DAVID TEMPERLEY

Eastman School of Music
26 Gibbs St.
Rochester, NY 14604
585-274-1557 (w)
585-461-3003 (h)
585-274-1088 (fax)
dtemperley@esm.rochester.edu


Professional Experience

Eastman School of Music 2005- Associate Professor of Music Theory (teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in theory, analysis, counterpoint, music cognition, and other subjects)
Eastman School of Music 2000-2005 Assistant Professor of Music Theory
Columbia University 1996-7, 1999-2000 Adjunct Assistant Professor (taught aural training, beginning and advanced; fundamentals of music)
Ohio State University 1998-9 Lecturer (full-time one-year appointment; taught and supervised sophomore aural training)
Ohio State University 1997-8 Post-Doctoral Fellow in Music Cognition
New York University (College of Education) Spring 1997 Adjunct Assistant Professor (taught twentieth-century theory and aural training)
Columbia University 1989-1996 Instructor / Teaching Assistant for various courses: Undergraduate Composition, Diatonic Harmony, Music Humanities (a course in masterpieces of Western music), Opera.


Academic Training

Columbia University Ph.D in Music Theory (May 1996)
Columbia University M.A. in Composition (Studies with David Rakowski, Steve Mackey, George Edwards, and Fred Lerdahl)
Swarthmore College B.A. in History (with Distinction) (1985)
Aspen Music School Composition program, Summer 1992 (studies with George Tsontakis); 4-week composition master class, Summer 1993 (studies with Bernard Rands and Jacob Druckman)
June-in-Buffalo Festival Master classes with Bernard Rands, David Felder, Charles Wuorinen, and Jacob Druckman, Summer 1993
BMI Musical Theater Workshop Beginning workshop, 1987-9; advance workshop, 1989-91


Papers and Publications

Books

____________ . 2007. Music and Probability. MIT Press.

____________ . 2001. The Cognition of Basic Musical Structures. MIT Press.

Articles and Book Chapters (Music)

____________ . In press. "Hypermetrical Transitions." Music Theory Spectrum.

____________ . In press. "Key Structure in 'Das alte Jahr vergangen ist'." Journal of Music Theory.

____________ . 2008. "A Probabilistic Model of Melody Perception." Cognitive Science 32 #2, 418-444.

____________ . 2008. "The Tonal Properties of Pitch-Class Sets." Computing in Musicology 15, 24-38.

____________ and Elizabeth West Marvin. 2008. "Pitch-class Distribution and the Identification of Key." Music Perception 25 #2, 193-212.

____________ . 2007. "The Melodic-Harmonic 'Divorce' in Rock." Popular Music 26 #2, 323-342.

____________ . 2004. "Bayesian Models of Musical Structure and Cognition." Musicae Scientiae 8 #2, 175-205. [PDF]

____________ . 2004. "An Evaluation System for Metrical Models." Computer Music Journal 28 #3, 28-44. [PDF]

____________ . 2004. "Communicative Pressure and the Evolution of Musical Styles." Music Perception 21 #3, 313-37. [PDF]

____________ . 2003. "End-Accented Phrases: An Analytical Exploration." Journal of Music Theory 47 #1, 125-54.

____________ & Christopher Bartlette. 2002. "Parallelism as a Factor in Metrical Analysis." Music Perception 20 #2, 117-49. [PDF]

____________ . 2002. "A Bayesian Approach to Key-Finding." In C. Anagnostopoulou, M. Ferrand, & A. Smaill (Eds.), Music and Artificial Intelligence (pp. 195-206). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.

____________ . 2001. "The Question of Purpose in Music Theory: Description, Suggestion, and Explanation." Current Musicology, 66, 66-85. [PDF]

____________ . 2000. "The Line of Fifths", Music Analysis, 19 #3, 289-319.

____________ . 2000. "Meter and Grouping in African Music: A View from Music Theory", Ethnomusicology, 44 #1, 65-96.

____________ . 1999. "What's Key for Key? The Krumhansl-Schmuckler Key-Finding Algorithm Reconsidered." Music Perception 17 #1, 65-100.

____________ & Daniel Sleator. 1999. "Modeling Meter and Harmony: A Preference Rule Approach." Computer Music Journal 15 #1, 10-27.

____________ . 1999. "Syncopation in Rock: A Perceptual Perspective." Popular Music 18 #2, 19-40.

____________ . 1997. "An Algorithm for Harmonic Analysis." Music Perception 15 #1, 31-68.

____________ . 1995. "Motivic Perception and Modularity." Music Perception 13 #2, 141-69.

Reviews

____________ . 2005. Review of Empirical Musicology: Aims, Methods, Prospects, ed. by Eric Clarke & Nicholas Cook. Music Perception 23, 91-96.

