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Alessandri, E. (2014) Evaluating recorded performance: an investigation of music criticism through Gramophone reviews of Beethoven piano sonata recordings. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Aljabri, K. (2017) Exploring strategies for developing Western classical music education in the Sultanate of Oman. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Ascenso, S. (2022) Musicians’ wellbeing: a cross-sectional investigation within the framework of Positive Psychology. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Aufegger, L. (2016) The investigation of musicians’ physiological and psychological responses to performance stress. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Austen, C. (2020) 'I’m not injured, this is just my life': an exploration of the experiences of conservatoire students with chronic playing-related musculoskeletal disorders. Masters thesis, Royal College of Music.

B

Barton, D. C. M. (2020) The autonomy of private instrumental teachers: its effect on valid knowledge construction, curriculum design, and quality of teaching and learning. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Betts, N. (2020) The personal and social impact of non-accredited music education in prison: a transformative mixed methods approach to research in custodial settings. Masters thesis, Royal College of Music.

Bowen, D. K. (2022) The bass clarinet in bassoon form: its history, repertoire and acoustics. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Bower, B. (2016) The Crystal Palace Saturday Concerts, 1865-1879: a case study of the nineteenth-century programme note. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Bradford, N. (2021) What is the effect of active music participation on well-being among adults with Down's syndrome? Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

C

Casey, E. (2020) Exploring the perceived impact of extensive training in the Alexander technique on the day-to-day lives of professional musicians. Masters thesis, Royal College of Music.

Chen, A. (2022) Synthrumentation, revisited: towards a new method of additively synthesising speech in acoustic instrumental contexts. Masters thesis, Royal College of Music.

Christensen, A. M. (2018) The solo for a violin: a new perspective on the Italian violinists in London in the eighteenth century. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

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Delgado, I. (2020) How can musicians make music with people with dementia?: an investigation of musician-led musical practices for those living with dementia. Masters thesis, Royal College of Music.

Destounis, K. (2019) The solo piano works of Theodore Antoniou in the context of contemporary Greek piano repertoire: a performer’s approach. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

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Falconer, E. (2022) The case for Casella: towards new methods of understanding and interpreting the Italian Modernist pianist-composer. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Feshareki, S. (2019) A quest to find ‘real': September 2014 – February 2017. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Fonte, V. (2020) Reconsidering memorisation in the context of non-tonal piano music. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

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Garcia-Tomas, R. (2019) Interdisciplinarity: an expansion of my creative approach. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Gentili, B. (2019) The invention of the ‘modern’ voice: changing aesthetics of vocal registration in Italian opera singing 1870-1925. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Gibbs, F. J. (2018) The Royal Albert Hall: a case study of an evolving cultural venue. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Guillaume-Castel, F. (2024) 'Noble throughout': the transformations of the pedal harp in Paris and London, between 1749 and 1811. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

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Hexel, V. (2014) Understanding contextual agents and their impact on recent Hollywood film music practice. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Hillier, E. (2022) Composing with timbre: saturation, (dis)integration and space. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Hlavacsek, T. (2024) The piano music of Carl Goldmark (1830–1915). Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Ho, A. (2024) Reflecting and reimagining transnational Chinese identity through composition. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Huang, W. L. (2019) An investigation into Taiwanese music college students' self-management of musical performance anxiety. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

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Illean Finnis, L. (2021) Vanishing points: a personal approach to non-tempered tuning. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

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Lam, C. Y. (2023) In the process of becoming: an ethnographic case study of the development of community music practice in Hong Kong. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Lam, H. C. F. (2024) An investigation of coping, resilience and self-compassion among conservatoire music students in the United Kingdom. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Lapshin, K. (2019) Expressive inflection: applying the principles of Sergey Rachmaninoff’s performance in my own practice. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Liu, Y. (2019) An exploration towards the enrichment of a personal musical language in musical composition. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Low, J. (2020) A pianist’s perspective on song transposition, focusing on Robert Schumann’s Liederreihe nach Kerner Op. 35. Masters thesis, Royal College of Music.

Lucas, N. (2020) Informing performance of Prokofiev's piano music: researching the musical score. Masters thesis, Royal College of Music.

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Mallia, S. (2024) Unsettling ‘necessities’: a poststructural analysis of curricular policy and its implementation in state secondary level music education in Malta. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Mannion, R. (2019) Mise en Abyme: immersive performance and composition practices through interdisciplinarity, collaboration and music technology. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Mantovani, L. (2019) Ferdinand Rebay and the reinvention of guitar chamber music. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

McHugh, E. R. (2018) The vocality of the dramatic soprano voice in Richard Strauss's Salome and Elektra. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Morgan, F. (2020) Common cents: the experiences of low-income students in high-profile conservatoires. Masters thesis, Royal College of Music.

Morrish, N. (2021) Braiding time: in search of sounds from within. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

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Nardacci, F. (2024) New perspectives on the Italian instrumental music renaissance over the long nineteenth century. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Neergaard, B. (2018) Schumann as aspiring pianist: technique, sonority, and composition. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

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Paolantonio, P. (2022) Music in the community: investigating the effects of group music making programmes on older adults and higher education music students. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

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Querns Langley, K. E. (2021) Reconstructing the tenor ‘pharyngeal voice’: a historical and practical investigation. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

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Ramos, J. (2024) Technology and composition — an autoethnography on the influence of electronics on orchestration practice. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Razumovskaya, M. (2014) Heinrich Neuhaus: aesthetics and philosophy of an interpretation. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Rees, C. (2014) Collaboration in practice: developing a repertoire of extended techniques for the Kingma System alto and bass flute. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

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Scotting, R. (2018) Unknown Senesino: Francesco Bernardi’s vocal profile and dramatic portrayal, 1700-1740. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

See, N. H. (2024) How pianists programme lesser-known solo repertoire: an autoethnography through Clara Schumann’s Sonata and interviews with four pianists. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Sekar, S. P. (2024) Liveness, Liveliness, aLiveness: an empirical study on audience experience in Film-with-Live-Orchestra concerts. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

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Taylor, K. A. C. (2021) An investigation of musicians' goals as motivators and regulators. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Taylor-West, L. (2023) Modularity, technology, and geometry in compositional practice: a portfolio of original compositions. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Thompson, T. D. (2016) The vocality of Sibyl Sanderson in Massenet’s Manon and Esclarmonde. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

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Verschuren, W. (2023) Giants of the dulcian family: an exploration of the doppelfagott and the fagotcontra in music of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

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Waddell, G. (2019) Time to decide: a study of evaluative decision-making in music performance. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Windle, G. (2019) The impact of engagement with the arts on the health and wellbeing of hospital inpatients with dementia. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

Wong, M. H. Y. (2023) Arrangements as a creative tool towards the performance of J. S. Bach’s Six Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin BWV 1001–1006. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

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Zammit, B. B. (2024) Preparing to perform: professional musicians' pre-performance routines and strategies. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.

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Štšura, M. (2021) Translating twenty-first-century orchestral scores for the piano: transcription, reduction and performability. Doctoral thesis, Royal College of Music.