• EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
  • Positions
  • Degrees
  • Honors
  • Memberships
• SCHOLARSHIP
  • Publications
  • Grants
  • Lectures
• OTHER EXPERIENCE

EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

Professional and Academic Positions

Florida State University, College of Music, Tallahassee, FL
Associate Professor of Music Theory, August 2008-present
Assistant Professor of Music Theory, August 2002-July 2008

Instituto de Artes, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil
Visiting Professor, June 28-July 14, 2006.

Indiana University, School of Music, Bloomington, IN
Assistant Professor of Music Theory (tenure track), August 2001-May 2002

University of Iowa, School of Music, Iowa City, IA
Assistant Professor of Music Theory (tenure track), August 1998-2001
Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Theory, August 1996-August 1998

University of Rochester, College of Liberal Arts, Rochester, NY
Lecturer in Music, August 1993-May 1995

University of Rochester, Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY
Teaching Assistant in Music Theory, August 1990-May 1993

Higher Education

University of Rochester, Eastman School of Music
Ph.D. in Music Theory awarded February 1998
Dissertation: “Relative Saturation of Subsets and Interval Cycles as a Means for Determining Set-Class Similarity.”
Completed the Minor in Musicology

University of Michigan, School of Music
M.M. in Music Theory awarded May 1990
Musicology cognate area

University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music
B.M. in Music Theory awarded June 1988

Honors and Awards

Florida State University Graduate Teaching Award, 2012-2013

Florida State University Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2004-2005

University of Iowa Collegiate Teaching Award, 2000-2001

Award for best paper delivered at the 1st International Symposium for Systems Research in the Arts in conjunction with the 11th International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics, and Cybernetics, Baden-Baden, Germany, August 1999

Nominated for the Music Theory Society of New York State Young Scholar’s Award, 1995

Nominated for the Edward Peck Curtis Teaching Award at the University of Rochester, 1993 and 1995

Eastman School of Music (University of Rochester) Graduate Student Teaching Award, 1993

Memberships

Society for Music Theory, 1995-present

Elected Offices

• Vice President of the Society (elected), 2013-2015
• Member at Large on the Executive Board, 2005-2008

Committees

• Subvention Policy Subcommittee, 2015
• Subventions Committee, Chair (ex-officio), 2013-2015
• Chair of the Program Committee, 2013
• Member of the Graduate Workshops and Peer Learning Program Committee (ex-officio), 2012-2013
• Member of the Program Committee, 2012
• Member of the Music Theory Online Editorial Board, 2005-2008
• Member of the Ad-Hoc Committee on Sustainability, 2009-2011
• Member of Nominations Committee, 2003-2004 and 2009-2010
• Moderator of the Virtual Poster Session, 2003-2005
• Member of Networking Committee, 2000-2005
• Member of Pedagogy Interest Group, 1999-present
• Member of Music Informatics Group, 2002-present

