Alumni Tracker
Our many successful alumni attest to the extraordinary environment we are proud to offer. The overwhelming majority of our graduates hold teaching and administrative positions in major research universities, liberal arts colleges, and schools of music. This page lists students who have completed the MM and PhD degrees in music theory at Indiana University, including dissertation titles for PhD recipients and last known location. The list is sorted by year the most recent degree was completed.
Alumni: please send updated information on yourself or others you know of to mustheor [at] indiana [dot] edu.
We also maintain a list of current graduate students.
For more information on dissertations, see Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology.
PhD Alumni
| Name | PhD Year | MM Year | Dissertation Title | Last known location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Timothy Chenette | 2013 | 2007 | Counterpoint, Transformations, and Musical Spaces in the Late Sixteenth Century | Utah State University |
| Sara Bakker | 2013 | Playing with Patterns: Isorhythmic Strategies in György Ligeti's Late Piano Works | Logan, UT | |
| Kyle Fyr | 2011 | 2006 | Proportion, Temporality, and Performance Issues in Piano Works of John Adams | Mahidol University (Thailand) |
| Justin Lavacek | 2011 | Polyphonic Meaning in the Motets of Machaut | University of North Texas | |
| Mitch Ohriner | 2011 | 2007 | Modeling Music Performance: Projected Tension and Durational Contours in Recording of the Music of Chopin | Shenandoah Conservatory |
| Danny Arthurs | 2011 | 2005 | Reconstructing Tonal Principlesin the Music of Brad Mehldau | University of North Texas |
| Amy Engelsdorfer | 2010 | Pedagogical and Compositional Techniques in Treatises by Augustus Frederic Christof Kollmann and Johann Bernhard Logier | Luther College | |
| Tamara Balter | 2009 | 2000 | A Theory of Irony in Music: Types of Irony in the String Quartets of Haydn and Beethoven | Jerusalem, Israel |
| Brent Yorgason | 2009 | 1999 | Expressive Asynchrony and Meter: A Study of Dispersal, Downbeat Space, and Metric Drift | Marietta College (Ohio) |
| Michelle Clater | 2009 | Interposed Between God and Man: Agency in the Requiems of Berlioz and Fauré | Maranatha Baptist Bible College (Watertown, WI) | |
| Melissa Hoag | 2008 | 2002 | Multiply-Directed Moments in the Music of Brahms | Oakland University |
| Victoria Malawey | 2007 | 2001 | Temporal Process, Repetition, and Voice in Björk's Medúlla | Macalester College |
| Mike Baker | 2007 | Text-Music Relationships in the Solo Songs of Felix Mendelssohn | University of Kentucky | |
| Erick Carballo | 2006 | 1994 | De la pampa al cielo: The Development of Tonality in the Compositional Language of Alberto Ginastera | Indiana University Teaching and Learning Technology Center |
| Stanley Kleppinger | 2006 | 2000 | Tonal Coherence in Copland's Music of the 1940s | University of Nebraska |
| David Thurmaier | 2006 | Time and Compositional Process in Charles Ives's Holidays Symphony | University of Missouri–Kansas City | |
| Michael Oravitz | 2005 | 1991 | Metric Patterning and its Effects on Phrasing and Form in Selected Debussy Préludes | University of Northern Colorado |
| Elisabeth Honn Hoegberg | 2005 | From Theory to Practice: Composition and Analysis in Marin Mersenne's Harmonie universelle | University of Indianapolis | |
| Timothy Shane Pack | 2005 | Axial-Tenor Composition in the Renaissance | University of Oregon | |
| Bettina Hahn | 2004 | 1993 | Schoenberg and Bakhtin: Dialogic Discourse in the String Quartet, Op. 10, No. 2 | Texas Performing Chinese Arts Association |
| Rusty Jones | 2004 | Key Classes and Textural Dissonance: An Instrument-specific Study of the Idioms, Textures, and Structures of Selected Early Romantic Music for the Guitar (1799-1850) | Butler University | |
