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Department of Music Theory
Indiana University School of Music
1201 East Third Street
Bloomington, Indiana 47405
(812) 855-1738 or (812) 855-0296
isaacso at indiana.edu
http://theory.music.indiana.edu/isaacso
Indiana University
Director of Graduate Studies, Jacobs School of Music (2008-present)
Adjunct Associate Professor of Informatics (2003-present)
Department Chair, Music Theory (2002-2008)
Associate Professor of Music Theory (1999-present)
Coordinator, Music Information Technology Minor (1998-present)
Core Faculty Member, Cognitive Science Program (1995-present)
Assistant Professor of Music Theory (1993-1999)
Ithaca College
Assistant Professor of Music Theory (1991-93)
Indiana University
Visiting Lecturer (part time) in Music Theory (Summer 1991)
Visiting Lecturer in Music and Computing Specialist (1990-91)
Instructor in Music Theory (Summer 1988)
Ph.D., Music Theory, Indiana University, 1992
Minor Fields: Computer Science, Music History and Literature
Dissertation Title: "Similarity of Interval-Class Content Between Pitch-Class Sets: The IcVSIM Relation and Its Application"
M.M., Music Theory, Indiana University, 1987
Cognate Field: Instrumental Conducting
B.A. (magna cum lauda), Music, German, Luther College (Iowa), 1985
* indicates refereed publication
| 2007 | “Music Technology and the AP Curriculum,” in Teacher’s Guide to the Advanced Placement (AP) Course in Music Theory, edited by David Lockart. (New York: College Entrance Examination Board.) Invited Section. |
| 2005 | "What You See Is What You Get: On Visualizing Music," Proceedings of ISMIR 2005: The Sixth Conference on Music Information Retrieval, Ed. by Joshua D. Reiss and Geraint A. Wiggins (London: Queen Mary, Univesrity of London) |
| 2003 | * "Music Representation in a Digital Music Library," (second author, with
Don Byrd), Computer Music Journal 27/4 (2003): 43-57. |
| 2002 | "Variations2: A Digital Music Library System" (second author, with Jon
W. Dunn), Proceedings of the Second ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on
Digital Libraries, 2002, 374. "Music Information Retrieval for Music Theory," in J. Stephen Downie, ed., The MIR/MDL Evaluation Project White Paper Collection, 2nd ed. (2002), 23-26. "Music Learning Online: Evaluating the Promise," Proceedings of the 2001 National Association of Schools of Music Annual Meeting (2002). |
| 2001 | "Digital Music Libraries–Research and Development" (with David
Bainbridge, Mary Wallace Davidson, Andrew P. Dillon, Jon W. Dunn, Matthew
Dovey, Michael Fingerhut, and Ichiro Fujinaga), Proceedings of the First
ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (27 June 2001, Roanoke). |
| 2000 | "Remediation Before Matriculation: The Music Fundamentals Online
Project" (1st author, with William L. Findlay), in Teaching with
Technology: Seventy-Five Professors from Eight Universities Tell Their
Stories, ed. David G. Brown, pp. 182-185 (Bolton, Mass.: Anker, 2000).
(Invited chapter) |
| 1999 | "Teaching Aural Analysis of Music Literature." In Teacher’s Guide to
the Advanced Placement (AP) Course in Music Theory (1999 edition),
edited by Marie Lerner-Sexton, 33-47. New York: College Entrance
Examination Board. (Invited chapter) |
| 1998 | * "The Interval Angle: A Similarity Measure for Pitch-Class Sets" (2nd
author; with Damon Scott). Perspectives of New Music 36 (Summer
1998): 107-142. |
| 1997 | * "Neural Network Models for the Study of Post-Tonal Music." In Music, Gestalt, and Computing, edited by Marc Leman, 237-250. Berlin:
Springer-Verlag, 1997. |
| 1996 | * "Issues in the Study of Similarity in Atonal Music." Music Theory
Online 2.7 (1996). http://societymusictheory.org/mto/issues/mto.96.2.7/toc.2.7.html
(With Gary Wittlich and Jeffrey Hass) |
| 1993 | "Computers in Music Research and
Instruction." In Advances in Computers 35 (1993). Edited by
Marshall C. Yovits. Boston: Academic Press, pp. 112-202. (Second author;
invited chapter) |
| 1992 | Review of Alexander Brinkman's Pascal Programming for Music Research.
