, Webern, and Berg, 1908 to the First World War | University of Pennsylvania | April 1997 | Crownfield, Elizabeth E.
| The Intellectual Backgrounds of Morley's Plaine and Easie Introduction | New York University | January 2000 | Cuciurean, John D.
| A Theory of Pitch, Rhythm, and Intertextual Allusion for the Late Music of György Ligeti | State University of New York at Buffalo | August 2000 | Cutler, Timothy S.
| Orchestration and the Analysis of Tonal Music: Interaction between Orchestration and Other Musical Parameters in Selected Symphonic Compositions, c. 1785-1835 | Yale University | March 2000 | Cvetkov, Vasil A.
| “CHROMATIC FANTASY SONATA” BY DAVE BRUBECK
| Louisiana State University | December 2010 | Danby, Judd
| Array and Superarray Structure and Projection in Milton Babbitt's recent Orchestral Music | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | November 1997 | de Clercq, Trevor O.
| Sections and Successions in Successful Songs: A Prototype Approach to Form in Rock Music | Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester | January 2012 | Decker, Bradley D
| Preserving the Fragment: Techniques and Traits of Franco Donatoni's Joyous Period (1977 to 2000) | University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign | January 2006 | Decker, Gregory J.
| The Language of Baroque Opera: Topic, Structure, and Characterization in Handel's Italian-Language Operas | Florida State University | April 2011 | Deguchi, Tomoko
| Forms of Temporal Experience in the Music of Toru Takemitsu | University at Buffalo, SUNY | November 2005 | Demske, Thomas R.
| Recognizing Melodic Motion in Musical Scores: Rules and Contexts | Yale University | March 1993 | Derfler, Brandon
| Single-Voice Transformations: A Model for Parsimonious Voice Leading | University of Washington | November 2007 | Derkert, Jacob
| Tonalitet och harmonisk artikulation i Claude Debussys verk. Om reception, armonikteori och analys | University of Stockholm | October 1998 | DeThorne, Jeffrey D.
| ORCHESTRATING ELECTROACOUSTICS: ON THE AESTHETICS OF INSTRUMENTATION, ORCHESTRATION, AND ELECTRONIC MUSIC
| University of Wisconsin-Madison | August 2010 | Djordjevic, Michael, L.
| Discrete Tone Relations Determined by the Hearing Phenomenon within Five-Dimensional Sound-Musical Continuum | Radio Belgrade, Hilandarska 2, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia, YU | June 1995 | Dodds, Michael R.
| The Baroque Church Tones in Theory and Practice | University of Rochester | January 1999 | Doerksen, John F.
| A Theory of Set-class Salience for Post-tonal Music, with Analyses of Selected Lieder by Anton Webern | University of Western Ontario | June 1994 | Dogantan, Mine
| Mathis Lussy's Theory of Rhythm as a Basis for a Theory of Expressive Performance | Columbia University, New York | May 1997 | Dolenko, Elena
| Schoenberg. The Early Years. [Molodoy Schoenberg] | Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory | May 2003 | Doll, Christopher
| Listening to Rock Harmony | Columbia University | May 2007 | Douw, Andre, M.
| The Construction of Order and Direction in Igor Stravinsky's In Memoriam Dylan Thomas, Canticum Sacrum, and Threni | Utrecht University | March 1995 | Dudeque, Norton E.
| Music Theory and Analysis in the Writings of Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) | University of Reading | April 2002 | Dudeque, Norton E.
| Tonal Harmony and the Concept of Monotonality in the Writings of Arnold Schoenberg | Universidade de Sao Paulo | June 1997 | Duncan, Stuart P
| The Concept of New Complexity: Notation, Interpretation and Analysis | Cornell University | May 2010 | Easley, David B.
| "It's not my imagination, I've got a gun on my back!": Style and Sound in Early American Hardcore Punk, 1978–1983 | Florida State University | April 2011 | Edith, Zack
| Carmen and Turandot: femme fatale to femme creatrice in opera | Bar-Ilan University, Israel | June 2000 | Endrinal, Christopher James Scott
| Form and Style in the Music of U2 | Florida State University | April 2008 | Eng, Clare Sher Ling
| Motif and Closure in Twentieth-Century Music: Bartók, Britten and Fauré | Yale University | March 2012 | Essl, Karlheinz
| Das Synthese-Denken bei Anton Webern. Studien zur Musikauffassung des spaeten Webern unter besonderen Beruecksichtigung seiner eigenen Analysen zu op. 28 und op. 30. ("Anton Webern's idea of synthesis". Studies on the musical thinking of the late Webern c | University of Vienna | May 1989 | Fancher, Joseph E.
