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AMARO, TAT (2018) Modernising Traditional Musical Culture:
A Case Study of Contemporary Piphat Ensembles in Phayao Province, Northern Thailand. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

ANDERSON, PAUL,GEOFFREY (2016) 'A Source of Innocent Merriment in an Object all Sublime': A Critical Appraisal of the Choral Works of Sir Arthur Sullivan. Masters thesis, Durham University.

ARMITAGE, JAMES,EDWARD (2024) Affective Priming with Music: Cognitive, Psychoacoustic and Cultural Perspectives. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

AYODEJI, OLUWAFEMI,EMMANUEL (2019) Ecstasy, Holiness and Spiritual Warfare: An Evaluation of Yorùbá Pentecostal Music Experience in South-West Nigeria. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

BACHORIK-JR, DOUGLAS,JOSEPH (2020) Emotion in Congregational Singing:
Music-Evoked Affect in Filipino Churches. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

BANNISTER, SCOTT,CRAIG (2020) A Framework of Distinct Musical Chills: Theoretical, Causal, and Conceptual Evidence. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

BARKER, THOMAS,PATRICK (2016) Music, Civil Rights, and Counterculture: Critical Aesthetics and Resistance in the United States, 1957-1968. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

BARROWCLIFFE, TREVOR,WILLIAM (2013) THE SYMPHONIES OF WILLIAM ALWYN :
A CRITICAL AND ANALYTICAL STUDY. Masters thesis, Durham University.

BAYLEY, GARY,KEITH (2014) The Music of Mike Westbrook. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Bettley, John (1988) North Italian liturgical music in the late sixteenth century. Masters thesis, Durham University.

BLAKEY, CHRISTOPHER,JEREMY (2023) Natural Theology and the Music of Ralph Vaughan Williams. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

BROWN, NICHOLAS,JAMES,WATSON (2024) The experience of lay singers in Anglican cathedrals, and its spiritual reality: theological, institutional and historical influences in understanding the Anglican Choral Tradition. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

BUCKLEY, JOANNE,MARIE,KIRKBRIDE (2012) Lyric as self-reflection: The role of the slow movement in Beethoven's works. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

BURROWS, CHRISTOPHER,ARCHIBALD (2017) How does Johann Sebastian Bach vary his approach to fugal composition in his organ works? : A study of fourteen strategically selected organ fugues. Masters thesis, Durham University.

BUTTIGIEG, LYDIA (2014) Carmelo Pace (1906-1993): The career and creative achievement of a twentieth-century Maltese composer in social and cultural context. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

CANDLISH, NICOLA,ANNE (2012) The Development of Resources for Electronic Music in the UK, with Particular Reference to the bids to establish a National Studio. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

CAO, JIA (2023) Towards a New Musical Hybridity: Applying Traditional Chinese Techniques to Western Instruments. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

CARLSON, KEVIN,NICHOLAS (2021) Compositions Utilizing Fractal Flame
Algorithms. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

CARROLL, MARK,GEORGE (2020) Fire walk with me:
Towards and beyond a Surrealist methodology of music composition for the 21st century. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

CATALANO, ELENA (2014) Shaping the Body, Transcending the Self:
Experience and Meaning in Odissi. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

CAUSBY, JOSEPH,CODY (2015) Who dares stand idle? Thomas Tertius Noble: A Life in Church Music 1867-1953. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Clarke, Martin Vaughan (2008) John Wesley and Methodist music in the eighteenth century : principles and practice. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

CONROY, ISAAC,PAUL (2024) Analysing the Structure of “Progressive” Rock 1973 and Beyond: The Who, Pink Floyd, Yes and Genesis. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

CORY, GRAHAM,MICHAEL (2016) The Life, Works and Enduring Significance of the Rev. John Bacchus Dykes MA., Mus.Doc. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

COXHEAD, THOMAS,MICHAEL,WILLIAM (2019) 'For all music is singing': A critical analysis of the mass settings of Kenneth Leighton 1929-1988. Masters thesis, Durham University.

Crosby, Brian (1993) The choral foundation of Durham Cathedral, c.1350 - c.1650. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

DARNLEY-SMITH, RACHEL,MARY,REVILL (2013) What is the Music of Music Therapy? An Enquiry into the Aesthetics of Clinical Improvisation. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

DAWSON-JONES, DARYN,GARY (2020) Shaping Time in Music: Explorations in Localised Temporalities: A Portfolio of Compositions with Accompanying Commentaries. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

DE-BARRA, SEAMAS (2012) The Symphonies of John Kinsella. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

DE-HENAU, JORIS,ANDRE,ODIEL (2015) Towards an Aesthetics of the (in)formel: Time, Space and the Dialectical Image in the Music of Varèse, Feldman and Xenakis. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