| Ryan McClelland | 2004 | Tonal Structure, Rhythm, Meter, and Motive in the Scherzo-Type Movements of Brahms's Chamber Music with Piano | University of Toronto | |
| Mark Butler | 2003 | Unlocking the Groove: Rhythm, Meter, and Musical Design in Electronic Dance Music | Northwestern University | |
| Andrew Davis | 2003 | Structural Implications of Stylistic Plurality in Puccini's Turandot | University of Houston | |
| Julian Hook | 2002 | Uniform Triadic Transformations | Indiana University | |
| Lyn Thornblad Burkett | 2001 | Tensile Involvement: Counterpoint and Compositional Pedagogy in the Work of Seeger, Hindemith, and Krenek | University of North Carolina at Asheville | |
| Vincent Benitez | 2001 | Pitch Organization and Dramatic Design in Saint François d'Assise of Olivier Messiaen | Penn State University | |
| Rebecca Jemian | 2001 | Rhythmic Organization in Works by Elliott Carter, George Crumb, and John Adams: Rhythmic Frameworks, Timepoints, Periodicity, and Alignment | University of Louisville | |
| Ted Buehrer | 2000 | An Alternative Pedagogical Paradigm for Aural Skills: An Examination of Constructivist Learning Theory and Its Potential for Implementation into Aural Skills Curricula | Kenyon College | |
| Arthur Samplaski | 2000 | 1996 | A Comparison of Perceived Chord Similarity with Predictions of Selected Twentieth-Century Chord Classification Schemes, Using Multidimensional Scaling and Cluster Analysis | Ithaca, New York |
| Lori Wacker | 2000 | 1991 | Rhythmic and Motivic Procedures in Selected Late Works of S. C. Eckhardt-Gramatté | East Carolina University (part-time) |
| Glenn Wegge | 1999 | Musical References in the Neoplatonic Philosophy of Plotinus | Waldorf College | |
| Don Hedges | 1999 | 1986 | Taking Notes: The History, Practice, and Innovation of Musical Diction in English and American Aural Skills Pedagogy | Trinity International University (Director) |
| John White | 1999 | Processes of Structuring in Selected Free Improvisations of the Chamber Ensemble "Oregon" | Ithaca College | |
| Byron Almen | 1998 | Narrative Archetypes in Music: A Semiotic Approach | University of Texas | |
| Teresa Shelton | 1997 | Idiosyncrasies of Music Narrative: Hypotheses for Further Investigation | University of Tulsa | |
| George Boyd | 1996 | The Scacchi/Siefert Controversy with Translations of Marco Scacchi, Cribrum musicum and Paul Siefert, Anticrabratio musica. | Indiana University (Bureau of Evaluative Studies and Testing) | |
| Jeff Gillespie | 1996 | Difficulty Factors in the Perception of Melody by Skilled Listeners | Butler University | |
| Eric Lai | 1995 | 1984 | A Theory of Pitch Organization in the Early Music of Chou Wen-Chung | Baylor University |
| Ralph Lorenz | 1995 | Pedagogical Implications of Musica Practica in Sixteenth-century Wittenberg | Kent State University | |
| Lisa Derry | 1993 | The Pre-Classical Concerto of Johann Christian Bach: First Movement Design in the Eighteen "London" Keyboard Concertos. | Albertson College | |
| Scott Harris | 1993 | 1987 | Formal Archetypes, Phrase Rhythm, and Motivic Design in the String Quartets of Alexander Zemlinsky | University of Southern Maine (Director) |
| Eric Isaacson | 1992 | 1987 | Similarity of Interval-class Content Between Pitch-class Sets: The IcVSIM Relation and Its Application | Indiana University (Director of Graduate Studies) |
| Rudy Marcozzi | 1992 | The Interaction of Large-scale Harmonic and Dramatic Structure in the Verdi Operas Adapted from Shakespeare | Roosevelt University | |
| Stephen Moore | 1992 | The Writings of Emile Jaques-Dalcroze: Toward a Theory for the Performance of Musical Rhythm | California State University, Dominguez Hills | |
| Ronald Rodman | 1992 | Thematic and tonal processes in the development-reprise forms of Claude Debussy, 1880-1905 | Carleton College | |
