As the first musicological treatment of Tristano, this dissertation re-evaluates Tristano's position in jazz history and addresses problems of the current tendency toward the canonization of jazz, in which he is misleadingly ...

Despite France's prominent role in the history of medieval secular music, scholarship concerning its urban musical culture is generally limited to a few publications by nineteenth-century local historians; in contrast, ...

In the concluding section I note that while interpretive analysis and/or misprision are appropriately used as creative tools I warn that it is contradictory to place limits on what forms the use of these tools can or should take.