Dr. Diego Cubero has been invited to join the editorial board of the journal Music Theory Online. He will begin his service in the fall of 2021.

Andrew Chung's article, "Vibration, Difference, and Solidarity in the Anthropocene: Ethical Difficulties of New Materialist Sound Studies and Some Alternatives," appeared in the latest volume of Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture. Click here for more information.  

The Texas Society for Music Theory awarded Yiyi Gao (PhD, Music Theory) the Colvin Award for best student presentation at its annual meeting. Her presentation was entitled "Unveiling the Poetic-Musical Narrative and the Incomplete 'Urlinie': Recontextualizing Robert Schumann's Song 'Wehmut' Op. 39/9."

Dr. Justin Lavacek published an article entitled, "I Got Isorhythm: Recreating the Ars nova Motet in the Classroom," in Music Theory Pedagogy Online (2021).

Ellen Bakulina published an essay entitled "Tonal Pairing in Two of Rachmaninoff's Songs," in Analytical Approaches to Twentieth-Century Russian Music (Routledge).

David Heetderks published an article entitled "Play with Closing Markers: Cadential Multivalence in 1960s Prechoruses and Related Schema" in Music Theory Spectrum 42/1 (2020).

Dr. Andrew Chung published an article entitled "Music as Sexual Violence? Investigating the Case of Bar/club-Based Sex Trafficking and Sonic Harm" in Sound Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Click here for more information.

Dr. David Heetderks published an article entitled "What Happens after the Primal Burn? Dissonance in Sonic Youth’s Middle Period," in Music Theory Online.

Andrew Vagts's paper, "Fanfare Topics as Boundary Markers in Mozart's Da Ponte Operas," won the Colvin Award for best student presentation at the Texas Society for Music Theory (February 28-29, 2020). Congratulations Andrew!