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 19^th 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”