Music Theory

Theory Ph.D. Recipients

Name

Advisor

Date

Dissertation Title

Current Position

Perone, James

Clough

1988

“Pluralistic Strategies in Musical Analysis:
A Study of  Selected Works of William Albright”

Mount Union College

Park, Jae-Sung

Clough

1989

“A Study of the Pitch-Class Structure in Anton Webern’s 14 Early Atonal Songs”

Han-Yang University

Johnson, Timothy

Clough

1991

“Harmony in the Music of John Adams:
From Phrygian Gates to Nixon in China

Ithaca College

Wooldridge, Marc

Clough

1992

“Rhythmic Implications of Diatonic Theory:
A Study of Scott Joplin’s Ragtime Piano Works”

Northwestern College

Saltini, Roberto

Clough

1994

“Theory of Phase Shift: A Study of Rhythmic and Metric Displacements in Music”

 

Klein, Michael

Hyde

1995

“A Theoretical Study of the Music of Lutoslawski: New Interactions of Pitch, Rhythm, and Form”

Temple University

McGuire, David R.

Smith

1995

“Revisiting the Return: The Structural Dilemma of the Recapitulation in the Schenkerian Account of Classical Sonata Form”

Finger Lakes Community College

Foulkes-Levy, Laurdella [Bodalay]

Clough

1996

“A Synthesis of Recent Theories of Tonal Melody, Contour, and the Diatonic Scale…”

University of Mississippi

Kwan, Kenneth

Clough

1996

“Compositional Design in Recent Works by Chou Wen-Chung”

Clampitt, David

Clough

1997

“Pairwise Well-Formed Scales: Structural and Transformational Properties”

Yale University

Swinden, Kevin

Smith

1997

“Harmonic Tropes and Plagal Dominant Structures in …Bruckner”

Wilfrid Laurier University

Cuciurean, John

Hyde

2000

“A Theoretical Study of the Late Music of György Ligeti”

Arizona State University

Gelleny, Sharon

Stadelman

2000

“Variation Techniques and Other Theoretical Issues in Feldman’s ‘carpet’ Compositions”

[whereabouts unknown]

Engebretsen, Nora

Clough

2002

“The Chaos of Possibilities: Combinatorial Group Theory in 19th-century German Harmony Treatises”

Bowling Green State University

Harris, Carole

Hyde

2002

“Neoclassic Connection: The Influence of Stravinsky through Boulanger on Copland, Talma, and Piston”

Niagara Community College

Kochavi, Jonathan

Clough

2002

“Contextually Defined Musical Transformations”

Swarthmore College

Ahn, So-Yung

Clough

2003

“Harmonic Circles and Voice Leading in Asymmetrical Trichords”

Han-Yang University

Prevost, Roxane

Hyde

2003

“A Woman Composer Among Men:
A Theoretical Study of Ursula Mamlok’s Serial Music”

University of Ottawa

Grmela, Sylvia

Clough/Hyde

2004

“Recall and Repetition in the Music of Kurtag”

[in Buffalo with family]

Jefferis, James

Smith

2004

“Background and Form in the Songs of Hugo Wolf”

Rochester Public Schools

Paynter, Terry

Clough/Smith

2004

“Three-Dimensional Musical Space:
Models and Metaphors for Analysis”

SUNY at Potsdam

Brasky, Jill T.

Smith

2005

”‘Far Have I Flown’: Chromatic Dominants and Functional Transformations in Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder

American University

Deguchi, Tomoko

Hyde

2005

“Temporality and Form in Takemitsu’s Music for Film and Solo Works”

Winthrop University

Tam, Christina

Clough/Hyde

2005

“Between the Tones: A Study of the Theory and Microtonal Works of Alois Haba”

SUNY at Fredonia