Society for American Music, 2004-present

• Site selection committee memeber, 2006-2009

Music Theory Southeast, 2003-present

• Chair of Local Arrangements Committee, 2011

American Mathematical Society, 2004-2005

Music Theory Midwest, 1996-2002

• Regional Representative (elected office), 2000-2002

Music Theory Society of New York State, 1994-1997

College Music Society, 1997-1998

SCHOLARSHIP

Publications or Creative Works

Refereed Articles and Book Chapters

• "Are There Any Bad (or Good) Transformational Analyses?," forthcoming (2016) in Intégral.
• "Counterpoint as Text Setting in Cole Porter's 'Love for Sale'," forthcoming in an edited volume on Cole Porter to be published by University of Illinois Press.
• "On American Master's Degree Programs in Music Theory," Rivista di Analisi e Teoria Musicale (Italian Journal of Analysis and Music Theory), vol. 21, no. 1, 2015: 137-141.
• in Review of You're a Grand Old Rag: The Music of George M. Cohan (recording) by Rick Benjamin and The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra, Journal of the Society for American Music, vol 6, no. 2, 2012: 255-258.
• Review (article-length) of Analyzing Atonal Music: Pitch-Class Set Theory and Its Contexts by Michiel Schuijer in Journal of Mathematics and Music, vol. 5, no. 2, 2011: 141-148.
• "Modulation as a Dramatic Agent in Frank Loesser’s Broadway Songs," Music Theory Spectrum, vol. 30, no. 1, 2008: 35-60.
• "Reconsidering Klumpenhouwer Networks One More Time: A Response to Eight Responses," Music Theory Online vol. 14, no. 1, March 2008. http://mto.societymusictheory.org/issues/mto.08.14.1/toc.14.1.html
• "Every Love but True Love: Unstable Relationships in Cole Porter’s 'Love for Sale,'" PopMusicology, edited by Christian Bielefeldt and Rolf Grossmann, Lüneberg, Germany: Transcript Verlag, 2008: 184-200. (ISBN: 978-3-89942-603-8)
• "Reconsidering Klumpenhouwer Networks," Music Theory Online, vol 13, no 2, June 2007. http://mto.societymusictheory.org/issues/mto.07.13.2/toc.13.2.html
  • Seven commentaries (by G. Foley, H. Klumpenhouwer, C. Losada, C. Nolan, S. O'Donnell, P. Stoecker, and D. Tymoczko) and a full-length article (by S. Murphy) that respond to this article appeared in the following issue of Music Theory Online (vol. 13, no. 3) in September 2007. One more commentary (by R. M. Grant) appeared in Music Theory Online, vol. 14, no. 1. I also published a rejoinder in that issue (see above citation).
• "'Laura' and the Essential Ninth: Were They Only a Dream?,"Em Pauta, vol. 17, 2006: 5-25 (published March 2007).
• "The Sonic Illusion of Metrical Consistency in Recent Minimalist Composition" in Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, ed., Mario Baroni, Anna Rita Addessi, Roberto Caterina, and Marco Costa, Bologna: Bononga University Press, 2006: 697-701. (ISBN: 88-7395-155-4)
• "When Rules Seem Less Than Golden," AP Central Teaching Resources, an online publication of the The College Board (published October 2005).
  http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/courses/teachers_corner/48342.html
• Review/article of Elements of Music by Joseph N. Straus, Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy, vol 17, 2003: 79-90 (published October 2004).
• "Relative Saturation of Intervals and Set Classes: A New Approach to Complementation and Pcset Similarity,"Journal of Music Theory, vol. 45, no. 2, 2001: 263-343 (published November 2003).
• "Square Dance Moves and Twelve-Tone Operators: Isomorphisms and New Transformational Models," (co-authored with Nancy Rogers), Music Theory Online, vol. 9, no. 4, October 2003. http://www.societymusictheory.org/mto/issues/mto.03.9.4/toc.9.4.html
• "Broken and Unbroken Interval Cycles and their use in Determining Pitch-Class Set Resemblance,"Perspectives of New Music, vol. 38, no. 2, 2000: 52-87 (published October 2001).
• "Fuzzy Logic and Elemental Saturation in Musical Pitch-Class Set Theory," in Systems Research in the Arts: Volume I: Musicology, ed., George Lasker and James Rhodes, International Institute for Advanced Studies, 1999: 1-5. (ISBN: 0-921836-96-1)
• "Rejoinder to Thomson,"In Theory Only, vol. 13, no. 1-2, 1997: 179-185.
• Review/article of Schoenberg’s Error by William Thomson, In Theory Only, vol. 12, no. 7-8, 1994: 59-80.
  

Software (non-refereed)

• Setmaker, first released 1993, last updated 2004
  Computer software for Macintosh and Windows platforms that performs many set-theoretic and transformational manipulations on unordered pitch-class sets.
• pSetmaker, 2001, last updated 2003
  Computer software for Macintosh and Windows platforms that performs set-theoretic and similarity calculations on unordered pitch sets (where octaves are not equivalent).
  

Grants

• Florida State University First-Year Assistant Professor Grant, Summer 2003
• Indiana University-Bloomington Summer Faculty Fellowship, Summer 2002
• Preparing our Graduate Students as Teachers Summer Workshop, $4,100 from University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts, Summer 2001
• University of Iowa Arts and Humanities Initiative, $15,400, Fall 1999
  (I was co-investigator; Prof. Rick Altman was principal investigator)
• nTITLE grant for instructional technology, $3,000, Summer 1999
• Old Gold Summer Fellowship, $5,000, Summer 1999

Invited Lectures and Conference Presentations
Note: All conference presentations are submitted and reviewed by committee, except where noted.

