Congratulations to our Master of Music and Ph.D. students who will be graduating this spring!
M.Mus.
Casey Brege
Master’s Thesis: “Rapping Feminism, Rapping the Family: Hip Hop, the Mudawwana, and the Monarchy in Morocco”
Ryan McNulty
Master’s Thesis: “Imaginings of Africa in the Music of Miles Davis”
Ryan Prendergast
Master’s Thesis: “A Hero’s Work of Peace: Richard Strauss’s Friedenstag”
Nolan Vallier
Master’s Paper: “Lineages of Minimalism: A case study of multimedia in the postminimal works of Phill Niblock and Arnold Dreyblatt”
Ph.D.
Ignacio Prats Arolas
Dissertation: “Music and Communication in Enlightenment Rome: Doctrine, Instruction, Socialization, and Style in the Vocal Works of the Collegio Nazareno (1704-1784)”
Steve Wilson
Dissertation: “The radical music of John Zorn, Diamanda Galás, and Merzbow: a hermeneutic approach to expressive noise”
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