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  • Background Structures and Narrative in Music by Women 
    Mau, Amelia (University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)
    This thesis explores the use of modified Schenkerian analysis and how it relates to a feminine narrative in a piece of music. In music theory literature about music by women, Schenkerian analysis is a tool that is often ...
  • Form, Style, and Influence in the Chamber Music of Antonin Dvořák 
    Rockwood, Mark (University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)
    The last thirty years have seen a resurgence in the research of sonata form. One groundbreaking treatise in this renaissance is James Hepokoski and Warren Darcy’s 2006 monograph Elements of Sonata Theory: Norms, Types, and ...
  • Intersections of Music Theory, Philosophy, and Physics in Fin-de-siècle Vienna 
    Pell, Hannah (University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)
    This thesis is an interdisciplinary study to compare the simultaneous “revolutions” in music theory and physics during the early decades of 20th-century Vienna. In my first case study, I situate music theorist Heinrich ...
  • Malleable Mindsets: Rethinking Instructional Design in Undergraduate Music Theory 
    Naxer, Meghan (University of Oregon, 2016-10-27)
    This dissertation explores why undergraduate music theory students may not be motivated in their classes and how we can begin to improve music theory pedagogy by addressing the negative preconceptions surrounding the subject ...
  • Music Theory and Arranging Techniques for the Church Musician 
    Arblaster, Winston Vaughn, 1984- (University of Oregon, 2010-09)
    The rising popularity of the use of "contemporary music" for worship in Christian churches has created an ever-growing body of music professionals who, coming largely from a rock-influenced folk idiom, are often untrained ...
  • Patterns, Containment, and Meaning in Hugo Wolf's Mörike-Lieder 
    Lee, Elizabeth (University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)
    This dissertation focuses upon patterns and concepts of containment within selected Lieder from Hugo Wolf's Mörike collection. More specifically, I focus upon melody as a way of understanding how these found patterns and ...
  • The Role of Music Theory in Music Production and Engineering 
    Wiederkehr, George (University of Oregon, 2016-02-23)
    Due to technological advancements, the role of the musician has changed dramatically in the 20th and 21st centuries. For the composer or songwriter especially, it is becoming increasingly expected for them to have some ...
  • Triangles of Soul—Schubert the “Wanderer” and His Music Explained by Neo-Riemannian Graphs 
    Ishihama, Kanako (University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)
    In Schubert’s music, the theme “wandering” is used frequently, closely related to human life and death. I presume that, being stricken by serious illness and facing challenging relationships, Schubert lived his short life ...

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