| Pitch Organization in the Turangalîla-Symphonie of Olivier Messiaen | University of Oregon | March 2003 | Fiore, Carlo
| I mottetti di Josquin Desprez: interpretazione attraverso l'analisi | University of Bologna, Dipartimento di Musica e Spettacolo | April 1998 | Flinn, John W.
| Reconstructive Postmodernism, Quotation, and Musical Analysis: A Methodology with Reference to the Third Movement of Luciano Berio | University of Cincinnati | May 2011 | Foley, Gretchen
| Pitch and Interval Structures in George Perle's Theory of Twelve-Tone Tonality | University of Western Ontario | January 1999 | Follet, Diane W.
| Echo - A Chamber Opera in One Act: The Woman's Voice in the Twentieth Century | University of Northern Colorado | August 2000 | Forrest, David L.
| Prolongation in the Choral Music of Benjamin Britten | Texas Tech University | May 2009 | Foulkes-Levy, Laurdella
| A Synthesis of Recent Theories of Tonal Melody, Contour, and the Diatonic Scale: Implications for Aural Perception and Cognition | SUNY Buffalo | September 1996 | Fung, Eric W.M.
| The Performance of Chopin's First Movement of Piano Sonata in B Minor, op. 58: A Schenkerian Approach | The Chinese University of Hong Kong | June 1995 | Fyr, Kyle R.
| Proportion, Temporality, and Performance Issues in Piano Works of John Adams | Indiana University | July 2011 | Gadd, Robin N.
| Theorizing Musical Style | University of Southampton | July 1997 | Garrison, Rodney
| Schenker's Ausfaltung Unfolded: Notation, Terminology, and Practice | University at Buffalo | December 2011 | Gerlach, Oliver
| Im Labyrinth des Oktōīchos —
Über die Rekonstruktion einer mittelalterlichen Improvisationspraxis in der Musik der Ost- & Westkirche | Humboldt University | July 2006 | Gersh, Jason A
| Text-Setting in William Byrd's Liber primus sacrarum cantionum quinque vocum (1589): Toward an Analytic Methodology | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | December 2006 | Giovinazzo, Joseph
| Timbral Design of Primary Melody in the First Movement of Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra | La Trobe University | June 1992 | Gloag, Kenneth
| Structure, Syntax and Style in the Music of Stravinsky | University of Exeter | February 1995 | Goldenberg, Yosef
| Prolongation of Seventh Chords in Tonal Music | Hebrew University, Jerusalem | December 2001 | Gollin, Edward H.
| Representations of Space and Conceptions of Distance in Transformational Music Theories | Harvard University | June 2000 | Gonzales, Cynthia I.
| Text-Music Relationships in the Early Songs of Arnold Schoenberg | Harvard University | October 2005 | Gonzales-Lizausaba, Oswaldo
| A Formalized Analysis of Luciano Berio's Erdenklavier for Piano Solo: An Undulatory Approach | Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, IRCAM, CNRS (Paris) | June 1997 | Gonzalez-Lizausaba Oswaldo
| L'analyse ondulatoire : une approche morphologique de l'analyse musicale | Doctor in Arts & Sciences of art - Université de Paris 1 | March 2010 | Gosman, Alan R.
| Compositional Approaches to Canons from Ockeghem to Brahms | Harvard University | August 2000 | Grall, Jeremy N.
| An Analytical Edition of Giovanni Kapsberger's "Partite sulla folia" for Chitarrone: Ornamentation, Performance Practices, and Compositional Structures in Kapsberger's Folia Variations | University of Memphis | April 2009 | Greitzer, Mary L
| Tormented Voices | Harvard University | August 2007 | Grossman, E. Lary
| Fugal Procedures in the Symphonies of Joseph Haydn | Northwestern University | December 1993 | Grove, Paul R.
| Doctrine of the Canon: An Annotated Translation of the Second Counterpoint Book of Sergei Ivanovich Taneev | University of Arizona | January 1996 | Guigue, Didier
| Une Étude "pour les Sonorités Opposées": Pour une analyse "orientée objets" de l'oeuvre pour piano de Debussy et de la musique du 20č sičcle | Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris | April 1996 | Hafner, Everett
| Time Divided | University of Massachusetts at Amherst | August 1995 | Hansen, Thomas Holme
| From Mode to Key. An Investigation of European Modal/Tonal Theories in the Seventeenth Century [in Danish] | University of Aarhus (Denmark) | June 1996 | Hare, Belva Jean
| The Uses and Aesthetics of Musical Borrowing in Erik Satie’s Humoristic Piano Suites, 1913-1917 | University of Texas at Austin | December 2005 | Harley, Maria, A.
