This site is no longer updated and will not be available after December 2010. Completed Doctoral Theses
Doctor of Philosophy
THACKER, Eric
Percy Grainger: An Appraisal - 1971
DREYFUS, Kay (Lucas)
Beethoven’s Last Five Piano Sonatas: a Study in Analytical Method - 1972
STEVENS, Robin
Music in State-Supported Education in N.S.W. and Victoria 1848-1920 - 1978
RADIC, Maureen Théresè
Some Historical Aspects of Musical Associations in Melbourne 1888-1915 - 1978
McNEIL, Roderick
A Critical Study of the Life and Works of EJ. Moeran - 1982
MURPHY, Kerry
The Formation of the Music Criticism of Hector Berlioz (1823–1837) - 1984
WILLIAMS, Craig Evan
Violin Bowing Skill Analysis: The Mechanics and Acoustics of the Change in Direction - 1985
RICH, J. W. (Joseph Wolfgang)
His thumb unto his nose: the removal of G.W.L. Marshall-Hall from the Ormond Chair of Music - 1986
CUMMING, Naomi Helen
Analytical and Aesthetic Concepts in the Work of Leonard B. Meyer - 1987
McCOLL, Sandra
Kritisch bewegte Formen: Music in the Viennese Press 1896–1897 - 1994
STOCKIGT, Janice
The Vespers Psalms of Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679–1745) in the Liturgy and Life of the Dresden Catholic Court Church - 1994
WALKER, Rhett
In What is Constituted Musical Meaning, Significance and Value - 1995
GONG, Xiao Qiang
The Nature and Meaning of Music: Towards Relativity and Universality of Musicality, a Study in East-West Comparative Aesthetics of Music - 1996
KOUVARAS, Linda
‘Sweet Death’: Strategies of the Feminine Grotesque in a Contemporary Australian Opera - 1996
REINER, Thomas
A Semiological Model of Musical Time - 1996
CHRISTOFORIDIS, Michael
Aspects of the Creative Process in Manuel de Falla’s El retablo de Maese Pedro and Concerto - 1997
EKKEL, Gary
Tonal Balance in Polyphony of the Josquin Generation - 1997
GUSTAVSON, Royston
Hans Ott, Hieronymus Formschneider, and the Novum et insigne opus musicum (Nuremberg, 1537-1538) – 1998
PLESCH, Melanie
The guitar in nineteenth-century Buenos Aires: towards a cultural history of an Argentine musical emblem – 1999
ERDONMEZ GROCKE, Denise
A Phenomenological Study of Pivotal Moments in Guided Imagery and Music (GIM) Therapy – 1999
BARBER, Bruce
An investigation of neural processes in music cognition using quantitative electroencephalography – 2000
GREENBAUM, Stuart
Arvo Part’s Te Deum: A Compositional Watershed – 2000
JEFFREYS, Catherine
Melodia et Rhetorica: the devotional-song repertory Hildegard of Bingen – 2000
KERTESZ, Elizabeth
Issues in the critical reception of Ethel Smyth’s Mass and first four operas in England and Germany – 2000
PRICTOR, Megan
Music and the ordinary listener: music appreciation and the media in England 1918–1939 – 2000
STEVENS, Timothy
The Origins, Development and Significance of the Red Onions Jazz Band, 1960–1996 - 2000
PATTON, Faye
Florence Donaldson Ewart (1864 - 1949), Australian composer: a study of selected works and their cultural context - 2000
O’CALLAGHAN, Clare
Music Therapy’s Relevance in a Cancer Hospital Researched Through a Constructivist lens - 2001
SKEWES, Katrina
The Experience of Group Music Therapy for Six Bereaved Adolescents - 2001
McDONALD, Grantley
Orpheus Germanicus: Metrical Music and the Reception of Marsilio Fincino’s Poetics and Music Theory in Renaissance Germany - 2002
DAVISON, Alan
Studies in the iconography of Franz Liszt– 2002
BUNTING, Susan
Can Copyright Cope with Music? - 2002
CORN, Aaron
