Dissertation Defenses
For this semester's Final Recitals (the equivalent of the Dissertation for our DMA candidates), please see the Department concert calendar. Recent DMA Final Recitals can be viewed at the following link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTRKrXbbOB2EASpY6vQoAoow0b0JkC4a3
A dissertation is a book-length presentation of original research (for students enrolled in the PhD program in Critical Music Studies) or substantial original creative work (for students enrolled in the PhD program in Composition). The final step of our PhD program, and the culmination of a student’s doctoral studies, is a public “defense,” in which the PhD candidate defends the dissertation in front of a committee of experts and outside observers. After a brief overview of the project, the PhD candidate answers questions about their research methodology and the outcomes and conclusions of their work.
Robert Wuagneux, Critical Music Studies
The Ground On Which We Listen: Phish, Affect, and World-Building
May 9, 2024, 1pm
Music Library Seminar Room (Melville Library W1531)
Kevin Kay, Composition
Title of Composition: "Dualities and Symmetries"
May 1, 2024, 6pm
Studio C, third floor of Music Building
Aron David Crowell, Composition
Title of Composition: "Memories of the Imagined"
April 14, 2024, 4pm
Music Library Seminar Room (Melville Library W1531)
Haley Briggles, Critical Music Studies
‘Superior People Never Make Long Visits’: East-Asian Americans, Music, and Silence
in American Popular Culture
April 15, 2024, 4:15pm
Music Library Seminar Room (Melville Library W1531)
Gui Hwan Lee, Critical Music Studies
Analyzing Postcolonial Creativity: A Novel Theory for East-Asian New Music and Film
Soundtracks
April 27, 2023, 4pm
Music Library Seminar Room (Melville Library W1531)
Jacinth Greywoode, Composition
Title of Composition: "BLACK GIRL IN PARIS"
December 1, 2022, 4:30pm
Staller Center Room 2314
Eric Lemmon, Composition
Title of Composition: "Politics I"; Title of Presentation: "Sonified Publics: Participatory Computer Music,
Creative Composition, and Political Theory in Politics I"
May 5, 2022, 6:00pm
Staller Center Room 2314
Anna Reguero, Music History and Theory
"The Aesthetics of Indie Classical: Music after Postmodernism"
May 5, 2022, 4:30pm
Music Library Seminar Room
David Matthew Brounley, Music History and Theory
"That Sound in Your Head: Guitar Tone Values in the Entrepreneurial Age"
April 29, 2022, 12:00pm
Music Library Seminar Room