Faculty: Theory/Analysis

Jonathan Pieslak
Associate Professor, The City College of New York and the Graduate Center
(Ph.D., University of Michigan)

The City College of New York, CUNY
Convent Avenue at 138th Street
New York, NY 10031
jpieslak@ccny.cuny.edu
(212) 650-7665

Jonathan Pieslak is a music theorist and composer. His areas of research interest include critical theory, rhythm and meter in metal music, and music and war. As composer, Jonathan was awarded a Goddard Lieberson Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2006, and he has also been recognized with awards and commissions from the Jerome Foundation, American Composers Forum, MacDowell Colony, among others.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS:

“Text, Sound, and Identity in Korn’s ‘Hey Daddy’.” Popular Music 27/1 (2008): 35–52.

Review of Kevin Korsyn, Decentering Music (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003). Music Theory Online, 14/1 (2008).

“Re-casting Metal: Rhythm and Meter in the Music of Meshuggah.” Music Theory Spectrum 29/2 (2007): 219–45.

“Sound Targets: Music and the War in Iraq.” The Journal of Musicological Research 26/2–3 (2007): 123–50.

“Conflicting Analytical Approaches to Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Tonality: An Archaeological Evaluation.” Theory and Practice 30 (2006): 97–132.

“The Challenges of Plurality within Contemporary Composition.” The Musical Times 146 (Spring 2005): 45–57.