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Dissertation Defenses

For this semester's Final Recitals (the equivalent of the Dissertation for our DMA candidates), please see the Department concert calendar. Recent DMA Final Recitals can be viewed at the following link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTRKrXbbOB2EASpY6vQoAoow0b0JkC4a3 

A dissertation is a book-length presentation of original research (for students enrolled in the PhD program in Critical Music Studies) or substantial original creative work (for students enrolled in the PhD program in Composition). The final step of our PhD program, and the culmination of a student’s doctoral studies, is a public “defense,” in which the PhD candidate defends the dissertation in front of a committee of experts and outside observers. After a brief overview of the project, the PhD candidate answers questions about their research methodology and the outcomes and conclusions of their work.


Jacinth Greywoode, Composition
Title of Composition:  "BLACK GIRL IN PARIS"

December 1, 2022, 4:30pm

Staller Center Room 2314

David Matthew Brounley, Music History and Theory
"That Sound in Your Head: Guitar Tone Values in the Entrepreneurial Age"

April 29, 2022, 12:00pm

Music Library Seminar Room

Eric Lemmon, Composition
Title of Composition:  "Politics I"; Title of Presentation: "Sonified Publics: Participatory Computer Music, Creative Composition, and Political Theory in Politics I"

May 5, 2022, 6:00pm

Staller Center Room 2314

Anna Reguero, Music History and Theory
"The Aesthetics of Indie Classical: Music after Postmodernism"

May 5, 2022, 4:30pm

Music Library Seminar Room

 

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