Guitar Dissertation Database
| Author | Dissertation Title | Degree | Institution | Year | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| McCallie, Michael | Survey of the Solo Guitar Works Written for Julian Bream | Doctor of Music | Florida State University | 2015 | Full-text |
| Johnson, Zachary | Solo Guitar Works of Sir Richard Rodney Bennett | Doctor of Music | Florida State University | 2011 | Full-text |
| Boston, Christopher | Canadian Works Written for the Toronto International Guitar Festival | Doctor of Music | Florida State University | 2020 | Full-text |
| Yerby, Jon Paul | An Introduction to Figured Bass Accompaniment on the Classical Guitar | Doctor of Music | Florida State University | 2012 | Full-text |
| Logan, Philip Eugene | Recording the Classical Guitar: A Documentation and Sound Analysis of Great Classical Guitar Recordings with a Guide for Sonic Emulation | Doctor of Music | Florida State University | 2019 | Full-text |
| Johnson, Jacob | Unveiling Castaldi: Arranging and Performing the Theorbo Music of Bellerofonte Castaldi on Guitar | Doctor of Music | Florida State University | 2022 | Full-text |
| Tompkins, Daniel C | Early Seventeenth-Century Harmonic Practice: A Corpus Study of Tonality, Modality, and Harmonic Function in Italian Secular Song with Baroque Guitar Accompaniment in Alfabeto Tablature | PhD | Florida State University | 2017 | Full-text |
| Manderville, Kevin | Manuel Ponce and the Suite in A Minor: Its Historical Significance and an Examination of Existing Editions | Doctor of Music | Florida State University | 2006 | Full-text |
| Kossler, Adam | A Historical and Critical Analysis of 36 Valses di Difficolta Progressiva, Op. 63, by Luigi Legnani | Doctor of Music | Florida State University | 2012 | Full-text |
| Pickup, Shawn Michael | Takemitsu’s Solo Guitar Music Inspired by Visual Art: Informed and Imaginative Interpretation and Performance | Doctor of Musical Arts | University of Toronto | 2023 | Full-text |
| Dunn, Alexander | Style and Development in the Theorbo Works of Robert de Visée: An Introductory Study | PhD | University of California | 1989 | Full-text |
| Torres, Héctor Alfonso | Transcribing from the Baroque Guitar to the Classical Guitar: A Critical Edition of François Campion's (c1685-1747) Sonatina in D Major | Doctor of Musical Arts | University of North Texas | 2021 | Full-text |
| Ramjattan, Daniel Michael | Music Performance Anxiety on the Classical Guitar: Expert Strategies in Psychology and Pedagogy | Doctor of Musical Arts | University of Toronto | 2022 | Full-text |
| Jones, Lindsay | Music by the Ducat: Giuliani's Guitar and Vienna's Musical Markets, 1806-1819 | PhD | University of Toronto | 2020 | Full-text |
| Crawford, Brent Michael | In Pursuit of Guitar Excellence: The Effects of a Multifaceted Approach to Performance Training | Doctor of Musical Arts | University of Toronto | 2018 | Full-text |
| McFadden, Jeffrey | Fretboard Harmony for University Study: Method and Historical Context | Doctor of Musical Arts | University of Toronto | 2010 | Full-text |
| Gallardo, Gonzalo | Alternatives in Guitar Notation: Towards a practical implementation of clef and score reading on the guitar | Doctor of Music | Florida State University | 2011 | Full-text |
| Ciulei, Silviu Octavian | Flamenco Guitar Techniques in the Music of Joaquin Rodrigo | Doctor of Music | Florida State University | 2013 | Full-text |
| Beavers, Sean | Homage in the Solo Guitar Music of Roland Dyens | Doctor of Music | Florida State University | 2006 | Full-text |
| Moore, Jimmy Everett | Significance of Justin Holland's Modern Method for the Guitar | Doctor of Music | Florida State University | 2009 | Full-text |
| Morey, Michael J. | A Pedagogical and Analytical Study of Dušan Bogdanović’s Polyrhythmic and Polymetric Studies for Guitar | Doctor of Musical Arts | University of North Texas | 2011 | Full-text |
