Submissions from 2013
If Words Could Speak: A Musical History of Hip-Hop's Golden Age, Edward Mitchell Bularzik
Memory Lane: The Tonal Language of Elliott Smith, Robert Francis Burvant
A Divided Culture, Brian Barrows Goodell
Foundations of Female Gender Identity and Performativity in Rock 'n' Roll: Patti Smith, Joan Jett, and Kathleen Hanna, Emily Elizabeth Ibarra
From Performance to Perception: A Critical Investigation of Emotional Expression in Music, Brian Hyunsuk Lee
Reshaping Traditions: A Composition Inspired and Informed by The Sacred Harp, Alex Joseph Lough
The Question Of Musical Meaning: A Study Of Symbols, Universals, And Charles Ives? Concord Sonata, Henry Jacobs Molofsky
Dancin' Along to Those Old Roses and Skulls, Henry Thomas Robertson
"I'd Rather Be Broke and Happy than Miserable and Rich": The Life and Music of Allan Holdsworth, James Chanin Rosenberg
Speaking Classical Music: An Argument for Classical Music Improvisation, Nathan Weeks Shane
Words and Music: the Vocabulary of Cole Porter, Zachary Cahn Sulsky
Repetition & Stasis, Jeremy Jenkins Webber
Submissions from 2012
Earl Bostic: Up There In Orbit, Owen James Roberts Callahan
Lewinian Transformations, Transformations of Transformations, Musical Hermeneutics, Andrew Jay Chung
Notes on a New Piano Concerto in F Major, and the Works that Inspired It, Sean Adrian Curtice
Language Barrier: Identity Politics, Ownership, and the White Artist, Spencer Heffernon Hattendorf
Music Psychotherapy: An Assessment of Research Methods, Noah Zinn Heau
Allegro di Krontjong: Life and Works of Amir Pasaribu, Lana Lana
Longing in Suburbia: Figurative Soundscapes in Popular Music, Nathaniel Ferriss Leich
From Source to Sea: A River Thesis, Samuel Remington Long
A Union of Forms: Contemporary Interpretation and Application of Wagner's Gesamtkunstwerk Within the Mediums of Music and Poetry, Nathan Zachary Mondschein
Between Order and Chaos: An Exploration of Power Dynamics and Democratic Rehearsal Techniques in School Choirs, Aaron Mitchell Peisner
Digital Listening: The Reproduced Musical Work, Myles Avery Potters
The Evolution of Western Representations of China through an Operatic Lens, Alan Luis Rodi
Blue Notes from the Underground: Jazz in the USSR, Brianna Megan van Kan
Submissions from 2011
A Story With No Words: An Orchestrated Story and an Exploration of the Meaning within Music, Elizabeth Hunter Gauvey-Kern
Narrative Music and the Concept Album: A Case Study of Nine Inch Nails, The Downward Spiral, Allison Emilie House
Authenticity in Musical Performance, Nicholas Philip Klebanow Luby
"Pas de Frontières": Experiencing Intra-African Musical Movements in Morocco, Kelly Charlotte Morgan
Orbital Collisions, Jonathan Benjamin Myers
Reduced By Rick Rubin: Production Process, Pitfalls, and Impacts, Jared Alexander Hart Paul
Echo Music: Exploration and Composition in the Wesleyan University CFA, Ryan David Rodger
Virtuosi of the European Art Music Tradition and Their Influence on the Development of the Double Bass, Louis Shea Russo
Hildegard of Bingen: Prophet or Composer?, Katherine Theresa Scahill
The Artist's Refuge: Idiosyncratic Properties of the Organ Music of Jehan Alain, Matthew Douglas Sellier
The Cello Suites of Bach and Britten: History, Form and Performance, Lucia Jones Strother
Exploring the Superunknown: Composition and the Music of Soundgarden, Emily Michelle Weiss
Submissions from 2010
Call and Response in Bach, Court Gamelan, and Björk, Benjamin Cushner Bernstein
Comparative Analyses of Different Musical Settings of the Same Text in the Genre of German Lieder, Wing Yee Cheng
An Analysis of Villa-Lobos Early Guitar Works: The Synthesis of Antagonistic Musical Resources, Gabriel Ubiraci Furtado
