Graduate Student Dissertations and Theses in Music Education

2020

Sheerin Berte, Ph.D.
The Lived Experience of Adult Musicians with Dyscalculia: A Heuristic Inquiry

Wendy Gunther, M.M.
The Unicorns of Elementary Schools: A Collective Case Study of Male Elementary General Music Teachers

Melissa Ryan, Ph.D.
Social Justice Pedagogy in Elementary Music: Beliefs, Attitudes, and Practices

Robert Saunders, Ph.D.
Mandolin Parallels and Their Effects on Beginning Violin Achievement

2019

Giulia Ripani, M.M.
Children's Social Representations of Music

Víctor Manuel Rubio Carrillo, M.M.
A Musical Breathing Approach with Guitar Performance

2018

Vimari Cólón Leon, Ph.D.
A Model of Parental Involvement in the Music Education of Students with Special Education Needs

Donna Hewitt, Ph.D.
The Impact of a Professional Development Program in Popular Music on a Music Teacher’s Beliefs and Practices

Kat Reinhert, Ph.D.
Developing Popular Music Programs in Higher Education: Exploring Possibilities

2017

Johanna E. Abril, Ph.D.
The State of Music Education in Basic General Public Schools of Ecuador: The Administrators' Perspective

Sandra Sanchez Adorno, Ph.D.
Navigating Identities: The Musical Lives of Four Second-Generation Immigrant Children in Miami, Florida

Melissa Eick, M.M.
Background Characteristics, Identity Issues, and Mentoring Process Perceptions of Undergraduate Instrumentalists as Predictors of Applied Music Teaching Success

Molly Page, M.M.
Running as a Treatment for Music Performance Anxiety

2016

Carolyn Dachinger, Ph.D.
The Effect of a Music-Movement Intervention on Arousal and Cognitive Flexibility in Older Adults With and Without Mild Neurocognitive Disorder

Candice Davenport, Ph.D.
A Model of Classroom Environment and Social-Psychological Factors Influencing Computer-Based Compositional Creativity

2015

Craig Denison, Ph.D.
A Structural Model of Physiological and Psychological Effects on Adolescent Male Singing

Hyun-Jung Lee, Ph.D.
The Effect of Auditory Pitch Range on Sustained and Selective Attention: A Comparison of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Typically-Developing Children

2014

Peter J. Hamlin, Ph.D.
Deliberate Practice of High School Instrumentalists: A Theoretical Model

Susana M. Lalama, Ph.D.
Perceived Caring Climate, Empathy, and Student Social Behavior in High School Bands

Lindsay Moraczewski, M.M.
Functional Harmony: The Social Culture of a High School Orchestra

Ahmad Rithaudin Md Noor, Ph.D.
The Effectiveness of Electronic (e-Learning) on Music Theory and Music Appreciation Achievement of Form 1 (Grade 7) Malaysian Secondary School Students

2012

Jennifer Lee Doyle, Ph.D.
The Effects of Teacher Background, Teacher Preparation, and Support on Attitudes and Expectations of K-12 Urban Music Educators

Kathryn L. Simon, Ph.D.
Predictors of Classroom Management Challenges and Practices of Secondary Choral Music Educators

E. Gaile Stephens, Ph.D.
Formation and Prediction of the Singing Perceptions of Self-Labeled Singers and Non-Singers

Brian C. Wesolowski, Ph.D.
Testing a Model of Jazz Rhythm: Validating a Microstructural Swing Paradigm

Alaina Galliford-Lorenzo, M.M.
The Effect of Verbal Versus Nonverbal Parent Cues on Children's Listening Skills


Monica J. Kurtz, M.M.
The Impact of Teacher Intensity on Student Motivation in the 4th and 5th Grade Music Classroom: A Case Study 


Sandra Mercedez Sanchez, M.M.
Individual Adequacy of Immersed Music Program Participants
 


2011

Brian Wuttke, Ph.D.
A Model Describing the Effects of Equipment, Instruction and Director and Student Attributes on Wind-Band Intonation

Eunju Jeong, Ph.D. 
Development and Validation of a Music-based Attention Assessment for Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury

Susana M. Lalama, M.M.
A Comparison of Student and Teacher Perceptions of Classroom Management in Secondary Band Rehearsals in Florida Schools.


