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DMA DOCUMENTS AT THE ROBINSON MUSIC LIBRARY
Scope: The Robinson Music Library collection includes theses and doctoral documents completed by CIM students. This table lists DMA documents completed from 1971 to present. The collection also includes theses completed for theory degrees and Bachelor and Masters degrees between 1953 and 1988. A complete index of these documents is located at the CIM Library.
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Last updated: December 2007
| Author | Title | Degree | Date |
| Alfano, Donald | Fantasy and Organization in Kreisleriana, Op. 16, for Piano by Robert Schumann | DMA | 1986 |
| Alfano, Donald | Thematic Transformation in the Chopin Impromptus | DMA | 1987 |
| Alfano, Donald | W.A. Mozart: Three Piano Sonatas in F Major, K. 280, 332, and 533/494: A Stylistic Comparison | DMA | 1988 |
| Baker, Larry | An Analysis of Gyorgy Ligeti's Violoncello Concerto | DMA | 1984 |
| Baldassarre, Joseph A | A Baroque Lute Transcription of Johann Jakob Froberger's Suite Number 10 in A Minor | DMA | [n.d.] |
| Baldassarre, Joseph A | An Edition of J.S. Bach's Trio Sonata in C Major (BWV 529) for Guitar and Harpsichord | DMA | 1985 |
| Baldassarre, Joseph A | An Historically Based Vihuela da Mano Design | DMA | 1984 |
| Biran, Dror | An Analysis of Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Sonatas Nos. 6, 7, and 8 The War Sonatas | DMA | 2006 |
| Bright, Mary Alice | A Comparison of Mahler's Kindertodenlieder to Das Irdische Leben and Wo die schonen Trometen Blasen | DMA | 1995 |
| Bright, Mary Alice | Argento's Casa Guidi: The Setting of A Prose Text | DMA | 1995 |
| Cherry, George | Parallels Between Liszt's Sonata in B Minor and the Faust Symphony | DMA | 1975 |
| Cherry, George | Schumann's Davidsbundlertanze Considered in the Context of his Writings on Music | DMA | 1974 |
| Cherry, George | Scoring and Dynamics in Three Keyboard Masterworks | DMA | 1972 |
| Christopherson, Rosemary | A Survey and Comparison of the Stravinsky Sonata (1924) and the Shostakovich Sonata, Op. 12 (1926) | DMA | 1975 |
| Christopherson, Rosemary | An Approach to the Performance Problems of Schumann's Piano Sonata in F# Minor, Op. 11 | DMA | 1975 |
| Christopherson, Rosemary | The Classical and Impressionistic Elements in Ravel's Jeaux d'Eau | DMA | 1975 |
| Clarke, Luanne M. | Five Musical Settings of the Poem Wild Nights! Wild Nights! by Emily Dickinson | DMA | 1995 |
| Clarke, Luanne M. | Shakespeare in Song: Ophelia's Songs from Hamlet as Set by Johannes Brahms and Richard Strauss | DMA | 1995 |
| Conner, Jennifer A. | The Canti Lunatici of Bernard Rands | DMA | 1992 |
| Conner, Jennifer A. | Water Images | DMA | 1992 |
| Curtis, Michael Steven | Gilbert Biberian and Published Referential Works | DMA | [n.d.] |
| Dahn, Nancy Powell | Bartok's Violin Works: The Relationship Between Composer and Dedicatee | DMA | [n.d.] |
| Demos, Nickitas John | The Role of Sonority In Gyorgy Ligeti's Melodien | DMA | 1994 |
| Demos, Nickitas John | Three Pieces of Time | DMA | 1994 |
| DeSalvo, Nancy | Sonata for Violin and Piano by Respighi: an Orchestral Conception | DMA | 1999 |
| DeSalvo, Nancy | The Sonata for Double Bass and Piano by Paul Hindemith | DMA | 1999 |
| Dreisbach, Paul Clark | Twentieth-Century Bassoon Sonatas | DMA | 1973 |
| Ehlen, Timothy | Pianistic Imagination and Innovation: Chopin's Concept of the Concert Etude as a Genre | DMA | 1996 |
| Ehlen, Timothy | Substrate Motivic Coherence and the Neapolitan Sixth in Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata | DMA | 1997 |
| Etter, Elizabeth | Genius and Genesis in the Accompanied Sonata: Luigi Boccherini's Opus 5 | DMA | 1999 |