In Indiana Theory Review 13/1 (1992): 113-134. |
| 1990 | * "Similarity of Interval-Class Content Between Pitch-Class Sets: The IcVSIM Relation." Journal of Music Theory 34 (1990): 1-28. |
| 2007 | “Theory, Technology, Today, Tomorrow,” Keynote address at Music Theory Society of New York State (14-15 April, Fordham University) |
| 2005 | "What You See Is What You Get: On Visualizing Music," presented at ISMIR 2005: The Sixth Conference on Music Information Retrieval (11-15 September, London)
“Professional Users of Music Information Retrieval,” participant on panel discussion. ISMIR 2005: The Sixth Conference on Music Information Retrieval (11-15 September, London) |
| 2004 | "The Technology of Music Scholarship and the Scholarship of Music Technology," presented as the fifteenth William Poland Lecture in Music Theory (Ohio State University, 24 May). Repeated revised form at the Indiana University Music Theory Colloquium Series (15 September) |
| 2003 | “Variations2 in the Classroom: Enhancing Learning with the Digital Music Library,” presented at the NSF Digital Library Initiative Phase II All-Projects Meeting, (2 December 2003, Washington, D.C.) “The Implications of Digital Music Libraries for Music Theory,” presented at the Society for Music Theory (6-9 November 2003, Madison) “Enhancing College Teaching With the Digital Music Library,” presented at the College Music Society Annual Meeting (2-5 October 2003, Miami) “Music Representation in a Digital Music Library,” presented [with Don Byrd] at the Third ACM+IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (27-31 May 2003, Houston) “Content Visualization in a Digital Music Library,” presented at the Third International Workshop on Information Visualization Interfaces for Retrieval and Analysis (31 May 2003, Houston) “Pedagogical Tools for a Digital Music Library,” presented [with Brent Yorgason] at Music Theory Midwest (17-19 May 2003, Bloomington, Ind.) |
| 2002 | “The Digital Music Library: New Tools for Learning and Research,” presentation and panel discussion, at Information and Musical Documentation for Music Lovers (18 October 2002, Cité de la Musique, Paris) “Similarity in Music.” Member of Panel (moderated by Ludger Hofmann-Engl), at ISMIR 2002: 3rd International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (17 October 2002, IRCAM, Paris) “Variations2: A 'Progress, Promise, and Potential' Report,” Indiana University Music Theory Colloquium Series (18 September 2002) “Music IR for Music Theory,” presented at Workshop on the Creation of Standardized Test Collections, Tasks, and Metrics for Music Information Retrieval (MIR) and Music Digital Library (MDL) Evaluation, at the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2002 (18 July 2002, Portland, Ore.) “Indiana University Digital Music Library,” demonstration [with Jon W. Dunn] given at the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2002 (15 July 2002, Portland, Ore.) |
| 2001 | “Music Learning Online: Evaluating the Promise,” presentation at National Association of Schools of Music annual meeting, Region 3 session (20 November 2001, Dallas) “Digital Music Library Project” (with Jon W. Dunn and Mary Wallace Davidson), presentation at International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval (15-17 October 2001, Bloomington, Ind.) “Indiana University Digital Music Library Project” (with Jon W. Dunn), demonstration given at First ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (25 June 2001, Roanoke) |
| 2000 | “When Online Outperforms” (1st author, with William L. Findlay and Brent Yorgason), Poster Session at Society for Music Theory annual meeting (4 November 2000, Toronto) “Music Fundamentals Online: Making Web-based Learning a Reality” (1st author, with William L. Findlay and Brent Yorgason), presented at Association for Technology in Music Instruction annual meeting (3 November 2000, Toronto) “Buying Time: Let's Raise the Bar for First-Year Theory” (1st author, with Brent Yorgason), poster session at Music Theory Midwest (19 May 2000, Appleton, Wis.) |
| 1998 | “SIMNET: A Neural-Network Model for Post-Tonal Segmentation,” Presented at the annual conference of the Society for Music Theory (Chapel Hill, N.C., 2-5 December 1998). Presented at Music Theory Colloquium Series, Indiana University School of Music (18 November 1998). |
