Music M401
History and Literature of Music I
Research Project Topics for Fall 2007
Table of Contents
- Antiquity
- The Middle Ages
- The Renaissance
- The Baroque
Research Project Topics for Fall 2007
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Ancient Greece and Rome
- Jared Fischer: Interpretation of Platonic and Thought by the Church
Fathers and Its Relation to Music
- Brandon Gage: Platonic and Aristotelian Philosophies of Music
- Carrie Hoogland: Comparing Plato and St. Augustine
Ancient Judaism and Christianity
- Jason Chen: Connections Between Ancient Jewish and Early Christian Music
- David Radzynski: The Relationship Between Early Jewish and Christian
Psalmody
- Erik Ridgway: Musical References in the Bible
Chant and Sacred Music
- Amanda Bechtel: St. Augustine and Church Music
- Jared Fischer: Interpretation of Platonic and Thought by the Church
Fathers and Its Relation to Music
- Carrie Hoogland: Comparing Plato and St. Augustine
Hildegard of Bingen
- Jasmine Beams: Connections between Hildegard of Bingen's Writings and
Her Music
- Avery Bouchard: The Musical Language of Hildegard of Bingen
Secular Monophony
- Kirk Etheridge: Pipe and Tabor Performance Practice
- Rebecca Gabriel: Musical Accompaniment, Old English Poetry, and Beowulf
- Matt Romy: Troubadours and Trouvères
- Clark Schaufele: Medieval Dance Music
Polyphony
Fourteenth-Century Music
- Miyo Aoki: Ars Subtilior Music
- John Moskal: Machaut's Secular Music during the Hundred Year's War
- Nick Sednew: Extemporaneity and Improvisation in Italian Trecento Music
Medieval Music Theory
- David Barnhouse: Different Solfège Systems and Music Education
Conventions of France, Italy, Spain and England
- Andrew Bednarz: Early Notation
- Allison Hewell: Comparison of Guido D'Arezzo's and Thomas Morley's
Teaching Methods
- Andrew Naugle: Boethius's Influence on Music Education
Music in Medieval Culture
- Sarah Gibson: Women Composers and Their Culture
- Cathy Litaker: Iconography of the Medieval Harp
- Andrew Naugle: Boethius's Influence on Music Education
- Clark Schaufele: Medieval Dance Music
Music in Renaissance Culture
- Cliff Gagliardo: Musical Patronage at 16th-Century Italian Courts
- Sarah Gibson: Women Composers and Their Culture
- Andrew Laverghetta: Petrucci and the Printing of Music
- Michael Westberry: Music Printing in Venice, Italy
Ideas, Theory, and Practice
- David Barnhouse: Different Solfège Systems and Music Education
Conventions of France, Italy, Spain and England
- Melita Denny: Music Education in Late Renaissance and Baroque England
- Hilary Glen: DuFay's Nuper rosarum flores and Brunelleschi's Duomo
- Allen Hamrick: Numeric Symbolism, Architecture, and DuFay's Nuper
Rosarum Flores
- Allison Hewell: Comparison of Guido D'Arezzo's and Thomas Morley's
Teaching Methods
- David Johnson: 16th- and 17th-Century Tuning and Temperaments
- Kelly Motz: The Revival of Greek Educational Philosophies in
Renaissance Musical Practice
- Nick Pelfrey: Improvisation in Renaissance Music
- Nathan Schram: Vicentino and the Revival of the Greek Chromatic and
Enharmonic Genera
- Tom Stoffel: The Influence of Ethos and Harmonia on the Renaissance
Sacred Music
- David Benson: Giovanni Gabrieli's Polychoral Music and the
Architecture of St. Mark's
- Lee Cravens: Palestrina's Influence on the Catholic Mass