| Smith, Jay | An Overview and Performance Guide to Manuel Ponce's Sonata III for Solo Guitar | Doctor of Musical Arts | University of North Texas | 2006 | Full-text |
| Amelkina-Vera, Olga | Solo lyra viol music of Tobias Hume (c. 1579-1645): Historical context and transcription for modern guitar | Doctor of Musical Arts | University of North Texas | 2008 | Full-text |
| Lang, Matthias | Transcription of Baroque Works for Classical Guitar: J S Bach's Sonata in D Minor (Bwv 964) As Model | Doctor of Musical Arts | University of North Texas | 2013 | Full-text |
| Todd, Richard | The Sarabandes from J. S. Bach's Six Suites for Solo Cello: An Analysis and Interpretive Guide for the Modern Guitarist | Doctor of Musical Arts | University of North Texas | 2007 | Full-text |
| Lee, Chris | Establishing Editorial Principles to Create a Performance Edition of Selections From Appunti Op 210 By Mario Castelnuovo-tedesco | Doctor of Musical Arts | University of North Texas | 2012 | Full-text |
| Quantz, Michael O. | Practical Aspects of Playing Domenico Scarlatti's Keyboard Sonatas on the Guitar, a Lecture Recital, together with Three Recitals of Selected Works by W.A. Mozart, M. Ponce, A. Vivaldi, J.S. Bach, J. Turina and Others | Doctor of Musical Arts | University of North Texas | 1994 | Full-text |
| Gavito, Cory Michael | Carlo Milanuzzi's Quarto Scherzo and the Climate of Venetian Popular Music in the 1620s | Master of Music | University of North Texas | 2001 | Full-text |
| Walker, William J. (William Jared) | The Fantasias of John Dowland: An Analysis | Master of Music | University of North Texas | 1986 | Full-text |
| Li, Zhi | How a Schenkerian Analysis May Inform the Interpretation and Performance of J. S. Bach's Lute Music on the Guitar Using Selective Movements of Bach Lute Suite No. 4 in E Major (BWV1006A) as a Demonstration | Doctor of Musical Arts | University of North Texas | 2020 | Full-text |
| Rodriguez, Sergio | Comparison of the Méthode Pour La Guitare by Fernando Sor with the Méthode Complète Pour La Guitare Par Ferdinand Sor, Rédigée Et Augmentée De Nombreux Exemples Et Leçons Suivis D'une Notice Sur La 7e Corde by Napoléon Coste | Doctor of Musical Arts | University of North Texas | 2017 | Full-text |
| Zuhdi, Nabeel | Adaptation and Validation of the Athletic Identity Measurement Scale for Use with Musicians | PhD | University of North Texas | 2022 | Full-text |
| Burns, Bryan K. | Johann Sebastian Bach's Partita for Solo Flute, BWV 1013 Transcribed and Arranged for Guitar: A Musico-Rhetorical Performance Guide | Doctor of Musical Arts | University of North Texas | 2022 | Full-text |
| Lochbaum, Stephen | An Overview and Performance Guide to the 10 Etudes for Guitar by Giulio Regondi | Doctor of Musical Arts | University of North Texas | 2019 | Full-text |
| Daniel, Andrew | Two Harpsichord Sonatas by Antonio Soler: Analysis and Transcription for Solo Guitar | Doctor of Musical Arts | University of North Texas | 2016 | Full-text |
| Budasz, Rogerio | The five-course guitar (viola) in Portugal and Brazil in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries | PhD | University of Southern California | 2001 | Full-text |
| Treadwell, Nina Kathleen | The chitarra spagnola and Italian monody, 1589 to circa 1650 | Master of Arts | University of Southern California | 1995 | Full-text |
| Ozmo, Zak | German lute concertos of the galant era from B-Br MS II 4089 | Master of Arts | University of Southern California | 2003 | Full-text |
| Kinsey, Avril | Music for classical guitar by South African composers : a historical survey, notes on selected works and a general catalogue | Master of Music | University of Cape Town | 2009 | Full-text |
| Vishnick, Martin Lawrence | A Survey of Extended Techniques on the Classical Six-String Guitar with Appended Studies in New Morphological Notation | PhD | City University London | 2014 | Full-text |