| Joe Brumbeloe | 1991 | 1982 | Formal Grouping in the Theory and Musical Practice of the Eighteenth Century | University of Southern Mississippi |
| Craig Cummings | 1991 | 1985 | Large-scale Coherence in Selected Nineteenth-century Piano Variations | Ithaca College (Department Chair) |
| Sarah Schaffer | 1991 | Analytical Issues in the Segmentation of Atonal Music: An Investigation Based on Selected Pre-Serial Works of Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern | Token Creek Chamber Music Festival (Managing Director) | |
| Miguel Roig-Francoli | 1990 | Compositional Theory and Practice in Mid-Sixteenth-Century Spanish Instrumental Music: The Arte de tañer fantasía by Tomás de Santa María and the Music of Antonio de Cabezón | University of Cincinnati | |
| Ilene Sears | 1990 | 1971 | The Influence of Rhythm in Selected Chamber Works of Igor Stravinsky | Winston-Salem, NC |
| Todd Tucker | 1988 | 1971 | Hindemith's Harmonic Procedure from 1935-1940 | Illinois Wesleyan University |
| John Schaffer | 1987 | Developing an Intelligent Music Tutorial: An Investigation of Expert Systems and Their Potential for Microcomputer-based Instruction in Music Theory | University of Wisconsin (Director) | |
| Susan Tepping | 1987 | Fugue Process and Tonal Structure in the String Quartets of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven | Georgia State University (retired) | |
| James Hiatt | 1986 | 1969 | Structure and Style in the Late Instrumental Works of Carl Nielsen | James Madison University |
| Jon Conrad | 1985 | 1969 | Style and Structure in Songs by George Gershwin: Published 1924-1938 | University of Delaware |
| James Skoog | 1985 | Set Syntax in Béla Bartók's Mikrokosmos | Bowling Green State University? | |
| Alan Todd Jordan | 1984 | Harmonic Style in Selected Sibelius Symphonies | Senior Consultant, Keane, Inc.; Organist & Assistant Music Director, Our Lady of Mt Carmel Catholic Church (Carmel, IN) | |
| John Maxwell | 1984 | An Artificial Intelligence Approach to Computer-Implemented Analysis of Harmony in Tonal Music | SAS Institute (Software Manager; North Carolina) | |
| William Pflugradt | 1984 | Elliott Carter and the Variation Process | deceased | |
| Garry Brodhead | 1983 | 1972 | Structural Time in Twentieth-century Tonal Music | Ithaca College (Associate Provost) |
| Ann Gebuhr | 1983 | 1968 | Structuralism in Music: A Review of Recent Ideas | Houston Baptist University (Director) |
| John Ibberson | 1983 | 1965 | A History of Keyboard Theory | Indiana State University (retired) |
| Kate Covington | 1982 | 1969 | A Study of Textural Stratification in Twentieth-century Compositions | University of Kentucky |
| Robert Hatten | 1982 | 1975 | The Concept of Style Systems in Music Theory: A Model for Interpreting Style Change | Indiana University |
| John Snyder | 1982 | The De legitimis ordinibus pentachordorum et tetrachordorum of Theinred of Dover | University of Houston | |
| J. Kent Williams | 1982 | 1965 | Themes Composed by Jazz Musicians of the Bebop Era: A Study of Harmony, Rhythm, and Melody | UNC Greensboro |
| George Winfield | 1981 | Ferruccio Busoni's Compositional Art: A Study of Selected Works for Piano Solo Composed Between 1907 and 1923 | Howard University (Chair) | |
| James Bersano | 1979 | Formalized Aspect Analysis of Sound Texture Applied to Selected Works of the 1960's. | ||
| Eugene Reade | 1979 | A Study of Rhythm in the Serial Works of Igor Stravinsky | ||
| Timothy Lindeman | 1978 | 1971 | A Comparison of George Crumb's Night Music I and Ancient Voices of Children | Guilford College (Chair, Music) |
| Charles Lord | 1978 | 1971 | An Explication of Some Recent Mathematical Approaches to Music Analysis | University of Kentucky |
| Gwyneth Roberts | 1978 | Procedures for Analysis of Sound Masses | Lowellville, Ohio | |
