Music
In its Honors
Key:
- Student, "Thesis" (Honors level)
Committee Chair + Other Committee Members
2023-2024
- Evan Maly, "Harmony of the Spheres: a Suite for Orchestra" (Highest Honors)
Sophia Serghi + David Grandis, Troy Davis
2022-2023
- Justin Michael Oei, "“Grant Us Wisdom, Grant Us Courage:” Theology in the Organ Music of Paul Manz" (High Honors)
Thomas B. Payne + Jamie C. Bartlett, Alexander B. Angelov
2021-2022
- Colin Carmody, "Sinfonietta in C Major: Music Composition and Conducting" (High Honors)
David Grandis + Jamie Bartlett, Brian Hulse, Eric Swartz - Paul Hardin IV, "Spectacular: A New Musical" (Highest Honors)
Brian Hulse + Phaedra McNorton, Giulia Pacini
2020-2021
- Mary Shannon, "Dame Ethel Smyth and The Prison: Gender, Sexuality, and the "Bonds of Self"" (High Honors)
James Armstrong + Thomas Payne, Leslie Cochrane
2019-2020
- No Honors students this year.
2018-19
- Virginia Tilley, "The Feast of Saint Thomas Becket at Salisbury Cathedral: Ad Vesperas"
Thomas Payne + James Armstrong, Alexadner Angelov
2017-18
- Dolan Harrington, "Metal's Illegitimate Child: An Investigation into the Music and Culture of Darksynth" (Honors)
Christopher DeLaurenti + David Dominique, Maria Swetnam-Burland - Lauren Hoak, "An Analysis of the Life and Work of Alice Fletcher and Frances Densmore" (Honors)
Anne Rasmussen + Katherine Preston, Danielle Moretti-Langholtz
2016-17
- Cody Jones, "Composed in the Closet: Ingolf Dahl's A Cycle of Sonnets" (High Honors)
Katherine Preston + James Armstrong, Leisa Meyer
- Kevin Kay, "A Spectralist Approach to the Vibrations of the Universe" (High Honors)
Sophia Serghi + Brian Hulse, Gene Tracy
2015-16
- Evan Cunningham, "Voices: An Exploration of Electronics and Orchestral Instrumentation" (Highest Honors)
Sophia Serghi + Brian Hulse, Henry Hart
2014-15
- Emerson Sieverts, "Epic Nonsense: The Genesis of Me Prometheus" (Honors)
Jamie Bartlett + Robert Ruffin, Thomas Payne
2013-14
- No Honors students this year
2012-13
- Taylor Ashlock, "New Music to the Very Ears of God: Heloise the Composer" (High Honors)
Thomas Payne + James Armstrong, George Greenia, Monica Potkay - Fiona Balestrieri, "Searching for a Voice in Bongo-land: Bongo Fleva Music and the Global Imagination in Neoliberal Tanzania" (Highest Honors)
Anne Rasmussen + Max Katz, Brad Weiss, Jonathan Glasser - Kevin Deisz, "Musically Understanding the Emotional Content of Speech" (High Honors)
Greg Bowers + Timothy Mauthe, Paul Bhasin, Evgenia Smirni - Patrick Dittamo, "The Harrowing of Hell, a Paschal Oratorio" (High Honors)
Brian Hulse + Thomas Payne, Monica Brzezinski - Matthew Reese, "Dvorak and James: Pragmatism and the Music of America's Fin de Siecle" (High Honors)
James Armstrong + Tuska Benes, Chandos Brown, Katherine Preston
2010-11
- Jean-Paul Wallace, "Study in Microtonality and Lutherie" (Honors)
Sophia Serghi + Ruth Griffioen, J.C. Poutsma, Gene Tracy - David Witkowsky, "An Experimental Analysis of the Role of Harmony in Musical Memory and the Categorization of Genre" (High Honors)
Greg Bowers + Brian Hulse, Gayle Murchison, Peter Vishton
2009-10
- No Honors students this year.
2008-09
- Jacob Charron, "'Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I'm Yours': How Music and Musicians Propelled Barack Obama to the Presidency in 2008" (Highest Honors)
Anne Rasmussen + Brian Hulse, Arthur Knight - Michael Johnson, " 'The Fall of the House of Usher': Making the
Muscial " (High Honors)
Sophia Serghi + Greg Bowers, Nancy Schoenberger - Daniel Siepmann, "The Ethereal System: Ambience as a New Musical Identity" (High Honors)
Brian Hulse + Sophia Serghi, Rob Leventhal
2007-08
- Olivia Lucas, "Creating Time: Rhythmic Processes and Metrical Forming in Schoenberg's Opus 22" (High Honors)
Brian Hulse + James Armstrong, Jamie Bartlett, Rob Leventhal
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