International and National Meetings

• "Cole Porter's Promiscuous Counterpoint."
  American Musicological Society Annual Conference, Louisville, Kentucky, November 13, 2015
• "When You Wish Upon A Star Your Melody Ascends: Aspirational Disney Songs and the Ascending Urlinie."
  Society for Music Theory Annual Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, October 2015
• "Integrating High-Impact Educational Practices into your Living-Learning Communities." (Co presented with Sara Hamon, Amber Hampton, Holly Hunt, and William Parker)
  Association of College and University Housing Officers – International Living-Learning Communities Conference, St. Petersburg, Florida, October, 2015.
• "Ornamentation in Atonal Music"
  Society for Music Theory Annual Conference, Milwuakee, Wisconsin, November 7, 2014
• "Understanding Ornamentation in Atonal Music"
  International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Thessaloniki, Greece, July 27, 2012
• "Thinking about Musical Phrases, Not Merely Chords."
  College Board AP National Conference, Orlando, FL, July 20, 2012
• "Are There Any Bad (or Good) Transformational Analyses?"
  Society for Music Theory Annual Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana, November 5, 2010
• Learning to Speak (and Sing) the Other's Language: On Gamblers, Missionaries, and their Musical Signifiers in Guys and Dolls."
  6th Susan Porter Memorial Symposium, Boulder, Colorado, October 2-4, 2010
• "Elliott Carter and the Sorcerer’s Stone: All-Interval Tetrachords as Musical Building Blocks"
  Co-authored with Alan Theisen, Florida State University
  Society for Music Theory Annual Conference, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, October, 2009.
• "Personal and Tonal Transformations in Frank Loesser’s 'My Time of Day'"
  Society for Music Theory Annual Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, November 16, 2007.
• "Reconsidering Klumpenhouwer Networks"
  Society for Music Theory Annual Conference, Los Angeles, California, November 2, 2006.
• "The Sonic Illusion of Metrical Consistency in Recent Minimalist Composition"
  International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Bologna, Italy, August 23, 2006
• "Modulation as a Dramatic Agent in Frank Loesser's Broadway Songs"
  Society for American Music annual meeting, Chicago, IL, March 18, 2006.
• "Minimalist Aesthetics, Processes, and Designs (and their absence) in John Adams's Lollapalooza"
  Dublin International Conference on Music Analysis, Dublin, Ireland, June 23, 2005
• “Some Thoughts on the Role of Modulation in Songs by Frank Loesser’”
  College Board’s Music Theory Advanced Placement Reading Professional Colloquium, Ewing, NJ, June 11, 2005
  This was not a peer-reviewed presentation.
• "Teaching Musical Priciples (Not Musical Rules) for AP Music Theory”
  Co-authored with Nancy Rogers, Florida State University
  College Board AP National Conference, Orlando, FL, July 17, 2004
• "Every Love but True Love: Unstable Relationships in Cole Porter’s ‘Love for Sale’”
  Society for American Music annual meeting, Cleveland, OH, March 14, 2004
• "Counting Potential Intervals in Infinite (and Smaller) Spaces."
  American Mathematical Society National Conference (part of the Joint Mathematics Meetings), Phoenix, AZ, January 9, 2004
• “‘Laura’ and the Essential Ninth: Were They Only a Dream?”
  Society for Music Theory annual meeting, Madison, WI, November 6, 2003
• Fellow at the Mannes Institute for Advanced Music Theory, June 20-24, 2003.
• "Notions of Equivalence and Similarity in Atonal Music Theory"
  American Mathematical Society 984th Conference, Baton Rouge, LA, March 15, 2003
  Reviewed by Robert Peck in Music Theory Online, vol. 9, no. 3, August 2003. http://www.societymusictheory.org/mto/issues/mto.03.9.3/mto.03.9.3.peck_review.html
• “Every Love but True Love: Unstable Relationships in Cole Porter’s ‘Love for Sale’”
  College Board’s Music Theory Advanced Placement Reading Professional Colloquium, Ewing, NJ, June 2002
  This was not a peer-reviewed presentation.
• “Some Isomorphisms between Transformational Theory and American Square Dance Calls”
  Co-authored with Nancy Rogers, Florida State University
  Society for Music Theory annual meeting, Philadelphia, PA, November 9, 2001
• “‘Laura’ and her Ninth Chords: Were They Only a Dream?”
  Society for American Music annual meeting,
  Port of Spain, Trinidad, May 25, 2001
• “Determining Similarity among Pitch Sets of Unequal Cardinality: A Contextual Approach”
  Society for Music Theory annual meeting (a major joint meeting with thirteen other national and international scholarly music societies), Toronto, Ontario, Canada, November 2000
• “Unresolved Suspensions in David Raksin’s ‘Laura’”
  College Board’s Music Theory Advanced Placement Reading Professional Colloquium, Ewing, NJ, June 2000 This was not a peer-reviewed presentation.
• “Fuzzy Logic and Elemental Saturation in Musical Pitch-Class Set Theory”
  1st International Symposium for Systems Research in the Arts in conjunction with the 11th International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics, and Cybernetics, Baden-Baden, Germany, August 1999
  Received award for best paper in its category
• “The World-Wide Web as Classroom Resource for Music Theory Instruction”
  College Board’s Music Theory Advanced Placement Reading Professional Colloquium, Ewing, NJ, June 1999 This was not a peer-reviewed presentation.
• “A Cycle-Based System for Relating Pitch-Class Sets”
  Society for Music Theory annual meeting, Phoenix, AZ, November 1997
  Also delivered at the Music Theory Society of New York State annual meeting, Rochester, NY, April 1997
• “An Alternative to the Interval-Class Vector and Its Use in Relating Abstract Pitch-Class Sets”
  Society for Music Theory annual meeting, New York, NY, November 1995
  Also at the Music Theory Society of New York State annual meeting, Buffalo, NY, April 1995