____________ . 2003. Review of Tonal Pitch Space, by Fred Lerdahl. Musicae Scientiae 7, 141-55.

____________ . 2000. Review of Music, Cognition, and Computerized Sound, ed. Perry Cook. Music Theory Spectrum 22, 264-6.

____________ . 1999. Review of Musical Languages, by Joseph Swain. Music Theory Online 5.3.

____________ . 1998. Review of African Drumming, by Kofi Agawu. Current Musicology 62, 69-83.

Publications Outside Music

__________ . 2008. "Dependency Length Minimization in Natural and Artificial Languages." Journal of Quantitative Linguistics 15, 256-282.

__________ . 2007. "Minimization of Dependency Length in Written English." Cognition 105, 300-333. [PDF of corrected proofs]

__________ . 2005. "The Dependency Structure of Coordinate Phrases: A Corpus Approach." Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 34, 577-601. [PDF]

__________ . 2003. "Ambiguity Avoidance in English Relative Clauses." Language 79, 464-84.

Daniel Sleator and ____________ . 1993. "Parsing English with A Link Grammar." Proceedings of the Third Annual Workshop on Parsing Technologies..

John Lafferty, Daniel Sleator and ____________ . 1992. "Grammatical Trigrams: A Probabilistic Model of Link Grammar." Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Probabilistic Approaches to Natural Language.

Invited Lectures and Seminars

Guest-taught seminar "Towards a Theory of Rock." Bennington College, December 2007.

"Communicative Pressure and Music Cognition." Center for Cognitive Science, University of Buffalo, October 2007.

"A Probabilistic Model of Melody Perception." Dept. of Psychology, McGill University, July 2006.

"Tonal Implication, Tonal Ambiguity, and Tonalness: A Probabilistic View." Dept. of Music, University of California at Berkeley, March 2005.

"Tonal Implication, Tonal Ambiguity, and Tonalness: A Probabilistic View." Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, Stanford University, March 2005.

"Tonal Implication, Tonal Ambiguity, and Tonalness: A Probabilistic View." Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, March 2005.

"Music Cognition and Composition." Royal Institute of Technology / Royal College of Music, Stockholm, Sweden. October 2004.

"Communicative Pressure and the Evolution of Musical Styles." Queen's University, Belfast, U.K., May 2004.

"Communicative Pressure and the Evolution of Musical Styles." Sheffield University, U.K., May 2004.

"Communicative Pressure and the Evolution of Musical Styles." City University, London, U.K., May 2004.

"Communicative Pressure and the Evolution of Musical Styles." Cambridge University, U. K., May 2004.

"Communicative Pressure and the Evolution of Musical Styles." Edinburgh University, U.K., May 2004.

"Bayesian models in music and language: preference rule systems and probabilistic language models." Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, March 2002.

"A Preference Rule Model of Contrapuntal Perception." Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, January 2001.

Conference Presentations

__________, "Hypermetrical Transitions." Annual meeting of the Society for Music Theory, Baltimore, November 2007.

__________ and Elizabeth West Marvin, "Pitch-class Distribution and the Identification of Key." Annual meeting of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC), Montreal, August 2007.

__________, "Uniform Information Density in Music." Annual meeting of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC), Montreal, August 2007.

Daniel Gildea and __________, "Optimizing Grammars for Minimum Dependency Length." Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Prague, 2007.

__________ and Elizabeth West Marvin, "Pitch-class Distributions as Indicators of Key." Poster at the Society for Music Theory Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, November 2006.

__________, "A Probabilistic Model of Melody Perception." International Society for Music and Information Retrieval, Victoria, Canada, October 2006.

__________, "Continuity and Closure in Rock: The Repeating Unit Boundary." Annual meeting of the New York State Music Theory Society, Saratoga Springs, NY, March 2006.

__________, "Communicative Pressure." Annual Meeting of the International Conference for Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC), Evanston, August 2004.

__________, "Bayesian Models of Metrical Analysis." Annual meeting of the SMPC, Las Vegas, May 2003.

__________, "The Plagal Stop Cadence in Rock." Society of Music Theory annual meeting, Columbus, November 2002.

__________, "A Bayesian Model of Key-Finding." International Conference on Music and Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh, September 2002.