| Fok, Gloria | An Analysis of the Variation Procedures in Brahms' Variation and Fugue on a Theme of Handel, Op. 24 | DMA | 1984 |
| Fok, Gloria | The Classical Principles in Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin | DMA | 1984 |
| Fok, Gloria | The Thirty Inventions of J. S. Bach: An Analytical Study and Performance Guide | DMA | 1983 |
| Fong, Grace | An Analysis of Bela Bartok's Piano Concerto No. 2 | DMA | 2005 |
| Fong, Grace | The Cadenza in Mozart's Piano Concertos: Debates and Dilemmas | DMA | 2005 |
| Gagnon, Allison | Chausson's Poeme, Op. 25 Toward an Improved Arrangement for Violin and Piano | DMA | 1998 |
| Gagnon, Allison | The Slow Movement of Brahms' Piano Quartets: Masterful Manipulation of Musical Materials | DMA | 1998 |
| George, Mark | Comments on Brahms' Klavierstucke Op. 117 | DMA | 1988 |
| George, Mark | Musical Meaning and its Relationship to Perspective | DMA | 1987 |
| George, Mark | Repeat Taking in Classical Piano Sonatas | DMA | 1988 |
| Glazier, Richard | A Comparison and Analysis of Aaron Copland's El Salon Mexico for Orchestra, Piano Solo, and Two Piano Four Hands | DMA | 1990 |
| Gruber, Lucille Pachter | 18th-Century French Artistic Expression and its Importance in the Interpretation of the Keyboard Music of Francois Couperin le Grand | DMA | 1974 |
| Gruber, Lucille Pachter | A Reconstruction of the First Movement of J.S. Bach's Sonata for Flute and Harpsichord in A Major (BWV 1032), Based on a Study of Similar Movements in Bach's other Solo Sonatas with Realized Keyboard Parts | DMA | [n.d.] |
| Gruber, Lucille Pachter | An Analysis of Four Representative Keyboard Works of Jan Pieterzoon Sweelinck | DMA | 1974 |
| Guenther, Donna | Performance Problems in Quoderno Musicale Di Annalibera by Luigi Dallapiccola | DMA | 1978 |
| Guenther, Donna | The Interpretation of Tempo in Beethoven's Sonata, Op. 111 | DMA | 1976 |
| Guenther, Donna | The Problem of Length in Schubert's Sonata in A Major, D. 959 | DMA | 1977 |
| Ha, Jae Eun | An Analysis of George Crumb's Ancient Voices of Children | DMA | 1974 |
| Haddad, Lorraine | Saint-Saen's Sonate pour Clarinette avec Accompagnement de Piano: A Musical Analysis and Performance Guide for the Clarinetist | DMA | 1983 |
| Haddad, Lorraine | The Solo Clarinet Works of Carl Maria Von Weber | DMA | 1989 |
| Hamner, William W. Jr. | Herbert Howells and his Music for the Organ | DMA | 1997 |
| Holland, Anthony Greenhalgh | A Stylistic Analysis of the Fourth Symphony of Charles Ives | DMA | 1982 |
| Holmgren, Robert | A Study of Selected Performance Problems in Scarlatti's Sonatas | DMA | 1977 |
| Holmgren, Robert | Chopin's B Minor Sonata in an Historical Perspective | DMA | [n.d.] |
| Jarrell, Emily Catherine | Composer's interpretation: a study of the Andante Assai from Prokofiev's Fourth Piano Sonata, opus 29 | DMA | 1999 |
| Jarrell, Emily Catherine | "Don't You Think the Music Speaks for Itself?" Deciphering Schumann's Carnaval | DMA | 1998 |
| Jekova-Goza, Rossitza | Sergei Prokofiev's Op. 115 A Study | DMA | 2003 |
| Jex, David N | An Analysis and Discussion of Mario Davidovsky's Synchronisms No. 6 | DMA | 1978 |
| Jones, Sherry Lynn | The Woodwind Quintets of Nielsen, Hindemith, and Schoenberg: An Investigation of Three Neo Classical Works Of The Early 1920's | DMA | 1993 |
| Kascher, Rosemarie Anne | Castrati Evirati Musici | DMA | 1971 |
| Kascher, Rosemarie Anne | The First of Puccini'sTriptych, II Tabarro | DMA | 1971 |
| Kechley, David | Basic Structural Features in Birtwistle's Verses for Ensemble | DMA | 1979 |
| Knight, Hyperion | A Comparative Analysis of the First and Second Bartok Concertos | DMA | 1982 |
| Knight, Hyperion | A Study of Certain Controversial Effects in Beethoven's Pedal Indications | DMA | 1982 |
