Student Achievements: Musicology

Recent Presentations and Publications by Musicology Students (2002-present):

• John Stine, "'I ... want ... to ... fit ... in': The Role of Music and Consumer Saturation in Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho," paper presented at the conference of the Music Theory and Musicology Society of the College-Conservatory of Music (Cincinnati, OH), 2007.
• Vasso Koutsobina, “Intertextuality in Josquin's Five- and Six-Voice Chansons: A Study in Poetic and Musical Relationships,” paper presented at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2006; and at the AMS Midwest Chapter Meeting, Chicago, IL, 2005.
• Michelle Davidson, Review of Remaking the Song: Operatic Visions and Revisions from Handel to Berio by Roger Parker, Music Research Forum 21 (2006): 85–89.
• Ellis T. Anderson, Review of Musical Listening in the German Enlightenment: Attention, Wonder, and Astonishment by Matthew Riley, Music Research Forum 21 (2006): 80–84.
• Jason Hibbard, Review of Repeating Ourselves: American Minimal Music as Cultural Practice by Robert Fink, Music Research Forum 21 (2006): 76–80.
• Kristy Swift, Review of The Art of Fugue: Bach Fugues for Keyboard 1715–1750 by Joseph Kerman, Music Research Forum 21 (2006): 71–76.
• Molly Reinhoudt, "Fernando Sor: The Influence of Early 19th-Century Virtuosity on the Rise on the Modern Guitar in the Variation Set Les dues amis," Music Research Forum 21 (2006): 29–41.
• Yongsik Kang, "Schumann's Impromptus, Op. 5 as 'A New Form of Variation,'" paper presented at Schumann Perspectives International Symposium, Lubbock, TX, 2006.
• John Stine, "Hemiola in the Finale of Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto: Expanding upon an Early Nineteenth-Century Piano Concerto Element," paper presented at Schumann Perspectives International Symposium, Lubbock, TX, 2006.
• Kevin R. Burke, "Defining a National Opera: German Criticism of Schumann's Genoveva," paper presented at Midwest Graduate Music Consortium, Evanston, IL, 2006. Also delivered at the Schumann Perspectives International Symposium, Lubbock, TX, 2006.
• Kevin R. Burke, "Conceiving a National Opera: Weber as Novelist and Critic," paper presented at AMS Midwest Chapter Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, 2006. Also delivered at the Western Ontario Student Symposium in Music, London, ON, 2006.
• Vassiliki Koutsobina, "Readings of Poetry÷Readings of Music: Intertextuality in Josquin's Five- and Six-Voice Chansons," paper presented at Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, University of Cambridge, UK, 2006.
• Whitney Holley, Review of Stagolee Shot Billy by Cecil Brown, Music Research Forum 20 (2005): 59–62.
• Benjamin M. McBrayer, Review of Professional Music Making in London: Ethnography and Experience by Stephen Cottrell, Music Research Forum 20 (2005): 55–59.
• Vassiliki Koutsobina, "Intertextuality in Josquin's Five- and Six-Voice Chansons: A Study in Poetic and Musical Relationships" paper presented at International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2006. Also delivered at the AMS Midwest Chapter Meeting, Chicago, IL, 2005.
• Bethany J. Smith, "'Song to a Dark Virgin': Race and Gender in the Art Songs of Florence B. Price," lecture-recital presented at Symposium of African American Women Composers and Arrangers, Dayton, OH, 2004; National Association of Teachers of Singing National Conference, Minneapolis, MN, 2006.
• Michelle Davidson, "Michael Moore's Republican Rhetoric: The Politics of Music in Fahrenheit 9/11," paper presented at University of Western Ontario Graduate Music Symposium, London, Ontario, 2005; AMS Midwest Chapter Meeting, Chicago, IL, 2005.
• Anya Holland, "Blurring Boundaries: Libby Larsen's Opera Mrs. Dalloway," paper presented at AMS Midwest Chapter Meeting, Chicago, IL, 2005.