| Vincens, Guilherme Caldeira Loss | The Arrangements of Roland Dyens and Sérgio Assad: Innovations in Adapting Jazz Standards and Jazz-influenced Popular Works to the Solo Classical Guitar | Doctor of Musical Arts | University of Arizona | 2009 | Full-text |
| Lazo, Alejandro | Contemporary Mexican Classical Guitar Music at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century: Selected Compositions 1988-2003 | Doctor of Musical Arts | University of Arizona | 2008 | Full-text |
| Rosvoll, Lars | Fernando Sor's Evolution as a Performer and Composer as Reflected in the Revisions of the Grande Sonate, Op. 22 | Doctor of Musical Arts | University of Arizona | 2012 | Full-text |
| Lunn, Robert Allan | Extended Techniques for the Classical Guitar: A Guide for Composers | Doctor of Musical Arts | Ohio State University | 2010 | Full-text |
| Jiménez, Carlos Alberto | Combining the sonic and textural elements of jazz and classical music | Doctor of Music | McGill University | 2023 | Full-text |
| Lacopo, Emmanuel Jacob | A Modular Artistic Practice for the Post-Classical Guitarist | Doctor of Music | McGill University | 2024 | Full-text |
| Cowan, Steven | Between Speech and Music: Composing for Guitar with Dialectal Patterns | Doctor of Music | McGill University | 2019 | Full-text |
| Burlet, Gregory | Automatic guitar tablature transcription online | Master of Arts | McGill University | 2013 | Full-text |
| Bezna, Razvan | Editing Classical Guitar Compositions by Non-Guitarist Composers | Doctor of Music | McGill University | 2024 | Full-text |
| Cicchillitti, Adam | The 19th Century Song Cycle and the European Classical Guitar | Doctor of Music | McGill University | 2022 | Full-text |
| Saenz, Juan | Instrumentality, Materiality, and the Guitar: Two Case Studies | Master of Arts | McGill University | 2024 | Full-text |
| Traube, Caroline | An interdisciplinary study of the timbre of the classical guitar | PhD | McGill University | 2004 | Full-text |
| Crago, Bartholomew | Some rhythmic theories compared and applied in an analysis of El decameron negro by Leo Brouwer | Master of Arts | McGill University | 1991 | Full-text |
| Ferguson, Sean W. | The guitar in lexica: the development of the guitar as reflected in general and musical dictionaries and encyclopedias, 1611-1890 | Master of Arts | Ohio State University | 1992 | Full-text |
| Annoni, Maria Therese | Tuning, temperament and pedagogy for the vihuela in Juan Bermudo's Declaracion de instrumentos musicales (1555) | PhD | Ohio State University | 1989 | Full-text |
| Raabe, Joan Esther | Motivations for interpretation in recorded performances of Villa-Lobos’s Five preludes for solo guitar | Master of Music | University of Texas at Austin | 2019 | Full-text |
| Sotelino, Daniel Sherwood | Choro Paulistano and the seven-string guitar : an ethnographic history | Master of Music | University of Texas at Austin | 2006 | Full-text |
| Emilfork Diaz, Nicolas Maximiliano | Three twentieth and twenty-first-century guitar sonatas from Latin America : tensions, certainties, and perspectives | Doctor of Musical Arts | University of Texas at Austin | 2018 | Full-text |
| Ciraldo, Nicholas Alfred | A comparative study of the eschig editions and the '1928 manuscript' of Heitor Villa-Lobos's Twelve etudes for guitar | Doctor of Musical Arts | University of Texas at Austin | 2006 | Full-text |
| Perlak, Kimberley Shelley | "Finding a voice" in the American classical guitar vernacular : the work of Andrew York, Benjamin Verdery, Bryan Johanson, and David Leisner | Doctor of Musical Arts | University of Texas at Austin | 2008 | Full-text |
| Steadman, Klondike Steamboat | An integrated approach to beginning music-making on the classical guitar | Doctor of Musical Arts | University of Texas at Austin | 2002 | Full-text |
| Stringer, David Lee | Annotated Guide to Eight Selected Guitar Arrangements of Francisco Tárrega | Doctor of Music | Florida State University | 2021 | Full-text |
| Veru, Peter Theodore | The National-Dobro Guitar Company; How the Resonator Guitar Survived the Age of Electric Amplification | Master of Arts | George Washington University | 2009 | Full-text |