| Knight, Hyperion | The Pianistic Origins of Stravinsky's Petrouchka | DMA | 1983 |
| Koplow, Philip Jeffrey | Motival and Thematic Development in Penderecki's Passio et Mors Domini Iesu Christi Secundam Lucam | DMA | 1976 |
| Lawing, William David | A Survey of English Baroque Trumpet Music | DMA | 1976 |
| Lawing, William David | Nineteenth-Century Solo and Chamber Music for Trumpet and Cornet | DMA | 1975 |
| Lawing, William David | Selected Bolognese Sonatas by Composers other than Torelli | DMA | 1976 |
| LeBauer, Courtiney Elise | Differences within Similarity: A Look into the Sonatas in D Minor for Violin and Piano of Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms | DMA | 2001 |
| LeBauer, Courtiney Elise | Schubert and the Populer/Exotic Aesthetic of the Style Hongrois | DMA | 2001 |
| Lee, Hyunsai | An Analytical Study of Eugene Ysaye's Six Sonatas Of Op. 27 | DMA | 1989 |
| Lee, Hyunsai | Beethoven's Stylistic Development in his Violin Sonatas | DMA | 1990 |
| Lee, Hyunsai | Stravinsky's Duo Concertant for Violin and Piano | DMA | 1987 |
| Lee, Sungzhin Peter | A Study on the Parallelism of the Two Sets of Twelve Variations for Piano and Cello Composed by Ludwing Van Beethoven: The Twelve Variations on a Theme by Handel, WoO 45; The Twelve Variations on a Theme by Mozart, Op. 66 | DMA | 1989 |
| Lee, Sungzhin Peter | Hommages A Paul Sacher; An Analysis of the Eleven Cello Solo Pieces Dedicated to Paul Sacher's Seventieth Birthday | DMA | 1989 |
| Levesque, Marie-Thais | A Series of Unfortunate Events: Shostakovich's op. 40 and Prokofiev's op. 119 | DMA | 2006 |
| Levesque, Marie-Thais | Three Against Two: The Brahms Cello Sonatas, opp. 38, 99, and (?) 78 | DMA | 2005 |
| Li, Jian | A Study of Beethoven's Piano Sonata Op. 109 | DMA | 1988 |
| Li, Jian | A Study of Schubert's Wanderer Fantasy in C Major Op. 15 | DMA | 1990 |
| Li, Jian | A Study of Schumann's Fantasy in C Major, Op. 17 | DMA | 1989 |
| Litteral, Lisa Pierce | "Gretchen am Spinnrade" Schubert's arrival at a mature lied style | DMA | 2000 |
| Litteral, Lisa Pierce | The Maddening of Lucia: Musical Conventions in Italian Romantic Mad Scenes | DMA | 1999 |
| Lo, Karl | Unification of the Chopin Twenty-four Preludes, Op. 28: A Structural and Motivic Analysis | DMA | 2003 |
| Lo, Karl | Unusual Fugal Procedures in the Late Beethoven Piano Sonatas: A Structural and Motivic Analysis | DMA | 2004 |
| Low, Philip | A Masterpiece Unveiled: The Language and Logic of Berg's Piano Sonata op. 1 | DMA | 2005 |
| Lualdi, Brenda Louise | A Study of Recital Arrangements of Black is the Color, He's gone away, and The Nightengale with an Annotated List of Suitable Folksong Arrangements for Studio and Recital Use | DMA | 1985 |
| Lualdi, Brenda Louise | Style, Structure, and Imagery in Debussy's Chansons de Bilitus | DMA | 1984 |
| Manildi, Donald | Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto: A Study of the Composer's own Recording | DMA | 1971 |
| McNair, Jonathan | The Aesthetics and Practice of Luciano Berio as seen through his Sequenzas I, II and VII | DMA | 1991 |
| Mercer, Ida Katherine | J.S. Bach's Use of the Cello and Violoncello Piccolo as Obbligato Instruments in his Cantatas | DMA | 1985 |
| Mercer, Ida Katherine | The Six Sonatas for Cello and Continuo by Rayner Taylor: A Critical Edition | DMA | 1986 |
| Mercer, Ida Katherine | The Slow Sections of Beethoven's Cello Sonatas: Introductions or Independant Movements? | DMA | 1984 |
| Metchkov, Zahari | Alfred Schnittke's Piano Quintet | DMA | 2007 |
| Mobberley, James C | An Analysis of Textural Intensity in Stravinsky's Movements for Piano and Orchestra | DMA | 1982 |
