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Penn Ph.D.s in History, Theory,

& Anthropology of Music

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degree date name dissertation current affiliation
2007 Laura Silverberg
lsilver3@sas.upenn.edu
"The East German Sonderweg to Modern Music, 1956-1971." Columbia University
2007

Jennifer Saltzstein
jsaltzt@sas.upenn.edu

"Wandering voices: Refrain Citation in Thirteenth-Century French Music and Poetry." Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma
2006 Marie Jorritsma
jorrimr@unisa.ac.za
"Sonic Spaces: Inscribing “Coloured” Voices in the Karoo, South Africa" University of South Africa
2006 Ruth Rosenberg
rr2398@columbia.edu
"Eloquence and Encounter: Corsican Female Lament in Performance and Imagination" Columbia University
2006 Party, Daniel
dparty@saintmarys.edu
"Bolero and Balada As The Guilty Pleasures Of Latin American Pop" Assistant Professor, St. Mary's College
2005 Patricia Schmidt
schmidtpl@hotmail.com
"Thinking Inside the Box: In Search of Music-Video Culture" Assistant Professor, University of Surrey
2004
"To Bebop or to Be Pop: Sarah Vaughan and the Politics of Crossover" Instructor, University of Washington
2004
Richard Mook
richard.mook@asu.edu
"The Sounds of Liberty: Nostalgia, Masculinity, and Whiteness in Philadelphia Barbershop, 1900-2003" Assistant Professor, Arizona State University
2004
Hilary Moore
hilarym@sas.upenn.edu
"British Jazz Voices: Crossing Borders of Race, Nation, and Class" Assistant Professor, Royal College of Music
2004
Cha, Jee-Weon
jwcha@sas.upenn.edu
"Music, Language, and Tone Poem: Interpreting Richard Strauss's Tod und Verklärung, Op. 24" Assistant Professor, Youngstown University
2004

Whang, Carol
cwhang@sas.upenn.edu

"Re-Defining Relationships: Modeling in Four Imitation Masses by Palestrina" Independent Scholar
2003
Macklem, Mary
"Reforming Opera and Its Public in Early Modern Venice" Assistant Professor, University of Central Florida
2003
Perella, Lisa
"Mythologies of Musical Persuasion: The Power and Politics of Song in France, 1653-1673" Independent Scholar
2002
Morgan, Mary Kathleen
tommo@mindspring.com
"The Three-Voice Chansons of Johannes Ockeghem and Antoine Busnoys: Approaches to Form, Process, and Musical Structure in the Chanson ca. 1470"
Independent Scholar
2002
Bloechl, Olivia
bloechl@humnet.ucla.edu
"Sounding Savagery: Native American Song and the Frontiers of Early Modern Music"
Assistant Professor, UCLA
2001
Carter Vosen, Elyse
evosen@css.edu
"Seventh-Fire Children: Gender, Embodiment, and Musical Performances of Decolonization by Anishinaabe Youth"
Assistant Professor, The College of St. Scholastica
2001
Kemler, Deanna
dkemler@bigzoo.net
"Music and Embodied Imagining: Metaphor and Metonymy in Western Art Music"
Instructor, University of Pennsylvania
2001
Lohman, Laura
l.a.lohman@att.net
"Orchestral Extraliteracy and the Foundations of American Musicology"
Assistant Professor, California State University Fullerton
2001
Montague, Eugene
emontagu@mail.ucf.edu
"Moving to Music: A Theory of Sound and Physical Action" Assistant Professor, University of Central Florida

2000

Theresa, Rose
rose.theresa@title9music.org

"Spectacle and Enchantment: Envisioning Opera in Late Nineteenth-century Paris"

Visiting Assistant Professor, Clark University

2000

Rozin, Alexander
arozin@wcupa.edu

"The Intensity of Musical Affect: A Model of Experience and Memory"

Assistant Professor, West Chester University

2000

Zukowski, Sheryl
szukowsk@indiana.edu

"Creating the Modernist Self: Gustav Mahler and Fin-de-siècle Performance"

Visiting Assistant Professor, Indiana University

2000

Butterfield, Matthew
matthew.butterfield@fandm.edu

"Jazz analysis and the production of musical community: a situational perspective "

Assistant Professor, Franklin and Marshall College

1999

Buenconsejo, José
buenconsejo@skyinet.net

"Songs and gifts at the colonial frontier: the aesthetics of Agusan Manobo spirit-possession ritual, Philippines"

Associate Professor, University of the Philippines

1999

Hoyt, Peter

"The 'False Recapitulation' and the Conventions of Sonata Form"

Assistant Professor, Wesleyan University

1999

Kang, YouYoung
ykang@scrippscollege.edu

"The Art of Counterpoint in Stile nuovo Sacred Polyphony in seventeenth-century Italy"

