This is a collection of faculty-submitted examples of outstanding academic work by the students in the Conservatory of Music.

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Submissions from 2025

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Encanto’s ‘Colombian’ Soundtrack: A Diffuse Charm Unveiled Through Analysis, Research Paper, Manuela Wanumen Jiménez.

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Looks Like Gibberish to Me: An Analysis of Dyslexia, its Musical Counterpart and the Education System, Research Paper, Chase Hogan.

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The Aesthetic Revolution in 20th-Century Classical Music and Its Perceptual Effects on Listeners: A Cognitive-Historical Perspective, Research Paper, Derek Lund.

Submissions from 2023

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Precursor of Paganini: The Solo Violin Caprices of Pietro Antonio Locatelli, Research Paper, Amelia Dixon.

Submissions from 2021

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Cryptocurrency as a Positive Force of Change in the Classical Music Industry, Research Paper, Ava Figliuzzi.

Beethoven's Humor in Piano Sonata 16, Op. 31 no. 1, Video, Janna Peña.

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“A Local! A Monster!”: Harmful Tropes of Indigeneity in Thomas Adès’s The Tempest, Research Paper, Rosie Rogers.

Submissions from 2020

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The Pianist versus the Smart Piano, Research Paper, Janna Peña.

Submissions from 2019

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The Aulos and Tibia: Variation Across the Ancient Mediterranean’s Principal Woodwind, Course Assignment, Gerhardt W. Arosemena-Ott