- Hilary Glen: DuFay's Nuper rosarum flores and Brunelleschi's Duomo
- Gabriel Gutierrez: The Historical Context of Thomas Tallis's
Spem In Alium
- Allen Hamrick: Numeric Symbolism, Architecture, and DuFay's Nuper
Rosarum Flores
- Stephanie Lane: Changes in Musical Style at the Court of Felipe II
after the Council of Trent
- Wesley Lovell: William Byrd's Position in England as a Catholic Composer
- Yuriria Rodriguez: Sacred Music in Colonial Mexico
The Reformation
- Mike Coumos: Martin Luther
- Nick Drumm: Luther and Hymnody
- Nicole Lynn Pollard: Martin Luther's Use of Hymns in Church Services
- Linsey Rogers: The Chorale and Reformation Ideals
- Tony Sadlon: Finding Reformation Values in Lutheran and Calvinist Sacred
Music
- Matt Wells: The Hymns of Martin Luther
Madrigals and Secular Vocal Music
- Sarah Kidd: Text Setting and Use of Dissonance in the Madrigals of
Gesualdo and Monteverdi
- Chris Mechell: Humor in the 16th-Century Madrigal
Instruments and Instrumental Music
- Kirk Etheridge: Pipe and Tabor Performance Practice
- Kevin Heathwood: Music at St. Mark's by G. Gabrieli and C. Monteverdi
- Marin Meinzer: Vibrato in the Baroque (and before)
- Marie-Madeleine Orban: Renaissance and Baroque Allemandes
- Eve Panhorst: Techniques of Viol Playing in Relation to Silvestro
Ganassi's Treatises
- Nicky Purser: Court Dance Music and Its Legacy
- Ross Thompson: Influences on Giovanni Gabrieli's Instrumental Music
- Michael Woods: The Organ Mass
Music and Shakespeare
- Nicole Atkinson: Music in Shakespeare's Plays
- Kate Mullins: Music as Tragic in Othello, Macbeth, and
Hamlet
- Ben Walterick: Greek Musical Ideas in Shakespeare's Writings
Music in Culture
- Melissa Rife: Musical Training in Vivaldi's Ospedale
- Richard Ryan: The Origins of the Conservatory
- Sophia Vastek: Women's Musical Education in the Venetian Ospedali
Ideas, Theory, and Practice
- David Barnhouse: Different Solfège Systems and Music Education
Conventions of France, Italy, Spain and England
- Melita Denny: Music Education in Late Renaissance and Baroque England
- Matt Evans: Baroque Ornamentation
- David Johnson: 16th- and 17th-Century Tuning and Temperaments
- Erica Overmyer: Italian and French Baroque Ornamentation
Early Opera
- Christopher Cole: The Florentine Camerata and Ancient Greek Ideals
- Matt Nowlin: Humanism and the Origin of Opera: Girolamo Mei's Study of
Greek Thought and His Influence on the Florentine Camerata
- Julianne Russell: Treatments of the Orpheus Myth in Peri's
L'Euridice and Monteverdi's L'Orfeo
- Erin Saway: The Creation of the Diva
- Nicholas Stone: Changes in Opera Instrumentation through the Baroque
- Krista Weiss: A Comparison of Jacopo Peri's Euridice and Claudio
Monteverdi's Orfeo and Their Relation to Ancient Greek Music Drama
Monteverdi
- Corey Glenton: Stylistic Differences in L'Orfeo and
L'Incoronazione di Poppea
- Kevin Heathwood: Music at St. Mark's by G. Gabrieli and C. Monteverdi
- Julianne Russell: Treatments of the Orpheus Myth in Peri's
L'Euridice and Monteverdi's L'Orfeo
- Krista Weiss: A Comparison of Jacopo Peri's Euridice and Claudio
Monteverdi's Orfeo and Their Relation to Ancient Greek Music Drama
Vocal Music
- Brittany Loewen: The Castrati in Social Context
- Christian Pampinella: Baroque Sacred Dramas
- Nicholas Stone: Changes in Opera Instrumentation through the Baroque