Associate Professor, Scripps College

1999

Lee-De Amici, Beth
deamici@earthlink.net

"Ad sustentacionem fidei christiani: sacred music and ceremony in medieval Oxford"

Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Southern California

1998

Clark, Maribeth
mclark@ncf.edu

"Understanding French Grand Opera Through Dance "

Assistant Professor, New College of Florida

1998

Gordon, Bonnie

"Singing the female body: Monteverdi, subjectivity, sensuality"

Assistant Professor, State University of New York at Stony Brook

1997

Cramer, Alfred
acramer@pomona.edu

"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"

Associate Professor, Pomona College

1996

Buhler, James
jbuhler@mail.utexas.edu
http://www.utexas.edu/

"Informal Music Analysis: A Critique of Formalism, Semiology, and Narratology as Discourses on Music"

Associate Professor, University of Texas

1996

Caballero, Carlo
carlo.caballero@colorado.edu

"Fauré and French Musical Aesthetics"

Associate Professor, University of Colorado

1996

Taggart, Bruce
taggartb@msu.edu

"Rhythmic Perception and Conception: A Study of Bottom-Up and Top-Down Interaction in Rhythm and Meter"

Associate Director, Michigan State University Community Music School

1996

Whitehead, Paul
whitehead@itu.edu.tr

"Austro-German Printed Sources of Instrumental Ensemble Music, 1630 to 1700"

Assistant Professor, Istanbul Technical University

1995

Korstvedt, Benjamin
bkorstvedt@clarku.edu

"The First Edition of Anton Bruckner's Fourth Symphony: Authorship, Production and Reception"

Assistant Professor, Clark College

1995

Pederson, Sanna
spederson@ou.edu

"Enlightened and Romantic German Music Criticism, 1800-1850"

Associate Professor, University of Oklahoma

1992

Sipe, Thomas
tomsipe@worldnet.att.net

"Interpreting Beethoven: History, Aesthetics, and Critical Reception"

Independent Scholar

1992

Solvik, Morten
m.solvik@datadesign.at

"Culture and the Creative Imagination: The Genesis of Gustav Mahler's Third Symphony"

Instructor, Hochschule für Musik, Vienna

1991

Brobeck, John
brobeck@u.arizona.edu

"The Motet at the Court of Francis I"

Associate Professor, University of Arizona

1991

Eitan, Zohar
zeitan@post.tau.ac.il

"Style and Gesture: A Study of Melodic Peaks"

Senior Lecturer, Tel Aviv University

1990

Holzer, Robert
robert.holzer@yale.edu

"Music and Poetry in seventeenth-century Rome: Settings of the Canzonetta and Cantata texts of Francesco Balducci, Domenico Benigni, Francesco Melosio, and Antonio Abati"

Assistant Professor, Yale University

1990

London, Justin M.
jlondon@carleton.edu
http://www.acad.carleton.edu/

"The Interaction Between Meter and Phrase Beginnings and Endings in the Mature Instrumental Music of Haydn and Mozart"

Associate Professor, Carleton College

1989

Adams, Nancy

"Elektra as Opera and Drama"

Librarian, Eastern Baptist Seminary

1989

Frigyesi, Judit
frigyesi@mail.biu.ac.il

"Béla Bartók and Hungarian Nationalism: The Development of Bartok's Social and Political Ideas at the turn of the Century (1899-1903)"

Associate Professor, Bar-Ilan University

1989

Laki, Peter
plaki@clevelandorchestra.com

"Madrigals of Giambattista Marino and their Settings for Solo Voice (1602-1640)"

Program Annotator, Cleveland Orchestra

1988

Carpenter, Ellon
ellon.carpenter@asu.Edu

"Theory of Music in Russia and the Soviet Union, ca. 1650-1950"

Associate Professor, Arizona State University

1988

Fromson, Michele Yvonne
myf@ix.netcom.com

"Imitation and Innovation in the North-Italian motet, 1560-1605"

Independent Scholar

1988

Girdham, Jane
jgirdham@svsu.edu

"Stephen Storace and the English Opera Tradition of the late eighteenth century"

Associate Professor, Saginaw Valley State University

1987

Bullard, Beth
bbullard@gmu.edu
bullardb@dickinson.edu

"Musical Instruments in the early sixteenth century: A Translation and Historical Study of Sebastian Virdung's Musica Getutscht (Basel, 1511)"

Assistant Professor, George Mason University

1987

Feldman, Martha
rore@midway.uchicago.edu

"Venice and the Madrigal in the mid-sixteenth century"

Associate Professor, University of Chicago

1987

Freedman, Richard
rfreedma@haverford.edu
http://www.haverford.edu/

"Music, Musicians, and the House of Lorraine during the first half of the sixteenth century "