• Bethany J. Smith, "Unlearn: Musical Representations of Gender, Sexuality, and Rape in John Singleton's Higher Learning," paper presented at AMS Midwest Chapter Meeting, Chicago, IL, 2005. Also delivered at Women in the Arts Conference in St. Louis, MO, 2005; and at Communities in Crisis: International Literature Conference, Columbia, SC, 2005.
• Peter S. Poulos, "The Dedication as Petition: Simone Molinaro's Motectorum Quinis, et missae denis vocibus, liber primus (1597)," paper presented at Cui dono lepidum novum libellum? Dedicating Latin Works and Motets in the Sixteenth Century: Theory and Practice, Rome, Italy, 2005.
• Anya Holland, "'A Totally Different Woman': May Aufderheide's Ragtime," paper presented at SAM Annual Meeting, Eugene, OR, 2005.
• Aaron Ziegel, Review of Piano: An Encyclopedia, 2nd edn., ed. by Robert Palmieri and Margaret W. Palmieri, Music Research Forum 20 (2005): 70–72.
• Kevin R. Burke, Review of Ilmatar's Inspirations: Nationalism, Globalization, and the Changing Soundscapes of Finnish Folk Music by Tina K. Ramnarine, Ethnomusicology 49 (2005): 320–22.
• Bethany J. Smith, Review of The Cantaoras: Music, Gender, and Identity in Flamenco Song by Loren Chuse, The World of Music 46/3 (2005): 156–59.
• Thomas Kernan, "What Does Science Teach Us about Tuning Timpani? A Study of Modern Medicine's Influence on the Practice and Pedagogy of Kettledrumming," paper presented at Percussive Arts Society International Convention, Columbus, OH, 2005.
• Kevin R. Burke "Anton Karas's Zither: 'The Fourth Man' in Carol Reed's The Third Man," paper presented at Annual Meeting of the Midwest Graduate Music Consortium, Madison, WI, 2005.
• Thomas Kernan, "Joseph Haydn and the Eighteenth-Century Funneled Kettledrum: The Transition from Battlefield to Concert Hall," paper presented at Haydn Society of California 2005 Conference, Claremont, CA, 2005.
• Kevin R. Burke, "Prescribing a National Opera: Spohr's Jessonda and the 'Appeal to German Composers,'" paper presented at AMS Midwest Chapter Meeting, Chicago, IL, 2004.
• Bethany J. Smith, Review of Women's Voices across Musical Worlds, ed. by Jane A. Bernstein, Music Research Forum 19 (2004): 76–80.
• Michelle Davidson, "One New German School, Two Takes on the Bard: A Comparison of Berlioz and Liszt's Compositional Approaches to Two Shakespearean Tragedies," paper presented at AMS Midwest Chapter Meeting, Chicago, IL, 2003.
• Jane Redd, "The Antiquarian Alleluia: Understandings of Tradition in Aquitanian Alleluias," The Past in the Present: Papers Read at the IMS Intercongressional Symposium and the 10th Meeting of the Cantus Planus (Budapest: Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, 2003), 2:151–78.
• Michelle Davidson, Review of The Music and Life of Beethoven by Lewis Lockwood, Music Research Forum 18 (2003): 81–85.
• Kevin R. Burke, Review of Motives for Allusion: Context and Content in Nineteenth-Century Music by Christopher Alan Reynolds, Music Research Forum 19 (2004): 84–89.
• Jewel Smith, "Educational Philosophy in Nineteenth-Century American Female Seminaries: Music and the 'Ideal of Real Womanhood,'" paper presented at AMS Annual Meeting, Houston, TX, 2003; SAM Annual Meeting, Tempe, AZ, 2003.
• Bethany J. Smith, "Stealing Fire: Reclaiming Womanhood in Tori Amos's Boys for Pele," paper presented at AMS Midwest Chapter Meeting, Chicago, IL, 2003.
• Jewel Smith, "Music Instruction in a Nineteenth-Century American Female Seminary: A Neglected History of Higher Education," lecture-recital presented at CMS Great Lakes Chapter Meeting, Ann Arbor, MI, 2003, with Tami Morris.
• Bethany J. Smith, Review of Carl Maria von Weber and the Search for a German Opera by Stephen C. Meyer, Music Research Forum 18 (2003): 85–89.
• Michelle Davidson, "In His Own Words," Review of Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life: Selected Letters, ed. and translated by Robert Spaethling, Music Research Forum 17 (2002): 82–84.