| Space and spatialization in contemporary music: History and analysis, ideas and implementations | McGill University | June 1994 | Harper, Steven A.
| Minimal Interval Content Descriptions | University of Texas at Austin | May 1994 | Harris, Joseph H.
| Harmony in Olivier Messiaen's Eclairs sur l'Au-Dela | University of Iowa | September 2000 | Hastings, Charise Y.
| The Performer's Role: Storytelling in Ballades of Chopin and Brahms | University of Michigan--Ann Arbor | April 2006 | Heinzelmann, Sigrun B
| Sonata Form in Ravel's Pre-War Chamber Music | CUNY Graduate Center | February 2008 | Herlin, Thomas R.
| Carl Ruggles and the Viennese Tradition: A Comparative Analysis | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | April 2000 | Hibberd, Kristian P. G.
| Shostakovich and Bakhtin: A Critical Investigation of the Late Works (1974-1975) | Goldsmiths College, University of London | June 2005 | Hill, David S.
| The Persistence of Memory: Mode, Trope, and Difference in the Passion Chorale | SUNY at Stony Brook | April 1994 | Hoag, Melissa E.
| Multiply-Directed Moments in the Music of Brahms | Indiana University | May 2008 | Hodson, Robert D.
| Interaction and Improvisation: Group Interplay in Jazz Performance | University of Wisconsin--Madison | August 2000 | Hoffman, Stanley M.
| Extended Tonality and Voice Leading in Twelve Songs, Op. 27 by Alexander Zemlinsky | Brandeis University | February 1993 | Hoffmann, Peter
| Music Out of Nothing? The Dynamic Stochastic Synthesis: a Rigorous Approach to Algorithmic Composition by Iannis Xenakis | Technische Universitaet Berlin | January 1998 | Hoffmann, Peter
| Music Out of Nothing? A Rigorous Approach to Algorithmic Composition by Iannis Xenakis | Technische Universit | December 2009 | Hook, Julian L.
| Uniform Triadic Transformations | Indiana University | May 2002 | Hughes, Bryn
| Harmonic Expectation in Twelve-Bar Blues Progressions | Florida State University | August 2011 | Hussey, William Gregory
| Compositional Modeling and Quotation in the Works of Johannes Brahms: An Application of Harold Bloom's Theory of Influence to Music | University of Texas at Austin | December 1996 | Igoudin, Lane
| Impact of MIDI on Electroacoustic Art Music | Stanford University | June 1997 | Isaacson (Gozali) Atara
| Cantabile in the Romantic Piano Concerti with Emphasis on Schumann, Liszt and Brahms | Bar Ilan University | November 2006 | Iverson, Jennifer
| Historical Memory and György Ligeti's Sound-Mass Music, 1958-1968 | University of Texas at Austin | May 2009 | Jacobus-Freund, Suzanne A.
| The Art of Development: Development and the Development section Seen Through the Eyes of Theorists, ca. 1775-1830 | Yale University | May 1998 | Jardim, Antonio
| Music: another density of real - to a philosophy of a substantive language | Conservatorio Brasileiro de Musica | March 1988 | Johnson, Barrett A
| An Original Composition, Galleria Armonica, Theme and Variations for Piano, Harpsichord, Harp and Orchestra and A Comparative Study Between the Pedagogical Methodologies of Arnold Schoenberg and Nadia Boulanger Regarding Training the Composer | Louisiana State University | November 2007 | Johnson, Russell W.
| Essais sur les Principes de l'Harmonie by Jean-Adam Serre: An Annotated Translation | Florida State University | November 1994 | Johnson, Shersten R.
| Hearing the Unvoiceable: Writer's Block in Benjamin Britten's Death in Venice | University of Wisconsin--Madison | August 2002 | Joichi, Janet M.
| Closure, Context, and Hierarchical Grouping in Music: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation | Northwestern University | June 2006 | Jones, Jr. Melvin E
| Key Classes and Textural Dissonance: An Instrument-Specific Study of the Idioms, Textures, and Structures of Selected Early Romantic Music for the Guitar (1799-1850) | Indiana University | August 2004 | Judd, Cristle Collins
| Aspects of Tonal Coherence in the Motets of Josquin | King's College, University of London | January 1993 | Julien, Patricia A.
