Music Theory


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Recent Activity

  • “Augmented canons and eternal time in the music of Steve Reich” – presented at the Music Theory Southeast Regional Conference, Rock Hill, SC, March 6, 2010
    • Also presented at the Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic, State College, PA, March 27, 2010
    • Slides (as PDF)
  • “Meaning in minimalist opera: Investigating the subtext of Doctor Atomic” – will be presented at the Second International Conference on Minimalist Music, Kansas City, Missouri, September 2-6, 2009
  • “Music, politics, and image in Adams’s Nixon in China” – presented at the 2nd Annual International Conference for PhD Music Students, Thessaloniki, Greece, February 10-13, 2009
  • “A semiological model for the study of musical multimedia” – presented at the 33rd meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, Houston, TX, October 16-18, 2008
  • “Can you repeat after me? The use of double-interval cycles in Lost Objects” – presented at the Music Theory Southeast Regional Conference, Greensboro, NC, February 29-March 1, 2008
  • “Using Technology in the Music Classroom” – presented to the Music Theory Society at Florida State University, October 17, 2007
  • Interview with Nancy Rogers and Clifton Callender, Amsteg.org Podcast, recorded in November 2006.