Theory/Analysis Ph.D. Program

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The Doctoral Program in Music Theory offers a solid foundation in the principal subfields of our discipline, including Schenkerian theory, post-tonal theory, and the history of theory. Our faculty and alumni have made major contributions to the field and we have an impressive record of placing our graduates in academic positions. 

The music theory faculty includes Mark Anson Cartwright, L. Poundie Burstein, Norman Carey, David Gagné, Philip Lambert, Shaugn O'Donnell, William Rothstein, Mark Spicer, and Joseph Straus. The Theory Department helps sponsor a series of free lectures and workshops under the auspices of the Graduate Center Music Forum.

Students interest in applying to the Music Theory Program at the Graduate Center should feel free to contact Prof. Straus at jstraus@gc.cuny.edu.


News re: Graduates of the last 4 years 

Eve Poudrier (2008, forthcoming) begins as an Assistant Professor at Yale University in 2008.

Tom Robinson (2008, forthcoming) teaches at the University of Alabama.

Lisa Behrens  (2008, forthcoming) is an adjunct instructor at Hofstra University; her dissertation is "Copland’s Serial Music."

Lawrence Shuster (2008, forthcoming) teaches at University of Georgia; his dissertation is "Transformational Harmony and Voice Leading."

Sigrun Heinzelmann (2008) is an Assistant Professor at Oberlin. Her dissertation is "Ravel’s Prewar Sonata Forms."

Aleksandra Vojcic(2007) has performed extensively as a pianist and has taught music theory and analysis at Juilliard; she now teaches as University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her dissertation is  "Rhythm as Form: Rhythmic Hierarchy in Later Twentieth-Century Piano Music."
 
Kyle Adams (2006) is an Assistant Professor at Indiana University; his dissertation is "Chromaticism in the 16th and 17th Centuries."

Michael Berry (2006) is an Assistant Professor at Texas Tech; his dissertation is "Atonal Voice-Leading Spaces."

Jamuna Samuel (2005) is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Wellesley College; her dissertation is  "Dallapiccola’s The Prisoner."

Erez Rapoport (2005) teaches at the  Rubin Academy and Tel-Aviv University in Israel; his dissertation is "Smoothing-Over of Formal Boundaries in Mendelssohn."

Catherine Losada (2004) is Assistant Professor at Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, her dissertation is "Analysis of Collage."

Jan Miyake (2004) is an Assistant Professor at Oberlin College, her dissertation is "Classical Form: Multiple Themes in Second Groups."

Channan Willner (2004) is the Acquisitions Librarian at the Music Division of the New York Public Library, his dissertation is "Durational Pacing in Handel's Instrumental Works."


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