Dissertations Presently Underway Treating the “Long” Eighteenth Century

Initially compiled by Karen Hiles, June 2008
To make changes or to add your dissertation to the list, please email Keith Johnston at keith_j_johnston@hotmail.com

Rebekah Ahrendt, “Politics, Pleasure, and the Propagation of French Opera outside of France, 1680–1715” (University of California Berkeley)

James Arnold, “‘Putting thoughts into song’: Andre-Ernest-Modeste Gretry and the French Revolution on the operatic stage” (Birkbeck College, London University)

Roland Biener, “Die geistliche Werke Antonio Rosettis (um 1750 bis 1792)” (Technische Universität Dresden)

Peter Broadwell, “Swashbucklers on Stage: Musical Depictions of Pirates and Bandits in English Musical Theater, 1650–1820” (University of California Los Angeles)

Gergely Fazekas, “The Context and Reception of J. S. Bach’s Notion of Musical Form” (Liszt Academy Budapest)

Karen Hiles, “Haydn’s Heroic Decades: Music, Politics, and War, 1795–1809” (Columbia University)

Katsuaki Ichikawa, “Die Harmoniemusik am Hof von Oettingen-Wallerstein” (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg)

Erin Jerome, “Disguise, Deception, and the Development of Haydn’s Dramatic Voice in the Comic Operas of 1766-1777” (Brandeis University)

Keith Johnston, "È caso da intermedio! Comic Practice, Comic Style and the Early Intermezzo” (University of Toronto)

Martin Küster, “Theoretical Approaches to Musical Prosody in the Eighteenth Century” (Cornell University)

Adeline Mueller, “Pamina’s Journey: Youth and the Young in Late Eighteenth-Century German Opera” (University of California Berkeley)

Marius Schwemmer, “Familie, Leben und Werk von Joseph Willibald Michl—ein Komponist von vielem Kopfe” (Universität Würzburg)

Monica Steger, “Frohlocke, Darmstadt, sei erfreut:  Contextualizing the Aesthetics of Christoph Graupner’s Secular Cantatas” (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Beverly Wilcox, “The Paris Concert Spirituel, Composers, and Audiences: Music in the Public Sphere” (University of California Davis)

Amber Youell-Fingleton, “Italian Opera in Maria Theresia’s Vienna” (Columbia University)

Recently Completed Dissertations

Ruta Bloomfield, “Bernard de Bury's Premier livre de pieces de clavecin: Critical Edition and Commentary” (Claremont Graduate University, 2008)

Ellen Exner, “The Forging of a Golden Era: King Frederick the Great and Music for Berlin, 1732–1756” (Harvard University, 2010)

Matthias Röder, “Music, Politics, and the Public Sphere in Late Eighteenth-Century Berlin” (Harvard University, 2009)