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Kyle Conway, Department of Theatre and Dance, CVPA OUTSTANDING THESIS/DISSERTATION AWARD 1ST PRIZE THESIS - HUMANITIES/FINE ARTS The Graduate School is pleased to announce these awards in recognition of the quality of theses and dissertations that our graduate students are producing. As our guide for the criteria and nomination cycle, we have adopted the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) outstanding dissertation award model. Our awards will be monetary and the applicable dissertation award winner will also be nominated to CGS as part of their annual competition to recognize an outstanding dissertation representing original work that makes an unusually significant contribution to the discipline being considered that year. "Foremost, Kyle's thesis is the first full-length (i.e., longer than a paper or an article) study on this important playwright. Eno, who has (in)famously been labeled "Samuel Beckett for the Jon Stewart generation," is a Guggenheim Fellowship recipient and his play Thom Pain (based on nothing) was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in Drama. Kyle is, to the best of my knowledge, the first to approach Eno's work from multiple perspectives: as literature; as literature demanding embodiment; as philosophy; as language problem; and as seemingly anti-theatrical theatre." -Dr. Chansky |
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David Forrest, School of Music, CVPA STUDENT PAPER AWARDS IN MUSIC THEORY David Forrest, candidate for the PhD in Fine Arts with an emphasis in Music Theory at TTU, won both student paper awards at the joint meeting for the Texas Society for Music Theory and the South Central Society for Music Theory for his paper "Twentieth-Century Organum: Parallel Harmonization in the Music of Benjamin Britten." The two societies had separate program committees and therefore each independently came up with their own decision. The Texas Society for Music Theory and the South Central Society for Music Theory are two separate organizations who held a joint conference this year (Feb. 6-7 at the University of Houston). Research papers were submitted to both societies by students and professors from universities across North America. Paper selections for both societies are blind which means the program committees do not know the name or student status of submitting authors. Furthermore, David's research will be published in the Spring 2010 issue of Music Theory Spectrum, the premier research journal in the area of music theory. The title of the article is "Prolongation in the Choral Music of Benjamin Britten." We are very proud of David's outstanding accomplishment! |
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Ian Rollins, School of Music, CVPA OUTSTANDING THESIS/DISSERTATION AWARD 2nd PRIZE DISSERTATION - HUMANITIES/FINE ARTS The Graduate School is pleased to announce these awards in recognition of the quality of theses and dissertations that our graduate students are producing. As our guide for the criteria and nomination cycle, we have adopted the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) outstanding dissertation award model. Our awards will be monetary and the applicable dissertation award winner will also be nominated to CGS as part of their annual competition to recognize an outstanding dissertation representing original work that makes an unusually significant contribution to the discipline being considered that year. "For this document, Ian is both providing a fundamental re-evaluation of musical style in the period, but is also conducting extensive oral-history and interview research which has never before been undertaken on this topic. His research thus fills gaps in both analysis and the basic factual data about 1950s Latin jazz. The document addresses issues of class, race, gender, economics and music in the volatile decade of the 1950s, drawing upon methodologies from semiotics, oral history, ethnomusicology and musicology." - Dr. Smith |