| Nitsch, Paul | A Study of the Compositional Style of George Crumb through an Analysis of Makrokosmos III: Music for a Summer Evening for Two Amplified Pianos and Percussion (Two Players) | DMA | 1994 |
| Nitsch, Paul Arlyn | Robert Schumann's Compositional Style in the Quintet in E-flat major, Op. 44 for Two Violins, Viola, Cello and Pianoforte and the Quartet in E-flat Major for Violin, Viola, Cello, and Pianoforte | DMA | 1992 |
| O'Brien, Eugene | Cantus Firmus and Transformation in Peter Maxwell Davies' Revelation and Fall | DMA | 1983 |
| Olmstead, Gary James | An Analysis of Four Twentieth-Century Percussion Works by William Cahn, David Maves, Alfred Fissihger, and Werner Tharichen | DMA | 1973 |
| Olmstead, Gary James | Analysis and Comparison of Diversion for Two by Donald Erb and Etude for Taperecorder and Percussion by William Cahn | DMA | 1974 |
| Olmstead, Gary James | Analysis and Comparison of Duettino Concertante by Ingolf Dahl and Sources III by David Burge | DMA | 1974 |
| Onofrio, Gregry J | Event Horizon - for Orchestra | DMA | 1990 |
| Orazi, Henry Marino | The Catalan songs of Federico Mompou: A study of Mompou's works for voice and piano in his native language, with a guide to the international phonetic alphabet, Catalan pronounciation, and english translations | DMA | 2006 |
| Orr, Kevin Robert | An Analysis of Robert Schumann's Fantasiestucke Opus. 12 | DMA | 1998 |
| Orr, Kevin Robert | An Analysis of the Suggested Programs for Liszt's B-Minor Sonata | DMA | 1998 |
| Park, Soh-Hyun | J. S. Bach's Solo Violin Sonata in C Major, BWV 1005: A Performer's View of its Structural Analysis | DMA | 2002 |
| Park, Soh-Hyun | Samuel Barber's Violin Concerto, op. 14: structural analysis | DMA | 2000 |
| Psurny, Robert D. Jr. | Benjamin Britten's Winter Words, Op. 52: A Text-Music Study with an Emphasis on Britten's Musical Language | DMA | 1994 |
| Psurny, Robert D. Jr. | Die schone Mullerin : Comparative Text-Music Analyses of Five Wilhelm Muller Lyriks Common to the Musical Settings of Ludwig Beger (1816) and Franz Schubert (1823) | DMA | 1994 |
| Rainsong, Lisa | Libby Larsen's Missa Gaia: A Mass for the Earth | DMA | 1999 |
| Resanovic, Nikola | An Analytical Study of Rhythmic Functions in the Carter String Quartets | DMA | 1981 |
| Rothbart, Peter L. | John Corigliano's Film Score for Altered States: An Analysis of Selected Cues to the Film | DMA | 1991 |
| Rothbart, Peter L. | Night School at Esalen for Orchestra | DMA | 1991 |
| Ruzicka, Carol Lynn | A Comparison of Gabriel Faure's Violin Sonatas, opus 13 and opus 18 | DMA | 1983 |
| Ruzicka, Carol Lynn | Style Development in Beethoven's Ten Sonatas for Piano and Violin | DMA | 1984 |
| Ruzicka, Carol Lynn | The Significance of the Schubert Fantasy for Violin and Piano, D. 934 | DMA | 1982 |
| Ryan, Jeffrey | Ophelie For Soprano and Orchestra | DMA | 1994 |
| Ryan, Jeffrey W. | Pitch Organization in Alexina Louie's Winter Music The Yin/Yang Principle in Structure and Design | DMA | 1995 |
| Sat, Ronald K. | A Study of the Two Violin Sonatas by Sergei Prokofiev | DMA | 2001 |
| Satterthwaite, Mary | Frank Martin: Aspects of Style and Harmony | DMA | 1989 |
| Satterthwaite, Mary | Heinrich Christoph Koch and Haydn's Sonatas | DMA | 1990 |
| Satterthwaite, Mary | The Keyboard Fantasies of Johann Sebastian Bach and his Sons, Carl Philipp Emanuel and Wilhelm Friedmann | DMA | 1987 |
| Schneider, Robert | A Stylistic Analysis of Olivier Messiaen's Meditations Sur le Mystere de la Sainte Trinite | DMA | 1988 |
| Schneider, Robert | Keyboard Music of Colonial America | DMA | 1986 |
| Schoeffler, William A. | Beethoven's Diabelli Variations, Opus 120 | DMA | 1990 |
| Schoeffler, William A | Two Examples of Neoclassicism in Twentieth-Century Keyboard Music: Igor Stranvinsky's Sonata Pour Piano, 1924 and Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Sonata No. 7 in B-flat Major, Op. 83 | DMA | 1992 |
