| Name | Year | Dissertation | Advisor |
| Michelle Grosser | 2024 | Experiencing Avatar/Player Virtual Subjectivity: The Role of the Soundtrack in Open-World Video Games | Daphne Tan |
| Matthew Min-Hei Poon | 2022 | Formal Functions in Robert Schumann’s Orchestral Sonata Forms | Steven Vande Moortele |
| Margaret Elizabeth Fox | 2021 | Deciphering the Arabesque: Genre Mixture and Formal Digression in the Early Romantic Piano Concerto | Steven Vande Moortele |
| Kyle Hutchinson | 2020 | Harmonic Function in the Late Nineteenth-Century Chromatic Tonality of Wagner and Strauss: A Study of Extensions to Classical Prolongational Practices | Ryan McClelland |
| September Russell | 2020 | Passé recomposé: Neoclassical Sonata Form in Interwar France | Steven Vande Moortele |
| Dan Deutsch | 2018 | Music as “Minor Literature”: Musical Syntax and Form in Gustav Mahler’s Lied von der Erde | Steven Vande Moortele |
| Scott Hanenberg | 2018 | Unpopular Meters: Irregular Grooves and Drumbeats in the Songs of Tori Amos, Radiohead, and Tool | Ryan McClelland |
| Caitlin Martinkus | 2017 | The Urge to Vary: Schubert’s Variation Practice from Schubertiades to Sonata Forms | Steven Vande Moortele |
| Justine Wong | 2017 | The Role of the Development in Felix Mendelssohn’s Sonata Forms | Ryan McClelland |
| Konrad Harley | 2014 | Harmonic Function in the Music of Sergei Prokofiev | Ryan McClelland |
| Mark Richards | 2011 | Analyzing Tension and Drama in Beethoven’s First-Movement Sonata Forms | Ryan McClelland |
Music Theory