| Raitt, Donovan E. | The music of Michael Hedges and the re-invention of acoustic fingerstyle guitar | Master of Music | California State University, Long Beach | 2011 | Full-text |
| Wahl, Robert J. | Agustín Barrios and musical identity: Tangos in early twentieth-century guitar repertory | Master of Arts | California State University, Long Beach | 2012 | Full-text |
| Mowbray, Candice | Ida Presti as a Solo Performer and Composer of Works for Solo Guitar | Doctor of Musical Arts | Shenandoah University | 2012 | Full-text |
| Tsai, I-Hsuan Phoebe | A Comparative Analysis of Fundamental Guitar Techniques Including Those of the Nineteenth Century and the Present | Doctor of Arts | Ball State University | 2018 | Full-text |
| Marshall, Matthew Ronald | The evolution of composition for the classical guitar in New Zealand | Doctor of Musical Arts | University of Otago | 2021 | Full-text |
| Kunda, Bradley | A consideration of guitar fingering : implications for the preparation of a musical interpretation for performance and the process of writing music for the guitar | PhD | Australia National University | 2012 | Full-text |
| Dillingham, Chandler Clark | Uncovering Instrumental Identity: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of the Classical Guitar | Master of Music | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee | 2025 | Full-text |
| Sherrod, Ronald Jerone | A guide to the fingering of music for the guitar | Doctor of Musical Arts | University of Arizona | 1981 | Full-text |
| Bozanic, Andrew Durkota Augustine | The acoustic guitar in American culture, 1880-1980 | PhD | University of Delaware | 2015 | Full-text |
| Sainsbury, Christopher | Bi-tone techniques and notation in contemporary guitar music composition | Master of Music | University of Sydney | 2002 | Full-text |
| Audet, James | The Forgotten Works of Giulio Regondi: A New Edition of Regondi’s English Concertina Works Arranged for the Classical Guitar | Doctor of Musical Arts | University of Sydney | 2024 | Full-text |
| Amani, Majid | Incorporating Classical Persian Performance Practice into the Delivery of Modern Compositions for Classical Guitar | Doctor of Musical Arts | University of Sydney | 2022 | Full-text |
| Wills, George Desmond | François le Cocq’s Music for the 5-course Guitar: Consideration of Composition and Performance Style | Master of Music | University of Sydney | 2019 | Full-text |
| Zangari, Giuseppe | Mauro Giuliani (1781 - 1829): Instrumental and Vocal Style in Le Sei Rossiniane | Master of Music | University of Sydney | 2013 | Full-text |
| Doublinszki, Peter | Pathways to Improvisation: a classical guitarist explores and implements techniques of Improvisation into performance practice | Doctor of Musical Arts | University of Sydney | 2024 | Full-text |
| Banks, Zane | The electric guitar in contemporary arts music | PhD | University of Sydney | 2014 | Full-text |
| Sawkins, Jeremy Hugh | Stringing it all together: A study in harmony and counterpoint for solo jazz guitar | Master of Music | University of Sydney | 2018 | Full-text |
| Martyn-Ellis, Simon | Guitars not Greeks: The early chitarrone and its use in the 1589 La Pellegrina intermedii | Master of Music | University of Sydney | 2025 | Full-text |
| Vocaturo, Andrea | Exploring a Modified Fifths Tuning as a Vehicle for Composition for Jazz Guitar | Doctor of Musical Arts | Griffith University | 2017 | Full-text |
| Godfrey, Jonathan | Principles of Idiomatic Guitar Writing | Doctor of Music | Indiana University | 2014 | Full-text |
| Ribeiro Alves, Júlio | Bridging two worlds: baroque violin performance practices as a model for the transcription of selected movements of J.S. Bach's sonatas and partitas for solo violin on the modern guitar | Doctor of Music | Indiana University | 2012 | Full-text |
