Michael Buchler

Michael Buchler, Associate Professor of Music Theory, has taught a wide range of graduate and undergraduate courses in music theory, including Schenkerian analysis and theory and analysis of recent music.

Professor Buchler's recent research focuses on Broadway musicals, minimalist composition, issues of transformational analysis, and on methods for determining resemblance in atonal music. He has presented his work at numerous conferences, and his articles appear in Music Theory Spectrum, Perspectives of New Music, Journal of Music Theory, Music Theory Online, Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy, Em Pauta, and In Theory Only. He has served on the executive board of the Society for Music Theory, and on the editorial board of Music Theory Online.

Professor Buchler received his Ph.D. from the Eastman School of Music, a M.M. from the University of Michigan, and a B.M. from the University of Cincinnati. Before coming to Florida State University, he taught on the faculties of Indiana University and the University of Iowa. He has received university-wide teaching awards at both The Florida State University and the University of Iowa. In 2006, he served as a visiting professor at the Instituto de Artes, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Professor Buchler maintains a personal website at http://myweb.fsu.edu/mbuchler