Student and alumni achievements in 2023–24:
Job placements
Lukas Perry (ABD), Assistant Professor-in-Residence, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Noah Kahrs (PhD, 2024), Assistant Teaching Professor, Northern Arizona University
David Falterman (PhD, 2024), Visiting Assistant Professor, Oberlin College and Conservatory
Derek Remes (MA, 2016), Professor of Music Theory, Technische Universität Dortmund
Awards and Fellowships
Andrew Blake, 3-Minute Thesis competition, finalist
Jacob Eichhorn, TA Prize for Excellence in Teaching
Ruixue Hu, Dorothy Payne Award for best student paper at Music Theory Society of the Mid Atlantic
Hanisha Kulothparan, honorable mention for best student paper prize, South Central Society for Music Theory
Lauren Irschick, Marguerite and Lamar Smith Fellowship for Writers
Lauren Irschick, Edward Peck Curtis Award for Excellence in Teaching
Publications
Hanisha Kulothparan, “Storytelling and Meter in clipping’s. ‘story 2.'” Forthcoming in Modeling Music Analysis, ed. Kim Loeffert and John Peterson (Oxford University Press).
Conference Presentations
Society for Music Theory
Jerome Bell, “Modal Fluidity in Millennial Gospel.”
Jacob Eichhorn, “‘Here is where I’ll end it’: (Un)finishedness, (In)completeness, and Agency in Popular Music.”
Sam Falotico, “Grouping Against the Groove: Metrical Dissonance in Hiromi’s ‘Voice.’”
Robert Hamilton, “Theorizing Tonal Function in a Messiaen Mode 2 Idiom.”
Noah Kahrs, “Finding Meter in Acoustics: Ryoji Ikeda’s Matrix.”
Noah Kahrs, “What is ‘one note’ on a synthesizer?”
Lukas Perry, “Theorizing the Modal Double-Tonic Complex with Maurice Duruflé’s Works as a Case Study.”
Julianna Willson, “Play, Nonsense, and Illusory Identities in Unsuk Chin’s Akrostichen-Wortspiel.”
Bruckner-Aspekte: 200 Jahre Bruckner – 100 Jahre Bruckner-Forschung (Vienna, Austria)
Ruixue Hu, “Diatonic Modes and Harmony in Bruckner’s Sacred Motets.”
Society for Music Analysis annual conference (Edinburgh, UK)
Ruixue Hu, “Temporality, Tragedy, and Reversed Recapitulation in The Serial-Minimalist First Movement of Joe Hisaishi’s East Land Symphony.”
Analytical Approaches to World Music (Bologna, Italy)
Hanisha Kulothparan, “The Hero’s Introduction: Topic and Intercultural Trope in Kollywood Film Music.”
Society for Music Perception and Cognition
Andrew Blake, “The Valence of Chords in Progressions.”
Music and the Moving Image
Hanisha Kulothparan, “The Evolution of the Hero’s Introduction: Topic and Intercultural Trope in Kollywood Film Music.”
Music Theory Society of New York State
Andrew Blake, “Probability and Information Flow in Jazz Improvisation”
Jacob Eichhorn, “Twelve Tone as Topic: Prototypes, Parody, and Politics in Postwar American Concert Music”
Maeve Gillen, “Texture, Style, and (Anti-)Teleology in 1990s Ska-Punk.”
Zekai Liu, “A Graphic and Harmonic Analysis of Ben Johnston’s String Quartet No. 7, II-Palindromes.”
Robert Hamilton, “The Locrian Mode as a Non-Diatonic Scale.”
Ruixue Hu, “Temporality, Tragedy, and Reversed Recapitulation in The Serial-Minimalist First Movement of Joe Hisaishi’s East Land Symphony.”
Ryan Jones, “Musical Forces and Metaphors: Embodied Hermeneutics in Julia Wolfe’s Big Beautiful Dark and Scary.“
Hanisha Kulothparan, “The Hero’s Introduction: Topic and Intercultural Trope in Kollywood Film Music.”
Pedagogy into Practice
Kaylee Bernard, “Authentic Applications of Post-Tonal Techniques in Student-Driven Repertoire.”
Context Conference
Lightning talks by Ruixue Hu, Hanisha Kulothparan, Lukas Perry, and Jacob Eichhorn.
Northeast Conference of Music Theorists
David Falterman, “Hearing Queer Utopias in AURORA.”
Music Theory Midwest
Ruixue Hu, “Theorizing Phrase Structure in Guqin Music.”
Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic
Ryan Jones, “Topical Necker Cubes in Post-Tonal Music: Ambiguous Topics in George Crumb’s ‘Amazing Grace!'”
Ruixue Hu, “Theorizing Phrase Structure in Guqin Music.”
Music Theory Southeast/South-Central Society of Music Theory
Sam Falotico, “Storytelling in Under Two Minutes: Exploring Narrative and the 3/4 Prechorus in Anime Ops.”
Hanisha Kulothparan, “The Hero’s Introduction: Topic and Intercultural Trope in Kollywood Film Music.”
Texas Society for Music Theory
Ruixue Hu, “Temporality, Tragedy, and Reversed Recapitulation in The Serial-Minimalist First Movement of Joe Hisaishi’s East Land Symphony.”