YorkSpace Institutional Repository: Music Thesis & Dissertations
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Music Dissertation Titles
| Dissertation Title | Author | Supervisor | Date |
| The Practice and Performance of Katajjaq: Culture, Identity and Resistance | Raj Shobha Singh | Johnson | 2022 |
| Exploring the Significance of Musical-Emotional Response on Community Band Participation | Gordon Shephard | Thomas | 2021 |
| Creativity, Improvisation, and Pedagogy for the Chinese Yangqin | Di Zhang | Coghlan | 2021 |
| Original Compositions Inspired by the Genius of Bill Evans' Compositions | Richard McGill | Coghlan | 2021 |
| Hexachords reconsidered towards a revised compositional paradigm | Douglas Gordon Wilde | Coghlan | 2021 |
| Pan, Still on the Move: An Exploratory Study of the Steelpan's Uncharted Growth and Development in North America, and What Impact this Puts on the Pan Movement in its Place of Origin, the Caribbean | Anthony Irvine Wilson | Coghlan | 2020 |
| Mindful Singing: Exploring Mindfulness and Self-Regulation in Classical Singing | Vania Lizbeth Chan | Robbin | 2020 |
| Listening through technology: Toward a hybrid aurality practice | Tony Vieira | Bowman | 2020 |
| A History of the Royal (Toronto) Conservatory of Music Piano Examinations, 1887-2015: Their Impact and Influence | Tatiana Voitovitch-Camilleri | de Val | 2019 |
| The Forbidden Zone, Escaping Earth and Tonality: An Examination of Jerry Goldsmith's Twelve-Tone Score for Planet of the Apes | Vincent Paul Gassi | Coghlan | 2019 |
| The Music of Sting | Matthew Rait | Coghlan | 2019 |
| Optimizing Song Retention through Spacing | Joel Katz | de Val; Wiseheart | 2019 |
| An Investigation into Children's Opera: A Historical Survey, Its Nature and Condition in Canada Today | Afarin Mansouri Tehrani | Coghlan | 2019 |
| Hidden in Plain Sight: Musical Subtext in Drama | Brigitte Bogar | Coghlan | 2018 |
| Beyond the Silver Moon: Exploring the Lost Tradition of Dvorak's Operas through a Study of Myth, Music, and Nationalism | John Christopher Holland | Canton | 2018 |
| The Hungarian Cimbalom: History and Evolution | Richard Moore | Coghlan | 2018 |
| Jazz and Psychotherapy: Perspectives on the Complexity of Improvisation | Merle Simeon Alev | Coghlan | 2018 |
| Space and Voice: Compositions for Contemporary Cello | Charles Matthew Brubeck | Coghlan | 2018 |
| The Improvising Musician's Mask: Using Musical Instruments to Build Self-Confidence and Social Skills in Collective Free Improvisation | Kathryn Elizabeth Ladano | de Val | 2018 |
| Toward Pedagogy of "Play" for the Mande Bala | Todd Martin | Simms | 2017 |
| TUTTI! - Music Composition as Dialogue | Nathalie Dupuis-Désormeaux | Coghlan | 2017 |
| "Knowing is Seeing:" The Digital Audio Workstation and the Visualization of Sound | Ian Andrew Macchiusi | Bowman | 2017 |
| Locating Lucille Bogan: Black Music, The Arts and Socio-Political Opposition in Early 1900s America | Linda Mary Moroziuk | Bowman | 2017 |
| Lerdahl's Surface Tension Rule: Validation of Modification | Deborah Henry | Rahn | 2017 |