| The Structural Function of Harmonic Relations in Wayne Shorter's Early Compositions: 1959-1963 | University of Maryland | May 2003 | Kaastra, Linda T.
| Systematic Approaches to the Study of Cognition in Western Art Music Performance | University of British Columbia | May 2008 | Kahr, Michael
| Aspects of Context and Harmony in the Music of Clare Fischer | University of Sydney | March 2009 | Karamahmutoglu, Gulay
| Nr:1637 Hamparsum Notation Manuscripts at Istanbul Ataturk Library | ITU Institute of Social Science | December 1999 | Kelley, Robert T.
| Modulo-Seven Transformations in Post-Functional Music | Florida State University | April 2005 | Khannanov, Ildar
| Russian Methodology of Music Theory and Analysis | University of California, Santa Barbara | December 2003 | Kievman, Carson
| Ockeghem and Ligeti: The Music of Transcendence | Princeton University | June 2003 | Kim, Jung-Jin
| A Barthesian Analysis of Britten's The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op. 35 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | December 1996 | Kinton, Leslie
| A Documentary Study and Schenkerian Analysis of Dvořák’s Symphony in D minor, op. 70 | University of Toronto | November 2008 | Kizas, Andrew J.
| From Octatonicism to Dodecaphony: A Study of Pitch Organization in Selected Works by Donald Martino | University of Western Ontario | December 2004 | Klein, Michael
| A Theoretical Study of the Late Music of Witold Lutoslawski: New Interactions of Pitch, Rhythm, and Form | SUNY Buffalo | May 1995 | Kleppinger, Stanley V
| Tonal Coherence in Copland's Music of the 1940s | Indiana University | May 2006 | Kochavi, Jonathan, H.
| Contextually Defined Musical Transformations | SUNY Buffalo | April 2002 | Konov Yavor S.
| The first treatise of harpsichord "Les Principes du Clavecin" by Saint Lambert (Paris, M. DCCII) | State Academy of Music | September 1997 | Konstantinou, Elena
| Nikos Skalkottas: The Piano Music | University of Reading, Reading, U.K. | October 2001 | Korstvedt, Benjamin Marcus
| The First Edition of Anton Bruckner's Fourth Symphony: Authorship, Production and Reception | University of Pennsylvania | May 1995 | Kosovsky, Robert
| Bernard Herrmann's Radio Music for the Columbia Workshop | Graduate Center, the City University of New York | September 2000 | Krumbholz, Jay
| Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg's Abhandlung von der Fuge | University of Rochester | August 1994 | Kurth, Richard B.
| Mosaic Isomorphism and Mosaic Polyphony: Balance and Imbalance in Schoenberg's Twelve-tone Rhetoric | Harvard University | April 1993 | Kuusi, Tuire
| Set-Class and Chord: Examining Connection between Theoretical Resemblance and Perceived Closeness | Sibelius Academy | November 2001 | Kwan, Kenneth
| Compositional Design in Recent Works of Chou Wen Chung | SUNY Buffalo | September 1995 | Lai, Eric C.
| A Theory of Pitch Organization in the Early Music of Chou Wen-chung | Indiana University | May 1994 | Laine, Pauli A.
| A Method for Musical Motion Patterns | University of Helsinki | April 2000 | Lapidaki, Eleni
| Consistency of Tempo Judgments as a Measure of Time Experience in Music Listening | Northwestern University, School of Music | June 1996 | Laurson, Mikael
| "PATCHWORK: A Visual Programming Language and some Musical Applications" | Sibelius Academy | April 1996 | Lavacek, Justin
| Contrapuntal Confrontation and Expressive Signification in the Motets of Machaut | Indiana University | December 2011 | Lehman, Frank M
| Reading Tonality Through Film: Transformational Hermeneutics and the Music of Hollywood
| Harvard University | May 2012 | Leinberger, Charles, F.
| "An Austrian in Hollywood: Leitmotifs and Thematic Transformation in Max Steiner's Film Score 'Now, Voyager'" | University of Arizona | May 1996 | Lemieux, Glenn C.
| "Music in Twelve Parts" by Philip Glass: Reconstruction, Construction and Deconstruction | University of Iowa | June 1999 | Leong, Daphne
| A Theory of Time-Spaces for the Analysis of Twentieth-Century Music: Applications to the Music of Bela Bartok | Eastman School of Music | April 1999 | Lerch, Alexander
| Software-Based Extraction of Objective Parameters from Music Performances | Technical University Berlin | November 2008 | Letts, Marianne Tatom
| "How to Disappear Completely": Radiohead and the Resistant Concept Album | University of Texas at Austin | December 2005 | Leydon, Rebecca V.