| Bolshoy, Daniel | A study of selected works by Canadian guitarists-composers from the perspective of idiomatic composition for the classical guitar | Doctor of Music | Indiana University | 2015 | Full-text |
| Ozsever, Erol | Cognitive and metacognitive learning strategies for skill acquisition among conservatory guitarists | Doctor of Music | Indiana University | 2015 | Full-text |
| Duarte, Daniel | A study of multiculturalism in 20th century guitar music and the Brazilian elements in the music of Roland Dyens | Doctor of Music | Indiana University | 2016 | Full-text |
| Nebelung, Russell | Musicianship through applied music theory : an undergraduate course with guitar integrating ear training, improvisation, and theory | Doctor of Music | Indiana University | 2017 | Full-text |
| Brew, Stephen S. | Jazz standards arranged for classical guitar in the style of Art Tatum | Doctor of Music | Indiana University | 2018 | Full-text |
| Fierens, Carlo Guillermo | Transcribing for classical guitar: history and examples from literature, with three essays from different styles and instruments | Doctor of Music | Indiana University | 2019 | Full-text |
| Ostojić, Nemanja | Ten Balkan songs arranged for guitar | Doctor of Music | Indiana University | 2021 | Full-text |
| Begovic, Nikola | Seven traditional folk pieces from the Balkan region arranged for guitar | Doctor of Music | Indiana University | 2023 | Full-text |
| Barney, Connor | E Pluribus Unum: A Comprehensive Ensemble-Based Guitar Method | Doctor of Music | Indiana University | 2023 | Full-text |
| Stein, Cassius | Harmony and impulse in the music of Agustin Barrios | Doctor of Music | Indiana University | 2022 | Full-text |
| Aquino, Thomas G. | Works modeled on the improvisational styles of two jazz guitarists | Doctor of Music | Indiana University | 2021 | Full-text |
| Radovanlija, Maja | Two contemporary classical guitar composer-performers, Carlo Domeniconi and Dušan Bogdanović́, and their work of synthesis | Doctor of Music | Indiana University | 2020 | Full-text |
| Miles, Natasha Frances | Approaches to accompaniment on the baroque guitar c.1590-c.1730 | PhD | University of Birmingham | 2014 | Full-text |
| Miles, Natasha Frances | The baroque guitar as an accompaniment instrument for song, dance and theatre | Master of Philosophy | University of Birmingham | 2011 | Full-text |
| Culler, Austin | Improvising early-nineteenth century guitar music: the application of partimento rules with realizations informed by the music of Mauro Giuliani and Fernando Sor | Master of Music | University of Lethbridge | 2023 | Full-text |
| Mariño Garza, Esteban | The cultural significance of the cittern in Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries | PhD | Royal College of Music | 2025 | Full-text |
| Bogle, James G. | The development of a musically logical procedure for solving the problems of transcription for guitar performance of J.S. Bach's Suite in E Minor (BWV 996) | PhD | University of Oklahoma | 1982 | Full-text |
| O'Toole, Redmond | Hudleston’s Harmonic Sounds: An Evaluation of Josiah Hudleston’s 1841 Treatise on Guitar Harmonics | Doctor in Music Performance | Royal Irish Academy of Music | 2020 | Full-text |
| Merry, Renthungo | A paradigm for effective pre-college classical guitar methodology: a case study of two models of effective instruction | Doctor of Arts | University of Northern Colorado | 2010 | Full-text |
| Elliott, Peter | Instrument of Change: The Baroque Guitar and the Emergence of Harmonic Tonality in England and France, 1626-1737 | PhD | University of Cambridge | 2024 | Full-text |
| Westbrook, James Robert | Guitar making in nineteenth-century London: Louis Panormo and his contemporaries | PhD | University of Cambridge | 2013 | Full-text |
| Pethel, Robert | Professional Profiles, Pedagogic Practices, and the Future of Guitar Education | PhD | Georgia State University | 2016 | Full-text |
| Elias, Andre J. | Saraswati Sings: The Slide-Guitar in India | PhD | University of Washington | 2016 | Full-text |
