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In its Honors Program the Music Department awards Honors, High Honors, or Highest Honors to student research projects. The projects listed below have been defended successfully, and a copy of the thesis deposited in Swem Library.

Key:
  • Student, "Thesis" (Honors level)
    Committee Chair + Other Committee Members
2023-2024
2022-2023
2021-2022
2020-2021
2019-2020
  • No Honors students this year.
2018-19
2017-18
2016-17
2015-16
  • Evan Cunningham, "Voices: An Exploration of Electronics and Orchestral Instrumentation" (Highest Honors) 
    Sophia Serghi + Brian Hulse, Henry Hart
2014-15
2013-14
  • No Honors students this year
2012-13
2010-11
2009-10
  • No Honors students this year.
2008-09
2007-08
2006-07
  • Drew Colby, "In the Footsteps of Nathaniel Dett: Composing An American Mass, An Original Composition Based on African-American Spirituals" (High Honors)
  • John Muniz, "Yin-Yang for 'Pierrot plus percussion'" (Highest Honors)
    Sophia Serghi + Thomas Payne, Chris Bailey, Kevin Vose
  • Laura Smith, "Meghrebi Music Culture in Southern Spain: Nostalgia, Conflict, and Exchange" (High Honors)
    Anne Rasmussen + Tom Payne, George Greenia, Francie Cate-Arries
2005-06
  • Cong (Tony) Sun, "Four Chinese Music Demigods and Chinese Romanticism of the Twentieth Century" (High Honors)
    Anne Rasmussen and Sophia Serghi + Christine Niehaus, Yanfang Tang
2004-05
  • Derek Power
    James Armstrong + Sophia Serghi, Julie Galambush
  • Bryan Wright
    Katherine Preston + Chris Scales, Anne Rasmussen, John Morreall