Theses and Dissertations

University of Melbourne

Postgraduate theses are listed on the Library Catalogue. A Keyword search is the best way to check whether a thesis has been completed on a specific subject at the University of Melbourne: Type in relevant subject keywords followed by the words 'and thesis'.

Undergraduate dissertations and special studies are not listed on the Library Catalogue, but in a card catalogue in the Music Branch Library.

Other Australian Universities

Listings of Australian theses on music related topics can be found in:

Studies in Music (W. A.)
There is a 'Register of Theses' near the back of each annual volume; it is not cumulative, and so you will have to examine each volume. Note that each bound volume on the shelf contains four volumes of the Journal. This Journal ceased publication in 1992.

Musicology Australia
From 1995, the 'Register of Theses' near the back of each annual volume continues the Register started in Studies in Music.

Register of Theses in Australian Music
The Centre for Studies in Australian Music has published (1996) on computer disc a register of all theses which deal with music and musical life in Australia, whether written in Australia or overseas.

Context
Since 1996 (Issue 11), Context has included abstracts of theses recently completed by Australian scholars or at Australian Universities (including MMus theses from Issue 15/16). An index is available online.

International

The most comprehensive listing of international dissertations on music is found at DDM-Online. This is updated regularly, but has an American bias.

Dissertations completed prior to 1994 can also be found in hard copy in:

Adkins, Cecil and Alis Dickinson, eds. Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology, 1984 & 1990 [Mu Ref 016.78 DOCT] but these records are also included, and are more easily searchable, in DDM-Online.

A British archive (not complete) of music theses, with abstracts, from a number of countries can be found at on the Royal Holloway Golden Pages.

European dissertations on musicology (predominantly from Austria, Switzerland and the German Federal Republic) can found at DMS (Dissertationsmeldestelle der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung).

French music dissertations from 1972 are listed, with abstracts, at TheseNet.

There is also a separate listing of dissertations on Music Theory that have been announced in Musc Theory Online.

General (not music-specific)

An online listing of theses in Great Britain and Ireland can be accessed at www.theses.com.

A multi-disciplinary listing of international dissertations is found, via Buddy, at ProQuest Digital Dissertations.