Lewis E. Rowell

Ph.D. (Eastman School of Music), Professor Emeritus

Dr. Rowell, also a faculty member in the ethnomusicology and India Studies programs, has taught previously at the Universities of Oklahoma, Cincinnati, and Hawaii, and has held research fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation and the American Institute of Indian Studies. He is the author of books and articles on time and rhythm, the history of music theory, the philosophy of music, and the music of India. A founding member of the Society for Music Theory, he has held several offices in the Society and edited the journal Music Theory Spectrum from 1983-85. He was designated as Indiana University's Distinguished Faculty Research Lecturer for 1993-94. His most recent book is Music and Musical Thought in Early India (University of Chicago Press, 1992), which won the Otto Kinkeldey Award from the American Musicological Society in 1993. In 1999 the University of Rochester presented him with the Rochester Distinguished Scholar Medal. In 2003 his article on "New Temporal Horizons and the Theory of Music" received the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers.