Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Rochester, 2008. / Includes vita and abstract. Accompanies: Concerto grosso for string quartet and string orchestra / by Christopher Clay Winders. Includes bibliographical references. Digitized version available online via the Sibley Music Library, Eastman School of Music http://hdl.handle.net/1802/7600

Thesis (Ph. D.)--UCLA, 2008. / Vita. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 192-201).

Thesis (doctoral) - Universität, Münster, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references.

Horace H. Work's thesis (M.A.)--Colorado College, 1964. / Typescript. Photocopy. [Ann Arbor] : University of Michigan Library, [1970?] 29 cm. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 72-73).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Yale University, 1988. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 317-319).

Thesis--Indiana University. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Arizona, 1982. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 226-236).

Thesis (M.M.)--University of North Texas, 2006. / System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Includes bibliographical references (p. 54-55).

Previous research has indicated that musicians and bilinguals demonstrate potential cognitive benefits due to their long-term experience with music and two or more languages, respectively. For the present study, such a benefit is examined in the context of auditory inhibitory control. An auditory version of the Stroop task involving pitch and language (as used by Bialystok & DePape, 2009) was used and expanded upon. Separate groups of monolinguals, monolingual musicians, bilinguals, and tone-language bilinguals were established to investigate not only musical and bilingual experience in general, but also to determine if there is an effect of type of language on auditory inhibitory control. Additionally, a contour-based auditory Stroop task (with rising and falling tone patterns) was implemented to investigate a different dimension of auditory perception. Differences in reaction time were measured as indicators of inhibitory control. The results suggest an advantage for monolingual musicians, while a possible language effect may be detrimental to performance for bilinguals on language-based tasks. The results indicate possible shared underlying cognitive resources given the apparent transferable auditory processing benefits for musicians. The implications of these results are discussed, and future directions are proposed to address factors such as age, behavioral vs. physiological effects, and whether the performance of bilinguals is due to the nature of being bilingual, or taking the task in a non-native language.

"Transformations" is a three-movement work that is approximately 17'30" in duration and is scored for full orchestra. The piece is a tone poem and employs extended tonal pitch content. Each of the three movements is based upon a cell of planing intervals: the cell of I. Molto Moderato consists of two parallel fifths played by the double basses; the cell of II. Adagio is three intervals (a seventh, third, and fourth) sounded first by the violins; and the cell of III. Allegretto is four intervals (a sixth followed by three fourths) played by the bassoons, violas, and double basses. The planing motifs, which evoke both medieval and contemporary popular styles, recur throughout the piece with varied pitch content (including inversions) and in a variety of orchestrations (e.g. in "transformations," as implied by the title).