| Narrative Strategies and Debussy's Late Style | McGill University | December 1996 | Lilja, Esa
| Theory and Analysis of Classic Heavy Metal Harmony | University of Helsinki | October 2009 | Lima, Paulo C.
| Surface and Structure in the Music of Ernst Widmer: Octatonic Compositional Strategies | Universidade de Săo Paulo (USP - Brasil) | October 2000 | Lin, Wei-Chieh
| In Search of Time: Musical Time and Form in Dérive 2 by Pierre Boulez | The Juilliard School | May 2012 | Lind, Stephanie K
| Replicative Network Structures: Theoretical Definitions and Analytical Applications | University of British Columbia | January 2009 | Link, John, F.
| Long-Range Polyrhythms in Elliott Carter's Recent Music | City University of New York | January 1994 | Linklater, Mary L.
| From Procedure to Technique: Canonic Works of the Fifteenth Century | University of Rochester | May 2001 | Lippus, Urve
| Linear Musical Thinking | University of Helsinki | April 1995 | Lipscomb, Scott D.
| Cognition of musical and visual accent structure alignment in film and animation | University of California, Los Angeles | March 1995 | Longo, Lauren, M.
| Pietro Gianotti's Le Guide du compositeur: A Reworking of Rameau's "L'Art de la basse fondamentale"--An Annotated Translation and Critical Edition of Part I | City University of New York | July 1997 | Lopes, Eduardo
| Just In Time: towards a theory of rhythm and metre | University of Southampton | March 2003 | Lorenz, Ralph
| Pedagogical Implications of musica practica in Sixteenth-Century Wittenberg | Indiana University | March 1994 | Love, Stefan E
| On Phrase Rhythm in Jazz | University of Rochester | April 2011 | Lowe, Bethany L.
| Performance, Analysis, and Interpretation in Sibelius's Fifth Symphony | University of Southampton | November 2000 | Luchese, Diane
| Olivier Messiaen's Slow Music: Glimpses of Eternity in Time | Northwestern University | May 1998 | MacKay, James S.
| Motivic Structure and Tonal Organization in Selected Motets of William Byrd | McGill University | August 1999 | Mailman, Joshua B.
| Temporal Dynamic Form in Music: Atonal, Tonal, and Other | Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester | April 2010 | Mak, Su Yin
| Structure, Design, and Rhetoric: Variation Procedures in Selected Instrumental and Vocal Works by Franz Schubert | Eastman School of Music | January 2009 | Mak, Su Yin.
| Structure, Design, and Rhetoric: Variation Procedures in Selected Instrumental and Vocal Works by Franz Schubert | Eastman School of Music | December 1997 | Malawey, Victoria L.
| Temporal Process, Repetition, and Voice in Björk's Medúlla | Indiana University Bloomington | December 2007 | Manning, David J.
| Harmony, Tonality and Structure in Vaughan Williams's Music | Cardiff University | December 2003 | Marlowe, Sarah R.
| Fugue in Context: Schenkerian Theory and Dmitri Shostakovich's 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op.87
| Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester | May 2012 | Martens, Peter A.
| Beat-Finding, Listener Strategies, and Musical Meter | University of Chicago | June 2005 | Martins, José Oliveira
| Dasian, Guidonian, and other Affinity Spaces in Twentieth-Century Music | University of Chicago | March 2006 | McCallum, Peter, H.J.
| The Analytical Significance of Beethoven's Sketches for the String Quartet in F major, opus 135 | University of Sydney | March 1995 | McCandless, Gregory R.
| Rhythm and Meter in the Music of Dream Theater | Florida State University | January 2010 | McClatchie, Stephen
| Alfred Lorenz as Theorist and Analyst | The University of Western Ontario | April 1994 | McDonnell, Donald R.
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| "Playing with Debussy's Jeux: Music and Modernism" | University of California, Santa Barbara | September 1996 | McGowan, James J
| Dynamic Consonance in Selected Piano Performances of Tonal Jazz | University of Rochester | February 2005 | McKee, Eric, J.
| The Interaction of Tonal Structure and Phrase Structure as an Aspect of Form in Tonal Music | University of Michigan | April 1994 | Mengozzi, Stefano
| Between Humanistic Ideals and Scientific Thought in Glareanus's Dodecachordon
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| Anarchy in the Unity: Compositional and Aesthetic Tensions
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| CONTEMPORARY ART MUSIC FOR CHRISTIAN WORSHIP IN IGBO LITURGY:
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