DOYLE, ENYA,HELEN,LAUREN (2020) Let My Voice Be Heard: Barriers to Gender Diversity and Inclusion in Anglican Cathedral Music. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

EGAN, ERIC,SKYTTERHOLM (2010) Portfolio of compositions containing Symphony No. 104, From The Eumenides, Lost Words, String Quartet No. 2, String Quartet No. 3, 12 Miniatures, Non-Stable Equilibrium and a commentary on the compositions. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

EREL, LAURA (2022) Between Formenlehre and Cognition: A Puzzle-Based Investigation into the Perceptibility of Classical Syntax. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

ESTIBEIRO, MARC,LUCIO (2016) Composing Music for Acoustic Instruments and Electronics Mediated Through the Application of Microsound. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

FARR, RAYMOND,KENNETH (2012) The Distin Family and its Influence on the Development of the Brass Band Movement in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Masters thesis, Durham University.

FLEMING, SIMON,DAVID,IAIN (2009) A Century of Music Production in Durham City 1711-1811: A Documentary Study. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

FOGGITT, PETER (2021) Portfolio of compositions, with commentary. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

GAYRAUD, ELISE,GAELLE,MARIE (2016) Towards an ethnography of a culturally eclectic music scene. Preserving and transforming folk music in twenty-first century England. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

GOODENOUGH, JOHN,MICHAEL (2015) Commentary on the Portfolio of Compositions submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy by Composition. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

GOODWAY, SAMUEL,THOMAS (2020) The Art of Tablā Accompaniment in Vilambit Ektāl. Masters thesis, Durham University.

GOULDEN, JOHN (2012) Michael Costa, England’s First Conductor: The Revolution in Musical Performance in England 1830-80. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

GRAVES, THOMAS,ANTHONY (2024) From Separation to Union: Musical Emotion and Qawwālī at the Shrine of Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

HAMAKAWA, RYUICHI (2022) Music and Addiction
The development of Music Addiction Scale (MAS). Masters thesis, Durham University.

HARPER, JOSEPH,FRANK (2010) TOWARDS AN UNDERSTANDING OF TRACTARIAN HYMNODY: A Critical Appraisal of the Interaction between Theology, Poetry and Music in Anglican Hymnody between 1840 and 1900. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

HASHIM, SARAH (2020) Blinding the Mind’s Eye:
Comparing the Effectiveness of Three Suppression Tasks on Music- Induced Visual Mental Imagery and Felt Emotion. Masters thesis, Durham University.

HEATH, JOANNA (2016) Khawhar Zai: Voices of Hope in the Bereavement Singing of Mizo Christians in Northeast India. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

HEATH, JOANNA (2013) Lengkhawm Zai: A Singing Tradition of Mizo Christianity in Northeast India. Masters thesis, Durham University.

HORLOR, SAMUEL,PATRICK (2017) Community in Chinese Street Music: Sound, Song and Social Life. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

HORROCKS, SOPHIE,ALEXANDRA (2024) Performing for the provinces: touring theatre troupes and the French political imaginary, 1824-64. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

HSIN, MEI,FEN (2012) Popular Music in Taiwan: Language, Social Class and National Identity. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

HU, RUIXUE (2021) Modal Conflicts, Harmonic Complexes, and Paratactic Lyricism in Anton Bruckner’s Sixth Symphony. Masters thesis, Durham University.

HUFF, JONATHAN,EDWARD (2015) La musique des lumières: The Enlightenment Origins of French Revolutionary Music, 1789-1799. Masters thesis, Durham University.

HUGHES, ADAM (2020) ‘It's Man Devouring Man, My Dear’: Studying The Musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street As Multimedia Adaptation. Masters thesis, Durham University.

JAKOVLJEVIC, RASTKO,STEVAN (2012) Marginality and Cultural Identities: Locating the Bagpipe Music of Serbia. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

JIRTLE, JAMES,VERNON (2010) Understanding Music’s Theological Significance: A Kantian Approach. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Kao, Shu Hui Daphne (2003) The Development of the Modern Zheng in Taiwan and Singapore. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

KAVANAGH-CLARKE, MADDIE (2019) Cadence and Formal Function in Mendelssohn's Sonata Forms. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

KIM, SUN,BIN (2024) Sonata Form as Temporal Process: A Form-functional Approach to Anton Bruckner’s Symphonic First Movements. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

KNOTTS, SHELLY,ANNE (2018) Social Systems for Improvisation in Live Computer Music. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

KOUVAROU, MARIA (2014) “Rockin’ all over the world”: The Assimilation of Rock Music in Five European Countries (a comparative study). Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

KOUVAROU, MARIA (2011) ‘This is what Salvation must be like after a While’: Bob Dylan’s Critical Utopia. Masters thesis, Durham University.

