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Brief curriculum vitae, 2005-06

Education

Research interests

  • Methodological issues in music theory and analysis.
  • Pedagogy of Schenkerian analysis.
  • Analytic theory of the music of Arnold Schoenberg.
  • Analytic theory of the music of J.S. Bach.
  • Text and music relations.

Selected papers and publications

  • Schenkerian Theory and Analysis: A Bridge from Traditional Harmony, Counterpoint, and Form to Advanced Studies in the Analysis of Tonal Music, unpublished manuscript (316 pp.) plus musical examples and an accompanying workbook.
  • Review of Hugh Aitken, The Piece as a Whole: Studies in Holistic Musical Analysis, in MLA Notes (March 1999).
  • Review of Jonathan Bernard et al., Music Theory in Concept and Practice, in MLA Notes (October 1998).
  • Review of Robert Gauldin, Harmonic Practice in Tonal Music, in Music Theory Spectrum 19/2 (Fall 1997): 152-159.
  • “Teaching Schenkerian Analytic Notation: A New Synthesis of Pedagogical Approaches,” Music Theory: Explorations and Applications 4 (Fall 1995): 36-45.
  • Review of David Neumeyer and Susan E. Tepping, A Guide to Schenkerian Analysis, in Journal of Music Theory 39/1 (Spring 1995): 145-170.
  • “Revising Schenker: Toward an Alternative Methodology of Reductive Analysis,” annual meeting of the Texas Society for Music Theory, Lamar University, 5 March 1994.
  • “Teaching Schenkerian Analytic Notation: A New Synthesis of Pedagogical Approaches,” annual meeting of the Texas Society for Music Theory, Southern Methodist University, 27 February 1993.
  • “A Theory of Intervallic Segregation/Intervallic Concentration for Schoenberg's Post-tonal Music,” annual meeting of the Society for Music Theory, Kansas City, 15 October 1992.
  • “The Problem of Abstraction in Set-theoretical Analysis: Critique and Prospectus,” annual meeting of the South Central Chapter of the College Music Society, University of Central Arkansas, 13 April 1991.
  • “How to Harmonize a Melody: Bartok's Harmonizations of the Mesto theme in the Sixth String Quartet,” Faculty Lecture Series, Santa Clara University, 27 February 1989.
  • “Bottom-up and Top-Down Approaches to Musical Analysis,” Faculty Lecture Series, Santa Clara University, 5 May 1988.
  • “Pitch and Intervallic Hierarchies in Schoenberg's Twelve-tone Music,” annual meeting of the Society for Music Theory, Eastman School of Music, 5 November 1987.
  • “Images of Stasis and Change in Schubert's 'Einsamkeit',” Music Department colloquium, Wellesley College, 18 March 1987.
  • “Issues and Attitudes in Twelve-tone Analysis,” Music Theory colloquium, Eastman School of Music, 10 February 1987.
  • Biographical entries in The New Grove Dictionary of American Music (London and New York: Macmillan, 1986), s.vv. John Manley Barnett, Gaetano Delogu, Fred Fox, Frederic Fradkin, Michel Gusikoff, Fritz Mahler, Joseph Malkin, Alan Marks, Thomas Nee, Louis S. Palange, Moshe Paranov, Max Rosen, Luigi Silva, John Finley Williamson, Ole Windingstad, Arthur Winograd.
  • “Musical Metaphors in Schoenberg's 'Der kranke Mond' ( Pierrot Lunaire , No. 7),” In Theory Only 8/7 (November 1985): 3-14.

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