Research
My research interests include music and mathematics, late 19th-century music, jazz, South Asian music, e-learning, and arts technology. I perform as a classical pianist and jazz organist. I have extensive experience with model composition in classical styles of the 18th and 19th centuries.
Writings
You can find my articles in Music Theory Spectrum, Journal of Music Theory, Music Analysis, American Mathematical Monthly, Music Theory Online, Contemporary Music Review, and elsewhere. I have given numerous guest lectures and conference papers; titles of recent talks are “New Meanings for the Common Terms of Tonal Theory," "Symmetry Claims in Music Theory," and "Music and Mathematics."Experience
Associate Professor, University of Michigan
July 2001– Present
Faculty in the department of music theory; also director of graduate studies in music theory.
Associate Professor, Yale University
July 1991 – July 2001
Faculty in the department of music theory; former editor of the Journal of Music Theory.
Education
Ph.D., History and Theory of music, University of Chicago.
Honors and Awards
- Fellow, Mannes Institute for Advanced Studies in Music Theory: Jazz and Pop 2008, Form 2004, Transformational Theory 2003.
- Clauss Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities, Yale University, 1998.
- Griswold Faculty Fellow, Yale University, 1998.
- Morse Fellowship in the Humanities, Yale University, 1995.
- Ph.D. Degree defense awarded with Honors, University of Chicago, 1992.
- Ph.D. Qualifying Exams passed with Honors, University of Chicago, 1987.
- Pi Kappa Lambda, National Honorary Music Society, 1984.