Professor, Haverford College

1986

Taricani, JoAnn
taricani@u.washington.edu

"Chansonnier from a Library in Renaissance Augsburg: Munich, Bayerische, Staatsbibliothek, Mus. Ms. 1508"

Associate Professor, University of Washington

1986

Winters, Thomas
twinters@wcupa.edu

"Additive and Repetitive Techniques in the Experimental Works of Charles Ives"

Associate Professor, West Chester University

1985

Balthazar, Scott
sbalthazar@wcupa.edu

"Evolving Conventions in Italian Serious Opera: Scene Structure in the Works of Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, and Verdi, 1810-1850"

Associate Professor, West Chester University

1985

Fisher, Stephen
DocSFisher@aol.com

"Haydn's Overtures and their Adaptations as Concert Orchestral Works"

Associate Editor, "C.P.E. Bach: The Complete Works", The Packard Humanities Institute

1984

Brodbeck, David
dbrod@uci.edu

"Brahms as Editor and Composer: His Two Editions of Landler by Schubert and His First Two Cycles of Waltzes, Opera 39 and 52"

Professor, University of California Irvine

1984

Gjerdingen, Robert
r-gjerdingen@northwestern.edu

"Musical Schema: Structure and Style Change, 1720-1900"

Associate Professor, Northwestern University

1984

Platoff, John
john.platoff@trincoll.edu

"Music and Drama in the Opera Buffa Finale: Mozart and his Contemporaries in Vienna, 1781-1790"

Professor, Trinity College

1983

Hopkins, Robert
rhopkins@hamilton.edu

"Secondary parameters and closure in the symphonies of Gustav Mahler"

Associate Professor, Hamilton College

1980

Ayyangar, Ranganayaki

"Gamaka and Vadanabheda, a study of Somanatha's ragavibodha in historical and practical context"

Reader in Musicology (Retired), Banaras Hindu University

1979

Hoyt, Reed
rhoyt@sarah.albany.edu

"Bassline in tonal music: its relationship to melodic and harmonic structure"

Associate Professor, State University of New York at Albany

1979

Stempel, Larry

"Diabolus-in-symmetry: rotational uniformity in the harmony of 19th- and 20th-century music"

Professor, Fordham University

1979

Stern, Marion Goertzel

"Keyboard quartets and quintets published in London, 1756-75: a contribution to the history of chamber music with obbligato keyboard"

 

1978

Langford, Jeffrey
jlangford@msmnyc.edu
msmberlioz@aol.com

"Operas of Hector Berlioz: Their Relationship to the French Operatic Tradition of the Early Nineteenth Century"

Professor, Manhattan School of Music

1977

Murphy, Joseph

"Communions of the Old Roman Chant"

 

1976

Bellak, Richard Charles

"Compositional technique in the transcriptions of Franz Liszt"

 

1976

Leininger, George W.

"Odes of Henry Purcell: A Stylistic study"

 

1974

Adams, Courtney S.

"Three-part chanson during the sixteenth century: Changes in its style and importance"

deceased

1974

Diehl, George K.

"Partbooks of a renaissance merchant: Cambrai: Bibliotheque municipale, MSS125-128"

Emeritus Professor, LaSalle University

1972

Bloom, Peter
pbloom@smith.edu

"Francois-Joseph Fetis and the Revue musicale (1827-1835)"

Professor, Smith College

1971

Hirshberg, Jehoash
msmus@panda.mscc.huji.ac.il

"Music of the Late Fourteenth-Century: A Study in Musical Style"

Professor, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

1968

Brennan, Allen John.

"Music in the Catholic Church in Philadelphia, 1800-1835"

 

1966

McDermott, Joseph Vincent

"Articulation of musical space in the twentieth century"

 

1966

Suderburg, Robert

"Tonal cohesion in Schoenberg's twelve-tone music"

 

1963

Meyer, Eve Rose

"Florian Gassmann and the Viennese divertimento"

Emeritus Professor, Temple University

1959

Flindell, Edwin Frederick

"Achievements of the Notre Dame school"

 

1959

Rotondi, Joseph

"Literary and musical aspects of Roman opera, 1600-1650"

 

1958

Eldridge, Muriel Tilden

"Thomas Campion, 1567-1620: his poetry and music, a study in relationships"

 

1958

Morgan, Catharine

"Bach fugue, a study in antecedents"

 

1957

Colucci, Matthew

"Comparative study of contemporary musical theories in selected writings of Piston, Krenek and Hindemith"

Emeritus Professor, Temple University

1955

Klitenic, Zelik

"Clavecin works of Jean-Philippe Rameau"

 

1950

Bethel, Walter LeRoy

"Burgundian chanson (1400-1477), A study in musical style"

 

1948

Scott, Jesse Lewis

"Developing a high school program of music"

 

1944

Michell, Joyce

"Symbolism in music and poetry "

 

1940

Gerson, Robert A.

"Music in Philadelphia"

 
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