Regional Meetings and Invited Lectures

• Invited lecture and residency at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, February 5-6, 2015.
• Invited lecture (Milton Steinhardt Lecture in Music) at The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, October 24, 2014. Title: "Everything's Coming Up Roses (and Tetrachords): Aspirational and Celebrational Songs and their Contrapuntal Affinities."
• Invited lecture and residency at The University of Texas at Austin, April 3-4, 2014.
• "When You Wish Upon A Star Your Melody Ascends: Aspirational Disney Songs and the Ascending Urlinie." Music Theory Southeast annual meeting, Tampa, FL, March 21-22, 2014.
• Invited lecture and residency at Florida Gulf Coast University, March 18-20, 2014.
• Invited lecture and residency at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, February 27-28, 2014.
• Invited lecture at The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, February 26, 2014.
• Invited lecture and residency at The University of Colorado at Boulder, November 17-18, 2013.
• Keynote lecture: "Guys, Dolls, Saints, Sinners, Form, and Analysis"
  Oklahoma Music Theory Roundtable, Oklahoma City, OK, October 5, 2012
• "Form, Motive, and Structure in Act I of Frank Loesser’s The Most Happy Fella."
  Oklahoma City University Bass School of Music, Oklahoma City, OK, October 4, 2012
• "Ornamentation in Atonal Music: Some Unmethodological Musical Interpretations."
  Music Theory Southeast annual meeting, Atlanta, GA, March 9-10, 2012
• "Are There Any Bad (or Good) Transformational Analyses?"
  Music Theory Southeast annual meeting, Rock Hill, SC, March 5,2010
• "'The Perfect Musical:' Some Thoughts about Drama, Music, and Structure in Guys and Dolls"
  Indiana University, Bloomington (guest lecture), April 8, 2009
• "Dramatic Oppositions and their Musical Voices in Guys and Dolls"
  University of North Carolina at Greensboro (guest lecture), February 6, 2008
• "Personal and Tonal Transformations in Frank Loesser’s 'My Time of Day'"
  Music Theory Southeast annual meeting, Athens, GA, March 16,2007
• "Mathematics, Musical Structure, and Music Analysis"
  Jacksonville University, Science and Engineering Lecture Series, Jacksonville, FL, February 15, 2007
• "Direct Stepwise Modulation and its Dramatic and Structural Roles in Frank Loesser’s Songs"
  Music Theory Southeast annual meeting, Chapel Hill, NC, March 4, 2006
• "Minimalism, Structure, Salience (and their absence) in John Adams’s Lollapalooza"
  Music Theory Southeast annual meeting, Miami, FL, March 5,2005
• "The Problems of Not Repeating Oneself: Minimalist Aesthetics and the Analysis of Recent ‘Minimalist’ Music"
  Invited guest lecture at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, February 18, 2005
• "Every Love but True Love: Unstable Relationships in Cole Porter’s ‘Love for Sale’”
  Music Theory Southeast/South Central Society for Music Theory joint annual meeting, Atlanta, GA, February 27, 2004
• “Broken Lines and Broken Lives in Hugo Wolf's 'Mir ward gesagt, du reisest in die Ferne'"
  Hugo Wolf Centennial Symposium, Florida State University, October 16 2003
• "Every Love but True Love: Unstable Relationships in Cole Porter’s ‘Love for Sale’”
  Music Theory Midwest annual meeting, Bloomington, IN, May 16, 2003
• “Some Isomorphisms between Transformational Theory and American Square Dance Calls”
  Co-authored with Nancy Rogers, Florida State University
  FSU Music Theory Forum, Tallahassee, FL, February 2003
• “‘Laura’ and the Essential Ninth: Were They Only a Dream?”
  Music Theory Midwest annual meeting, Appleton, WI, May 20, 2000
• “Compositional Structure in Witold Lutoslawski’s Partita for Violin and Piano”
  Invited guest lecture at Butler University, Indianapolis, Indiana, February 7, 2000
  Pre-concert lecture preceding Réne Lecuona’s and Davis Brooks' recital
  Robertson Chapel, Butler University, Indianapolis, IN, February 7, 2000
• “Generalized Scale-Step Sequences in Atonal Music”
  Music Theory Midwest annual meeting, Indianapolis, IN, May 1999
• "A Cycle-Based System for Relating Pitch-Class Sets"
  Music Theory Society of New York State annual meeting, Rochester, NY, April 1997
• “Style versus Idea: Expressionist Aesthetics and Splintered Formalism in
  Schoenberg’s Die glückliche Hand”
  Music Theory Midwest annual meeting, Kalamazoo, MI, May 18, 1996
• “Anatomy of a Chord: An Introduction to Interval Classes and Similarity Relations”
  “The Chord in Context: A New Analytic Tool and Its Use in Relating Pitch-Class Sets”
  Two-part invited lecture series at the Northwestern University School of Music, October 1995
• "An Alternative to the Interval-Class Vector and Its Use in Relating Abstract Pitch-Class Sets"
  Music Theory Society of New York State annual meeting, Buffalo, NY, April 1995