Linda Lathroum, Ph.D. 
The Role of Music Perception in Predicting Phonological Awareness in Five- and Six-Year-Old Children

2010

Brian Russell, Ph.D.
The Empirical Testing of Musical Performance Assessment Paradigm

Bradley C. Olesen, Ph.D.
The Impact of Background, Choral Conducting Training and Music Teaching Style on the Choral Warm-up Philosophy and Practices of Successful High School Choral Directors

Caroline Elizabeth Morris, M.M.
A Comparison of the Use of Composition as a Teaching Tool in Music Classrooms of the United States and United Kingdom

2009

Julie Stordahl, Ph.D. 
The Influence of Music on Depression, Affect, and Benefit Finding Among Women at the Completion of Treatment for Breast Cancer

Ming Tu, Ph.D. 
The Effects of a Chinese Music Curriculum on Cultural Attitudes, Tonal Discrimination, Singing Accuracy, and Acquisition of Chinese Lyrics for Third-, Fourth-, and Fifth-Grade Students

2007

Hayoung Lim, Ph.D. 
The Effect of "Developmental Speech-Language Training through Music" on Speech Production in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

2006

Charles Ciorba, Ph.D. 
The Creation of a Model to Predict Jazz Improvisation Achievement

Lourinda S. Crochet, Ph.D. 
Repertoire Selection Practices of Band Directors as a Function of Teaching Experience, Training, Instructional Level, and Degree of Success

Patricia O. Englehardt, Ph.D. 
The Effect of the Yamaha Music in Education Keyboard Instructional Approach on the Musical and Nonmusical Outcomes of Middle School Students

Janet Kirsten, Ph.D. 
Pre-Kindergarten Music Education Standards and the Opportunity-to-Learn Standards as applied to preschool settings in the United States

Kathleen M. Light, Ph.D. 
Continuing in Band: Marketing to Incoming High School Students

Kelly A. Parkes, Ph.D. 
The Effect of Performance Rubrics on College-Level Applied Studio Grading

Nathan Rinnert, Ph.D. 
A History of the Bands at the Teachers' School in Mansfield, Pennsylvania, 1871--1971

Sandra Schwartz, Ph.D. 
Vocal Health of Middle School and High School Choral Directors

2005

Melissa Lesniak, Ph.D.
Attitudes Towards String Education Among Collegiate String Faculty

2004

Jeannine Mongeon, Ph.D.
The effects of Left-hand Exercises on Beginning Upper String Performers' Intonation and Facility

2003

Joy Galliford, Ph.D.
The Effects of Music Experience During Early Childhood on the Development of Linguistic and Non-linguistic Skills

2002

Christopher R. Sweeney, Ph.D.
The Effects of Structured Practice on the Performance Skills of Middle School First-year Band Students

2001

Thelma B. Alvarez, Ph.D.
The experience of being a mother of children up to two-and-a-half years old and the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music

Mohammed A. Soulayman, Ph.D.
A Review and Survey of Current Practices in Elementary Music Education Methods Courses with Recommendations for a K--4 Course of Study for the College of Basic Education in Kuwait

Roger A. Mason, Ph.D.
Audiation, Cochlear Function, and the Musical ear of Alfred Tomatis

2000

Khaled M. Almujarred, Ph.D.
A Survey of Current Practices in the Teaching of College and University Music Appreciation Classes with Implications for Teaching the Course in Kuwait's College of Basic Education

1999

Badreyah H. Abdali, Ph.D.  
A Method of Teaching Qanun Performance to Elementary-Aged Children   

1998

Sager Al-Ramzi, Ph.D.  
The History, Development, and Curriculum of the Institute of Musical Studies and the Higher Institute of Musical Art in Kuwait   

