PhD Dissertations in Music Education

In Progress:

(Titles for dissertations in progress are tentative.):

Flannigan, Glenn
Use of Smart Music in Instrumental Methods Class to Assist Student Learning

Floyd, Eva
Effect of Intensive Use of Solfege on Sight-Reading and Singing Skills in General Music Methods Classes

Kite, April
Social-Economic Factors and Family Background on Music Education in Japan and in the United States

Completed:

Irwin, Donna
The Use of Choral Frame on Effectiveness of Choral Conducting by Student Teachers
2006

Judith Sullivan
Attention and Flow Experience in Preschool children during Music Circle Time and Music Free-Choice Time
2004

Jennifer Shank
The Effect of Visual Art on Music Listening
Electronic Dissertation, 2003

Deen, Diana R.
Awareness and Breathing: Keys to the Moderation of Musical Performance Anxiety
1999

Brophy, Timothy
The Melodic Improvisations Of Children Ages Six Through Twelve:
A Developmental Perspective
1998
Outstanding Dissertation in Music Education Award, presented by the Council of Research in Music Education.

Vincent, Phyllis
A Study of Community Choruses in Kentucky and Implications for Music Education
1997

Holtz, Beatrice H.
The Effect of a Speech –to – Song Approach on the Singing Ranges and Selected Tessituras of Future Elementary Classroom Teachers
1996

Akel, Karen T.
An Investigation of Teacher Behaviors of Non- Music Majors Trained in Behavioral Observations
1993

Gates Carol
The Effect of Perceptual Modality of Rhythmic Achievement and Modality Preference of First Grade Children
1993

Gaddis, Robert
Application of Dreyfus’s Taxonomy to Musical Conducting
1992

Vallentine, John
Proportional Use of Instructional Time and Repertoire Diversity in Relationship to Jury Performance in University Applied Music Lessons
1991

Brotz, Thomas
Key-Finding, Fingering, and Timing Tasks in entry-Level Piano Performance of Children
1990

McCaskill, M. E.
A Comparative Study of General Music Education Curricula in Elementary Schools of the United States of America and the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic
1989

Kageff, Linda
Melody Recognition at Abstract Levels and the Relationship to Contour Generation and Tonal Memory
1984

Lester, Deborah
An Investigation of the Use of Music in an Arts In Basic Education Program
1983

Little, John
Differences in Attitudes towards Music between Twelfth Grade Music and Non-Music Students
1979