Music and Worship Student Publications
Submissions from 2024
Violin Intonation: The Connection between the Violin’s Tuning System and Performance, Marion J. Johnson
German Poetry in Musical Motion, Caden J. Lantz
Deliver Us from Obscurity: How Persecution Shaped William Byrd into One of England’s Finest Composers, Abigail Lilite
The Gift He Gave Us: How W. H. Auden’s Influence Shaped Benjamin Britten into England’s Next Henry Purcell, Abigail Lilite
Making Music in the House of God: How Augustine Influenced Jean Calvin and Martin Luther's Opinions on Musical Worship, Emma N. Ross
Psalms and Saints in the Offices: From Prayerful Praise to Commemorating Cults, Paul Scanlon
Submissions from 2023
How Wagner Landed in a Far Away Galaxy: Examining Film from a Musical Perspective, Elise J. Camillone
Submissions from 2022
The Jubilee Singers: Free or Enslaved?, Micaiah H. Jones
Medieval Methods: Guido D’Arezzo’s Innovative Approaches to Music Education, Lydia C. Kee
Total Artwork: Wagner's Philosophies on Art and Music in the Ring Cycle, Soraya A. Peront
Copland and Communism: Mystery and Mayhem, Emilie Schulze
Joyful, Joyful! The Musical Significance of Beethoven's Ninth, Allison N. Zieg
Submissions from 2021
Re-forming Music: Martin Luther’s Impact on Church Music through the Lutheran Reformation, Soraya Peront
Hildegard: A Trailblazer?, Emilie Schulze
Johannes Brahms’s Horn Trio and Its Unique Place in the Chamber Music Repertoire, Chloë A. Sodonis
Fighting the Philistines: Robert Schumann and the Davidsbündler, Stephen J. White
The Rise of Opera in Monteverdi's Orfeo, Allison N. Zieg
Submissions from 2020
Is La bohѐme a verismo Opera?, Leah P. Bartlam
Music as a Means to Spread Martin Luther’s Message, Emily A. Brubaker
Gesualdo's Late Madrigal Style: Renaissance or Baroque?, Landon K. Cina
Gustav Mahler the Protomodernist, Austin M. Doub
The Compositions of Thomas Tallis: How the English Reformation Informed His Style, Joshua L. Gore
Nuper rosarum flores: The Cathedral Conundrum, Jacy A. Stahlhut
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: A Composer on the Fault Line of Ideological Change, Stephen J. White
Submissions from 2019
Shostakovich and the Memoirs, Hanna Bahorik
An Artist's Prayer, Brian Campbell
Cedarville Review
Emanuel Bach: A Composer ahead of His Time, Tyler Dellaperute
Understanding the Cultural and Nationalistic Impacts of the moguchaya kuchka, Austin M. Doub
The Basel Museum of Music: Instrumental History, Elaina V. Hutton
The Effects of Music Therapy on Individuals Suffering from Psychiatric Disorders: A Literature Review and Look into Future Prospects, Zachary J. Krauss
Music next to Theology: The Impact and Influence of Martin Luther's Reformation on Johann Sebastian Bach, James H. Ryan
A Christian Response to the Impact of Nietzschean Philosophy on Richard Strauss's Also sprach Zarathustra, Amanda N. Staufer
Submissions from 2018
Cedarville Review Artist Spotlight: Calvin Hitchcock, Brandon Best and Calvin Hitchcock
Cedarville Review
An Analysis of Luke Redd on Free Higher Education, Sharri K. Hall
Bach's Flute Music, Sharri K. Hall
The Personal Tragedy in Paul Hindemith's Mathis der Maler, Sharri K. Hall
Boosting the Bugle Boy: The Role of Music in American Patriotism during World War II, Brittany L. Roberts
The Federal Music Project: An American Voice in Depression-Era Music, Audrey S. Rutt
The Unifying Strands: Formalism and Gestalt Theory in the Musical Philosophies of Aristoxenus, Descartes, and Meyer, Amanda N. Staufer
The Battle Between Impeccable Intonation and Maximized Modulation, Timothy M. True
Submissions from 2017
The Doctrine of Affections: Where Art Meets Reason, Sharri K. Hall
The Partimento Tradition in the Shadow of Enlightenment Thought, Deborah Longenecker
From Silence to Golden: The Slow Integration of Instruments into Christian Worship, Jonathan M. Lyons
Next Time Won’t You Sing with Me? The Role of Music Rooted in Oral Tradition as a Resource for Literacy Learning in the Twenty-First Century Classroom, Catherine E. Milliron
French Society Abroad: The Popularization of French Dance throughout Europe, 1600-1750, Adam Paul Rinehart
A Blend of Traditions: The Lute’s Influence on Seventeenth-Century Harpsichord Repertoire, Audrey S. Rutt
J.R.R. Tolkien and the Music of Middle Earth, Emily Sulka
Shakespeare's Philosophy of Music, Emily A. Sulka
Music and the Mind: Music's Healing Powers, Carolyn S. Ticker
Submissions from 2016
It's Instrumental, My Dear Watson: A Collective Investigation of Early Instrumental Practices, Jillissa A. Brummel, Nate Chester, Joshua Drake, Janelle Finley, Josiah D. Keith, Jonathan Lyons, Sarah R. Plumley, Kirsten Saur, and Rachel Stevenson
Birth of the Pipes: The Organ from its Beginnings through the Baroque Era, Joshua D. Drake
From Bows to Sound-Chests: Tracing the Ancestry of the Violin, Janelle R. Finley
Casting the Bigger Shadow: The Methods and Business of Petrucci vs. Attaingnant, Sean A. Kisch
Coursing with Coils: The Only Orchestral Instrument Harder Than the French Horn, Sarah R. Plumley
Rhetorical Analysis, Eleanor Raquet
The Problem with Creative Writing, Robert B. Rhodes Jr.