__________, "Musical Meaning and the Line of Fifths." International Conference for Music Perception and Cognition, Keele, UK, August 2000.

__________, "A Preference Rule Model for Contrapuntal Perception." New England Conference of Music Theorists, Boston, March 2000.

__________, "Improving the Krumhansl-Schmuckler Key-Finding Algorithm." Society of Music Theory annual meeting, Atlanta, November 1999.

__________, "A Preference Rule Model for Contrapuntal Analysis." Annual meeting of the SMPC, Evanston, August 1999.

__________, "An Algorithm for Metrical Analysis." Annual Meeting of the West Coast Conference of Music Theory and Analysis, Stanford University, April 1999.

__________, "Computer Modeling of Meter and Harmony: A Preference Rule Approach." MusicCog 98 Workshop, Ohio State University, May 1998.

__________, "An Algorithm for Harmonic Analysis." Annual meeting of the SMPC, Boston, 1997.

__________, "Music Cognition and Music Theory: The Question of Purpose." Annual meeting of the SMPC, Boston, 1997.

__________, "Hypermetrical Ambiguity in Sonata Form Closing Themes." Society of Music Theory annual meeting, Fall 1996. [PDF file of expanded written version]

__________, "The Perception of Harmony and Tonality: An Algorithmic Perspective." Annual meeting of the SMPC, Berkeley, 1995.

__________, "Syncopation in Rock: A Perceptual Perspective." Annual meeting of the SMPC, Berkeley, 1995.



Compositions (Some Compositions and their Performances)

String Quartet No. 3. Christian Howes (violin), David Edge (violin), Chris Saetti (viola), Luis Biava (cello); Spagio New Music Series, February 1999.

Twelve Rhythmic Studies for Piano (selections). Ian Hobson; Smith Music Hall, University of Illinois, February 1998

____________ (selections), David Temperley; Columbia School of the Arts Showcase, Columbia University, February 1995

____________ (complete). David Temperley; choreographed by members of Barnard College Dance Faculty; Barnard College, May 1994

____________ (selections). Luk'; June in Buffalo Festival, 1993

____________ (selections). Margaret Kampmeier; Miller Theater, December 1992

Three Ballades for Piano, David Temperley; Ohio State New Music Festival, February 1998

Viola Sonata. Rudolf Haken; Krannert Center, University of Illinois,September 1997

____________ . Rudolf Haken; C-U Symphony Benefit Concert, Urbana, Illinois, May 1997

Guitar Quintet. Marka Gustavsson (violin), Ralph Farris (viola), Jennifer Morsches (cello), Scott Totten (guitar), Greg August (bass); Roulette, April 1997

Woodwind Quintet. Quintet of the Americas; Americas House, December 1996

String Quartet #6. Curtis Macomber, Carol Zealin, Maureen Gallagher, and Chris Finckel; Miller Theater, Columbia University, March 1995

Cello Sonata #2. Scott Kluksdahl (cello) and David Temperley; WeillRecital Hall, May 1994

____________ . Scott Kluksdahl (cello) and David Temperley; Miller Theater, Columbia University, March 1991

Sonata #3 For Violin and Piano. Margaret Kampmeier (piano) and Anna Lim (violin); Miller Theater, March 1994

Trio for Violin, 'Cello, and Marimba. Aspen Contemporary Ensemble; July 1993

Elephant, for piano and narrator. David Temperley and Charles Major; Golden Fleece "Square One Series", the New School, March 1992



Other Work Experience

Accompanying

Worked full-time as an accompanist for dance and theater in New York City, 1986-9 (and part-time, 1989-97).

Dance. Employers include the Martha Graham School (1987-9), the 92nd St. "Y" (1986-9), New York University (1988-9), and Barnard College (1989-97). Played for modern, ballet, jazz, improvisation, and dance composition classes.

Theater. Employers include the Bronx Opera (1986-9), Opera Northeast (1989-91), Light Opera of Manhattan (1990), and Golden Fleece Chamber Theater (a contemporary chamber opera company), (1987-90).

Musical Directing

Worked as free-lance musical director in New York City and elsewhere, 1987-1992. Duties included coaching singers, rehearsing orchestra, and conducting performances. Credits include Millicent Montrose (an Off-off Broadway Premiere), Pinoc The Barbarian (an Equity Showcase). Also worked for Mill Mountain Playhouse (Roanoke, Virginia), Summer 1987, Millbrook Playhouse (Lockhaven, Pennsylvania), Summer 1988, and Periwinkle Productions (a children's theater company in New York City), 1988-9.