| Bruce Thompson | 1978 | 1961 | Musical Style and Compositional Techniques in Selected Works of T. J. Anderson | Winthrop University |
| Michael Burdick | 1977 | A Structural Analysis of Melodic Scale-Degree Tendencies in Selected Themes of Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, and Chopin | Chino Valley, Arizona | |
| Margery Enix | 1977 | 1961 | The Dissolution of the Functional Harmonic Tonal System: 1850-1910 | Chapman University |
| David Kaplan | 1977 | Stylistic Trends in the Small Woodwind Ensemble from 1750-1825 | University of Saskatchewan | |
| Richard Domek | 1976 | 1967 | A Syntactic Approach to the Study of Rhythm Applied to the Late Piano Works of Johannes Brahms | University of Kentucky |
| Roger Briscoe | 1975 | Rameau's Démonstration du principe de l'harmonie and Nouvelles réflexions de M. Rameau sur sa Démonstration du principe de l'harmonie: An Annotated Translation and Commentary of Two Treatises by Jean-Philippe Rameau | Raritan Valley Community College (NJ) | |
| William Edwards | 1975 | The Variation Process in the Music of Stravinsky | Broward Community College | |
| Christopher Gallaher | 1975 | 1965 | Density in Twentieth-Century Music | Morehead State University (chair; retired) |
| Dorothy Gross | 1975 | A Set of Computer Programs to Aid in Music Analysis | University of Minnesota? | |
| Glenn Chandler | 1974 | Rameau's Nouveau système de musique théorique: An Annotated Translation | University of Texas (Director) | |
| Sister Jule Adele Espey | 1974 | Formal, Tonal, and Thematic Structure of the Hindemith String Quartets | Our Lady of the Lake University | |
| William McCandless | 1974 | Cantus Firmus Techniques in Selected Instrumental Compositions, 1910-1960 | Central Missouri State University (chair; retired) | |
| G. Larry Whatley | 1974 | Donald Francis Tovey and His Contributions to the Study of Harmony and Counterpoint | Brevard College (retired) | |
| Robert Demaree | 1973 | The Structural Proportions of the Haydn Quartets | Indiana University--South Bend (Dean; retired) | |
| Arthur Ostrander | 1973 | 1969 | Style in the Orchestral Works of Karl-Birger Blomdahl | Ithaca College (Dean) |
| John Stewart | 1973 | Metrical and Tonal Stability in the Dance Music of the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book | Ohio University (Retired) | |
| Sister Laurette Bellemy | 1972 | The Sonido Trece Theoretical Works of Julian Carrillo: A Transcription with Commentary. | Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College (Music area coordinator) | |
| Asher Zlotnik | 1972 | Orchestration Revisions in the Symphonies of Robert Schumann | Deceased | |
| Mary Arlin | 1971 | 1965 | Esquisse de l'histoire de l'harmonie, considérée comme art et comme science systématique of François-Joseph Fétis: An Annotated Translation. | Ithaca College (retired) |
| Norman Hessert | 1971 | The Use of Information Theory in Musical Theory | St. Lawrence University | |
| Jean Little | 1971 | Architectonic Levels of Rhythmic Organization in Selected Twentieth-Century Music | Monrovia, California | |
| Kenneth Mays | 1971 | 1961 | Harmonic Style in the Madrigals of Claudio Monteverdi | The Master's College |
| Gary Potter | 1971 | 1969 | The Role of Chance in Contemporary Music | Indiana University (Director of Undergraduate Studies) |
| Harriet Chase | 1970 | German, Italian, and Dutch Fugal Precursors of the Fugues in the Well-Tempered Clavier I, 1600-1722 | Westminster Choir College (retired) | |
| Robert Hurwitz | 1970 | 1965 | An Investigation into the Perception of Root in Harmonic Intervals | University of Oregon (Associate Dean for Graduate Studies; retired) |
| William Mickelsen | 1970 | Hugo Riemann's History of Harmonic Theory with a Translation of Harmonielehre | St. George, Utah | |
| James Marks | 1969 | Harmonic Rhythm as a Factor in Form Delineation in Selected Instrumental Works from 1775 to 1850 | Sam Houston State University (Retired) | |