The Interwoven Evolution of the Early Keyboard and Baroque Culture, Rachel Stevenson
The Effect of Richard Wagner's Music and Beliefs on Hitler's Ideology, Carolyn S. Ticker
The Misrepresented American?, Sophia Zervas
Submissions from 2015
He Started the Whole World Singing a Song, Brian R. Cates
Expression Surpassing Words: Gorecki’s Symphony No. 3, Op. 36 “Sorrowful Songs”, Alyssa K. Griffith
Give My Regards to the Book, Kevin A. Hicks
Oral Transmission: A Marriage of Music, Language, Tradition, and Culture, Emma E. Patterson
Development and Dissemination: Deliberations on Spanish Renaissance Music, Lindsey E. Pfeifer
Ruling the Market: How Venice Dominated the Early Music Printing World, Elizabeth M. Poore
Submissions from 2014
Sing to the Lord a New Song: John Calvin and the Spiritual Discipline of Metrical Psalmody, Brandon J. Bellanti
Learning to Play: Cognitive and Physical Development of Children and the Requirements of Playing the Piano, Amy Carmichael
Born to Conquer: The Fortepiano’s Revolution of Keyboard Technique and Style, Rachel A. Lowrance
A New Approach: The Feminist Musicology Studies of Susan McClary and Marcia J. Citron, Kimberly Reitsma
Ancient Worship Wars: An Investigation of Conflict in Church Music History, Michael J. Wood
Submissions from 2013
Three Kings and the Bright Star of Fame, Emalyn J. Bullis
On the Power of Music: Using 'Cosmos' and 'Anthropos' to Articulate a Holistic Approach to Discussing the Power of Music, Brian R. Cates
Instruction, Devotion, and Affection: Three Roles of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, Rachel A. Lowrance
A Bridge over Troubled Water: Le tombeau de Couperin, Anne Morris
Altered but Not Silenced: How Shostakovich Retained His Voice as an Artist despite the Demands of a Dictator, Hope R. Strayer
From Neumes to Notes: The Evolution of Music Notation, Hope R. Strayer
Submissions from 2012
William Byrd: Political and Recusant Composer, Ariel Foshay Bacon
William Byrd: Political and Recusant Composer, Ariel Foshay Bacon
A Walk through an American Classic, Emma Gage
Sacred German Music in the Thirty Years’ War, Brandi Hoffer
The Influence of the Unaccompanied Bach Suites, Meredith Lawrence
Béla Bartók: The Father of Ethnomusicology, David Taylor Nelson
Music in the Third Reich, DeLora J. Neuschwander
Guido of Arezzo and His Influence on Music Learning, Anna J. Reisenweaver
Improvisation: Performer as Co-composer, Kyle Schick
Improvisation: Performer as Co-composer, Kyle Schick
Submissions from 2011
The Theory of Silence, David R. Kauffman
From Mozart to Lookout: The Flute’s Evolution from 1800, Anna J. Reisenweaver
The Development of the Flute as a Solo Instrument from the Medieval to the Baroque Era, Anna J. Reisenweaver
Così fan tutte: Brilliance or Buffoonery?, Sarah Whitfield
Submissions from 2010
The Rhetoric of the Troubadours, Mary C. Abraham
The Journey of the Song Cycle: From “The Iliad” to “American Idiot", Katrina Gingerich
Dance and Its Importance in Bach’s Suites for Solo Cello, Audrey Hebson
Conservative Radical: Martin Luther’s Influence on Congregational Singing, Jonathan T. Knight
Sing On, Ntsikana: The Story of Christian Music among the Xhosa People of South Africa, Jonathan T. Knight
Music: Its Expressive Power and Moral Significance, Sarah Whitfield
