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Music

In its Honors Program the Music Department awards Honors, High Honors, or Highest Honors to student research projects. The projects listed below have been defended successfully, and a copy of the thesis deposited in Swem Library.

Key:
  • Student, "Thesis" (Honors level)
    Committee Chair + Other Committee Members
2012-13
  • Taylor Ann Ashlock, "New Music to the Very Ears of God: Heloise the Composer" (High Honors) 
    Thomas Payne + James Armstrong, George Greenia, Monica Potkay
  • Fiona Agnes Balestrieri, "Searching for a Voice in Bongo-land: Bongo Fleva Music and the Global Imagination in Neoliberal Tanzania" (Highest Honors) 
    Anne Rasmussen + Max Katz, Brad Weiss, Jonathan Glasser
  • Kevin Daniel Deisz, "Musically Understanding the Emotional Content of Speech" (High Honors)
    Greg Bowers + Timothy Mauthe, Paul Bhasin, Evgenia Smirni
  • Patrick Connor Benedict Dittamo, "The Harrowing of Hell, a Paschal Oratorio" (High Honors) 
    Brian Hulse + Thomas Payne, Monica Brzezinski
  • Matthew Frerking Reese, "Dvorak and James: Pragmatism and the Music of America's Fin de Siecle" (High Honors) 
    James Armstrong + Tuska Benes, Chandos Brown, Katherine Preston 
2010-11
2009-10
  • No Honors students this year.
2008-09
2007-08
2006-07
  • Drew VanDyke Colby, "In the Footsteps of Nathaniel Dett: Composing An American Mass, An Original Composition Based on African-American Spirituals" (High Honors)
  • John Richard Muniz, "Yin-Yang for 'Pierrot plus percussion'" (Highest Honors)
    Sophia Serghi + Thomas Payne, Chris Bailey, Kevin Vose
  • Laura Elizabeth Smith, "Meghrebi Music Culture in Southern Spain: Nostalgia, Conflict, and Exchange" (High Honors)
    Anne Rasmussen + Tom Payne, George Greenia, Francie Cate-Arries
2005-06
  • Cong (Tony) Sun, "Four Chinese Music Demigods and Chinese Romanticism of the Twentieth Century" (High Honors)
    Anne Rasmussen and Sophia Serghi + Christine Niehaus, Yanfang Tang
2004-05
  • Derek Power
    James Armstrong + Sophia Serghi, Julie Galambush
  • Bryan Wright
    Katherine Preston + Chris Scales, Anne Rasmussen, John Morreall