uky.eduGraduates of the Ph.D. Program in Musicology and Their Dissertations
Dissertation title links go to abstracts.
Raleigh K. Dailey
(Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky)
Folklore, Composition, and Free Jazz:
The Life and Music of John Carter
(research director: Ron Pen)
Ph.D 2007
Bonnie Cutsforth-Huber
(Assistant Professor, Chesapeake College)
(research directors: Ron Pen and Diana R. Hallman)
Ph.D. 2004
James A. Bates
(Otterbein College)
Music for the Viola da Gamba in Italy 1580-1650
(research director: John Ashworth, University of Louisville)
Ph.D. 2002
David B. Beverly
John Adams’s Opera The Death of Klinghoffer
(research director: Jean Christensen, University of Louisville)
Ph.D. 2002
Nancy Jane McKenney
(Librarian, Eastern Kentucky University)
The Chamber Music of Miklós Rózsa
(research director: Jonathan Glixon)
Ph.D. 2002
John W. Kays
(Instructor, University of Louisville)
Life and Works of Chinary Ung
(research director: Jean Christensen, University of Louisville)
Ph.D. 2000
Allen Bruce Mullinax
Musicological Hermeneutics and the Musical Humanism of Christoph Bernhard
(research director: Karl-Werner Guempel, University of Louisville)
Ph.D. 1998
Marc Rice
(Associate Professor, Truman State University)
The Bennie Moten Orchestra 1918-1935: A Kansas City Jazz Ensemble and Its African American Audience
(research director: Jean Christensen, University of Louisville)
Ph.D. 1998
Kristen Kelle Stauffer
(Associate Professor, Oklahoma Baptist University)
Spirit of the Times: Music Criticism as an Exegesis of Public Opinion and History of Reception
(research director: Ron Pen)
Ph.D. 1998
Phillipa Edith Burgess
(Assistant Professor, Ohio Dominican University)
An Examination of Function, Venue, and Sources in the Repertoire of Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Brass Bands
(research director: Ron Pen)
Ph.D. 1997
Pamela Elizabeth Theis Ivezic
Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky 1813-1869: A Study of His Solo Vocal Works
(research director: Jonathan Glixon)
Ph.D. 1997
John P. Karr
(Assistant Professor, California State University, Fresno)
The Psalms of Siena MS K.I.2: Evidence on the Origins of Falsobordone
(research director: Jonathan Glixon)
Ph.D. 1997
Paul Konye
(Assistant Professor, Siena College)
Twentieth-Century Nigerian Art Music:
Social, Political, and Cultural Factors Involved in Its Evolution and Practice
(research director: Ron Pen)
Ph.D. 1997
Camille Crunelle Hill
(Elizabethtown Community and Technical College)
The Synthesis of Messiaen’s Musical Language in His Opera Saint François d’Assise
(research director: Jean Christensen, University of Louisville)
Ph.D. 1996
Karen Lea Carter-Schwendler
Traditional Background, Contemporary Context: The Music and Activities of Jean Ritchie to 1977
(research director: Ron Pen)
Ph.D. 1995
Susan Cotton Perry
The Solo Organ and Harmonium Works of Camille Saint-Saëns: A Chronological Analysis
(research director: Rey M. Longyear)
Ph.D. 1994
Theodore L. Gentry
Emblems of Love and Death in Italian Realist Opera: 1890-1914
(research director: Rey M. Longyear)
Ph.D. 1992
Ian David Pearson
(Associate Professor, Winthrop University)
Johann Mattheson’s Das forschende Orchestre: The Influence of Early Modern Philosophy on an Eighteenth-Century Theorist
(research director: Jonathan Glixon)
Ph.D. 1992
Alexander Thomas Simpson, Jr.
(Professor, Bellarmine College)
Opera on Film: A Study of the History and the Aesthetic Principles and Conflicts of a Hybrid Genre
(research director: Robert Lamar Weaver, University of Louisville)
Ph.D. 1990
Alice Hudnall Cash
Wanda Landowska and the Revival of the Harpsichord: A Reassessment
(research director: Robert Lamar Weaver, University of Louisville)
Ph.D. 1990
Margaret Elizabeth Doutt
(Librarian, Eastern Kentucky University)
The Concertos of Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760-1812)
(research director: Rey M. Longyear)
Ph.D. 1989
Christine Dee Smith
(Lecturer, Case Western Reserve University)
André Campra’s Idomenée: A Study of Its Structural Components and a Critical Edition of the Work
(research directors: Rey M. Longyear and Jonathan Glixon)
Ph.D. 1988
Deborah Carlton Loftis
(Associate Professor, Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond)
Big Singing Day in Benton, Kentucky: A Study of the History, Ethnic Identity, and usical Style of Southern Harmony Singers
research director: Robert Lamar Weaver, University of Louisville)
Ph.D. 1987
Ronald A. Pen
(Associate Professor, University of Kentucky)
The Biography and Works of John Jacob Niles
(research director: Donald Ivey and Jonathan Glixon)
Ph.D. 1987
John William Schuster-Craig
(Professor, Grand Valley State University)
Compositional Procedure in Selected Works of Clement Pépin (b.1926)
(research director: Jean Christensen, University of Louisville)
Ph.D. 1987
Cecil Benjamin Arnold, Jr.
(Professor, Director of the School of Music, University of Kentucky)
War, Peace, and the Apocalypse in Art Music Since World War II
(research director: Rey M. Longyear)
Ph.D. 1986
Jeanne Belfy
(Professor, Boise State University)
The Commissioning Project of the Louisville Orchestra, 1948-1958: A Study of the History and Music
(research director: Robert Lamarr Weaver, University of Louisville)
Ph.D. 1986
Allan Benedict Ho
(Professor, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville)
The Late-Romantic Piano Concerto Finale: A Stylistic and Structural Analysis
(research director: Rey M. Longyear)
Ph.D. 1985
Metro John Voloshin
(Music Librarian, Boston Public Library)
The Secular Cantatas of Nicolas Bernier
(research director: Wesley Morgan)
Ph.D. 1984
Peter Alan Munstedt
(Music Librarian, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
John Playford, Music Publisher: A Bibliographic Catalogue
(research director: Wesley Morgan)
Ph.D. 1983
Carol Lynelle Quin
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel: Her Contributions to Nineteenth-Century Musical Life
(research director: Rey M. Longyear)
Ph.D. 1981
In Soon Chi
(Librarian (retired), University of Kentucky Chandler Medical Center )
A Comparative Study of the Mid-Sixteenth-Century Motet in Southern France: Pierre Cadéac and Guillaume Le Heurteur
(research director: Rey M. Longyear)
Ph.D. 1980
Kristine Karen Forney
(Professor, California State University, Long Beach)
Tielman Susato, Sixteenth-Century Music Printer: An Archival and Typographical Investigation
(research director: Wesley Morgan)
Ph.D. 1978