Student Achievements: Music Theory

Recent Presentations and Publications by Theory Students (ordered by date, 2002-present):

• Jessica R. Barnett, "Integrating Piano and Theory Skills: A Music Theorist's Perspective," paper presented at the Southwest Ohio Music Teachers Association (Cincinnati, OH), 2008; and at the conference of the National Group Piano and Piano Pedagogy (GP3) Forum (Norman, OK), 2008.
• David Byrne, "Sonata Form and Tonal Structure in the First Movement of Bruckner’s Fifth Symphony," paper presented at Music Theory Midwest (Bowling Green, OH), 2008; and at the conference of the Music Theory and Musicology Society of the College-Conservatory of Music (Cincinnati, OH), 2008.
• Javier Clavere, "Existential Irony in La Pasion segun San Marcos by Osvaldo Golijov," paper presented at Music Theory Midwest (Bowling Green, OH), 2008.
• Javier Clavere, "The Semiosis of Piano Transcriptions and Stylistic Appropriations," paper presented at the 33rd Semiotic Society of America Annual Meeting (Houston, TX), 2008.
• Javier Clavere, "Parody and Ironic Ethos in La Pasion segun San Marcos by Osvaldo Golijov," paper presented at Music Theory Southeast (Greensboro, NC), 2008.
• Brett Clement, "Rhythmic Dissonance in the Music of Frank Zappa," paper presented at Music Theory Southeast (Greensboro, NC), 2008.
• Brian D. Hoffman, "S-Based Tonic Returns: A Schenekrian and Rotational Study," paper presented at Music Theory Midwest (Bowling Green, OH), 2008; and at the Univ. of Michigan conference "Conversations: Music Scholarship in Dialogue," 2008.
• Brian D. Hoffman, "If I Loved You: Problems and Solutions in the First-Act Love Songs of Hart and Hammerstein," paper presented at at conference on "American Musical Theatre" at the Graduate Center, City Univ. of New York, 2008.
• Breighan Moira Brown, review of Structure and Meaning in Tonal Music: Festschrift in Honor of Carl Schachter, edited by L. Poundie Burstein and David Gagné, published in Music Research Forum 22 (2007): **-**.
• Breighan Moira Brown, "'First-Order Metric Parallelisms': A Schenkerian Approach to Rhythm and Meter in Tchaikovsky's Valse (Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, III)," paper presented at Music Theory Midwest (Lawrence, KS), 2007; and at the conference of the Music Theory and Musicology Society of the College-Conservatory of Music (Cincinnati, OH), 2007.
• Javier Clavere, "The Paradigm Shift Theory, the Sacred Sign, and Worship Systems," paper presented at the 32nd Semiotic Society of America Annual Meeting (New Orleans, LA), 2007.
• Brett Clement, "Rhythmic Dissonance in the Music of Frank Zappa," paper presented at Music Theory Midwest (Lawrence, KS), 2007.
• Michael Kelly, "An Exploration of Pitch Organization in Krzysztof Penderecki's Passion According to Saint Luke," paper presented at the conference of the Music Theory and Musicology Society of the College-Conservatory of Music (Cincinnati, OH), 2007.
• Brian Christopher Moseley, "Transpositional Combination and the Analysis of Musical Form in George Crumb's Lux Aeterna," paper presented at Music Theory Southeast, 2007; Music Theory Midwest (Lawrence, KS), 2007; and West Coast Conference for Music Theory and Analysis (Salt Lake City, UT), 2007. Winner of "Best Student Essay" award, Music Theory Southeast.
• Jessica R. Barnett, "Motivic Composing-Out in Ginastera's Piano Sonata No. 1, Third Movement," paper presented at the McGill Univ. Graduate Student Symposium, 2006; and at Music Theory Midwest, 2006.
• Breighan Moira Brown, "Plagal Markedness in the Music of Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky," paper presented at the Recital Forum Lecture Series, Saint Mary's College (Notre Dame, IN), 2006.
• Brian Christopher Moseley, "Transpositional Combination and Collectional Interaction in George Crumb's Vox Balaenae," paper presented at the Florida State Univ. Music Theory Society Forum, 2006; and at Music Theory Midwest, 2006.
• Chris Barry, "A Dialogue on the Edge: Sets, Series, and Plastic Blocks in Schoenberg's Klavierstueck Op. 23 No. 2," paper presented at the Midwest Graduate Music Consortium, Chicago, 2004.
• Mike Kelly, "The Labyrinth: Structural Ambiguity in Krzysztof Penderecki’s De Profundis," paper presented at the conference "American Perspectives on Penderecki," Houston, 2004.
• Daniel E. Mathers, "Copland, Aaron" and "Rorem, Ned" in Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in America, ed.-in-chief Marc Stein (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2004), I: 257-59 and III: 51-52 (respectively).
• Damon Sink, "Schenker and the Metaphors of Analysis: New Modes of Presentation," poster presented at Music Theory Society of New York State, Rochester, 2004.
• Chris Barry, "Illustrative Techniques in Elgar's Falstaff," paper presented at the conference "Music in Shakespeare: Shakespeare in Music," Leeds, England, 2002.
• Paul S. Carter, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Musical Space: Developing the Art of Music Transcription," paper presented at College Music Society, 2002.
• Wes Flinn, "Layers of Tonality in Leonard Bernstein's Chichester Psalms," published in Music Research Forum 16 (2002): 48-56.
• Daniel E. Mathers, "Expanding Horizons: Sexuality and the Re-Zoning of The Tender Land," published in Peter Dickinson (ed.), Copland Connotations: Studies and Interviews (Boydell Press, 2002).

