Senior Independent Study Theses from 2026
Inferno Suite: A Senior Independent Study in Music and Computer Science, Theo Jons
Department: Computer Science; Music
Reclaiming Sound: Music for the Neurodivergent Identity, Jaden B. Levine
Department: Music
A Real-Time Multi-Band Audio Effects Plugin with Plugin Hosting, Noah Aitan McDonald
Department: Computer Science; Music
Fearful Performances: Program Notes for a Senior Violin Recital, Jane Nolte
Department: Music
Deceptive Harmonies: A Senior Recital Exploring The Unexpected In Vocal Music, Hannah R. Reinicke
Department: Music
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2025
Senior Independent Study in Music Composition, Maeve E. Boley
Department: Music
Merfall: An Operetta, Gracelyn M. Jack
Department: Music
The Human Experience: Using Electronic Music and Visual Media to Explore Sense of Self, Boris Moscardelli
Department: Music
Exploring the Viola: The Musical Journey of Rebecca Clarke and Sir William Walton, Katrina J. Palmer
Department: Music
Sonic Explorations: A Journey Through Musical Styles, Aimy Rujiraumporn
Department: Music
Herons Overhead, Colin Schrein
Department: Music
Idea Management for Composers, Grace Elizabeth Simonson
Department: Computer Science; Music
Senior Independent Study in Music Composition, Sitara L. True
Department: Music
Terra Prisma For Symphony Orchestra, Ethan Yoder
Department: Music
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2024
What is Black Joy? A Celebration of Black Musicians' Contributions to Black Pride, Brianna Mosley
Department: Music
Legends of Vangratzia, Alexander Jacob Nathanson
Department: Music
A First-Class Yiddisha Tone: An Investigation of Irving Berlin’s Jewish Novelty Songs, Anya Smith
Department: Music
Holocaust Memory through Operatic Performance: An Examination of the Evolving Representation of the Holocaust in Operas through the 20th and 21st Centuries, Lilah Weiss
Department: Music
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2023
Senior Independent Study in Music Composition, Imzadia Conrad
Department: Music
Grief Live!: How Performers Can Analyze, Interpret, and Perform Grief on Stage, Amari Royal
Department: Music; Theatre and Dance
Missing Indigo, Robert A. Stark
Department: Music
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2022
Exploring Heritage Through Music: Jewish, Swedish, And Scottish Identities In Art Song, Annika Balish
Department: Music
Clare Griffith Senior Recital, Clare P. Griffith
Department: Music
Senior Independent Study In Music Composition, William Hermanowski
Department: Music
Solo Piano Recital: From Baroque To Contemporary, Margaret Jagger
Department: Music
Senior Independent Study In Music Composition By Molly Leach, Molly E. Leach
Department: Music
Senior I.S. For B.A. In Music: Senior Recital Program And Musical Analysis, Jackson Elliot Loop
Department: Music
Program Analysis from: Yi Wu’s Flute Recital, Yi Wu
Department: Music
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2021
The Highs and Lows Interpretations of Love and Loss Expressed Through Flute Repertoire, Sydney Lynn Barger
Department: Music
How Progressive Rock Adapted the Classical Tradition, Nathaniel J. Haines
Department: Music
Connection to Culture: An Analysis of Compositional Choices in the Songs of Xavier Montsalvatge, Jaime León, and Adolfo Mejía as They Reflect Cultural Significance, Jacqueline Frances Perez
Department: Music
Is This Music? Poetry, YouTube Memes, and Rap at Commencement, Charlie Smrekar
Department: English; Music
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2020
Tranquilities: Three Works by Kate Bertrand, Kate Anne Bertrand
Department: Music
Senior Independent Study in Music Composition, Neva Derewetzky
Department: Music
Crossing Boundaries in Vocal Repertoire, Morgan P. Kelly
Department: Music
Aspen Pesheck's I.S. Album, Aspen R. Pesheck
Department: Music
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2019
What Could Be The Song? In-Depth Analyses of Five Concert Pieces Composed in Response to Tragedy, Gabriela Angeles-Paredes