| 1997 | “The Interval Angle: A Similarity Measure for Pitch Class Sets,” (2nd author, with Damon Scott, presenter). Presented at annual conference of the Music Theory Society of New York State (Rochester, 12-13 April 1997). |
| 1996 | “Neural Network Models for the Study of Post-Tonal Music.” Presented at Joint International Conference 1996 (4th International Symposium on Systematic Musicology and 2nd International Conference on Cognitive Musicology; Brugge, Belgium, 8-11 September 1996). |
| 1992 | “The Role of Intervallic Similarity in the Atonal Music of Webern and Schoenberg.” Presented at annual conference of the Music Theory Society of New York State (Ithaca, 13-14 November 1992). “Similarity Relations in Music Analysis.” Presented at annual conference of the Society for Music Theory (Kansas City, 14-18 October 1992). |
| 1990 | (with Gary E. Wittlich and David Neumeyer) “Integrating Music's Creative and Analytic Skill.” Presented by Gary E. Wittlich at College Music Curriculum and Current Technology, University of Minnesota--Duluth (4 August 1990). Invited Member of Panel, “Computer-Assisted Instruction in Music Theory: Looking Toward the Future.” Music Theory Midwest Inaugural Conference (18-20 May 1990). |
| 1988 | “Melodic Processes in a Performance of Wayne Shorter’s ‘Witch Hunt’.” Presented at Fifth Biennial Symposium of Research in Music Theory, Indiana University (8-9 April 1988). |
Project director for Music Fundamentals Online, a web-based, self-contained course in music fundamentals (http://theory.music.indiana.edu/mfo/; 1998-present)
Principal designer for ETDrill 3.1 for Windows (http://theory.music.indiana.edu/etdrill/; 1996-2001)
Project Director and principal designer of Multimedia Music Theory Teaching Project, a software authoring environment for teaching and learning (http://theory.music.indiana.edu/mmtt/; 1995-2005)
Developer of DosSims and WinSims, software tools for calculations involving pitch-class sets, especially of various similarity measures (http://theory.music..indiana.edu/isaacso/research.html; 1990-1995)
Co-Project Director and principal programmer for ETDrill (DOS), a collection of Ear Training drill programs (1987-1997)
Indiana University Overseas Conference Fund, to support presentation in Paris, France $700 (October 2002)
"Creating the Digital Music Library" (Co-Principal Investigator), National Science Foundation, $3,056,913 (October 1, 2000-September 30, 2004)
"Improving the Preparation of Pre-College Music Majors," Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (U. S. Department of Education, Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education), $160,117 (September 1998- August 2000)
Indiana University Overseas Conference Fund, to support research presentation in Brugge, Belgium, $800 (September 1996)
Summer Research Fellowship, Indiana University, "Similarity Relations in Music Analysis," $6,500 (Summer 1994)
Summer Research Fellowship, Ithaca College (fellowship turned down to accept position at Indiana University), $2000 (Summer 1993)
John W. Edwards Fellowship, Indiana University, $7000 (1988-1989)
Member for Stacey Duggan (DM, Percussion, in progress)
Member for Brent Yorgason, "Downbeat Space and Inframetrical Time: Models and Metaphors of Metrical Microstructure" (PhD, Music Theory, in progress)
Chair and Director for Patrick Budelier, “Chords, Lines, and Spaces in Five Post-2000 Works by Elliott Carter” (PhD, Music Theory, in progress)
Member for Stanley Kleppinger, "Tonal Structure in Selected Works by Aaron Copland" (PhD, Music Theory, 2006)
Director for Jason Byrnes, “Pedagogical Applications of the Spectrogram in the Low Brass Studio” (DM, Brass Pedagogy, 2005)
Chair and Director for Julian L. Hook, "Uniform Triadic Transformations" (PhD, Music Theory, 2002)
Member for John Schwandt, "The Organ at St. Thomas Lutheran Church, Bloomington, Indiana: An Eclectic and Theological Approach to Design for Church Music and Organ Literature of the Past, Present, and Future" (DM document, Organ and Church Music, 2001)
Outside Evaluator for Tuire Kuusi, "Set-Class and Chord: Examining Connections Between Theoretical Resemblance and Perceived Closeness" (PhD, Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, 2001)
Director for Vincent Benitez, "Pitch Organization and Dramatic Structure in Saint François d'Assise of Olivier Messaien" (PhD, Music Theory, 2001)
Director for Arthur Samplaski, " A Comparison of Perceived Chord Similarity and Predictions of Selected Twentieth-Century Chord-Classification Schemes, Using Multidimensional Scaling and Cluster Analysis " (PhD, Music Theory, 2000)
