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McGill University thesis directory / prepared for the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research ; Frank Spitzer & Elizabeth Silvester, editors.

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48K and counting! McGill Dissertations and Theses

The  McGill University Library  is home to thousands of dissertations and theses produced by McGill’s graduate students. Beyond conserving these theses and dissertations, the Library retroactively digitized all its print theses and dissertations and made them freely available in McGill’s institutional repository,  eScholarship . Additionally, as of 2021, McGill’s theses and dissertations are discoverable via the  ProQuest Dissertations and Theses  database. This will allow researchers from around the world to discover McGill theses alongside those of other institutions.

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The electronic dissertations and thesis in  eScholarship  are available in Open Access format and can be accessed by anyone in the world for free. 

In addition to being able to search across McGill’s dissertations and theses,  ProQuest Dissertations and Theses  allows users to explore dissertations and theses from universities around the world. 

McGill Library Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETD) collection  dataset  contains all the metadata and (in some cases) full text of the McGill Theses and Dissertation collections from 1881–2018. We invite researchers to come and explore this dataset  and more .

If you require assistance in discovering dissertation and thesis in your subject areas, please reach out to your  liaison librarians  and visit the Library’s  Guide on Theses and Dissertations . 

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Governing the Moscow Conservatory, 1889-1905

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• Mazin, Mikhail
• Roe-Min Kok (Supervisor)
• Understanding the genesis of power in music institutions is pivotal for understanding their further evolution. This study of the management practices in the fin-de-siècle Moscow Conservatory analyzes explosive institutional politics that brought about its modernization under the directorship of Vasily Safonov (1852-1918). He tried to replace the collegial management style of his predecessors with a one-man dictatorship in the Conservatory by using and manipulating his powerful connections in the upper classes, silencing opponents within the Conservatory walls, and attempting to change its charter.Applying political and social science methods and the tools of institutional analysis, the paper examines primary sources, charter drafts, memoirs, diaries, and correspondence and argues that the governing system Safonov established at the Moscow Conservatory was neither a collegiate, nor an authoritarian, but a hybrid regime. The support for this statement comes from a comparative analysis of managerial practices at the Moscow and St. Petersburg Conservatories as seen in their respective reactions to the 1905 Russian revolution.This thesis contributes fresh angles to recent studies on the Moscow Conservatory’s development, hierarchy in music education, and the nineteenth century European conservatories’ structure
• Comprendre la genèse du pouvoir dans les institutions musicales est essentiel pour comprendre leur évolution. Cette étude des pratiques de gestion du Conservatoire de Moscou fin-de-siècle analyse la politique institutionnelle explosive qui a conduit à sa modernisation sous la direction de Vasily Safonov (1852-1918). Il a essayé de remplacer le style de gestion collégiale de ses prédécesseurs par une dictature d'un seul homme au Conservatoire en utilisant et en manipulant ses puissants liaisions dans les classes supérieures, en faisant taire les opposants dans les murs du Conservatoire et en essayant de changer sa charte.En appliquant les méthodes des sciences politiques et sociales et les outils d'analyse institutionnelle, la thèse examine les sources primaires, les projets de la charte, les mémoires, les journaux et la correspondance et soutient que le système de gestion que Safonov a établi au Conservatoire de Moscou n'était ni un régime collégial, ni un autoritaire, mais un régime hybride. Le soutien de cette affirmation provient d'une analyse comparative des pratiques managériales des conservatoires de Moscou et de Saint-Pétersbourg, comme ils se sont réfléchi dans leurs réactions respectives à la révolution russe de 1905.Cette thèse introduit des nouveaux perspectives aux études récentes sur le développement du Conservatoire de Moscou, la hiérarchie de l’éducation musicale et la structure des conservatoires européens du XIXe siècle
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