Department: Music
The Electric State, Erin R. Joseph
Department: Music
The End Of Modernism In Music: A New Narrative in the History of Electronic Music, Told Through the Works of Wendy Carlos, Jean Michel-Jarre, and Ryuichi Sakamoto, Brendan Lemkin
Department: Music
Senior Independent Study in Music Composition by Jeremy Smucker, Jeremy Smucker
Department: Music
What to do about Grandma: A Behavioral Economic Analysis of Surrogate, End-of-Life Healthcare Decision Making Title 2: "Away from Home" for chamber orchestra; "Aimless Love: Three Songs to Poems by Billy Collins" for accomp, Jeremy Smucker
Department: Music
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2018
Cupid & Psyche: An Electronically Composed Pop Opera, William Barnett and CeCe Underwood
Department: Music
Intimidation or Emasculation? A Critical Analysis of the Representation of Masculinity in American Theatre, George L. Marn
Department: Music; Theatre and Dance
Reminiscence Of The New, Axel J. Nunes
Department: Music
Solo Piano Recital: Classic to Confrey, Michael Phillips
Department: Music
Drawing Circles (for Orchestra), Action Potential (for String Quartet and Three Percussion), Four Epigrams (for Piano), Excursions of Nostalgia (for Oboe and Piano), Emily Schwitzgebel
Department: Music
Four Works by Emily Schwitzgebel, Emily Schwitzgebel
Department: Music
The Battle Cry of Freedom: An Exploration of Songs That Consider the Impact of War on Soldiers and Society, Matthew Turell
Department: Music
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2017
Miles Davis and the Emergence of Mode-Based Chord Scale Theory in Jazz Improvisation and Composition, Alexander Chabraja
Department: Music
Miles Davis and the Emergence of Chord-scale Theory in Jazz Improvisation and Composition, Alexander P. Chabraja
Department: Music
Senior Independent Study in Music Composition: An Exploration of Loss, Victoria E. Peacock
Department: Music
"Doubt", for string quartet; "Requiescat", for SATB choir with divisi and piano; "Those Winter Sundays", for baritone and piano (revised, transposed, and edited); "Abide", for SATB choir and piano, "Down in the Valley", for alto and piano, Victoria E. Peacock
Department: Music
Nightfall, Quan Phan
Department: Music
Once Upon a Recital: Vulnerability Represented in Music Inspired by Fairy Tales, Laura EG Schneider
Department: Music
Senior Independent Study in Music Composition by Bridget R. Slone, Bridget Slone
Department: Music
"Elevation", For marimba and basson; "Unrest", For amplified violin, timpani, gong, and chorus; "Counterpoint for a Broken Pencil", For woodwind quintet; "Before We Say Goodnight", For small jazz ensemble, Bridget R. Slone
Department: Music
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2016
Solvent Effects on the Quantum Efficiencies and UV-induced Photodegradation of PABA and Padimate-O, Preetom Borah
Department: Chemistry; Music
Merged Senior Independent Study in Music Composition and Percussion Performance, Joseph M. Caffrey
Department: Music
Of Shimmering Life (for Chamber Ensemble); Sudden (for Symphonic Band); Aura (for Marimba), Joseph M. Caffrey
Department: Music
Sea Gods (for Accompanied Solo Soprano); The Dead (for Accompanied SATB Chourus with Divisi); Waves (for Chamber Orchestra), James May
Department: Music
Uisce: Compositional Explorations for Various Ensembles, James May
Department: Music
Goddess Stop Immersing Road Spiders in Cristal: Program Notes and Reflection on the Percussion Repertoire for my Senior Recital, Mitchell Ryan
Department: Music
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2015
Metamorphosis and Persona in Ned Rorem's Poems of Love and the Rain, Jacob Boca
Department: Music
Solo Senior Recital: The Idea of Independent Women in Music, Jenny Brumbaugh
Department: Music
Senior Independent Study in Music Composition: Explorations for Various Ensembles, Steven W. Hecking
Department: Music
Teaching Students to Read: Music’s Impact on Language Acquisition and Fluency, Robert MacLellan
Department: Music
