Sorry to put so much material up here lately, but some things are too terrific to resist. The last post was an example: here is another. From here, as made up by the previously-mentioned Professor Frank Samarotto, the Top-Ten Bad Dissertation Titles List. I particularly enjoy number 5. (He mentioned to me recently that the hardest part about coming up with this list was actually coming up with titles he could be 100% sure no one would ever use. I'm not sure he was successful...)

1. Uncertainty in Music: A Definitive Survey

2. The Catalan Influence on the French Augmented Sixth Chord in the Music of Engelbert Humperdinck

3. The Voicing of the Final Chord in Music of the Classical Period

4. A Syncategorematically Recursive Hedra-Lattice of Poly-PC Postponement: A Theory of Atonal Silence

5. Heinrich Schenker: Threat or Menace?

6. Prolonging the Agony: A Schenkerian Approach to Muzak in the Dentist's Office

7. “Where Are All My Favorite Notes?” A Statistical Tabulation of Every Pitch-Class in the Serial Music of Webern

8. A Violist Walked into a Barline: Rhythm and Meter in the Structure of Viola Jokes

9.Three Times a Lady: Triple Counterpoint in the Music of Britney Spears

10. The Whole Step: Our Misunderstood Friend