Masters

Blunnie, Ailie (2010) Passion and Intellect in the Music of Elizabeth Maconchy DBE (1907–1994). Masters thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.

O'Sullivan, Louise Mary (2012) Selected Performances and Compositions of the Theresienstadt Ghetto (1941‐1945): An Examination of Music, Memory and Survivance. Masters thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.

Deacy, Mary Regina (2005) Continental Organists and Catholic Church Music in Ireland, 1860-1960. Masters thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.

Halloran, Annemarie (2005) Liszt’s Heroes: An investigation into the Artistic Interdependence of Franz Liszt and his Contemporaries. Masters thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.

Flynn, Claire (1991) The Creative Art of Clara Schumann (1819-1896). Masters thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.

O'Keeffe, John (1988) An Analytical Survey of The Organ Music of Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986). Masters thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.

Graydon, Philip (1999) Modernism in Ireland and its cultural context in the music and writings of Frederick May, Brian Boydell and Aloys Fleischmann. Masters thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.

Robinson, Audrey (1996) Anglo-Irish Music in Cork 1750-1800. Masters thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.

Lillis, Gerard (1994) The French Organ Toccata from 1874 to 1934. Masters thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.

Flynn, Angie (2006) Benjamin Britten’s compositions for children and amateurs: cloaking simplicity behind the veil of sophistication. Masters thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.

Kiely-Ferris, Catherine Mary Pia (2005) The music of three Dublin musical societies of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: The Anacreontic Society, The Antient Concerts Society and The Sons of Handel. A descriptive catalogue. Masters thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.

Ryan, Joseph (1987) The Army School of Music 1922 - 1940. Masters thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.

Brady, Sue (2003) The Songs of Sir John Andrew Stevenson. Masters thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.

Manning, Peter (2014) Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd: A Study. Masters thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.

Shorten, Alison (2016) Prostitution as Power: Selected Works of Lotte Lenya (1910-1940). Masters thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.

Kehoe, Ailbhe (2019) Music in Theatre A portfolio of compositions and accompanying commentary. Masters thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.

Rice, John Kenneth (1993) The Life and Work of Thomas Perry. Masters thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.

O'Connor, Jennifer (2003) Fanny Arthur Robinson and Annie Patterson: The Contribution of Women to Music in Dublin in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century. Masters thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.

Leahy, Anne (1987) William Telford: Organ Builder. Masters thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.

PhD

Parker, Lisa (2009) Robert Prescott Stewart (1825–1894): A Victorian Musician in Dublin. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.

O'Connor, Jennifer (2010) The Role of Women in Music in Nineteenth-Century Dublin. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.

Kenny, Aisling (2010) Josephine Lang’s Goethe, Heine and Uhland Lieder: Contextualizing her Contribution to Nineteenth-Century German Song. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.

Johnson, Fergus (2010) The Earl of Kildare An Opera in 3 Acts (2 Vols). PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.

Ferris, Catherine (2011) The Use of Newspapers as a Source for Musicological Research: A Case Study of Dublin Musical Life 1840–44. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.

Carty, Brian (2010) Movements in Binaural Space: Issues in HRTF Interpolation and Reverberation, with applications to Computer Music. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.

Higgins, Paul (2010) Benjamin Britten: Text Setting as Cultural Custodian in Art Song. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.

Hoban, Piaras (2011) mit-cap-68-kruff for soprano, choir, strings & computer (2009/2011). PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.

Nestor, Emer Patricia (2013) Reinterpreting Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet through Hermeneutic Windows. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.

Glover, John C. (2012) Sinusoids, noise and transients: spectral analysis, feature detection and real-time transformations of audio signals for musical applications. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.

Smith, Eoin (2012) Portfolio of Compositions with Commentaries. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.

Feeley, John (2007) Classical Guitar Music by Irish Composers: Performing Editions and Critical Commentary. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.

Holden, Edward (2014) Charles Valentin Alkan: Interpreting the Composer’s use of Rhythm as Identified in the Dominant Motifs present in the Music for Organ, Pedal-piano and Harmonium. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.

Sherwin, Elaine Marie (2012) An Edition of the Cathedral Works of Sir John Andrew Stevenson. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.

Bridges, Brian (2012) Towards a Perceptually–grounded Theory of Microtonality: issues in sonority, scale construction and auditory perception and cognition. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.

Commins, Adele (2012) Charles Villiers Stanford's Preludes for Piano op.163 and op.179: A Musicological Retrospective (3 volumes). PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.

Yi, Steven (2016) Extensible Computer Music Systems. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.

McGlynn, Patrick (2014) Interaction Design for Digital Musical Instruments. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.

Strahan, Barbara (2013) (De)Constructing Paradigms of Genre: Aesthetics, Identity and Form in Franz Schubert’s Four-Hand Fantasias. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.

Higgins, Emma (2015) The mezzo-soprano onstage and offstage: a cultural history of the voice-type, singers and roles in the French Third Republic (1870–1918). PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.

McCarthy, Darina (2014) Heinrich Bewerunge (1862–1923): A Critical Reassessment of His Life and Influence. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.

Scanlon, Emma (2017) Pianism Reimagined: an analytical inquiry of left-hand piano through the career and commissions of Paul Wittgenstein. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.

Connolly, Brian (2016) Playing the Ear: Non-Linearities of the Inner Ear and their Creative Potential. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.

Byrne, Shane (2018) Portfolio of Electroacoustic Compositions with Commentaries. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.

O'Kelly, Kilian (2020) Portfolio of Compositions. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.

Mullan, Cathal (2018) Poetry Into Song: Word-Music Relations in Settings of Goethe's Faust by Wagner and his Contemporaries (1832–1840). PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.

Halton, Jennifer (2018) Mapping the Cine-Metrololis: Re-defining festival in early modern Florence. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.

Bunzel, Anja (2017) Johanna Kinkel’s Lieder Compositions as a Socio-Political and Cultural Mirror of Her Time: A Reflective Interpretation. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.

Steer, Roslyn (2022) Beyond Boundaries: The Aesthetics of the Scream in the Music of the Second Viennese School. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.

Twomey, Cathal (2020) ‘To Catch the Song’: Word-Setting, Creative Collaboration, and the Reader-Listener in Handel’s English-Language Works. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.

Morrison, Pádruig John Parry (2023) Finding a Contemporary Voice for Gaelic Art Music in Scotland. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.

Power, Conor (2024) Composing America: Patriotism, Mythology, and Piety in the Film Scores of John Williams. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.