Research

• Dissertation

• Transformations Modulo 7 in Extended Tonality

• Music Theory Papers:

• Charting Enharmonicism on the Just Intonation Tonnetz, 2002-3
• In the Dark Shadow: Enharmonic Equivalence as Subtext in Two Wolf Lieder, 2003
• Reconciling Tonal Conflicts: Mod-7 Transformations in Chromatic Music, 2004
• Evaluating Prolongation in Extended Tonality, 2005
• A Mathematical Model of Tonal Function, 2006
• Sacred Harp Harmony: A Part-Writing Primer for Shape-Note Hymnody, 2009
• A Corpus-Based Model of Harmonic Function in Shape-Note Hymnody, 2016
• A Corpus-Based Model of Voice Leading in Tonal Music, 2017
• Are Sacred Harp Style Periods Statistically Distinct?, 2024

• Musicology (and other) Essays:

• Tradition, the Avant Garde, and Individuality in the Music of Olivier Messiaen, 2000
• Dramatic Themes in John Eccles’s Semele, 2005
• Harmonious Union: How Sacred Harp Brings People Together, 2013

• Translations:

• Nivers, G.G. 1689. L’Art d’Accompagner sur la Basse Continue Pour l’Orgue et le Clavecin, 2001

• Software:

• Java Computer Applications for Music Analysis
• Ptolemaic: A Software Tool for Music Visualization and Analysis

• Pedagogical Materials for Music Theory, Ear Training, Analysis, and Composition:

• Tonal Harmony Reference Materials
• Form and Analysis Topical Outline
• Introduction to Sixteenth-Century Counterpoint
• Introduction to Schenkerian Analysis: A Philosophical Basis for the Importance of Analysis.
• Introduction to Analysis of Post-Functional (“Atonal”) Music

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