Dreamtime wisdom, modern-time vision: tradition and innovation in the popular band movement of Arnhem Land, Australia - 2003
CAMPBELL, Peter
‘Semper sint in flore’: historical, organisational, individual and musical aspects of the intervarsity choral movement in Australia - 2003
FINSTERER, Mary
SEQUI: the process of composition - 2003
HILL, Jennifer
Aspects of Australian Popular Song 1890–1914 - 2003
HUGHES, William
Aspects of cultural context, pianism and composition within the Metopes Op. 29, of Karol Szymanowski - 2003
WILLIAMS, Beth
Lineages of Garcia-Marchesi and other traditional Italian vocal pedagogy in Australia 1850-1950 - 2003
CASTEELS, Robert
Berlayar ke Mata Hari (Set Sail to the Sun): a folio of original compositions comprising the use of gamelan instruments with related exegesis - 2004
GEORSUA, Racquel
Where Heaven and Earth meet: the Buklog of the Subanen in Zamboanga Peninsula, Western Mindanao, the Philippines - 2004
GRIFFITHS, Pauline
Chamber music audiences: access, participation and pleasure at Melbourne concerts - 2004
LAI, Nga-Ting
The Issue of Time in Quatrain II (1977) by Toru Takemitsu - 2004
GREET, Martin
Expectation and gesture in the piano sonatas of Keith Humble - 2004
KOAY, Kheng Keow
Alfred Schnittkes string quartets Nos. 3 and 4 and Sofia Gubaidulinas string quartets Nos. 2 and 3: context and anlysis - 2004
WANG, Zheng-Ting
Chinese music in the diaspora to New York and Melbourne: 1980s to 2000 - 2004
REEDER, Hadyn Brett
Case study of a collaboration, including the performance and analysis of interplay, for guitar and electronics - 2004
BURK, Ian
A tradition transplanted and nurtured: the contribution of A. E. Floyd to cathedral and church music in Australia,1915-1947 - 2004
COLE, Suzanne Beverley
The reception of the sacred choral music of Thomas Tallis in ninteenth-century England - 2004
PURCELL, Kevin John
Volume 1: Rebecca - the musical; Volume 2: From sound effect to sound design: the development of a dramaturgical model for sound design in Rebecca - the musical; Volume 3: Danger under the moon; Appendix A: Rebecca - the musical: libretto - 2005
WILLIAMS, Alexandra Mary
The Dodo was Really a Phoenix: the renaissance and revival of the recorder in England 1879-1941 - 2005
Doctor of Musical Arts
GOLDSWORTHY, Anna
They Write that I Play Like a Man: Fanny Hansel and Virtuosity - 2004
LACEY, Genevieve
Contemporary Attitudes to the Performance of Baroque Music: A Synthesis and Personal Application - 2002
MCGEE, Mark
From Celibidache to Debussy: Phenomenological Reflections on Music and Meaning. – 2002
DELBRIDGE, Lerida
A Biomechanical Analysis of a Violinist’s Right Shoulder during a performance of J.S. Bach’s Chaconne - 2005
Doctor of Music
DOUGLAS, Clive
Kaditcha: An Operetta in One Act, Three Scenes and Incidental Ballet; Symphony - 1957
BRUMBY, Colin
Stabat Mater Speciosea; Litanies of the Sun - 1971
BONIGHTON, Ian
Concerto Da Camera; Sequenza; Herod an Instrumental Theatre Mosaic - 1972
PENBERTHY, James
Symphony No.8 (Chorale); Hiroshima Cantata - 1973
TRUMBLE, Robert
Introduction, Canon and Variations for Orchestra; Antiphonic for Choir and Orchestra - 1976
CONYNGHAM, Barry
Water...Footsteps...Time; Three; Ice Carving; The Apology of Bony Anderson - 1979
HOWARD, Brian
Temple of Golden Pavilion; Clawson de la plus haute tour; Inner Voices - 1980
BROADSTOCK, Brenton
String Quartet No. 3; Tuba Concerto; Battlements for Orchestra; Piano Concerto - 1988
GILLIES, Malcolm
Portfolio of published and unpublished works on Béla Bartók and Percy Grainger - 2004