| Reanimating Dissonance: Cultivating the Antecedents of Barry Harris' Concept of Movement as Multidimensional Pedagogical Tool for Ontario Post-Secondary Jazz Curricula | Brian de Lima | Viswanathan | 2017 |
| Fascist Disenchantment and the Music of Goffredo Petrassi | Alessia Macaluso | de Val | 2017 |
| A System Model for Subjective Creative Wellbeing: Implications for the Industrialization of Creativity | Roberts Shield | Coghlan | 2017 |
| Music and Healing: Progress towards Elysium | Catherine Wilson | Coghlan | 2017 |
| Tsugaru Shamisen and Modern Japanese Identity | Gerry McGoldrick | Simms | 2016 |
| "Integrated Arts" Pedagogy and Philosophy | Nina Soyfer | Petrowska Quilico | 2016 |
| The Requiem Mass as Concert Piece | Graham Smith | Coghlan | 2015 |
| Jazz Theory for Community Singers | Glennis Houston | Sokol | 2015 |
| Jackie Mittoo At Home and Abroad | Karen Cyrus | Bowman | 2015 |
| Emergence and Evolution of Tango Expressions in Paris since the Late 1970s |
Alberto Munarriz | Wrazen | 2015 |
| Shinichi Suzuki and Musical Talent: An Analysis of His Claims | Zachary Ebin | Rahn | 2015 |
| Music of the Martial Arts: In a Chinese Canadian Kung Fu Club |
Colin McGuire | Wrazen | 2014 |
| Non-isochronous Meter: A study of Cross- Cultural Practices |
Jordan Saull | Coghlan | 2014 |
| Musical at the Stratford Festival of Canada | Lauren Acton | De Val | 2014 |
| Making the Scene: Co-operative Jazz Clubs in Canada: 1955-1964 |
Mariann Jago | Bowman | 2014 |
| Western Extended Techniques in Traditional Japanese Wind Performance |
Amy Simon | Rahn | 2014 |
| Thematic Interconnectivity as an Innate Musical Quality: Jandek's "European Jewell" Guitar Riffs |
Nicole Marchesseau | Bowman | 2014 |
| Escaping the Ideological Framework: Brazilian Choro Music for the Piano |
Maria Farinha | Coghlan | 2014 |
| Ensemble Stuff: The Grateful Dead's Rock- based Improvisational Practice and Its Religious Inspiration |
Michael Kaler | Bowman | 2014 |
| Considering Schubert and Nature: A Romantic Ecology |
Michael Donovan | Coghlan | 2014 |
| Mariposa Folk Festival: A 50 Year Road Trip |
Sija Tsai | Wrazen | 2013 |
| Change of the "Guard": Charlie Rouse, Steve Lacy, and the Music of Thelonious Monk | Ryan Bruce | Van Der Bliek | 2013 |
| Archetypes in White Commercial Gospel Music: Constructing Christian Nationalist Identity |
Vivia Kieswetter | Bowman | 2013 |
| Music, Power, and Relations: Fiddling as a Meeting Place in Manitoba |
Monique Giroux | Wrazen | 2013 |
| Henry Mancini and the "Frenzy" Experience | Patricia Wheeler-Condon | Coghlan | 2013 |
| The Persian Radif in History, Theory and Practice: A pedagogical and Ethnomusicological Analysis Based on AQA Hossein Qoli’s Version | Amir Koushkani | Coghlan | 2013 |
| Dharma Noise: Parergonality in Zen Buddhism and Non-Idiomatic Improvisation | Daniel Schnee | Sokol | 2013 |
| Hip Life: Redefining Ghanaian Culture | Isaac Akrong | Coghlan | 2012 |
| Mediating Musical Experience: Studying the Effects of the Re-mix on Production and Consumption |
Sheena Hyndman | Van Der Bleik | 2012 |
| An Integral Approach to Musical Meaning | Jason Saunders | Mott | 2012 |
| Sign of the Times: Prince's Funk as an Indicator of Socio-Musical Change |
Dana Baitz | Bowman | 2012 |
