Thomas Reiner is a composer of highly engaging music that is concerned with questions of meaning, emotion, symbols, musical time, psychoanalysis, human existence and artistic freedom in a postmodern world.
Completed Higher Degree by Research Projects
(as main supervisor unless otherwise indicated)
2017 Samuel James McAuliffe, MA (Music Performance, 100% research), Folio and Exegesis: “Responding to sounds of the environment: Developing strategies for improvised music.”
2016 Michael Spicer, PhD (Music Composition, 100% research), Folio and Exegesis: “A portfolio of compositions based on trajectories through musical state spaces.”
2016 Joseph O’Connor, PhD (Music Performance, 100% research), Folio and Exegesis: “Developing approaches to jazz composition and improvisation informed by the dissonant counterpoint methods of Charles Seeger and Ruth Crawford.”
2015 Jane Hammond, PhD (Music Composition, 100% research), Folio and Exegesis: “Dancing with Ghosts: The topic of the pastoral explored in a folio of music compositions.”
2015 Helen Catanchin, MA (Music Performance, 100% research), Recital and Exegesis: “An exploration of composed and improvised wordless singing in performance: Skills for the 21st century contemporary jazz singer.”
2014 Paul Williamson, PhD (Music Performance, 100% research), Recital and Exegesis: “Developing Technical Control, Ensemble Interaction, and Flow within Jazz Performance.”
2013 Tony Toppi, MA (Music Composition, 100% research), Folio and Exegesis: “An Investigation into Narrative as a Compositional Approach.”
2013 Yitzhak Yedid, PhD (Music Composition, 100% research), Folio and Exegesis: “Methods of integrating elements of classical Arabic music and Arabic-influenced Jewish music with contemporary Western classical music.”
2011 Katrina Dowling, MA (Musicology, 100% research), Associate Supervisor (20%), Thesis: “Stylistic Correspondence in the Music for Solo recorder and Piano or Harpsichord composed 1939-1989 by Gordon Jacob, Edmund Rubbra, Lennox Berkeley, Arnold Cooke, Malcolm Arnold and Alan Ridout.”
2010 Stephanie Rocke, MA (Musicology, 100% research), Associate Supervisor (20%), Thesis: “The Armed Man: A Mass for a Secular Age.”
2009 Gregory Wernert, MA (Music Composition, 100% research), Folio and Exegesis: “Music and emotions: an investigation into the musical representation of the identified emotional content of poetic text.”
2008 Anthony Pateras, PhD (Music Composition, 100% research), Folio and Exegesis: “Exploratory combinations of composition, improvisation and electronics based on relationships between form and timbre.”
2007 Russell Goodwin, PhD (Music Composition, 100% research), Folio and Exegesis: “Furthering the understanding of indeterminacy in music composition.”
2007 Peter Joseph Myers, PhD (Music Composition, 100% research), Folio and Exegesis: “Directed harmonic and melodic motion, pitch structures and compositional determinants: a folio of original compositions and a critical commentary.”
2007 Philip Czaplowski, PhD (Music Composition, 100% research), Folio and Exegesis: “The use of multiple styles as a compositional approach.”
2007 Robin Fox, PhD (Music Composition, 100% research), Folio and Exegesis: “Contingency and space as structural concerns in a folio of interactive electroacoustic compositions.” This completion is significant in that it is the first PhD completion in the field of music composition at Monash University.
2007 Jane Hammond, MA (Music Composition, 100% research), folio of compositions: “An Exploration of the Possibilities of Generating Music from Text.”
2006 Melita White, MA (Music Composition, 100% research), folio of compositions: “Music Composition as an Expression of Research in Feminist Theory.”
2003 Nissim Ben-Salamon, MA (Music Composition, 100% research), folio of compositions: “A Folio of Original Music Compositions that Explores the Integration and Development of Derived Materials, Including a Painting, African Rhythms, Synesthesia, Poetry and Pre-recorded Audio Files.”
2003 Anthony Pateras, MA (Music Composition, 100% research), Folio and Exegesis: “A Folio of Compositions Exploring Contemporary Practices in Notation, Improvisation, Live Electronic Performance and Music for Film.” This completion is significant in that it is the first Masters by Research completion in the field of music composition at Monash University.
2003 Russell Goodwin, MA (Musicology, 66% research), thesis: “Locating the Links between John Cage and the Early Avant-Garde (1909-1933): A Comparative Study.”
2003 Deniz Braun, MA (Musicology, 100% research), Associate Supervisor (20%), thesis: “Ecstatic Consonance – A Third Aesthetic in Scriabin’s Late Piano Works.”
2002 Robin Fox, MA (Musicology, 100% research), thesis: “Aspects of experimental music in Melbourne: 1975-1979, focussing on the La Trobe University Music Department and the Clifton Hill Community Music Centre.”
2002 Philip Wheatland, MA (66% research), original music software application and written commentary. This completion is significant in that it is the first Masters by 66% Research completion in which the thesis submission was in the form of original software.
2001 Anthony Hughes, MA (Musicology, 100% research), thesis: “Keith Humble’s Twelve-Tone Compositional Approach in Eight Bagatelles for Piano Solo.” La Trobe University (invited as external main supervisor).
1999 Darren Howard, MA (Musicology, 66% research), thesis: “An examination and analysis of two Australian new music theatre works: Liza Lim’s The Oresteia and David Chesworth’s The Two Executioners.”