The Master of Music Program is designed to provide opportunity for in-depth study in an area of specialization, to increase professional competence in teaching and performance, and to prepare for continued self-directed study or advanced graduate study.
The following degree programs are available:
- Composition
- Conducting
- Performance
- Pedagogy
- Music Education
In addition, the following secondary areas of study (cognates) are available:
- Composition
- Conducting
- Jazz Pedagogy
- Music Theory
- Performance
- Pedagogy
- Music Education
- Music History
By combining a primary area of study (degree program) with a secondary area of study (cognate) a CWU Music Graduate Student can create a customized program that addresses interests, strengths, weaknesses and preparation for further advanced graduate study.
This collection features theses from Master of Music students in the Department of Music Graduate Program at Central Washington University.
Theses from 1972
Frauenliebe und Leben, Rose I. Bolstad
Romanzen Aus Magelone: Characteristics of Style, Benjamin Fredrick Hammack
The Structure of Paul Creston's Narrative No. 2, Op. 79 No. 2 for Piano, Myrna Evelyn Johnson
Theses from 1971
A Historical Survey of the Relevance of Music in Man's Philosophy, Annette R. Arnold
A Study of Scheduling, Staffing and Housing Procedures for a Comprehensive Elementary Instrumental Music Program in the Highline Public Schools, Gerald Clifton Bayne
A Comparison of Class C School Music Departments in Washington State with the Music Department at Winlock, Washington, Walter Ross Berglund
Bernstein's Lamentation Compared to Classical Hebrew Musical Tradition, Adele Jean Blankenship
The Transcription of Piece Heroique for Wind-Band, Douglas Frazier Cairns
The Performance Interpretation of Paul Creston's Six Preludes, Opus 38 for Piano, Ginger Anne Jensen
A Survey of Saxophone Literature, John A. Johnson
Handel's Bass Solos in His Oratorios, Ronald E. Jones
Prokofieff's Second Piano Sonata Transcribed for Sring Quartet, Robert Carter Lodge
Characteristics of Style in On the Beach at Fontana, Jeffrey Lloyd Mitchell
A Stylistic Analysis of the Fünf Lieder Opus 15, Thomas William Reich
A Stylistic Analysis of Richard Wagner's Wesendonck Songs, Patricia Kay Thompson
Theses from 1970
The Preparation of a Graduate Eb Alto Saxophone Recital, Thomas G. Barber
Current Status of Chamber Ensembles in the First-Class High Schools of Washington State, Dennis C. Crabb
Characteristics of Style in the Song Cycle Don Quichotte à Dulcinée, Bruce Gyger Dodge
Brahms' Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24: A Study of the Technique of Harmonic Variation, Richard C. Grant
Outlines: An Original Composition for Concert Band, Bruce Albert Stephenson Hunter
Two Bach Preludes and Fugues Transcribed for Wind-Band, Douglas Duane Nott
Visions Infernales: Characteristics of Style and Interpretation, George F. Skipworth
Brahms' Vier Ernste Gesange, Moses Turner
An Analysis of Verdi's Dramatic and Musical Unity in Desdemona's Monologue, Georgia A. Zutavern
Theses from 1969
Historical Development of the Clarinet with Special Emphasis on Technique and the Resolving of Technical Problems, Virgil M. Kocher
An Analytical Study of The Holy Sonnets of John Donne by Benjamin Britten, Richard Arthur Ruth Jr.
An Original Composition for Symphonic Wind Ensemble in Contemporary Style, Patrick Ellis Thompson
The Lieder of Richard Strauss, Gary Dwight Welch
Theses from 1968
A Brief History of the Sonata with an Analysis and Comparison of a Brahms’ and Hindemith’s Clarinet Sonata, Kenneth T. Aoki
An Original Composition for Chorus Missa Brevis, Robert Austin Barbey
A Comparative Study of Slide Technique for the Trombone, James T. McDowell
Beethoven’s an die Ferne Geliebte, Paul R. Piersall
An Historical Study of the Solo Concerto Cadenza, Toni Christine Rydman
Theses from 1967
An Analysis of “Little Bat” in the Opera Susannah, James William Dewey
Motival Structure of Susannah, a Music Drama by Carlisle Floyd, Sue Ellen McMurray
An Analysis of the Styles of C. Saint-Saëns and W. A. Mozart with Emphasis on Their Clarinet Compositions, Gerald Kenneth Steele
Theses from 1966
Vision An Oratorio, John Tuckness Bonney
An Original Composition for Brass Choir, Kenneth John Kraintz