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Music Theory Department

Our graduate program in music theory is a special blend of cutting-edge academic research and innovative pedagogy, enhanced by the rich musical life of one of the world's great schools of music and the scholarly resources of a first-class university.

Music Theory at IU
The Bess Meshulam Simon Center, home of the music theory department

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Simon 225H
Ron Sebben, Admin. Asst.
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Upcoming Events

16-17 May 2008. Several faculty, alumi, and students will present papers at Music Theory Midwest (Bowling Green State Univerity):

  • Prof. Kyle Adams, "A Preliminary Inquiry into Sixteenth-Century 'Modality' in Selected Works by Josquin"
  • Sara Bakker (doctoral student), "Hungarian Text-Setting in the Choral Music of Bartók and Kodály"
  • Timothy Best (doctoral student), "Schubert's Expansive Sonata Forms: The Trio in E-flat, Op. 100 as Case Study"
  • Melissa Hoag (PhD 2008), "Youthful Idealism in Brahms's 'Frühlingslied,' Op. 85, no. 5"
  • Victoria Malawey (PhD 2007), "Harmonic Oscillation in Björk's 'Triumph of a Heart' and 'Who Is It'"
  • Michael Oravitz (PhD 2005), "The Use of Caplin/Schoenberg Thematic Prototypes as Vehicles for a Stylistically Sound Study of Melody in an Aural Skills Curriculum"
  • Michael Vidmar-McEwen (doctoral student), "Franz Schubert & the Etherealized Mechanical"

23 May 2008. Prof. Gretchen Horlacher will give a paper, "Stravinsky's Stutter: Modeling Melodic Development and Repetition," at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music's "Thinking About Music" lecture series.

Previous News and Events

Departmental News

New Faculty Appointment

The department warmly welcomes Blair Johnston to the faculty this fall! Prof. Johnston is completing his PhD at the University of Michigan.

The department is pleased to announce that Sara Bakker has been named the first recipient of the Wennerstrom Associate Instructor Teaching Fellowship. Sara is a third-year doctoral student in music theory.

Congratulations to Prof. Marianne Kielian-Gilbert, who has been named the winner of the 2008 Distinguished Scholar Award by IU's Office of Women's Affairs!

Recent Publications

Prof. Julian Hook, "Why Are There Twenty-Nine Tetrachords?: A Tutorial on Combinatorics and Enumeration in Music Theory," Music Theory Online 13.4 (2007).

Prof. Frank Samarotto, "Determinism. Prediction, and Inevitability in Brahms's Rhapsody in E-flat, op. 119, no. 4," Theory and Practice 32 (2007).

Prof. Julian Hook, "David Lewin and the Complexity of the Beautiful," Intégral 21 (2007).

Vincent Benitez (PhD 2001), Messiaen as Improviser. Dutch Journal of Music Theory 13, no. 2 (2008).

Vincent Benitez (PhD 2001), Olivier Messiaen: A Research and Information Guide. Routledge Music Bibliographies. New York and London: Routledge, 2008.

Eddy Zemach and Tamara Balter (ABD), "The Structure of Irony and how it Functions in Music" in Philosophers on Music Experience, Meaning, and Work, edited by Kathleen Stock (Oxford University Press, 2007).

Ryan McClelland (PhD 2004), "Metric Dissonance in Brahms’s Piano Trio in C Minor, Op. 101," Intégral 20 (2006).

 



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