LANGFORD, CHAD (2015) Multi-temporality and pitch permutations: Creating networks of time and tone as raw material for composition. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

LAZAROU, LOUCIA (2017) WOMEN CONDUCTORS: A QUALITATIVE STUDY OF GENDER, FAMILY, ‘THE BODY’ AND DISCRIMINATION. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

LEE, HEUNG,FAI (2020) Musical Form and the Dialectical Moment in Fin-de-Siècle Viennese Symphonic Sonatas. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

LENNIE, THOMAS,MAGNUS (2023) The Constructivistly-Organised Dimensional-Appraisal (CODA) Model and Evidence for the Role of Goal-directed Processes in Emotional Episodes Induced by Music. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

LI, CHEN (2023) Safeguarding Chinese Traditional Local Opera as Intangible Cultural Heritage: A Study of Maoqiang Opera in Shandong, China. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

LITTLE, BENJAMIN (2022) Musical Conservatism: Victorian Composers and the Philosophy of Precedent. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

LYWOOD-MULCOCK, JULIAN,WILLIAM (2015) Algorithmic Compositional Methods and their Role in Genesis: A Multi-Functional Real-Time Computer Music System. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

MARSHALL, PHILIP (2024) The heyday of the working musician’s degree. An examination of the Durham music degrees, 1890-1945, with particular emphasis on the BMus, to determine their origin, demands, popularity and prestige as a means to professional advancement. Masters thesis, Durham University.

MATIAS, NATALIE,KATHERINE (2023) Towards an Aesthetic of Visualisation: Multi-Media Analysis, Comparative Audio- Narrative-Visual Analysis, and Representations of Music in Film. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

MAXWELL, IAN (2014) The Importance of Being Ernest John : Challenging the Misconceptions about the Life and Works of E. J. Moeran. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

MCNULTY, PAUL,FRANCIS (2014) Olivier Messiaen: The Reluctant Avant-gardist - a Historical, Contextual and Analytical Study of the Quatre études de rythme and the Livre d’orgue. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

MEDEKSAITE, EGIDIJA (2016) Mapping Textile Patterns into Sonic Experience. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

MICALLEF-GRIMAUD, ANNALIESE (2022) Towards a Better Understanding of Emotion Communication in Music: An Interactive Production Approach. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Milledge, Anthony (2001) The music of Dyricke Gerarde. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

MITCHELL, IAN,LEE (2015) Four Compositions and supporting Commentary. Masters thesis, Durham University.

MOORE, EDWARD,PAUL (2013) ‘...plunge with me into the very depths of Nature’: Gustav Mahler's Third Symphony as critical engagement with the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. Masters thesis, Durham University.

NUSKA, PETR (2022) Roma-ness in Music, Music in Roma-ness: The Musical Craft of Slovak Roma in Klenovec and Kokava. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

ONG'ARE, PETER,OKENO (2015) Music and Reconciliation in the Aftermath of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

PACCIOLLA, PAOLO (2017) DRUMMING AUSPICIOUSNESS
THE PAKHĀVAJ OF NATHDWARA AND THE CULT OF THE KING-GOD. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

PASCHALIDOU, PANAGIOTA-STYLIANI (2017) Effort in gestural interactions with imaginary objects in Hindustani Dhrupad vocal music. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

PAULEY, JOHN-BEDE (2013) Benjamin Britten, Herbert Howells, and
Silence as the Ineffable in
English Cathedral Music. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

PEARSON, LARA,ANN (2016) Gesture in Karnatak Music: Pedagogy and Musical Structure in South India. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

PRICE, CHRISTOPHER,NICHOLAS,TURT (2018) Mr Ward’s Commission; Manners, Musicians, and Music at the Canterbury Catch Club. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

QUINN, IAIN,JAMES,THOMAS (2012) A Higher Calling - The lofty ideals of Victorian Organists. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

REGAN, PATRICK,WILLIAM (2016) The Great Highland Bagpipe in the Eastern United States
:inception, development, and perpetuation. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

REZAEI, MARIAM (2017) Commentary
on the
Portfolio of Compositions submitted for the degree of PhD in Music Composition, University of Durham
by Mariam Rezaei, 2016. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

ROBINSON, ALICE,MERIEL (2021) English Folk under the Red Flag: The Impact of Alan Bush’s ‘Workers’ Music’ on 20th Century Britain’s
Left-Wing Music Scene. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Roth, Alec (1986) New composition for Javanese gamelan. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

ROWLAND, HAZEL,ELIZABETH,JING-XIA (2021) Intimacy as a Mode of Expression in Mendelssohn's Mature Instrumental Works. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

SALLOUM, SARA,LIBER (2024) Female lute accomplishment and performance practices in early seventeenth-century England. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

SALTER, FRANCIS,BERNARD (2024) The Reception of Plainchant
A MUSICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL AND THEOLOGICAL EXPLORATION. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

SCHULTZ, JOSEPH (2017) The symphonic and concertante works of Aram Il’ich Khachaturian: a contextual and analytical study. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

SHI, YINYUN (2016) Performing Local Identity in a Contemporary Urban Society: A Study of Ping-tan Narrative Vocal Tradition in Suzhou, China. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

SMITH, NATHAN,PHILIP,WESTELL (2023) Sir Arthur Sullivan the Romantic. Ivanhoe, Haddon Hall, and The Beauty Stone – Sad Milestones or Compositional Maturity? Masters thesis, Durham University.