| Bruant, Benjamin François | From commission to publication: A study of Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco's guitar repertoire informed by his correspondence with Andrés Segovia | PhD | University of Surrey | 2021 | Full-text |
| Jameson, Benjamin Thomas | Negotiating the cross-cultural implications of the electric guitar in contemporary concert music | PhD | University of Southampton | 2017 | Full-text |
| West, Kai | Signal Paths: Electric Guitar Culture in the Twenty-First Century | PhD | University of Michigan | 2024 | Full-text |
| Shanley, Adam | The Use of Guitar in Anton Webern's Op. 18 and its Influence on His Late Works | PhD | University of Oregon | 2016 | Full-text |
| Foley, Susan Ellen | Pioneering Guitar Women, An Auto-ethnographic Study | PhD | York University | 2024 | Full-text |
| Stylianides, Timotheos | The guitar performance practice in Spanish neoclassicism, focusing on El Grupo de los Ocho | PhD | University of Glasgow | 2025 | Full-text |
| Collins, Quinn | Beauty Lies in the Eye: Harmony Within Noise in Late 80's Sonic Youth and Precious and Intelligent Metal | PhD | Princeton University | 2024 | Full-text |
| Lee, Andrew McKenna | Charlatans, Saltimbanques, and Lumpen Songs: The Emergence of the Guitar from the Ghetto of Western Art Music | PhD | Princeton University | 2013 | Full-text |
| Mackenzie, John Lawrence | The guitar works of Stephen Dodgson | PhD | University of Leeds | 2006 | Full-text |
| Van Amersfoort, Jeltine Marijke | Guitars, music, and culture in the Netherlands, 1750–1810 | PhD | University of Southampton | 2023 | Full-text |
| Green, Bryan Richard | The comparative effects of computer mediated interactive instruction and traditional instruction on music achievement in guitar performance | PhD | University of British Columbia | 2003 | Full-text |
| Hottle, Rachel | Elizabeth Cotten, Joni Mitchell, and the guitar/body interface | PhD | McGill University | 2025 | Full-text |
| Broess, Erik | Unobtainable: Electric Guitar Gear & The Mythology of Tone | PhD | University of Pennsylvania | 2023 | Full-text |
| Williams, Jeffrey Daniel | Power Chords and Politics: Guitar Distortion as a Topic in American Rock | PhD | Harvard University | 2022 | Full-text |
| Prato, Diego Enrique | Developing unification in the teaching and learning of jazz and classical guitar | PhD | University of Salford | 2017 | Full-text |
| Davis, Evan Brugh | On the structural and acoustic design of guitar soundboards | PhD | University of Washington | 1990 | Full-text |
| Mantovani, Luiz Carlos | Ferdinand Rebay and the reinvention of guitar chamber music | PhD | Royal College of Music | 2019 | Full-text |
| Hartdegen, Kenneth | Fernando Sor’s Theory of Harmony Applied to the Guitar: History, Bibliography and Context | PhD | University of Auckland | 2011 | Full-text |
| Button, Stewart William | The guitar in England, 1800–1924 | PhD | University of Surrey | 1984 | Full-text |
| Zuluaga, Daniel | The five-course guitar, alfabeto song and the villanella spagnola in Italy, ca. 1590 to 1630 | PhD | University of Southern California | 2014 | Full-text |
| Turner, George | Electric Guitar Performance Techniques: Meaning and Identity in Written Discourse | PhD | University of Sheffield | 2015 | Full-text |
| Lavoie, Maryse | Conceptualisation et communication des nuances de timbre à la guitare classique | PhD | Université de Montréal | 2013 | Full-text |
| Jones, Lee Anthony | Exploration of unorthodox tunings and muscle memory practice for the electric guitar | PhD | University of Salford | 2019 | Full-text |
| Holmes, Ben | Guitar Effects-Pedal Emulation and Identification | PhD | Queen's University Belfast | 2019 | Full-text |
| Lutton, Gary | Contemporary steel-string fingerstyle guitar: developing new vocabulary and improvisational approaches | PhD | Ulster University | 2020 | Full-text |
| Wright, Brian F. | How the Electric Bass Became the Norm: An Alternative History of American Popular Music, 1951–1964 | PhD | Case Western Reserve University | 2018 | Full-text |