Invited Session Chairs at Academic Meetings

• Session chair at the Society for Music Theory 2011 Meeting, Minneapolis, MN.
• "Pitch Organisation in Post-Tonal Music" at the Dublin International Conference on Music Analysis, Dublin, Ireland, June 24, 2005.
• Moderator of panel discussion on trends in new music at the Florida State University Biennial Festival of New Music, February 5, 2005. Panel included Martin Bresnick, Michael Torke, Vaclav Riedelbauch, Tadeusz Wielecki, Melissa Mazolli, Lisa Moore, and Ladislav Kubik.
• “Teaching Twentieth-Century Compositional Techniques to Undergraduates: A Symposium and Demonstration” at the Society for Music Theory annual meeting, Columbus, OH, November 2002
• “Twentieth-Century Rhythm and Meter” at Music Theory Midwest annual meeting, Cincinnati, OH, May 2001
• “Film and the Music Industry” at the Cinema and Popular Song Conference, Iowa City, IA, April 1999

OTHER EXPERIENCE

• Faculty Consultant and Reader for Advanced Placement (AP) Test in Music Theory,
  The College Board and Educational Testing Service, Ewing, NJ: 1998-2006
• Work with juried journals
  • Rivista di Analisi e Teoria Musicale (Italy)
    • Editorial Board member: 2015-present
    Indiana Theory Review
    • Editorial Board member: 2013-present
  • Music Theory Online
    • Editorial Board Member: 2005-2008
    • External reader: 2005
    Journal of the Royal Musical Society (U.K.)
    • External reader: 2006
    Journal of Music Theory
    • External reader: 2004, 2005
  • Intégral
    • External reader: 1998-1999
    • Editor: 1994-1995
    • Reviews Editor: 1993-1994
    • Staff Member: 1990-1993
  • In Theory Only
    • Staff Member: 1988-1990