Sergio L. d. A. Alvares , Ph.D.  
A Rationale for and the Development of “Choro” Courses as a Proposed Model for Brazilian Popular Music Program s in Colleges and Universities o f Brazil   

1997

Walter G. Busse , Ph.D.  
Toward Objective Measurement and Evaluation of Jazz Piano Performance Via MIDI-Based Groove Quantize Templates  

1996

Kaja L. Jenson, Ph.D.  
The effects of selected classical music on writing and talking about significant life events  

1995

Dawn K. Batson, Ph. D.  
Pan Into The Twenty-First Century: The Steelband as an Economic Force in Trinidad and Tobago   

Douglas M. Jordan, Ph.D.  
Alfred Reed: The Man Behind the Music  

Perry Lee, Ph.D.  
An Investigation of the Opportunities of Exceptional Students in Secondary Instrumental Music in Flori da Twenty Years after PL 94-142  

Elizabeth F. York, Ph.D.  
The Effects of Music Therapy Interventions on Naming and Verbal Fluency in Persons with Probable Alzheimer’s Disease   

1994

David J. Greennagel, Ph.D.  
A Study of Selected Predictors of Jazz Vocal Improvisation Skills   

Cathy H. McKinney, Ph.D.  
The Effect of the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music on Mood, Emotional Expression, Cortisol, and Immunologic Control of Latent Epstein-Barr Virus in Healthy Adults    

Lee W. Stone, Ph.D.  
The Effects of Systematic Aural/Visual Performance Modeling on Young String Instrumentalists’ Executive and Performance Skills   

1993

Patrick M. Fortney, Ph.D.  
Learning Style and Music Instruction Via an Interactive Audio CD-ROM: An Exploratory Study    

Merja A. Sargon, Ph.D.  
An Examination of Primary, Middle, and Senior High School Students' Responses to Operatic and Popular Female Vocal Timbres   

1992

Yasmin Alvarez, Ph.D.  
The Development and Evaluation of a Sequential Comprehensive Keyboard Curriculum for Senior High School   

Randy L. Bangs, Ph.D.  
An Application of Amabile’s Model of Creativity to Music Instruction: A Comparison of Motivational Strategies   

Barry R. Garman, Ph.D.  
The Effects of Accompaniment Texture and Contextual Pitch Distance on String Instrumentalists’ Intonational Performance   

1991

Rebecca C. Kralik, Ph.D.  
An Examination ot the Self-Concepts of Middle School Music Participants and Nonparticipants   

Keith V. Lucas, Ph.D.  
The Effect of Contextual Condition on the Sight Singing Achievement of Middle School Choral Music Students  

Raquel M. Montalvo, Ph.D.  
An Assessment of the Status and Needs of K-12 Public School Music Education in Puerto Rico   

Mary E. Pocock, Ph.D.  
The Influence of Harmonic Complexity on Melodic Expectations  

1990  

Michael B. Dressman, Ph.D.  
The Development and Validation of a Test to Evaluate Selected Wind Instrument Performance Competencies of Middle School/Junior High School Instrumentalists   

Gerald W. Siverson, Ph.D.  
An Examination of The Extent to which Senior High School Band Programs Reflect Aesthetic and Utilitarian Goals   

1989

Gary D. Dubler, Ph.D.  
Labor Law and the Working Musician: Words Without Music    

Richard K. Fiese, Ph.D.  
An Examination of the Relationship a mong Conductors’ Rankings of the Relative Musical Quality of Three Unfamiliar Wind Band Scores  

Sammi S. Liebman, Ph.D.  
The Effects of Music and Relaxation on Third Trimester Anxiety in Adolescent Pregnancy    

David C. McCalla, Ph.D.  
The Status of Class Piano Instruction in the Public Secondary Schools of Florida    

1988

David L. Mills, Ph.D.  
The Meaning of the High School Band Experience and its Relationship to Band Activities  

Joseide G. Montarroyos, Ph.D.  
Music Education in Brazilian Public Elementary Schools: A Proposed Curriculum for Children of Ages Seven through Ten  