Solo Voice Recital: Baroque to Contemporary, Sarah Roth
Department: Music
A Summary and Reflection of the Percussion Repertoire for my Senior Recital, Christopher Scimecca
Department: Music
Extended Vocal Technique: An Instructional Guide for Beginners, Victor J. Welsch
Department: Music
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2014
Senior Independent Study in Music Composition, Spencer Brown
Department: Music
Symphony of the Fallen in Five Movements for Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, Orchestra, Chorus and Children's Chorusus and Children's Chorus Turn on screen reader support, Daniel T. Catalano
Department: Music
Odyssey, Ethan J. Flack
Department: Music
The Music of Les Misérables: A Style Analysis of Songs from the Musical, Rebecca K. Traisman
Department: Music
Jindo Arirang Concerto for Piano and Orchetra (Expanded and Substantively Revised), Jindo Arirang Concerto for Piano and Orchetra (Two Piano Score with Opt. Timpani), & Whimsical Sketches for Two Clarinets, Percussion, and Piano, Jung Yoo Wie
Department: Music
Jindo Arirang Concerto & Whimsical Sketches, Jung Yoon Wie
Department: Music
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2013
Propulsive Tendencies (for orchestra), Concertino for Oboe and Strings (for solo oboe and string orchestra), Silver (for choir), Spencer Brown
Department: Music
Senior Independent Study in Composition: Claire and Annette; Thanatopsis; Notes from Undergrad, Frederick Evans
Department: Music
L'Imagination de Lenore: A Song Cycle in Six Movements for Soprano, Baritone, and Chamber Ensemble, Cara Haxo
Department: Music
L'Imagination De Lenore: A Song Cycle in Six Movements For Soprano, Baritone, and Chamber Ensemble, Cara Haxo
Department: Music
A Series of Pieces for Various Ensembles by: Jordan Alexander Key, Jordan Alexander Key
Department: Music
Creating a Lyrical Experience: Preparation for and Research on the Song Recital, Sarah Mitchell
Department: Music
Creating a Lyrical Experience: Preparation For and Research on the Song Recital, Sarah Mitchell
Department: Music
In the Spirit of the People: the Effect of Musical Tradition on Community Efficacy in Post-Katrina New Orleans, Micah Motenko
Department: Music; Sociology and Anthropology
"in the Spirit of the People:" the Effect of Musical Tradition on Community Efficacy in Post-katrina New Orleans, Micah Motenko
Department: Music; Sociology and Anthropology
Around the World in 45 Minutes: An Exploration of Culture Through Music, Kristen Scuderi
Department: Music
Independent Study Thesis, Eva Woo
Department: Music
Independent Study Thesis, Eva M. Woo
Department: Music
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2012
Senior recital program notes: Sonata in E-flat major, opus 120, no. 2 for viola and piano by Johannes Brahms; Sonata for viola and piano, opus 11, no. 4 for viola and piano by Paul Hindemith; Passacaglia duo for violin and viola by George Frederick H, Noah Michael Dresser
Department: Music
Importance of the Song Recital: Conveying the Emotional Significance of Text Through Song., Hilary Grothman
Department: Music
The Importance of the Song Recital: Conveying the Emotional Significance of Text Through Song, Hilary Lorraine Grothman
Department: Music
The Musical Style of Leoš Janáček in Podádka, Kenneth Peterson
Department: Music
No Title, Shitong Zhan
Department: Music
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2011
Apotheosis: Cantata on the Monomythcome: Two Choral Poems By Sara Teasdale, Quinn Dizon
Department: Music
Skyscapes: Concerto For Electric Guitar and Orchestra, Paul Winchester
Department: Music
Isaac Albéniz: The Great Spanish Composer and His Piano Masterpiece Iberia, Lisa Wollenberg
Department: Music
Inspiration for Orchestra, Kentaro Yamada
Department: Music
Theme and Variations on a French Folksong for Symphonic Band, Kentaro Yamada
Department: Music
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2010
On the Outside Looking Out: The Para-Society of Nomadic Artists, Alexander McCord Briggs
Department: Music