| Francis McGinnis | 1969 | Chopin: Aspects of Melodic Style | ||
| Raymond Stahura | 1969 | 1961 | A Stylistic Study of the Works of John Dunstable | Ripon College (retired) |
| George B. Biggs | 1968 | The Return Effect in Works for Orchestra by Stravinsky, Bartók, and Schoenberg, as Determined by Factors other than Theme and Key | Fort Worth, Texas | |
| Charles Nick | 1967 | A Stylistic Analysis of the Music of Nicola Vincentino | ||
| Louis Pisciotta | 1967 | Texture in the Choral Works of Selected Contemporary American Composers | Manhasset, New York | |
| Donald Schwejda | 1967 | An Investigation of the Analytical Technique Used by Rudolph Reti in The Thematic Process in Music | Pacific University | |
| Leon Smith | 1967 | An Investigation of the Inherent Qualities of Musical Intervals as Definers of Melodic Tonality | Round Rock, Texas | |
| Mary Wennerstrom | 1967 | Parametric Analysis of Contemporary Musical Form | Indiana University (Associate Dean for Instruction) | |
| Carl Haenselman | 1966 | Harmonic Rhythm in Selected Works of the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century | ||
| Eugene Sterling | 1966 | A Study of the Chromatic Elements in Selected Piano Works of Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, and Brahms | San Jose, California | |
| Albert Hanna | 1965 | A Statistical Analysis of Some Style Elements in the Solo Piano Sonatas of Franz Schubert | ||
| Harold Lewin | 1965 | Aspects of the Twelve-Tone System: Its Formation and Structural Implications | ||
| George Sargent | 1965 | An Edition of Elizabeth Rogers' Virginal Book (British Museum Add. Ms. 10337). | ||
| Richard Tappa | 1965 | An Analytical Study of the Use of Imitative Devices in the Keyboard Ricercar from 1520 to 1720 | ||
| Glen Gould | 1964 | A Stylistic Analysis of Selected Twelve-Tone Works by Luigi Dallapiccola | Pennsylvania | |
| James Krehbiel | 1964 | Harmonic Principles of Jean-Philippe Rameau and His Contemporaries | ||
| Maurice Laney | 1964 | Thematic Material and Developmental Techniques in Selected Contemporary Compositions | ||
| Harry Ray | 1964 | An Experimental Approach to the Reading of Pitch Notation | ||
| Janet Tupper | 1964 | Stylistic Analysis of Selected Works by Frank Martin | Denver, Colorado | |
| Sanford Watts | 1964 | The Stylistic Features of the Bolognese Concerto | Indiana State University (retired; now Santa Maria, CA) | |
| James Burke | 1963 | A Study of Theories of Non-Chord Tones Pertaining to the Music of the Period ca. 1650 to ca. 1875. | Acadiana Symphony Orchestra | |
| Mary Fiore | 1963 | The Formation and Structural Use of Vertical Constructs in Selected Serial Compositions | Buffalo State College | |
| William Jones | 1963 | The Music of Ernest Bloch | ||
| John Mitchell | 1963 | A History of Theories of Functional Harmonic Progression | ||
| Glen Morgan | 1963 | Stylistic Features of the Music of Guillaume de Machaut | ||
| Edward Murphy | 1963 | Harmony and Tonality in the Large Orchestral Works of Richard Strauss | University of Arizona | |
| Louis Richardson | 1963 | The Effect of Certain Harmonic Considerations upon Tuning Preferences for the Major Third | Fredonia, New York | |
| John Egan | 1962 | Marin Mersenne: Traité de l'harmonie universelle: Critical Translation of the Second Book | St. Joseph's University? | |
| Charles Knox | 1962 | The Orchestral Violin Tone | Georgia State University (retired) | |
| John Nagosky | 1962 | Timbre Thresholds of Sinusoidal Mixtures | Indiana University (retired) | |
| C. Allen Winold | 1962 | The Effects of Changes in Harmonic Tension upon Listener Response | Indiana University (retired) | |
| Molly Gustin | 1961 | A Theory of Tonality | Thomas Aquinas College | |
| Raymond Haggh | 1961 | Hugo Riemann's Geschichte der Musiktheorie im IX-XIX. Jahrhundert, Books I and II: A Translation with Commentary and Annotated Bibliography | University of Nebraska-Lincoln (retired) | |
