Music Theory at Columbia
Music Theory Faculty Members
Professor of Music
Professor of Music
Assistant Professor of Music
Assistant Professor of Music
Post-Doctoral Fellows with Theory Affiliation
Benjamin Duane
Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in Music
PhD, Music Theory, Northwestern University
Programs Offered
MA, PhD, undergraduate courses and lessons
Current Graduate Students in Music Theory
Dan DiPaolo (Thesis: "Analyzing the Music of Steely Dan")
Scott Gleason (Thesis: "Princeton Theory's Problematics")
Kate Heidemann (Thesis: "Hearing Women's Voices in Popular Song: Analyzing Sound and Identity in Country and Soul")
Caleb Mutch (Thesis: "A History of Cadence in Tonality and Its Precedents")
Max Schmeder (Thesis: "Thirty-Three Miniature Dialectics: Hegelian Philosophy vis-à-vis Beethoven's 'Diabelli' Varations, Op. 120")
Recently Defended Theses:
Victoria Tzotzkova, “Theorizing Pianistic Performance: Tradition, Instrument, Performer” (2012)
Justin Hoffman, "Listening with Two Ears: Conflicting Perceptions of Space in Tonal Music" (2011)
Olaf Post, “‘The Way These People Can Just Listen!’: Inquiries about the Mahler Tradition in the Concertgebouw” (2009)
Paul Sheehan, “Twelve-Tone Entities, Inquisitorial Mind, and the Network Model of the Multitude: Analyzing Luigi Dallapiccola’s Il prigioniero” (2008)
Columbia theorists currently hold positions at Washington University (Paul Steinbeck, PhD ’08), Rutgers University (Christopher Doll, PhD ’07), University of Alberta (Maryam Moshaver, PhD ’06), Kunitachi College of Music (Cathy Cox, PhD ’06), Carnegie Mellon University (John Ito, PhD ’04), University of Arkansas (Elizabeth Margulis, PhD ’03), Hong Kong University (Youn Kim, PhD ’03), Cleveland Institute of Music (Diane Urista, PhD ’01), New York University (Martin Scherzinger, PhD ’01, and Marilyn Nonken, PhD ’99), Tamagawa University (Akira Takaoka, PhD ’99), National Taiwan University (Yuh-Wen Wang, PhD ’98), UC Santa Cruz (Paul Nauert, PhD ’97), Eastman School of Music (David Temperley, PhD ’96), University of Western Ontario (Kevin Mooney, PhD ’96), and elsewhere.
Current and Recent Graduate Seminars
Advanced Analysis
Analysis of Popular Music
Debussy and Modernism
Gender/Sexuality/Music
Interdisciplinary and Humanistic Approaches to Music Theory: Representations of the Listener
Interdisciplinary and Humanistic Approaches to Music Theory: Semantics and Pragmatics of Analytical Description
Introduction to History of Theory
Introduction to Schenkerian Analysis
Introduction to Set Theory
Proseminar in Music Theory
Ruth Crawford Seeger
Area News and Events
FACULTY NEWS
Prof. Hisama will become Editor-in-Chief of Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture in 2013
Prof. Steege's book, Helmholtz and the Modern Listener (2012), is now available from Cambridge University Press.
PAST EVENTS
Theory Colloquium, Friday, October 12, 2012
Ève Poudrier (Yale University), "Polymeter as perceptual paradox and the realization of multiple temporalities: A case study and some prospects"
FOR FURTHER NEWS, SEE ATTACHMENT BELOW:
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