1987

Martha L. Gackle, Ph.D.  
The Effect of Selected Vocal Techniques for Breath Management, Resonation, and Vowel Unification on Tone Production in the Junior High School Female Voice   

1986

Jacqueline S. Glass, Ph.D.  
The Effects of a Microcomputer-Assisted Tuning Program on Junior High School Students’ Pitch Discrimination and Pitch-Matching Abilities  

Rachel L. Lebon, Ph.D.  
The Effects of a Pedagogical Approach Incorporating Videotaped Demonstrations on thge Development of Female Vocalists’ “Belted” Voca l Technique  

Richard W. Weymuth, Ph.D.  
The Development and Evaluation of a Cognitive Music Achievement Test to Evaluate Missouri High School Choral Music Students  

1985

Frederico A. d. B. Manso , Ph.D.  
An Examination of Music Education Philosophy and Practices in Grades One Through Four of the Municipal Primary Schools in Rio De Janeiro  

1983

John S. Kuskinski, Ph.D.  
The Effect of Mouthpiece Cup Depth and Backbore Shape on Listeners' Categorizations of Tone Quality in Recorded Trumpet Excerpts  

Russell L. Robinson, Ph.D.  
The Development and Evaluation of a Microcomputer-Assisted Music Instruction Program for the Improvement of Tonal Memory    

Pamela A. Sterling, Ph.D.  
A Developmental Study of the Effects of Accompanying Harmonic Context on ‘Vocal Pitch Accuracy of Familiar Melodies  

Richard E. Stewart, Ph.D.  
A Comparison of Music Preferences of Students in Three Educational Systems: Seventh -Day Adventist, Public, and Private Independent Schools    

1983

John S. Brick, Ph.D.  
The Effects of a Self-Instr uctional Program Utilizing The “Pitch Master” on Pitch Discrimination and Pitch Accuracy in Performance of Junior High School Trombonists    

1981

Joseph P. Scartelli, Ph.D.  
A Comparison of the Effect of Electromyographic ( Emg ) Biofeedback and Sedative Music, Emg Biofeedback Only, And Sedative Music Only on the Ability of University Music Majors to Relax the Frontalis Muscles  

William F. Schlacks, Ph.D.  
The Effect of Vocalization through an Interval Training Program Upon the Pitch Accuracy of High School Band Students  

1980

Lynne H. Micheletti, Ph.D.  
An Assessment of the Vertical Method and the Ensemble Approach for Teaching Sight Reading to Secondary Class Piano Students  

1979

Robert C. Parker, Ph.D.  
The Relative Effectiveness of the Tap System in Instruction in Sight Singing: An Experimental Study   

1976

Manny Brand, Ph.D.  
A Study of the Effectiveness of Simulation Techniques in Teaching Behavior Management Skills to Undergraduate Music Education Majors  

James D. Ewing, Ph.D.  
Elaine Brown and Singing City: The Choral Art as a Communicative Social Force   

William C. Robinson, Ph.D.  
The Musical Preferences of Mental Patients Based on Cattell’s Interpretations of Factors Associated with Certain Aspects of Personality  

1975

Rasama Nyberg, Ph.D.  
The Development, Implementation and Evaluation of an Introductory Course in Ethnic Music for Use in the Secondary Schools    

1974

Frank A. Biringer, Jr., Ph.D.  
The Development and Evaluation of a Systems Approach Curriculum for a Heterogeneous Beginning String Class   

Jack A. Bullock, Ph.D.  
An Investigation of the Personality Traits, Job Satisfaction Attitudes, Training and Experience Histories of Superior Teachers of Junior High School Instrumental Music in New York State  

1971

Arthur M. Hansuld, Ph.D.  
The Development and Evaluation of Two Filmed Methods for Teaching Principles of Selected Musical Wind Instrument Skills on the College Level  

1970

John M. Munroe, Ph.D.  
The Nature of Group Opinion on Goals of Music Performance Groups in the Secondary Schools of Palm Beach County, Florida