2024

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

2023

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

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

Maciej Kierzkowski: The history of brass bands of Poland

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

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)

2019

David Force: A 'Holding, Uniting-Constant Friend': The organ in seventeenth-century English domestic music-making

Lucinda Cradduck: Spirituality in the Music of Edmund Rubbra

Kerri-Anne Edinburgh: A Study of the Experience of Listening to Music in World War Two Britain

2018

David Hammond: British Army Music in the Interwar Years: Culture, Performance, and Influence

Jessika Rittstieg: Continuity and Change in Eugène Ysaÿe’s Six Sonatas, Op. 27, for Solo Violin

Martyn Strachan: Style in the Music of Arthur Sullivan: An Investigation

2017

Andrew Cusworth: Welsh Folk Music of the 19th and early 20th centuries

2016

Ben Byram-Wigfield: The Sacred Music of Antonio Lotti: Idiom and Influence of a Venetian Master

Owen Coggins: Drone Metal and Mysticism (co-supervised with Religious Studies)

Anthony Prechtl: Adaptive music generation for computer games

2015

Alan Karass: Music and the Negotiation of Identity at the International Festival of the Sahara in Douz, Tunisia

Richard King: Contemporary Catholic Liturgical Song