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."
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."
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
1991
- Jonathan Douglas. "The Critical Reception of Early Nineteenth-Century English Composers."