| Reinhoudt, Molly C. | Diego Pisador’s Libro de musica (1552): Amateur Music-Making, Printing, and Handwritten Corrections in Sixteenth-Century Spain | PhD, Music | The Ohio State University | 2020 | Full-text |
| Borg Cardona, Anna | Instrument building and musical culture in seventeenth-century Malta: the luthier Mattheo Morales | PhD, Music | University of Southampton | 2017 | Full-text |
| Cotich, Kenneth M. | The Tradition of Microtonal Guitar on the American West Coast | PhD, School of Arts and Humanities | Claremont Graduate University | 2024 | Full-text |
| Martinez Avila, Juan Pablo | Embodied interaction with guitars: instruments, embodied practices and ecologies | PhD | University of Nottingham | 2023 | Full-text |
| Pyrounaki, Sofia | Transcription, performance and recording of Johann Sebastian Bach's works for lute on a ten-string guitar | PhD | University of St Andrews | 2018 | Full-text |
| Bane, Michael Alexander | Honnêtes Gens as Musicians: The Amateur Experience in Seventeenth-Century Paris | PhD, Musicology | Case Western Reserve University | 2016 | Full-text |
| Miller, Roark Thurston | The composers of San Marco and Santo Stefano and the development of Venetian monody (to 1630) | PhD | University of Michigan | 1993 | Full-text |
| Becker, Thomas Robert | Analytical Perspectives on Three Groundbreaking Composers for Guitar: Villa-Lobos, Martin, and Britten | PhD | University of Kansas | 2012 | Full-text |
| Gavito, Cory Michael | The alfabeto song in print, 1610-ca. 1665: Neopolitan roots, Roman codification, and "Il gusto popolare" | PhD | University of Texas – Austin | 2006 | Full-text |
| Clement, Brett G. | A Study of the Instrumental Music of Frank Zappa | PhD | University of Cincinnati | 2009 | Full-text |
| Dumond, Patrick | Incorporating Acoustical Consistency in the Design for Manufacturing of Wooden Guitars | PhD | University of Ottawa | 2015 | Full-text |
| Hanford, John Cavanaugh | With the power of soul: Jimi Hendrix in Band of Gypsys | PhD | University of Washington | 2003 | Full-text |
| Klippel, Grahame J. | Rhythmic accuracy in the new complexity repertoire : its assessment and role in performance practice with specific applications to the guitar | PhD | University of Surrey | 2015 | Full-text |
| Sciacca, Davide | The guitar at the opera: an investigation into guitar repertoire inspired by the operas of Vincenzo Bellini | PhD | Manchester Metropolitan University | 2023 | Full-text |
| Mazanek, Matthew | Implicit curriculum : improvisation pedagogy in guitar methods 1760-1860 | Doctor in Music Performance | Trinity College Dublin | 2021 | Full-text |
| Niknejad, Navid | Perpetual Resonance: The Correlation Between Idiomaticity and Texture in Angelo Gilardino’s Selected Solo Guitar Works (1981-2004) | DMA | University of Toronto | 2025 | Full-text |
| Figueiredo Bartoloni, Fabio | Broadening the repertoire for guitar and piano: an arrangement of Bachianas brasileiras no. 1 by Heitor Villa-Lobos | DMA | Arizona State University | 2016 | Full-text |
| Maia Nogueira, Hugo | Grand Solo Op.14 & Rondo Op2. N3: The Sonority of the Classical Era | DMA | University of Nevada – Las Vegas | 2017 | Full-text |
| Beaumont, Walter Lance | Bringing it all together: formal and informal learning in a university guitar class | DMA | Boston University | 2015 | Full-text |
| Bonacossa, Federico | Franco Margola's Chamber Works with Guitar: A Guide and Annotated Catalog | DMA | University of Miami | 2009 | Full-text |
| Harb, Tariq | The Unlimited Guitar: Arranging Bach and Britten as Means to Repertoire Expansion | DMA | University of Toronto | 2014 | Full-text |
| Fang, Zhou | Musikalischer Parnassus by Johann Kaspar Ferdinand Fischer (1656-1746): guitar transcription and performance guide of Suites VI and VIII | DMA | Arizona State University | 2013 | Full-text |