Recent Awards:

• David Byrne is the CCM recipient of the Presser Foundation Award for 2008.

A Selective List of Recent Dissertations and Theses by Theory Students (2000-present):

• Javier Clavere, Analysis of Oswaldo Golijov's musical setting of the Passion Narrative in La Pasion Segun San Marcos (MM, in progress).
• Wes Flinn, Irony, Postmodernism, and Quotation in Luciano Berio's "Sinfonia" [provisional title] (PhD, in progress).
• Joseph W. Hupchick, Tonal Structure and Counterpoint in the Ballatas of Francesco Landini [provisional title] (PhD, in progress).
• Michael Kelly, An Exploration of Pitch Organization in Krzysztof Penderecki's Passion According to St. Luke (MM, in progress).
• Daniel E. Mathers, Fragments of Self: Aaron Copland and Musical Self-Borrowing (PhD, in progress).
• Damon Sink, Music Theory as Idea and Presentation: Schenker, Analysis and Musical Experience (PhD, in progress).
• Brian D. Hoffman, Tonal Mirages: A Multifaceted View of Tonality in the Early Transitional Pieces of Alexander Scriabin (MM 2008).
• Jessica R. Barnett, Alberto Ginastera's String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2: Consistencies in Structure and Process (MM, 2007).
• Breighan Moira Brown, “Transforming Chaos”: Modes of Ambiguity in Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 in E Minor (MM, 2007).
• Brian Christopher Moseley, Integrating Analytical Elements through Transpositional Combination in Two Works By George Crumb (MM 2007).
• Joseph T. Williams, Discontinuous Continuity?: Structural Analysis of Sofia Gubaidulina’s String Quartets (MM, 2007).
• Xavier Beteta, Compositional Techniques in Rodrigo Asturias’s “El Banquete De Las Nubes” (MM 2006).
• Sha Wang, A Play of Style: Comparing and Contrasting Neoclassicism in Selected Piano Solo Repertoire in the 1920s (DMA, 2006).
• Christopher M. Barry, Tilting at Windmills: The Suspension of Disbelief in Three Tone Poems of Richard Strauss (MM, 2005).
• Paul S. Carter, Retrogressive Harmonic Motion as Structural and Stylistic Characteristic of Pop-Rock Music (PhD, 2005).
• Eun-Ho Kim, Formal Coherence in J.S. Bach’s Three Sonatas for Solo Violin, BWV 1001, 1003, and 1005 (MM 2005).
• Tamara A. McKinney, Theory and Practice: Rameau’s Fundamental Bass Applied to the Contemporary French Overture (MM 2004).
• Hyekyung Park, Transformational Networks and Voice Leadings in the First Movement of Webern's Cantata No. 1, Op. 29 (MM, 2005).
• Kent Cleland, Musical Transformation as a Manifestation of the Temporal Process Philosophies of Henri Bergson (PhD, 2003).
• Leon Wheland Couch III, Musical-Rhetorical Analysis and the North German Toccata (PhD, 2003).
• Irit Youngerman, J.S. Bach's Suite in C Major for Violoncello Solo: An Analysis through Application of a Historical Approach (MM, 2002).
• Yoojin Kim, Comparative Analyses of Two of Arnold Schoenberg’s Atonal Works: Piano Pieces, Op. 11/1 and Six Little Piano Pieces, Op 19/2 (MM 2002).
• Peng Hu, The Principles of Brahms’s Early Sonata Form: A Study of Brahms Early Piano Sonatas and Ensemble Sonatas (MM 2000).

A Selective List of Institutions at which Former UC-CCM Theory Students Have Teaching Positions:

• Albertson College [Idaho] (Lisa Derry; MM, UC)
• Baldwin-Wallace College [Ohio] (Kent Cleland; PhD, UC)
• Carleton College [Minnesota] (Justin London; MM, UC)
• Cleveland Institute of Music (Richard Nelson; MM, UC)
• College at Oneonta [State Univ. of New York] (Paul S. Carter; ABD, UC)
• Colorado State Univ. (Paul Metz; PhD, UC)
• Columbia Univ. [New York] (Mark A. DeBellis; MM, UC)
• Davidson College [North Carolina] (Mauro Botelho; MM, UC)
• Eastman School of Music, Univ. of Rochester [New York] (Marie Rolf; MM, UC)
• Florida State Univ. (Michael Buchler; BM, UC)
• Knox College [Illinois] (Gerald [Jay] Krumbholz; MM, UC)
• Miami Univ. [Ohio] (Arpi Anderson; ABD, UC)
• Northwestern Univ. [Illinois] (Candace Brower; PhD, UC)
• Rhode Island College (Robert W. Elam; PhD, UC)
• Southern Methodist Univ. [Texas] (David Mancini; MM, UC)
• Univ. of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music (Robert Zierolf; PhD, UC)
• Univ. of Dayton (Damon Sink; ABD, UC)
• Univ. of Houston (Timothy Koozin; PhD, UC)
• Univ. of Michigan (Walter Everett; MM, UC)
• Univ. of North Texas (Graham Phipps; PhD, UC)
• Univ. of Oregon (Jack Boss; MM, UC)
• Valdosta State Univ. [Georgia] (Kenneth Kirk; PhD, UC)
• Washington Univ. [St. Louis] (Robert Snarrenberg; MM, UC)
• Webster Univ. [St. Louis] (Earl Henry; PhD, UC)