| Hans-Jörgen Holman | 1961 | The responsoria prolixa of the Codex Worcester F 160 | ||
| Frederick Homan | 1961 | Cadence in Gregorian Chant | ||
| Vernon Kliewer | 1961 | The Concept of Organic Unity in Music Criticism and Analysis | Indiana University (retired) | |
| Joel Mandelbaum | 1961 | Multiple Division of the Octave and the Tonal Resources of 19-Tone Temperament | CUNY-Queens College | |
| Judson Maynard | 1961 | An Anonymous Scottish Treatise on Music from the Sixteenth Century: British Museum, Add. MS 4911, Edition and Commentary | Denton, Texas | |
| W. Thomas Atcherson | 1960 | Modal Theory of Sixteenth-Century German Theorists | University of Iowa (deceased) | |
| Donald Morrison | 1960 | Influences of Impressionist Tonality on Selected Works of Delius, Griffes, Falla, and Respighi: Based on the Concept Developed by Robert Mueller | Sarasota, Florida | |
| Charles Smith | 1960 | Leonhard Euler's Tentamen novae theoriae musicae: A Translation and Commentary | Dover, Delaware | |
| Tom Ritchie | 1960 | A Study of the Effects of Diatonic Harmony upon the Aural Perception of Selected Melodic Fragments | Truman State University | |
| Joseph Youngblood | 1960 | Music and Language: Some Related Analytical Techniques | University of Miami (retired) | |
| Ronald Jesson | 1958 | The Third Relation in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries | ||
| Dale Jorgenson | 1957 | A History of Theories of the Minor Triad | ||
| Parviz Mahmoud | 1957 | A Theory of Persian Music and Its Relation to Western Practice | ||
| William Abbott | 1956 | Certain Aspects of the Sonata-Allegro Form in Piano Sonatas of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries | ||
| David Appleby | 1956 | A Study of Selected Compositions by Contemporary Brazilian Composers | Eastern Illinois University | |
| Wayne Wise | 1956 | Tonal Relationship through Interchangeability of Mode in the Music of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries | ||
| Quentin Nordgren | 1955 | Texture: A Consideration of Spacing, Doubling, Range, and Instrumentation, Based upon Selected Orchestral Works of Certain Nineteenth-Century Composers | ||
| Wilbur Lee Ogdon | 1955 | Series and Structure: An Investigation into the Purpose of the Twelve-Note Row in Selected Works of Schoenberg, Webern, Krenek, and Leibowitz. | UC San Diego | |
| Helen Rogers | 1955 | The Development of the Concept of Modulation in Theory from the Sixteenth to the Early Eighteenth Century | ||
| Mark Walker | 1955 | Thematic, Formal, and Tonal Structure of the Bartók String Quartets | ||
| Robert Lamm | 1954 | The Evolution of the Secondary Dominant Concept | ||
| George List | 1954 | An Analysis of the Relationship of Non-Stepwise Melodic Movement to Tonality in Selected Works of W. A. Mozart | Indiana University (ethnomusicology; retired) | |
| Robert Mueller | 1954 | The Concept of Tonality in Impressionist Music: Based on the Works of Debussy and Ravel | Southern Illinois University (retired) | |
| Ernest Trumble | 1954 | Early Renaissance Harmony | Norman, Oklahoma | |
| Grace Yerbury | 1953 | Styles and Schools of the Art Song in America, 1720-1850 | ||
| William Thomson | 1952 | A Clarification of the Tonality Concept | University of Southern California (Dean) (retired) | |
| Arthur Darack | 1951 | Aesthetics of Music: Early Greek Views. | Critic, Author. Deceased (2007) |
MM/MA Alumni
| Bauchat, Nikolas | 2013 | PhD student at IU |
| Peck, Calvin | 2013 | |
| Alcalde, Bruno | 2012 | |
| Blustein, Nathan | 2012 | PhD student at IU |
| Child, Paul | 2012 | |
| DeJong, Colin | 2012 | |
| Noëlliste, Joseph | 2012 | PhD student at IU |
| Prosser, Simon | 2012 | |
| Boyle, Matthew | 2011 | PhD student at IU |
| Fink, Stanley | 2011 | |