Singing The Body, Singing the Other, and Ensemble Organum's Messe de Notre Dame, Asa Trimble Horvitz
8-Bit Heroes: A Look into the Development and Presence of Early Video Game Music in Popular Culture, Anthony Juan Martello
Hisaishi'd Away: An Analysis of Joe Hisaishi's Film Scoring Technique/The "Elemental" Symphony, Robert Ouyang Rusli
Mama's Birthday Boy: Ten Short Essays on Arthur Russell, Ben Jacob Seretan
Critical Song: Exploring Songwriting's Value and Pedagogy in Prison, Emily Marie Sheehan
A We Dis?! : The Contestation of Jamaica's Post-Independence Identity in the Festival Song Competition, Carolyn Sinclair-McCalla
Redubbing the Underground: Cassette Culture in Transition, Ian Matthew Staub
Musical "Beastliness" in the Roman de Fauvel (BN fr. 146): Chaillou's "addicions" and Sensory Danger, Hansel Shen-Wei Tan
Practicing Craft in Context: An Analysis of Contra Dance Fiddling Practices, Emily Irene Troll
Brazil is Samba: Rhythm, Percussion, and Samba in the Formation of Brazilian National Identity (1902-1958), Lindsay Carolyn Walsh
Music: An Alternative Education Source for Correctional Facilities, Melody Wang
Investigating Improvisation: Music Performance and the Disciplinary Divide, Lindsay Jordan Wright
Play Us a Song: The Structure and Aesthetics of Music in Video Games, Erik Richard Jason Youngdahl
Submissions from 2009
Situating Salsa Through Tito Puente's Life and Music, Galen Philip DeGraf
Memory of the Civil War in Popular Song, Paul Johnson Edwards
Collective Improvisation: Conversation, Interaction and Direction in the Music of Ornette Coleman and Jason Rigby, Andrew Fogliano
Neoclassical Idioms in Ottorino Respighi's "Lauda per la Nativita' del Signore", Brittany Nicole Fowler
Black Hands, White Palms, William Christopher Franklin
Music for Steven Kellogg's The Island of the Skog: Scores and Analysis, David Ouyang Moench
Jazz, Cartoons, and Jazz Cartoons: A Critical Study of the Approach of Golden Age Animation Studios to Cartoon Music, Claude Michel Moise
Plagiarism as Art: Musical Borrowing and Copyright Law, Joseph Robert Newman
Black Friday: An Opera in Two Acts, Samuel Levon Ottinger
Modernist Aesthetics and Postmodern Opera, Xiaoxi Tu
Submissions from 2008
The New Hip-life Beat: Rooted in Ga Drumming, Nathaniel Robert Ash-Morgan
Transforming Traditional Music in the Midst of Contemporary Change: The Survival of Cultural Troupes in Accra, Ghana, Jonathan Marshall Boyer-Dry
Essays after Original Compositions, Daniel Persichetti Harris
Wesleyan University's World Instrument Collection: A Biographical Analysis, Alice Beth McKenney
No Hay Revolución Sin Canciones: The Role of Music in Modern Andean Social Movements, Zachary Rowan Meyer
Electronic Friends: David Tudor and Live Electronic Music, Brendan Christopher O'Connell
Smith, Johnson, and Waller: The Birth of Stride Piano and Three Pieces for Piano: My Sometimes Lover, Camden Catch, and J's Meadow, Nicholas Arthur Pappadopoulos
Music Education and the Orchestra: Common Pedagogical Techniques in Music Education and Their Impact on Seven Original Composition, Jonathan David Sirlin
Back to the Garden: Pastoralism, Whiteness and Authenticity in the US Counterculture, 1968-1970, Adam Gregory Tinkle
Causes And Solutions For The Recent Decline In Recorded Music Sales, Douglas Powers Walters
Beethoven's Janus-faced Quartet: Opus 130, the Groâe Fuge and the Allegro, Leah Gayle Weinberg
Twentieth-Century Compositional Resources, Zachary Lindsay Young
Submissions from 2007
Funk Is Its Own Reward: The Moving Power of Parliament Funkadelic, Vladimir Gutkovich
A Summation, An Exploration, Albert Hill