Music Library

Dissertations and Dissertations-in-Progress

Archive of Dissertation Abstracts in Music (Royal Holloway)
Their introductory page (scroll to bottom) includes key links to additional European dissertation inventories online.

B.U. Community Information:
Be sure to consult the Research Guide for Writers of Theses and Dissertations for your submission requirements; prepared by thesis coordinator Brendan McDermott.

Dissertations (and theses) Full Text via the BPL -- MA residents only.
Via the Boston Public Library, Massachusetts residents can now apply online for the eCard which allows remote access to all digitized theses and dissertations through the online resources pages of the Boston Public Library network.

Dissertation Abstracts 1861+ ChRiv-px*
An index of doctoral dissertations from accredited North American institutions and over 200 institutions elsewhere. To date, includes abstracts for doctoral work since 1980 and masters work since 1988, and cites masters' theses since 1980.
* non-subscribers may access the two most recent years' entries for free from this site.

Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology (A.M.S.)
Register your topic here; this site Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology (Cecil Adkins, ed.), a print publication of the American Musicological Society begun in 1951. A retrospective online database of dissertations as compiled under Adkins is in preparation.

"Im Jahre ... angenommene musikwissenschaftliche Dissertationen' appears annually within the journal Die Musikforschung (ML 5 . F48, issued quarterly). Works-in-progress in the German language and based from insitutions in Austria, Germany and Switzerland are announced.

MTO Dissertation Index
Compiled by the Society for Music Theory, and published in their Music Theory Online; compiles selected newer works chiefly in theory and analysis, includes abstracts.