| Lanier, William Hudson | Serenade in D major by Johannes Brahms: aranged for solo guitar | DMA | Arizona State University | 2013 | Full-text |
| Garcia Santos, Arnoldo | The influence of folk music in guitar compositions by Manuel Ponce | DMA | Arizona State University | 2014 | Full-text |
| Munoz, Leonardo Jayson | Thoroughbass Reductive Analysis Applied to Arranging Bach’s Solo Violin Sonata BWV 1003 for Guitar | DMA | University of Toronto | 2022 | Full-text |
| Copeland, Jeffrey S. | Ornamentation In eighteenth-century guitar music: an examination of instruction manuals from 1750-1800 | DMA | Arizona State University | 2012 | Full-text |
| Lake, Brendan | Performing Heinrich Biber's Mystery sonatas on solo guitar, and principles for arranging early Baroque solo sonatas | DMA | Arizona State University | 2014 | Full-text |
| Sloyka, Erik Robert | Selected harpsichord works by Sebastián de Albero: arranged for solo guitar | DMA | Arizona State University | 2014 | Full-text |
| Ossareh, Bahar | A New Approach to Guiding Non-Guitarist Composers Utilizing Computerized Calculations and Smart Devices | DMA | University of Toronto | 2023 | Full-text |
| Kacherski, Jay | Doctoral Thesis Recital (guitar) lecture | DMA | University of Texas – Austin | 2012 | Full-text |
| Savic, Nenad | Bryan Johanson's 13 ways of looking at 12 strings for two guitars: recording and critical investigation | DMA | Arizona State University | 2011 | Full-text |
| Koh, Francois Youngjoon | A Conductor’s Guide to Joaquín Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez | DMA | University of Toronto | 2020 | Full-text |
| Batstone, Adam | The Guitar Duo: Interaction and Group Creativity | DMA | University of Toronto | 2020 | Full-text |
| Cho, Yoon Soo | The Spanish guitar influence on the piano music of Isaac Albéniz and Enrique Granados: a detailed study of Granada and Asturias of Suite española by Albéniz and Andaluza and Danza triste of Doce danzas españolas by Granados | DMA | University of Texas – Austin | 2006 | Full-text |
| Felice, Joseph Philip | A pedagogical and performance edition of J. S. Bach's Violin sonata I in G minor, BWV 1001, transcribed for guitar: transcription, analysis, performance guide, pedagogical practice guide, and recording | DMA | Arizona State University | 2013 | Full-text |
| Gaytan, Luis Francisco | An introduction to the piano music of Manuel M. Ponce | DMA | Louisiana State University | 2014 | Full-text |
| Dinger, Maja Malina | A Performer’s Guide to the Newest Additions in the Oboe D’amore Canon | DMA | Arizona State University | 2022 | Full-text |
| Ward, Stephen Michael | Attitudes and perspectives of pre-college guitar students: a study to help explain difficulty with note-reading in class guitar | DMA | Arizona State University | 2011 | Full-text |
| Crissman, Jonathan | Five keyboard sonatas: R. 48, 50, 60, 106 and 114 by Antonio Soler, arranged for two guitars | DMA | Arizona State University | 2014 | Full-text |
| Bampenyou, Rattanai | A Performance Guide to the Multi-Movement Guitar Sonatas of Fernando Sor and Mauro Giuliani | DMA | University of Miami | 2012 | Full-text |
| Vidal, Adolfo | Antonio Lauro: An Analytical Study and Piano Transcriptions of his Suite Venezolana and Eight Waltzes for Solo Guitar | DMA | University of Miami | 2009 | Full-text |
| Stern, Jordan Christopher | Full circle: becoming a pedal steel guitarist | DMA | Boston University | 2022 | Full-text |
| Reyes Paz, Ricardo | Manuel M. Ponce's Suite in D major for solo guitar: performance edition and analysis | DMA | Arizona State University | 2013 | Full-text |
| Chen, Kwok-Ping John | Investigation of the Acoustics of Plucked String Tones Based on the Analysis of Their Time-Varying Spectra | DMA | University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign | 2014 | Full-text |
| Benedick, Kristi | An Annotated guide to flute and guitar music | DMA | University of Nevada – Las Vegas | 2010 | Full-text |
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