Instrumental Music
- Corey Alston: Lully and Corelli as Innovators of Orchestral
Performance Practice
- Seth Bowers: Roles of the Trumpet in the Baroque
- Steven Cocciarella: The Rise and Fall of Clarino Trumpeting
- David Deforest: Performance Practice in 17th-Century French Lute Music
- Marin Meinzer: Vibrato in the Baroque (and before)
- Marie-Madeleine Orban: Renaissance and Baroque Allemandes
- Nicky Purser: Court Dance Music and Its Legacy
- Michael Woods: The Organ Mass
Italian Composers
- Corey Alston: Lully and Corelli as Innovators of Orchestral
Performance Practice
- Elyse Gellert: The Violin in Corelli and Vivaldi Violin Sonatas
- Kevin Heathwood: Music at St. Mark's by G. Gabrieli and C. Monteverdi
- Lawon Lee: A Comparison of the Keyboard Styles of Bach and Scarlatti
- Melissa Rife: Musical Training in Vivaldi's Ospedale
- Katie Tertell: The Solo Cello Writing of Vivaldi and Bach
- Kelly Tharp: A Comparison of Ornamentation Styles of Couperin and
Scarlatti
- Sophia Vastek: Women's Musical Education in the Venetian Ospedali
French Composers
- Corey Alston: Lully and Corelli as Innovators of Orchestral
Performance Practice
- Lana Bode: Musical Expression in Francois Couperin's Harpsichord Music
- Chris Briden: Marais's Gamba Sonatas
- Christine Cornell: Lully and French Opera
- David Deforest: Performance Practice in 17th-Century French Lute Music
- Annie Petsonk: Louis XIV, Jean Baptiste Lully, and Music as Political
Propaganda
- Claire Sakurada: Use of Music in 17th-Century France to Glorify King
Louis XIV and Bring Power to France
- Kelly Tharp: A Comparison of Ornamentation Styles of Couperin and
Scarlatti
English Composers
- Rachel Erie: Italian and French Influences on Purcell's
Dido and Aeneas
- Erin Noelliste: Performance Contexts of Purcell Songs
Music in the New World
- Yuriria Rodriguez: Sacred Music in Colonial Mexico
German Composers
- Ben Fowler: Comparing Johann Jakob Froberger's and J. S. Bach's Partitas
Bach
- Cindy Barbanera: The Oboe in Bach's Cantatas
- Jeremy Barzizza: Symmetry in Bach's Music
- Jennifer Berg: Bach's Use of Parody in His Sacred and Secular Cantatas
- John Blevins: Evaluating Discussions of Greek Influence in Bach's Music
- Leigh Chasse: Bach's Fugues
- Yoo-jin Cho: Performance Practice in Bach's Minuets for Violin
- Liz Deitmeyer: Use of the Horn in Bach's B Minor Mass and Brandenburg
Concerto No. 1
- Lauren DeRoller: Bach's Use of the French Dance Suite in his Violin
Partitas
- Ben Fowler: Comparing Johann Jakob Froberger's and J. S. Bach's Partitas
- Katie Jensen: Composer Atrributions in the Flute Sonatas of J. S. Bach
and C. P. E. Bach
- Grigor Kachatryan: Bach's Italian Concerto Derived from the Italian
String Concerti of Vivaldi
- Lawon Lee: A Comparison of the Keyboard Styles of Bach and Scarlatti
- Greg Mueller: Performance Contexts of Baroque Timpani
- Brad Mulholland: Different Tuning Systems and Bach's Keyboard Music
- Jasmine Ng: Religious Content in Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier
- Benjamin Straley: Symbolism in Bach's Clavierübung Part III
- Katie Tertell: The Solo Cello Writing of Vivaldi and Bach
- James Woomert: Polyphonic Composition in the Unaccompanied String
Works of J.S. Bach
Handel
- Kris Simmons: Handel's Operas and His Favorite Singers
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