Recently completed students

2024

Heather Armsby: The role of women in the British brass band

Samantha Bassler: "The Most Splended Period of English Music". Sir Richard Terry and the Reception History of William Byrd's Latin-Texted Music in Britain during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Maciej Kierzkowski: The history of brass bands of Poland

2023

Natalie Burton: The marriage of music and poetry: structure in the twentieth-century English song cycle

Tristan Harkcom: Wagnerian Wounds: Trauma and Wagner’s post-1849 Works

2022

Michael Busk: The early nineteenth-century music festivals in Manchester and the industrial north-west of England

Sarah Clarke: An Instrument in Comparative Oblivion? The Guitar and Amateur Players in Victorian England

2021

Amanda Ashworth: Associations with the visual arts in the music of Debussy: from Pre-Raphaelitism to Art Nouveau

Chris Grey: A theological aesthetic of musical beauty, drawing on the notion of poetic knowledge in the work of Jacques Maritain (1882-1973) (co-supervised with Philosophy): 

2020

Angelo Pinto: The Symphony as a Novel: Mahler’s Tenth

Daniel Gouly: Soundcloud, sampling and sonic experimentation: community in hip-hop's online underground

Tom Hewitt: Cyborg Music: A Future Musicotechnographic Aesthetic (co-supervised with Philosophy)