Recent Dissertations and Theses by Musicology Students (2002-present):

• Laura Eddleman, "Dramatic License: Alexander Woollcott's The Story of Irving Berlin." M.M. thesis, 2006.
• Aaron Ziegel, "Opening 'The Door to This Intense and Passionate Musical Life': The Music of the Modern World, 1895–1897." M.M. thesis, 2006.
• Anya Holland, "Blurring Boundaries: Issues of Gender, Madness, and Identity in Libby Larsen's Opera Mrs. Dalloway." M.M. thesis, 2005.
• Sandra Freitag, "The F/C Family of Saxophones: Its History, Future, and Literature." M.M. thesis, 2005.
• Ellis T. Anderson II, "The Reception of Franz Joseph Haydn in Austria and Germany 1798–1830: Biography and Criticism." M.M. thesis, 2005.
• Peter S. Poulos, "The Life and Sacred Music of Simone Molinaro (ca. 1570–1636), Musician of Genoa." Ph.D. diss., 2004.
• Kevin R. Burke, "Opera, The Nation, and The Ideology of Genre in Early Nineteenth-Century Germany. M.M. thesis, 2004.
• Eriko Aoyama, "Noah Greenberg and the New York Pro Musica: The Career, Reception, and Impact." M.M. thesis, 2004.
• Daniel R. Neises, "The State of the Liturgical Chant Tradition in the Late Seventeenth Century: A Manuscript Study of a Hymnal from Paczkow, Poland." M.M. thesis, 2003. [NB: Winner of the Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools Distinguished Master's Thesis Award.]
• Jewel Smith, "Music, Women, and Pianos: The Moravian Young Ladies' Seminary in Antebellum Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (1815–1860)." Ph.D. diss., 2003.
• Michelle Davidson, "One New German School, Two Takes on the Bard: A Comparison of Berlioz and Liszt's Compositional Approaches to Two Shakespearean Tragedies." M.M. thesis, 2003.
• Kunio Hara, "Puccini's Use of Japanese Melodies in Madama Butterfly." M.M. thesis, 2003.
• Amber Good, "'Lady, What Do You Do All Day?' Peggy Seeger's Anthems of Anglo-American Feminism." M.M. thesis, 2002. [NB: Winner of the Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools Distinguished Master's Thesis Award].
• Bryan A. Peluso, "Two Lines of Thought: The Twentieth-Century Historiography of the Early Symphony." M.M. thesis, 2002.

CCM students have received grants, fellowships, and awards from:

• The American Musical Instrument Society William E. Gribbon Award.
• AMS 50 Fellowship (American Musicological Society)
• AMS Midwest Chapter, Best Student Paper Award
• American Recorder Society
• Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD, i.e., German Academic Exchange Service)
• Fulbright Foundation
• Inter-American Foundation
• Midwest Association of Graduate Schools, Distinguished Masters Thesis Award
• Ohio Federation of Music Clubs Scholarship
• Presser Foundation
• The Sinfonia Foundation
• Society for American Music, Mark Tucker Award
• University of Cincinnati Distinguished Dissertation Fellowships
• University of Cincinnati Friends of Women's Studies
• University of Cincinnati Summer Research Fellowships

A Selective List of Institutions at which Former UC-CCM Musicology Students Have Teaching Positions:

• Antioch College
• Bucknell University
• Denison University
• Kenyon College
• Loyola Marymount University
• Miami University of Ohio
• Roosevelt University
• University of Colorado, Boulder
• University of Florida
• Wabash College