STROWMAN, JAMES,ALEXANDER (2023) Reading traumatic memory in Henri Dutilleux’s music. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

SWAIN, KELCEY,ROBERT (2010) Commentary on the Portfolio of Compositions submitted for the degree of PhD in Composition: Heart of Light, Light of Heart, Spanish Ladies, Down Among the Dead Men, Pavanne, Christ ist Erstanden, Rezoplucker, Cliqbuz, Circle Theory. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

SWEET, ELIZABETH (2023) Neoclassicism in British Instrumental Music 1918-45. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

SWEET, ELIZABETH (2016) Neoclassicism in the Music of William Alwyn: Selected Works 1938-45. Masters thesis, Durham University.

TAO, SONGZI (2024) Musical Change and Continuity in a Rural Bai Community: an Ethnographic Study of Music-making in Fengyu, Yunnan, China. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

TATE, JAMES,SEBASTIAN (2021) CREATING A COHERENT SCORE: THE MUSIC OF SINGLE-PLAYER FANTASY COMPUTER ROLE-PLAYING GAMES. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

TEO, YVONNE,YA,YAN (2022) Towards a Hybrid Theoretical Model for Neoclassical Music: Schenkerian, Neo-Riemannian and Pitch-Class Set Theories. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

TOOKE, DANIEL,JASON (2015) Arnold Schoenberg’s Die glückliche Hand: Artistic Self-Envisioning in the Early Modernist Era. Masters thesis, Durham University.

UEDA, RITSUKO (2024) Composing for the Intercultural Orchestra. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

WAGGENER, JOSHUA,ALTON (2014) Mendelssohn and the Musical Sublime. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

WAKELAM, THOMAS,STEPHEN,DAVID (2014) The Cultural Representation of Non-Western Cultures through Music in Mainstream Video Games. Masters thesis, Durham University.

Wakelin, Emma H. (1990) Madrigali a cinque voci di Horatio Vecchi, libro primo: Venice, Angelo Gardano 1589. Masters thesis, Durham University.

WANG, SHIYUN (2024) Music-making in Realms of Pleasure: Songs, Sentiments, and Seduction
in Ming Era Courtesanship (1368-1644). Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

WARREN, MATTHEW,JOHN,HEATH (2022) Composing Institutions and Institutionalising Composers: Value and Discipline in Contemporary English University Composition. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

WATTANAPAT, NUGUNN (2016) Sir Hubert Parry: An Intellectual Portrait. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

WEATHERSTON, DAWN,ELIZABETH (2013) THE MUSIC STUDENT AS ENTREPRENEUR:
AN ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY BASED IN THE NORTH EAST OF ENGLAND. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

WEDLER, SEBASTIAN (2013) Aspects of Adorno's Theory of Musical Form. Masters thesis, Durham University.

WEEDON, ROBERT,ANDREW (2012) "Why do I go on doing these things?": The Continuity and Context of Gerald Finzi's Extended Choral Works. Masters thesis, Durham University.

WELLS, DOMINIC,PETER (2012) James MacMillan: Retrospective Modernist. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Willis, Peter (2009) CHOPIN IN BRITAIN
Chopin's visits to England and Scotland in 1837 and 1848
People, places, and activities. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Willis, Peter (2009) Chopin in Britain: Chopin's visits to England and Scotland in 1837 and 1848 : people, places and activities. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

WINKLEY, EDWARD,JAMES (2016) British Piano Concertante Works from 1918 to 1955:
An historical and Analytical Study. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

WOODHOUSE, EDWARD,LUKE,ANDERTON (2013) The Music of Johannes Brahms in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century England and an Assessment of His Reception and Influence on the Chamber and Orchestral Works of Charles Hubert Hastings Parry and Charles Villiers Stanford. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

WORBOYS, MICHAEL,FREDERICK (2022) Monstrous Musical Moonshine:
Explorations of Harmonic Spaces. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

WROTH, EMMANUELA,MARIA (2022) Courting Celebrity: Creating the Courtesan on the Popular Parisian Stage and Beyond, 1831–1859. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.