Hello, Nancy!
Ralf properly sent you to Doctoral Dissertations in
Musicology at Indiana University. It is an attempt to
make a comprehsnive listing of completed dissertations,
and those in progress. The coverage is
international, and I have tried to assist my former
student, Tom Mathiesen the administrator, in seeing that
the listing for lute is as complete as possible. If you
know of any dissertations on lute (or related
instruments) that are not listed, you should urge the
authors to register their works. It only takes a
few minutes (seconds?). I've added quite a few from the
early 20th century and late 19th, which were written
prior to the establishment of DDM around 1950.
Also a new resource is available from ProQuest (formerly
University Microfilms International). If your
institution or library subscribes to Dissertation
Abstracts (a division of ProQuest), it is possible to
read COMPLETE UMI/ProQuest dissertations on-line and
download
individual pages or the entire dissertation FOR
FREE!!!!!!!!!
If not a subscriber, you can always
order the dissertation in paper or hard cover (See
Dissertation Express). The ProQuest listings are not as
complete as DDM, because in the past not all
universities required their dissertation to be made
available from UMI. That
was especially the case with some Ivy League
universities
when UMI started up (Hmmmm?). By now almost all US
universities, and many foreign ones as well,
require that their dissertations be made available
through UMI/ProQuest .
ProQuest has offices all over the globe, so you can
order locally.
One day ALL KNOWLEDGE will be on the Internet. There
was a
proposal announced just yesterday for such a database,
with world-wide coverage! UNESCO and the
Library of Congress are involved, so that is an
indication of the seriousness of the project. One which
surely will take centuries to complete.
Their goal is "TO PRESERVE AND MAKE ACCESSIBLE THE
MEMORY OF THE WORLD" Awesome. (Actually it's a bit
frightening.) Well . . . See this
announcement:
http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=40277&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
AJN.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nancy Carlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 1:10 AM
Subject: [LUTE] dissertations on lute topics
Does anyone know if there is a list anywhere of PHD
Disseratations on
lute topics, especially the ones that have come out
more
recently. The older ones find their way into books
and articles as
footnotes but I am interested in what newer ones are
out there.
Nancy Carlin
Nancy Carlin Associates
P.O. Box 6499
Concord, CA 94524 USA
phone 925/686-5800 fax 925/680-2582
web site - www.nancycarlinassociates.com
Administrator THE LUTE SOCIETY OF AMERICA
web site - http://LuteSocietyofAmerica.org
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