Forms and Petitions
Guide to Filing Theses and Dissertations
Appendix B. Sample Preliminary Pages
The following pages contain sample preliminary pages for a doctoral dissertation. The formatting of these pages should serve as an example for actual theses and dissertations. A sample dissertation, including preliminary pages, body text with figures, references and appendix, is available on-line in downloadable Word for Windows format.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Santa Barbara The Effect of Time-Variant Acoustical Properties on Orchestral Instrument Timbres A Dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in Music by John Michael Trutty Committee in charge: Professor Frances Densmore, Chair Professor Chu Tsai-yu Professor Carl E. Seashore June 2005
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The dissertation of John Michael Trutty is approved.
______________________________________________ Chu Tsai-yu ______________________________________________ Carl E. Seashore ______________________________________________ Frances Densmore, Committee Chair
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The Effect of Time-Variant Acoustical Properties on Orchestral Instrument Timbres Copyright © 2005 by John Michael Trutty
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VITA OF JOHN MICHAEL TRUTTY May 2005 EDUCATION Bachelor of Arts in Music, University of California, Berkeley, May 1994 (summa cum laude) PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT 1994-96: Teaching Assistant, Department of Music, University of California, Irvine PUBLICATIONS "A Psychoacoustic Comparison of Natural and Synthetic Impulse-Generated Timbres," Unpublished thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Arts degree in Music, University of California, Irvine, 1996. 185 pp. "Methodological Issues in Timbre Research," Journal of Music Cognition Research, XIV (1997), 56-68. AWARDS Best Student Paper in Musical Acoustics Award, 134th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Diego, 1997 Fine Arts scholarship, Department of Music, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2000 FIELDS OF STUDY Major Field: Music Perception and Cognition Studies in Timbre Research with Professors Frances Densmore and Carl E. Seashore Studies in Musical Acoustics and Psychoacoustics with Professor Chu Tsai-yu Studies in Behavioral Research Methods and Statistics with Professor Joan Kelly iv
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ABSTRACT The Effect of Time-Variant Acoustical Properties on Orchestral Instrument Timbres by John Michael Trutty [The abstract begins here. It should be double-spaced. The abstract, limited to 350 words, should consist of a short statement of the problem, a brief exposition of the methods and procedure employed in gathering the data, and a condensed summary of the findings of the study. ProQuest/University Microfilms International will not accept doctoral dissertation abstracts in excess of 350 words. Many word processing programs have a function that will do a word count of selected text.]
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