Faculty: Theory/Analysis

Shaugn O’Donnell
Associate Professor, The City College and Graduate Center
(PhD, CUNY) 

Music Department, S72
The City College of New York
138^th Street and Convent Avenue
New York, NY 10031
212-650-7683
sodonnell@ccny.cuny.edu

Shaugn O’Donnell is a theorist specializing in twentieth-century music. His research interests include set theory and analysis, transformational networks and voice leading, metaphor theory, and popular music, particularly rock and psychedelia. Professor O’Donnell is currently the Director of Graduate Studies in Music at The City College, and has previously taught at Tulane University and the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS:

“Embracing Relational Abundance.” Music Theory Online 13.3 (2007).

“Bobby, Béla, and Borrowing in ‘Victim or the Crime’.” In All Graceful Instruments: The Contexts of the Grateful Dead Phenomenon, edited by Nicholas Meriwether, 38–51. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007

“Review of What to Listen for in Rock: A Stylistic Analysis by Ken Stephenson (Yale University Press, 2002).” Music Theory Spectrum 28.1 (2006): 132–140

"On the Path: Tracing Tonal Coherence in Dark Side of the Moon." In "Speak to Me": The Legacy of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, edited by Russell Reising, 87–103. Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing, 2005.

  “Sailing to the Sun: Revolver's Influence on Pink Floyd.” In 'Every Sound There Is': The Beatles' Revolver and the Transformation of Rock and Roll, edited by Russell Reising, 69 – 86.  Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing, 2002.

 “Klumpenhouwer Networks, Isography, and the Molecular Metaphor.” Intégral 12 (2000): 53 – 80.

 “Space, Motion, and Other Musical Metaphors.” In Perspectives on the Grateful Dead: Critical Writings, edited by Robert G. Weiner, 127 – 135. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999.

“Linear Ordering of the Chromatic Aggregate in Classical Symphonic Music,” co-authored with Henry Burnett. Music Theory Spectrum 18.1 (1996): 22 – 50.