| Émile Jaques-Dalcroze's Influence on Frank Martin: 1924-1937 |
Daniel Rubinoff | Rahn | 2011 |
| Revisiting the Ennanga. The Royal Harp of the Buganda Kingdom |
Rachel Muehrer | Marcuzzi | 2011 |
| Bugarabu: Musical Process and Creativity in Jola Drumming |
David O. Font | Simms | 2011 |
| Rock’n’Roll Camp for Girls | Jennifer Taylor | Bowman | 2011 |
| Arranging Hybridity: Cuban-Canadian Musicians |
Brigido Galvan | Diamond | 2010 |
| Fields of Production and Streams of Consciousness |
Pete Johnston | Simms | 2010 |
| Roots Music in Calgary, Alberta: An Ethnography |
Gillian Turnbull | Bowman | 2010 |
| Dance, Music, and Nationhood | Marcia Ostashewski | Diamond | 2009 |
| The Tibetan Buddhist God Ritual Meditation Practice |
Jeff Cupchik | Bowman | 2009 |
| Musicological Examination of Philip Glass’s Film Scores |
Kristin Force | De Val | 2009 |
| Music, Cultural Rescue, and Development among Garifuna People of Nicaragua |
Ann Marie Gallaugher | Coghlan | 2008 |
| O eEncontro nos Trios: Axé Music and Musicians in Salvador, Brazil |
Gordon Sheard | Bowman | 2008 |
| Music of Community Change in Vancouver, Downtown Eastside |
K. Harrison | Diamond | 2008 |
| "O Lead Us On, Thou Gentle Shepherd": Black Canadian Sacred Gospel |
Jesse Feyen | Bowman | 2007 |
| Jamaican Popular Music Between 1957-1981 (Ska, Rocksteady, Reggae) |
Len McCarthy | Bowman | 2007 |
| "New Age" Overtone-Singing Rituals in Tuva | Alex Glenfield | Simms | 2007 |
| The Historiography of Rock Music 1955 -1976 | Mike Daley | Bowman | 2007 |
| Negotiating Tradition in Ontario Fiddle Contests |
Sherry Johnson | Diamond | 2006 |
| The Life and Improvisational Style of Herbert Lawrence "Sonny" Greenwich |
Andrew Scott | Bowman | 2006 |
| Song Genres, Cultural Capital and Social Distinctions in Gaelic Cape Breton |
Heather Sparling | Diamond | 2006 |
| Mediating Metis Identities Through Music and Storytelling |
Annette Chretien | Diamond | 2006 |
| Toronto's Rave Culture | Charity Marsh | Diamond | 2005 |
| "Ascendant Role of Bàtá Drumming in Cuban Orís à Worship" |
Michael Marcuzzi | Witmer | 2005 |
| Music and Cultures of Jiangnam Sizhu | Kim Chow-Morris | Bowman | 2004 |
| "Café Society: Intersection of Jazz and Politics During the Popular Front Era" |
J. Bakan | Rahn | 2004 |
| "The Changing Same: Asymmetry and Rhythmic Structure in Repetitive Idioms" |
John Brownell | Rahn | 2003 |
| Grand Designs: A Musical, Social and Ethnographic Study of Rush |
Chris McDonald | Bowman | 2003 |
| Powwows in Southwestern Ontario: Relationships, Influences and Musical Style |
Anna Hoefnagels | Diamond | 2003 |
| Chinese-Canadian Festivals: Diasporic Chinese Communities in Toronto |
Margaret Chan | Diamond | 2001 |
| African American Musical Avant-Gardism | C. Bakriges | Bowman | 2001 |
| Neil Young, Embodiment and Stylistic Diversity | William Echard | Witmer | 2000 |
| Soundscape Compositions of Hildegard Westerkamp. | Andrea McCartney | Diamond | 1999 |
| National, Racial and Gendered Identities on Muchmusic and MTV |
Karen Pegley | Diamond | 1999 |
| Organicism in Musicology: A Critique of Selected Twentieth-Century Writings |
Roseanne Kydd | Diamond | 1999 |