| Jedlicka, Jason | 2011 | PhD student at IU |
| Yu, Alvin | 2011 | |
| DiPaolo, Nicole | 2010 | PhD student at IU |
| Umthun, Ruthie | 2010 | PhD student at IU |
| Cubero, Diego | 2010 | PhD student at IU |
| McClimon, Michael | 2010 | PhD student at IU |
| Grazzini, Steve | 2008 | PhD candidate at IU |
| Guez, Jonathan | 2008 | PhD student at Yale |
| Keele, Christy | 2008 | PhD student at IU |
| Michaelsen, Garrett | 2008 | PhD candidate at IU |
| Wangberg, Sarah | 2008 | PhD student at IU |
| Hoffman, Matthew | 2007 | |
| Langeneckert, Lara | 2007 | |
| Guerin, William | 2006 | PhD candidate at IU |
| Torrent, Jordi | 2006 | Pianist, based in Spain |
| Hooper, Jason | 2005 | PhD student at CUNY |
| Turel, Jamshed | 2005 | PhD student at McGill |
| Demarco, Michael | 2004 | |
| Toelcke, Erin | 2004 | |
| Serfass, Loren | 2003 | |
| Cullen, Sheila | 2002 | |
| Schindele, Megan | 2002 | |
| Boyer, Matthew | 2001 | |
| Krieger, Meryl | 2001 | Earned PhD in ethnomusicology at IU |
| Lee, Pei Ling | 2001 | |
| Millicent, Claudia | 2001 | Band director in Laguna Salada Union School District |
| Powell, T Kareem | 2001 | Dayton, Ohio |
| Koh, Min Jung | 2000 | |
| Robbins, Paul F | 2000 | |
| Stafford, Christopher | 2000 | Owner, Stafford Music Academy, Bloomington |
| Speicher, Molly | 1999 | |
| Steger, Monica | 1998 | |
| Brown, Gwynne E | 1997 | Earned PhD in musicology, University of Washington; faculty at University of Puget Sound |
| Carballo, Kimberly | 1997 | IU Opera Coach |
| Gustafson, Erik | 1997 | |
| Medows, Kevin | 1997 | M.L.S. from the University of Illinois; Music Technical Services Librarian, Northwestern University |
| Redfield Jurcevic, Shelly Annette | 1997 | Teaches music theory at Armstrong Community Music School and maintains a private studio teaching voice, piano, flute, and recorder; adjunct faculty in music department at St. Edward's University |
| Townsend, Thomas | 1997 | |
| Brooks, Jonathan | 1996 | Earned PhD from the University of North Texas. Faculty at Anderson University (Indiana) |
| Corbin, Jessica | 1996 | Faculty at Brooklyn Conservatory of Music and director of the Bella Voce Singers |
| Tomlin, Larry | 1996 | Works for Citrix |
| Addino-Colchin, Michele | 1995 | Liturgical music director, University of St. Francis (Fort Wayne, IN) campus ministry |
| Lister, Michael | 1995 | |
| Sanders, Leonard | 1995 | |
| Zuelicke, Kristina (Campbell) | 1995 | believed living in New Zealand |
| Ernst, David | 1994 | Executive Director, HoosierNet (Bloomington) |
| Bortka, Elizabeth | 1993 | |
| Halliday, James | 1993 | Programmer for IU's Digital Library Program |
| Hurwitz, Celia | 1993 | Earned PhD in music theory from Columbia in 2002 ("Tonality and form in the first movements of Britten's String Quartets Opp. 25 and 36") |
| Johnston-Martel, Donna | 1993 | Piano teacher, Regina, Sask. |
| Williams, David | 1993 | MM in conducting from CCM; Lecturer in Aural Studies, Vanderbilt University |
| Albert, Anita | 1992 | Private piano teacher, Toronto |
| Budelier, Patrick | 1992 | |
| Gregory, James | 1992 | |
| Smallwood, Alisa | 1992 | Director of Development for the Robert Ferst Center for the Arts at Georgia Tech |
| Montgomery, Kip | 1991 | PhD, Music History, SUNY Stony Brook, 2002 ("Cyclic Form in the Music of Brahms"); Associate Professor and Chair of Music Department at Queensborough Community College of the City University of new York |
| Diaz, Ma Lourdes | 1990 | |
| Littlefield, Richard | 1990 | PhD from University of Helsinki? Taught at Central Michigan University. |
| Melton, Clair | 1990 | Austin, Texas |
| Bixler, Judith | 1989 | Adjunct instructor of Violin and String Pedagogy, Hillsdale College |
| MacGregor, Carolyn (Saunders) | 1989 | Living in Seattle |
| Huck, Wayne | 1988 | Works for UITS, IU Office of the Registrar |
| Chan, Yuk-Yue Rebecca | 1987 | |
| Ivey, Shereen Su-Wen | 1987 | |
