Florida State University Music Theory

Bravo to Kim Loeffert (Ph.D. music theory, 2015) and John Peterson (Ph.D music theory, 2014) on the publication of their co-edited volume of essays entitled _Modeling Musical Analysis_ with Oxford University Press! Congrats as well to Jose Garza (Ph.D. music theory, 2017) on his contribution to the volume! See comments for the jaw-dropping table of contents. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/modeling-musical-analysis-9780197678480?cc=us&lang=en&

Huge congratulations to Prof Michael Buchler and to Gregory Decker (M.M. 2007, Ph.D. 2011, on faculty at BGSU) for winning the Society for Music Theory’s Outstanding Multi-Author Collection Award for their co-edited volume _Here for the Hearing: Analyzing the Music in Musical Theater_ (Univ. of Michigan Press, 2023)!! Contributors to the volume also included Prof. Rachel Lumsden!

Incredibly excited and proud of all FSU theorists who'll be in action in Jacksonville this coming week! Congratulations in advance to all, especially our current and recent (and "less recent") students Juan Chattah, Hon Ki Cheung, Alan Elkins, Dave Easley, Christopher Endrinal, Stanley Fink, Andrew Gades, Jose Garza, Trevor Hofelich, Robert Kelley, Kim Loeffert, Demi Nicks, John Peterson, Gillian Radcliffe, Zachary Simonds, Lina Tabak, Claire Terrell, and Jeff Yunek!

Innovations in music theory pedagogy! Courtesy of FSU alum Chelsey Hamm (M.M. 2010), on faculty at Christopher Newport University.

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A heartly welcome to first-year Ph.D. theorists Luis Matos-Tovar, Isabel Milbourn, and Brandon Scribner! Congratulations on making it through your first week, folks! Smiley-faces may have something to do with the upcoming long weekend.

Huge congrats to our Ph.D. alumnus Stanley Fink on the publication of his article "Benjamin Britten's Musical Characterization of the Madwoman in _Curlew_River_" in the most recent issue of the Journal of Music Theory. (Also...what an issue!)

Volume 68 Issue 1 | Journal of Music Theory | Duke University Press Journal of Music Theory | 68 | 1 | April 2024