| Schultz, Michael John | The Double Bass Concerto of Antonio Scontrino | DMA | 1991 |
| Schwoebel, Sandra Louise | Fifteen Selected Etudes for Flauto traverso, Silver Flute and Piccolo by Johann Joachim Quantz | DMA | 1986 |
| Schwoebel, Sandra Louise | Nineteenth-Century Literature for Solo Flute and Keyboard | DMA | 1986 |
| Schwoebel, Sandra Louise | The Stylistic Metamorphosis of Synchronisms No. 1, 3, 5, and 6 of Mario Davidovsky | DMA | 1986 |
| Sostrin, Debra | Bela Bartok's Folk-song Settings for Solo Voice and Piano: A Historical, Theoretical, and Aesthetic Overview | DMA | 1988 |
| Stanton, Richard | Franz Liszt's Influence on the Piano Music of Maurice Ravel | DMA | 1972 |
| Stanton, Richard | Problems of Piano Technique in the B-Flat Concerto of Johannes Brahms | DMA | 1972 |
| Stanton, Richard | Tempo in the Harpsichord Partitas of J. S. Bach | DMA | 1972 |
| Stine, Robert Everett Jr. | Lukas Foss, the Improvisation, Chamber Ensemble, and Echoi | DMA | 1980 |
| Suh, Hye-Young | An Historical Analysis of Johannes Brahms' Opus 24, The Handel Variations | DMA | 1987 |
| Suh, Hye-Young | Certain Problems in the Interpretation of J. S. Bach's Goldberg Variations | DMA | 1984 |
| Suh, Hye-Young | The Extra-Musical References in Robert Schumann's Opus 6, Davidsbundlertanze | DMA | 1985 |
| Szaraz, Stephen | Gabriel Faure and La Bonne Chanson, Opus 61 | DMA | 1974 |
| Szaraz, Stephen | Motive and Motivation | DMA | 1973 |
| Szaraz, Stephen | Preparations for a Winter's Journey | DMA | 1973 |
| Tan, Kai-Hui | Elliott Carter: Riconoscenza per Goffredo Petrassi | DMA | 2000 |
| Tan, Kia-Hui | Interpreting Eugene Ysaye: an analytical comparison of the fugue from his first solo sonata with that of J.S. Bach | DMA | 2001 |
| Thomson, Rachel M. | The Search for a New Zealand Identity: The Piano Music of Douglas Lilburn | DMA | 1997 |
| Thomson, Rachel M. | Variations on Variations: Lutoslawski's Wariacje Ne Temat Paganiniego | DMA | 1996 |
| Uniatowski, Joanne M. | Schumann's Cycle: Frauenliebe und Leben | DMA | 1996 |
| Uniatowski, Joanne M. | The Songs of Karol Szymanowski | DMA | 1997 |
| Vosbein, Terry | Christopher Rouse's Symphony No. 1: an analysis | DMA | 1995 |
| Waller, Susan R. | The Emergence of the Flute in the Twentieth-Century | DMA | 1975 |
| Waller, Susan R. | The Flute at the Court of Frederick the Great | DMA | 1975 |
| Warne, Katharine M. | An Analytical View of George Crumb's Echoes of Time and the River | DMA | 1973 |
| Wendel, Joyce L. | A Commentary on Alexander Pushkin and Benjamin Britten's The Poet's Echo | DMA | 1985 |
| Wendel, Joyce L. | A Singer's Interpretation of Dominick Argento's Six Elizabethan Songs | DMA | 1984 |
| Wendel, Joyce L. | Chamber Music for Voice | DMA | 1986 |
| Whipple, Shederick | Mozart Cantata K. 619 in Perspective | DMA | 2005 |
| White, Andrew R. | Schumann's Op. 24 Liederkreis | DMA | 2002 |
| White, Andrew R. | The Baudelaire Settings of Henri Duparc | DMA | 2002 |
| Wiley, Frank | Donald Erb's Symphony of Overtures: An Analysis | DMA | 1977 |
| Workman, Karen | Motive and meaning in Hindemith's Sonata for Two Pianos (1942) | DMA | 2000 |
| Workman, Karen | The Role of Arrangements in the Piano(s) Four Hand Repertory | DMA | 2000 |
| Worth, David | Beethoven's Diabelli Variations: An Historical Study | DMA | 1972 |
| Worth, David Mark | An Historical Study of Selected Keyboard Figurations and Idiomatic Devices in Bach's Goldberg Variations | DMA | 1977 |
| Worth, David Mark | Claude Debussy and his Recording for the Welte System: A Critical Study | DMA | 1977 |
| Wright, Gary | Spirit Lake for Symphony Orchestra | DMA | 1992 |