| DeSouza, Elizabeth | 1986 | |
| Bullard, John | 1984 | |
| McQuarrie, Janet | 1984 | |
| Ri, Gil-Ju | 1984 | |
| Schafer, Scott | 1984 | |
| Babb, Larry | 1983 | |
| Fose, Luanne | 1983 | PhD in music theory from University of North Texas; Instructional Designer/Information Technology Consultant for Information Technology Services, California Polytechnic State Univeristy |
| Hunton, Janice | 1983 | Faculty, Perpich Center for Arts Education (Golden Valley, Minn.) |
| Newby, David | 1983 | Earned MM and DM in Instrumental Conducting (IU), faculty at Antelope Valley College |
| Peregoy, Betsy | 1983 | |
| Saxe, Norin | 1983 | |
| Bradshaw, David | 1982 | PhD in Music Psychology from the University of Washington in Seattle; Assistant Research Professor, Dept. of Anesthesiology, University of Utah Pain Research Center |
| Chisholm, Rose | 1982 | |
| Dombek, Stephen | 1982 | |
| Greenhouse, Jack | 1982 | |
| Kramlich, Daniel | 1982 | |
| St Julien, Marcus | 1982 | |
| Weeks, Robert | 1982 | |
| Kraus, Joseph | 1981 | Earned PhD at Eastman School of Music; faculty at Florida State University |
| Boylan, Sharon | 1980 | |
| Knight, Robert | 1980 | |
| Liddle, Ray | 1980 | |
| Murray, Michele | 1980 | |
| Parnella, Carl | 1980 | |
| Rossinelli-McLean, Susan | 1980 | |
| Dana, Christy | 1979 | DM in Brass Pedagogy (IU), faculty at UC–Berkeley, professional jazz trumpeter and band leader |
| Knox, Roger | 1979 | |
| Ogoe, Charles | 1979 | |
| Paputsas, | 1979 | |
| Levy, Ron | 1978 | |
| McMillan, James | 1978 | |
| Olsen, Rita | 1978 | |
| Overhauser, Catherine | 1978 | |
| Whelden, Roy | 1978 | |
| Nerheim, Rosalee | 1976 | |
| Regueiro, Allen | 1976 | |
| Skinner, William | 1976 | |
| Tatman, Neil | 1976 | |
| Bakshi, Susan | 1975 | |
| Kudo, Elmer | 1975 | |
| Lake, William | 1975 | Earned PhD at University of Michigan; faculty at Bowling Green State University |
| Manning, Charles | 1975 | |
| Warner, John | 1975 | |
| Yune, Kuija | 1975 | |
| Rees, Mary Anne | 1974 | |
| Vars, Dianne | 1974 | |
| Lengyel, Peter | 1973 | |
| Loucky, Suzanne | 1973 | |
| McGee, William | 1973 | |
| Stokes, Charles | 1973 | |
| Crane, Genevieve | 1972 | |
| Lind, Dan | 1972 | |
| Biebl, Thomas | 1971 | |
| Cox, Paul | 1971 | |
| Fisher, John | 1971 | |
| Hyslop, John | 1971 | |
| King, Keith | 1971 | |
| Prause, Patricia | 1971 | |
| Davis, Merelyn | 1970 | |
| Edison, Carol | 1970 | |
| Gifford, Karen | 1970 | |
| Mueller, Richard | 1970 | |
| Turney, Margaret | 1970 | |
| Arnn, John | 1969 | |
| Besemer, Douglas | 1969 | |
| Engle, Susan | 1969 | |
| Garrett, Lee | 1969 | |
| Hackman, Willis | 1969 | |
| Hawn, Margaret | 1969 | |
| Hogsett, Rosemary | 1969 | |
| Morris, Elizabeth | 1969 | |
| Mosley, Michael | 1969 | |
| Olin, Esther | 1969 | |
| Rollin, Gwyneth | 1969 | |
| Pape, Louis | 1968 | |
| Porterfield, Marjorie | 1968 | Faculty at Ithaca College (retired) |
| Riley, John | 1968 | |
| Ross, Ronald | 1968 | |
| Brewer, Robert | 1967 | |
| Hoppe, Kathryn | 1967 | |
| Martin, James | 1967 | |
| Stewart, James | 1967 | |
| Thein, Anthony | 1967 | |
| Zvengrowski, Steven | 1967 | |
| Czarnecki, Rita | 1966 | |
| McGary, Rudyard | 1966 | |
| Williams, Jay | 1966 | |
| Woehl, Arlene | 1966 | |
| Hazelbauer, William | 1965 | |
| Humphries, Charles Lee | 1965 | |
| Milner, William | 1965 | |
| Watkins, David H. | 1965 | MM Thesis: The Use of Polytonality in Selected Works of Aaron Copland. DM in Music Literature and the Pedagogy of Brass Instruments (IU, 1985, "Teaching Baroque Style Characteristics Through Solo Literature for the Horn"). Retired faculty member, Indiana State University 1965-1997 |
| Friedmann, Mary | 1963 | |
| Wolfe, Curtis | 1963 | |
| Doudna, Lon | 1962 | |
| Green, Allan | 1962 | |
| Green, Virginia | 1962 | |
| Inzana, Barbara | 1961 | |
| Broekheuzen, Marius | 1960 | |
| Courvoisier, Duncan | 1957 |
