Marianne C. Kielian-Gilbert

Ph.D. (The University of Michigan), Professor

Indiana University Jacobs School of Music
1201 East Third Street
Bloomington, Indiana 47405-7006

Office: Simon 325H
Phone: (812) 855-8132
Fax:: (812) 855-4936

Marianne Kielian-Gilbert has served as secretary of Music Theory Midwest and vice-president of the Society for Music Theory and is a member of several editorial boards, including Perspectives of New Music, for which she also served a term as co-editor. She has published essays on Stravinsky's music, tonal/Schenkerian analysis, 20th- and 21st-century music, and music and cultural studies (feminism and music). Her work appears in essay collections and journals including College Music Symposium, In Theory Only, Journal of Musicology, Journal of Music Theory, Music Analysis, Music Perception, Music Theory Spectrum, 19th-Century Music, Perspectives of New Music, and Theory and Practice.

Dr. Kielian-Gilbert’s recent work examines connections between music and cultural studies in relation to different perceptual, contextual, and philosophical orientations. Another dimension of her work includes multi-disciplinary/multi-media presentations that have explored gender and sexuality in Britten’s music, music of contemporary women composers, Picasso and Stravinsky, the poetry of Sylvia Plath in the music of Shulamit Ran, and tango and dance. In summer 2008, she was co-producer with conductor Carmen Helena Téllez for the world premiere of the opera ¡Únicamente la Verdad! (Only the Truth!) by Mexican composer Gabriela Ortiz at Indiana University. She is the recipient of the 2008 Distinguished Scholar Award from Indiana University’s Office for Women’s Affairs.