Member for Wen-Hao Chuang, "Formative Research on Refinement of Web-based Instructional Design and Development Guidance Systems for Teaching Music Fundamentals at the Undergraduate Level" (PhD, Instructional Systems Technology, 2000)
Invited Opponent for Marcus Castrén, "RECREL: A Similarity Measure for Set-Classes" (PhD, Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, 1994)Ithaca College
Undergraduate
Music Theory I, II
Sightsinging I, II, III
Techniques of Twentieth-Century Composition
Form and Analysis
Graduate
Stylistic Analysis III (Contemporary)
Indiana University
Undergraduate
Music Theory and Literature I, II, V
Topics in Music Theory: Analysis and Performance
Graduate
Written Music Theory Review for Graduate Students
Aural Music Theory Review for Graduate Students
Eighteenth-Century Counterpoint
Analysis of Music Since 1900
Models of Music Cognition
Multimedia Development. for Music Research and Instruction
Computer Tools for Music Research
Seminar in Music Theory: Atonal Music
Visualizing Music
Eric Nichols (T619, Models of Melodic Expectation, Summer 2006)
Bryan Christian (T400, Effects of non-temporal designs on temporal perception, Summer 2006)
Bryan Christian (T400, Temporality in the Music of Birtwistle, Fall 2005)
Megan Schindele (N569, Advanced Director Programming, Spring 2005)
Jason Hooper (T619, categorization and similarity in Schoenberg, Summer 2004)
Amy Engelsdorfer (N569, Advanced Director Programming, Spring 2004)
Grant Lewis (U524, scheduling software for music administration, Fall 1999)
Michael Toler (T619, web-based course delivery in music theory, Fall 1999)
Julian Hook (T619, transformational relations in tonal music, Spring 1999)
Michael Toler (U524, computer programming for music research, Spring 1999)
Patrick Budelier (T619, annotated bibliography on texture and timbre; Summer 1998)
Patrick Budelier (T620, literature review/paper on analytic approaches to texture; Summer 1998)
James Halliday (T620, timbre visualization, Fall 1997)
Erick Carballo (T620, Extended software application development for music research; Spring 1997)
Kim Jackson (COAS I460, Individualized Major Program Tutorial: An Analysis of Stravinsky’s Mass; Spring 1997)
Chris Pitchford (T619, Analytical Applications of Selected Theories of 20th-Century Music; Fall 1996)
Erick Carballo (U524, Pascal Programming for Music Research; Fall 1996)
Kim Jackson (COAS I460, Individualized Major Program Tutorial: An Analysis of Stravinsky’s Mass; Fall 1996)
Teaching High-School Music Theory, IU Summer Workshop
10-14 June 2002
16-20 June 2003
13-17 June 2004
12-16 June 2005
18-22 June 2007
16-20 June 2008
Summer Institute for the Arts (AP music theory workshop, Columbia College, Chicago, 11-16 July 2004)
"AP-Music Teacher’s Workshop," workshop on behalf of College Board National or Midwest Regional
16 January 2002, Triton Community College, River Grove, IL
22 March 2005, Triton Community College, Des Plaines, IL
16 July 2005, Houston (AP National Conference)
18 October 2006, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
College Music Society, Summer Institute of the Center for Professional Development in Music Technology, Bloomington, June 1996
Guest Course Lectures
T591 (Wennerstrom, Summer 2005, instructional software)
E131 (AP-music theory and Technology Resources at IU, various times)
"Music as Design," with John Schwandt, (EDUC T452 Human-Computer Interaction Design, Prof. Marty Siegel, School of Education, 20 March 2002, 19 November 2003)
T550 (music representations, technology in music theory; various times)
T556 (Rowell), on Schmalfeldt's approach to Wozzeck (10/11/94)
T591 (Wennerstrom, Summer 1997, instructional software)
College Music Society, Summer Institute of the Center for Professional Development in Music Technology, Bloomington, Summer 1996
Guest Lecture, U523 (Tilghman, March 1998, Wittlich, January 1995)
• = current
§ = Campus or university committee
Tenures as of 2007-08
| Academic Advisor (BSOF–Instrumental, BSOF–Honors) [4 years] | ||
| Advisor in Individualized Major Program [4 years] | ||
| § | Advisory Committee on School Intersections [Chancellors; 2 years] | |
| • | Agenda Committee [4 years] | |
| § | Committee on Program Merger/Reorganization/Elimination [0 years] | |
| Committee to Review Associate Dean for Administration (Chair) [1 year] | ||
| Core Curriculum Committee [1 year] | ||
| Core Curriculum Review Task Force [1 year] | ||
| Doctoral Styles Committee [2 years, 1 as chair] | ||
| Equipment Committee [1 year] | ||
| • | Financial Aid Committee [5 years] | |
| Graduate Entrance Exam Task Force [1 year] | ||
| School of Informatics Hiring Committee [2 years] | ||
| • | Information Technology Policy Committee [13 years; 7 as Chair] | |
| Instructional Computing Subcommittee [1 year as Chair] | ||
| • | Instructional Policy Committee [5 years] | |
| § | IU Distributed Education Task Force [1 year] | |
| • | Music Information Technology Minor Program [13 years; 10 as Coordinator] | |
| § | Oncourse Development Priorities Committee [2 years] | |
| • | § | Preparing Future Professors Faculty Learning Community [1 year] |
| Search Committee, music theory [7 years] | ||
| § | Search Committee, Vice President for Enrollment Services [1 year] | |
| • | School of Music Council [7 years, 4 as Secretary] | |
| • | § | Teaching and Learning Systems Steering Committee, Oncourse Priorities Subcommittee [2 years] |
| Travel Funds Committee [1 year] | ||
| Travel Policies Committee [1 year] |
Paper reviewer for ISMIR 2004: The Fifth International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (10-14 October 2004, Barcelona)
Session organizer, Music Theory and Music Informatics, Society for Music Theory, Madison (6-9 November 2003)
Member of Program Committee for ISMIR 2003: The Fourth International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (26-30 October 2003, Washington, D.C. and Baltimore)
Chair of Poster Session on Music Theory and Technology, annual meeting of the Society for Music Theory, Columbus, Ohio (31 October-4 November 2002)
Outside tenure and promotion reviewer (twice)
Music Theory Online
Editor (1999-2001, Volumes 5-7)
Co-Editor (2002, Volume 8)
Editorial reviewer for Music Theory Spectrum (1998)
Advanced Placement Exam in Music Theory, College Entrance Examination Board
Chair of Test Development Committee (1998-2002)
Moderator, AP-Music Listserv (1996-present)
Member of Test Development Committee (1995-98)
Faculty Consultant (June 1995)
Chair of session on Similarity Relations, annual meeting of the Society for Music Theory, Phoenix (30 October-2 November 1997)
Textbook Review for Prentice-Hall (1995-96)
Computer Consultant, Northern Illinois University (11-12 December 1995)
Invited Opponent for dissertation defense of Marcus Castrén ("RECREL: A Similarity Measure for Set-Classes," Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, 15 December 1994)
Music Theory Midwest
Program Committee (1993-94)
Local Arrangements Committee (1993-94)
Nominating Committee (1990-91)
Board Member (1990-91)
Institute for Electronic Technology and Music Instruction, College Music Society, Staff Member (Summer 1990)
Textbook reviews for Mayfield Publishing (1990-92)
Indiana Theory Review
Special article referee (1993-94)
Editor, Volume 8 (1986-87)
Editorial Board (1989-92)
Microcomputers and Music Workshop, Indiana University, Staff Assistant (Summer 1986)
Biennial Symposium of Research in Music Theory, Indiana University Graduate Theory Association
Program Committee Chair (1986, 1988)
General Coordinator (1990)
Southern Indiana Wind Ensemble, Music Director and Conductor (2007-present)
St. Thomas Lutheran Church (Bloomington, IN)
Choir Director (March 2001-August 2002)
Member of Choir (1985-present, various times)
St. Thomas Lutheran Church (Bloomington, IN)
Mission Endowment Fund Committee (2000-2001)
Pipe Organ Task Force, St. Thomas Lutheran Church (Chair, 1996-2000)
Choir Director Search Committee, St. Thomas Lutheran Church (1995, 2002)
Organist Search Committee, St. Thomas Lutheran Church (1994 [chair], 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008)
Worship Committee, St. Thomas Lutheran Church (Chair, 1993-1997; member, 2000-2002)
Teaching Achievement Recognition Award (Indiana University, 1997)
Dean's Dissertation Prize (Indiana University, 1992-93)
Pi Kappa Lambda (elected 1985)
Phi Beta Kappa (elected 1985)
Association for Music Technology and Instruction (1996-present)
College Music Society (1988-1991, 2000-present)
Music Educators National Conference (1998-2000)
Music Theory Midwest (1990-91, 1993-present)
Music Theory Society of New York State (1991-1993)
Society for Music Theory (1985-present)
Indiana University Graduate Theory Association (1985-1991)
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