Seminars and Student Research
Graduate students participate in a diverse array of specialized seminars while developing their own research for the thesis or dissertation.
Select graduate seminar topics have included:
- American Musical Entertainments, 1880-1920
- Music and Cyberculture
- Music Editing
- Music History Pedagogy
- Music in the Great Depression
- Musical Lives in Wartime
- Performance in the 19th Century
- Music in Jane Austen’s World
- Renaissance Music Notations
- Music and the Cinematic Imagination
- Global Pop Music
Select student thesis and dissertation titles include:
- “Hearing Wonderland: Aural Adaptation and Carroll’s Classic Tale”
- “Little Soldiers and Orphans: Musical Childhoods Lived and Constructed in World War I”
- “Mahler in Utah: Maurice Abravanel and the Utah Symphony’s Performances and Recordings of Gustav Mahler’s Symphonies (1951–1979)”
- "The purest pieces of home’: German POWs Making German Music in Iowa”
- “The Sound that Sells: the Musical and Improvisatory Practices of the American Auctioneer”