Music Theory Alumni

PhD Dissertations in Music Theory (since 2011)

• Alexis Millares Thomson, 2025: A Theory of Sets and Harmonic Complexity in Just Intonation and its Equal Temperament Approximations in the Chamber Music of Georg Friedrich Haas
• Emma Soldaat, 2025: Memory as Formal Function in the Symphonies of Gustav Mahler
• Michelle Lynn Grosser, 2024: Experiencing Avatar/Player Virtual Subjectivity: The Role of the Soundtrack in Open-World Video Games
• Matthew Min-Hei Poon, 2022: Formal Functions in Robert Schumann’s Orchestral Sonata Forms
• Margaret Elizabeth Fox, 2021: Deciphering the Arabesque: Genre Mixture and Formal Digression in the Early Romantic Piano Concerto
• Kyle Hutchinson, 2020: Harmonic Function in the Late Nineteenth-Century Chromatic Tonality of Wagner and Strauss: A Study of Extensions to Classical Prolongational Practices
• September Russell, 2020: Passé recomposé: Neoclassical Sonata Form in Interwar France
• Dan Deutsch, 2018: Music as “Minor Literature”: Musical Syntax and Form in Gustav Mahler’s Lied von der Erde
• Scott Hanenberg, 2018: Unpopular Meters: Irregular Grooves and Drumbeats in the Songs of Tori Amos, Radiohead, and Tool
• Caitlin Martinkus, 2017: The Urge to Vary: Schubert’s Variation Practice from Schubertiades to Sonata Forms
• Justine Wong, 2017: The Role of the Development in Felix Mendelssohn’s Sonata Forms
• Konrad Harley, 2014: Harmonic Function in the Music of Sergei Prokofiev
• Mark Richards, 2011: Analyzing Tension and Drama in Beethoven’s First-Movement Sonata Forms