Previous Honors Projects

2025

Braydon Baxter. "Seven Songs After William Carlos Williams."
Decker Jackson. "The Bluegrass Way of Life: Music, Culture, and Community in Kentucky and Southwest Ohio."
Taka Khoo. "My Life in Sound."
Sasha Usher. "Resonant Futures: Revitalizing Classical Music Audiences Through Wellness and Community Engagement."

2024

Ramsey Ash. "Worth The Search: Clarinet Performance Today."
Grace Chen. "WANDERLUST: Three Pieces for Orchestra."
Soyeon Cho. "Six Works of French Clarinet Music Composed Between 1885 and 1973."
Amy Norton. "Amy Norton Presents Amy Norton."
Jason Pak. "A Complete Transcription of Paul Schoenfield's Café Music for Piano, Viola, and Cello Trio."
Julia Patterson. "Music Through a Biochemical Lens."

2022

Christopher Damon. "Temporarily Unavailable."
Edward McManus. "A Group-Theoretic Approach to N-Tone Harmony."
Ethan Moon. "Musical Narratives and Sonic Exclusion: Dartmouth's Varied Sounds."
Virginia Wei. "Finding the Song in the System: Commodification, Creativity, and Culture in K-pop."
Brandy Zhang. "Listening to the SoundsKpe."

2021

Andrew Kaler. "A Rabbit on Steroids: Cross-Genre Explorations into Songwriting, Engineering, and Production."

2020

Caitlin McGrail. "An Interpretation of Schumann's Frauenliebe und Leben."
Gabriel Zuckerberg. "Mikrá Yiánnena: Romaniote Chanting for Shabbat Evening in Greece and New York City."

2019

Adam Rinehouse. "Two Meditations: Elegy for Wind Ensemble."
Katherine Wee. "A Call for Dialogue about Disability in Music."

2016

James Ragan. "Eternal Rest: In Support of a Choral Program."

2015

Michaël Blum. "What Is the Process by which Jazz Vocabulary Is Acquired?"

2014

Ryan McWilliams. "Sound Mimesis in Compositional Practice: A Narrative Tool."

2012

Nic Chuaqui. "Icarus."

2011

Julia Floberg. "Living the Elgar: Studying and Performing Edward Elgar's Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra in E minor, op.85."
James Lee. "Hermaphroditus and Salmacis: A Chamber Opera in Three Scenes."

2008

2007

Katharine Blumenthal. "Caste-Bound Music."
Kim Nguyen Tran. "The Emergence of Leo Brouwer's Compositional Periods: The Guitar, Experimental Leanings, and New Simplicity."

2006

Kimberly Coppola. "Herds of Black Pianos: Samuel Barber as Songwriter."
Peter Morgenstern. "Weber and Baermann: Composer Meets Clarinetist."
Joe Zenruffinen. "'Till Earth Outwears': The Songs of Gerald Finzi."

2005

Rebecca Elaine Bruccoleri. "Visions of Sound: The Study of the Orchestra as a Canvas in Selected Works and Valse Romantique."
Marisa Clementi. "The Standard: Breaking Barriers in the Blues."
Eric Lindley. "Theoretical Extensions and Compositional Applications of James Tenney's Theories of Temporal Gestalt Perception in Music."
C. Kadis Moscato. "'Transformation,' for Orchestra and Oud: Turkish/Western Modal Music Fusion."
Brent Reidy. "Cage and Schoenberg Reexamined: Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano (1946-1948) as a Reaction to Schoenberg."
Sarah Ries. "Evita: The Story Behind the Opera."
Kristina Rodriguez. "Musical Movements: The Unification of Benjamin Britten's Simple Symphony with Modern Dance."
Kabir Seghal. "Jazzocracy: Jazz as a Weapon of Democracy."

2004

Oliver Caplan. "Symphony No. 1: For Chamber Orchestra."
Daniel David Colvard. "Three Works by John Adams."
James Wrubel. "Reinventing Standards: Modern Interpretation on Historical Style."

2003

Andrew Haringer. "The Fantasia: A Window on the Composer's Imagination."

2002

John Frederick Brandsema. "Opera: Gesamtkunstwerk, or One Big Bloody Mess?"
Jamie Fan. "West Meets East: Asian Influences in Western Piano Music: Analysis of My Song (II, IV) and Ba Ban."
Jeff Hafner. "Foundations."
Brian Jacobs. "Two Faces."
Kristina Romberg. "The Divine One--Sarah Vaughan."

2001

Galen Brown. "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: An Oratorio."
Sarah Craft. "La serva padrona: A Short Comic Opera."
Andrew Pease. "Positively New Ensemble Music: Suite for Steelpans and Brass."

2000

Ryan Ainsley. "Vocal Pedagogy: An Analysis of the Procedures Used in Modern American Studios in the Context of Physiology and the National Schools of Singing."
Lauren Bellucci. "Learning through Performance: A Practicum in Music Education."
Deirdre Brenner. "Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra Presents Anthony Princiotti, Conductor, & Deirdre Brenner, Piano."
Carmen Silva Flores. "Filipino Themes and Resistance Elements in the Manila Sarswela, 1899-1919."
James Lawrie. "Haydn's Use of the Double-Variation Form in his Keyboard Music."
Amy Victoria Smith. "Romantic Individuality: The Relationship of Music and Text in Samuel Barber's Songs."

1999

Brendan Caldon. "Odysseus: An Orchestral Suite."
Tamayo Kawai. "Suite for String Quartet: Musical Portraits of Psychiatric Children."
Philip Levant. "Differences in Orchestration Technique Between Handel's Messiah and Mozart's Re-Orchestration."
Sean Parr. "Die schöne Müllerin, a Song Cycle by Franz Schubert: Post-Performance Research Document of Song Examples which Are Emblematic of the Text and Music Relationship Evident in the Cycle."

1998

Joanna Gibson. "G.F. Handel's Acis and Galatea: Historical Perspective and Commentary on a Modern Performance."
Matthew Heerde. "A Portrait of Dhrupad: A First-Hand Analysis of the Social, Spiritual, Personal and Aesthetic Values of the Performance Style."

1996

Matthew Carlson. "From Now On--: For String Quartet and Bodhran."

1995

Lara Belena. "Italian Concerto in F Major, BWV 971."
José Luis Pérez. "Compositional Techniques in Missa Dona nobis pacem: A Supporting Document."

1992

Jonathan Douglas. "William Sterndale Bennett and the Politics of Musical Performance in Early Victorian London."
Daniel Petit. "The Structural Implications of Orchestration in the Music of Gustav Mahler."

1991

Jonathan Douglas. "The Critical Reception of Early Nineteenth-Century English Composers."

1979

Sally Critchlow. "The Singer-Actor: A Study in Performance Based on Dominick Argento's Song Cycle From the Diary of Virginia Woolf."