Music Theory Department, Eastman School of Music

Eastman at SMT Students Zachary Cairns, "Juggling Twos and Threes" Benjamin Wadsworth, "Dialectical Opposition between Tonal and Atonal Structures in Berg's Piano Sonata Faculty Jonathan Dunsby, "The Grain of Panzéra's Voice: Analysis of Interpretation" Jeannie Ma. Guerrero, "Ludus Hindemithensis: Serial Reckonings Behind Nono's Polifonica-Monodia-Ritmica (1951)" Jeannie Ma.Guerrero, Moderator, Ethnic Diversity in Music Theory: Voices from the Field Sponsored by the Diversity Committee Elizabeth West Marvin, participant, Sexual Harassment in the University Workplace (Baltimore A) Sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Women Elizabeth West Marvin, Organizer and Chair, Plenary Session: Issues in Music Cognition David Temperley (Eastman School of Music), "Hypermetrical Transitions" Affiliated / Retired Faculty Robert Gauldin, Emeritus, participant Pedagogy of Music Theory: Practicum and Discussion Robert Morris, "Some Musical Applications of Minimal Graph Cycles" Martin Scherzinger, "'Deterritorializing the Refrain': Music As Philosophical Critique" Recent Graduates Gavin Chuck (University of Michigan), "Hanslick's Musical 'Content' Reformulated: Perceptual Symbols and Musical Meaning" James McGowan (Laurentian University), "Extended Assemblies of Scale Degrees: Functional Implications of Jazz Chords" Austin T. Patty (Lee University), "The Influence of Harmonic Rhythm and Melodic Pacing on Musical Climax with Particular Attention to Brahms's A-Major Violin Sonata"	We welcome Professor Jonathan Dunsby to the ESM Music Theory Department. Professor Dunsby has a distinguished career in music study and performance.	Congratulations to our recent graduates, Christopher Bartlette, who has accepted a position at Baylor University, Peter Franck, who is going to the University of Western Ontario, Danny Jenkins, who has accepted a position at South Carolina, and Peter Silberman, who is starting at Ithaca College.
	Zac Cairns has "Shostakovich's Grundgestalt: Links between the Seventh and Eighth Symphonies" accepted for publication in the journal "DSCH."	John Koslovsky, Ph.D. candidate in Music Theory (2009) was awarded a Fulbright grant to research Felix Salzer, in Vienna, Austria. John plans to research and archive his life and scholarship; his research in Vienna will be the basis for his dissertation on Salzer's work and life.
	Josh Mailman has a review article, "Repetition in Music: Theoretical and Metatheoretical Perspectives" in Psychology of Music 2007 35: 363-375 (http://pom.sagepub.com/ content/vol35/issue2/?etoc)	Jeannie Guerreo has an article, "Francesco's Dream: Musical Logic in Landini's Three-Voice Ballate," forthcoming in Music Theory Online
	Bill Marvin presented "Complete, Continuous, Monotonal: Tonality and Form in Mozart's Operatic Finales" at the 6th European Music Analysis Conference, Freiburg 10.-14. Oktober 2007."	Matthew Brown has recently published Explaining Tonality: Schenkerian Theory and Beyond with the University of Rochester Press
	Matt BaileyShea has a paper in 19th-Century Music, "The Struggle for Orchestral Control: Power, Dialogue, and the Role of the Orchestra in Wagner's Ring	John Covach is featured in an article in the Rochester Review.
	Dave Headlam is co-authoring (with Philip Stoecker) a special double issue of Theory and Practice devoted to the life and music of George Perle.	Steve Laitz has the second edition of his text, The Complete Musician coming out.
	Betsy Marvin and Davy Temperley presented a co-authored paper at the Society for Music Perception and Cognition (Montreal, August 2007) entitled "Pitch Class Distribution and the Perception of Key," an expansion of their poster session from SMT Los Angeles (2006). Her article "Absolute Pitch Perception and the Pedagogy of Relative Pitch" appears this year in the Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy 21 (2007). She will teach on the faculty of the Mannes Institute on music cognition in 2008.	Marie Rolf has a chapter, "Symbolism as Compositional Agent in Act IV, Scene 4 of Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande" in Berlioz and Debussy: Sources, Contexts and Legacies, Essays in Honour of Francois Lesure, edited by Barbara L. Kelly and Kerry Murphy.
	Ciro Scotto's activities include a 2007 Intégral : Review/Essay, "Open Space and Music Theory at the Turn of the Millennium"	David Temperley's second book, Music and Probability (MIT Press) appeared in January 2007.
	Dariusz Terefenko's recent activities include "The Art of the Solo Piano Introduction -- Formal Approach"; published in "The IAJE Book Report" (2005)	Bob Wason spoke on "From HARMONIELEHRE to HARMONY: Schenker's Theory of Harmony and Its Americanization" at the Fourth International Schenker Conference