Faculty Scholarly and Compositional Activity

FSU is home to one of the most productive music theory and composition departments in the world. Members of our faculty have written many recent textbooks as well as numerous articles in our field's major journals; we are always extremely well represented at the annual meetings of the Society for Music Theory and other major national and international scholarly organizations. This is a partial list of the faculty's recent publications, recordings, and lectures.

Books

• Jane Piper Clendinning and Elizabeth West Marvin, The Musician's Guide to Theory and Analysis, 2nd ed. (W. W. Norton, 2011).
• Joel Phillips, Paul Murphy, Jane Piper Clendinning, and Elizabeth West Marvin, The Musician's Guide to Aural Skills, 2nd ed. (W. W. Norton, 2011).
• Joel Phillips, Elizabeth West Marvin, and Jane Piper Clendinning.  The Musician's Guide to Music Fundamentals (W. W. Norton, forthcoming 2012).
• Douglass Green and Evan Jones, The Principles and Practice of Modal Counterpoint (Routledge, 2010).
• Evan Jones, ed., Intimate Voices: The Twentieth-Century String Quartet (University of Rochester Press, 2009).
• Evan Jones and Matthew Shaftel, A Critical Approach to Sight Singing and Musical Style (Hayden McNeil, 2009).
• James Mathes, Analysis of Musical Form (Prentice Hall, 2007).
• Robert W. Ottman and Nancy Rogers, Music for Sight Singing, eighth edition (Prentice Hall, 2011).
  • MyMusicLab -- the online supplement to Music for Sight Singing, launched in 2010.
• Matthew Shaftel, Anton Webern Collection: Three Works for Piano – Critical edition with commentary and introductory essay (Carl Fischer, forthcoming).

Articles and Book Chapters

• Michael Buchler, "Direct Stepwise Modulation and its Dramatic and Structural Roles in Frank Loesser’s Songs," Music Theory Spectrum, vol. 30, no. 1 (2008): 35-60. 
• Michael Buchler, "Reconsidering Klumpenhouwer Networks," Music Theory Online, vol. 13, no. 2 (June 2007). [Eight responses to this article appear in Music Theory Online, vol. 13, no. 3., and a rejoinder ("Reconsidering Klumpenhouwer Networks One More Time") appears in Music Theory Online, vol. 14, no. 1.]
• Michael Buchler, "Every Love but True Love: Unstable Relationships in Cole Porter's 'Love for Sale'" in PopMusicology, Christian Bielefeldt and Rolf Grossmann, eds. (Luneberg, Germany: Transcript Verlag, 2008).
• Michael Buchler, "'Laura' and the Essential Ninth: Were They Only a Dream?" Em Pauta, vol. 17 (2006): 5-25.
• Clifton Callender, Ian Quinn, and Dmitri Tymoczko, "Generalized Voice-Leading Spaces," Science 320 (April 18, 2008): 346-348.
• Clifton Callender, "Interactions of the Lamento Motif and Jazz Harmonies in György Ligeti's Arc en ciel," Intégral, vol. 21 (forthcoming).
• Jane Piper Clendinning, "György Ligeti's String Quartets," in Intimate Voices: The Twentieth-Century String Quartet (vol. 2), ed. Evan Jones (University of Rochester Press, 2009).
• Jane Piper Clendinning,“Contextual Listening for the AP Music Theory Classroom” in AP® Music Theory Curriculum Module: Building AP Music Theory Skills from the Ground Up, Melissa Cox, ed. (New York, NY: The College Board, 2007).
• Jane Piper Clendinning, “Bibliography and Resources for Teachers of AP Music Theory,” in the Teacher’s Guide to AP Music Theory, edited by David Lockart.  Published by Educational Testing and The College Board, 2006.
• Evan Jones, "An Experiential Account of Musical Form in Xenakis's String Quartets," in Intimate Voices: The Twentieth-Century String Quartet (vol. 2), ed. Evan Jones (University of Rochester Press, 2009).
• Evan Jones, "Two Facets of Eighteenth-Century Performance Practice: A Dialogue Between Melodic and Harmonic Dynamic Prescriptions in Quantz’s Versuch," in Performance Practice: Issues and Approaches, ed. Timothy Watkins (Steglein, 2009).
• Evan Jones, "Motivic Design and Coherence in the First Movement of Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata, D. 821," in Keys to the Drama: Nine Perspectives on Sonata Forms, ed. Gordon Sly (Ashgate Press, 2009).
• Evan Jones, "Lowinsky's Scarlet Letter: Contrapuntal and Transformational Perspectives on Lasso's 'Carmina Chromatico,'" Journal of Schenkerian Studies, vol. 2 – special issue on intersections between Schenkerian and transformational analysis (2007): 105-140.
• Joseph Kraus, "Sibelius's 'Internal Voices': Structure and Process in the Quartet in D Minor ("Voces intimae"), Op. 56" in Intimate Voices: Aspects of Construction and Character in the Twentieth-Century String Quartet, Evan Jones, ed. (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, forthcoming).
• Nancy Rogers, "Solmization Expertise Correlates with Superior Pitch Memory," Em Pauta, vol. 18 (2007): 131-152.
• Nancy Rogers, Graduate Student Workshop in Music Theory Pedagogy. Music Theory Southeast, March 2012.
• Nancy Rogers, “Developing Musicianship Skills through Improvisation.” Joint conference of Music Theory Southeast and the South Central Society for Music Theory, March 2011.
• Nancy Rogers, "Assembling the Nuts and Bolts:  Building Musical Skills through Improvisation." Keynote address, Musical Ear Conference (Bloomington, IN), September 2009.
• Nancy Rogers, "Captivated by the Erlking:  A Case for Studying Same-Text Settings."  College Music Society annual meeting (Atlanta, GA), September 2008.
• Nancy Rogers, "Teaching Tonal Sight-singing" in AP® Music Theory Teacher's Guide, David Lockhart, ed. (New York, NY: The College Board, 2007): 154-161.
• Nancy Rogers, "Interpreting and Harmonizing Melodies: Some Formulas for Success" in AP® Music Theory Curriculum Module: Building AP Music Theory Skills from the Ground Up, Melissa Cox, ed. (New York, NY: The College Board, 2008).
• Matthew Shaftel, "Singing a New Song: Stephen Foster and the New American Minstrelsy," Music and Politics, vol. 2 (2007).
• Matthew Shaftel,"Isomorphic Puzzles, Variation Technique, and Dodecaphonic Comprehensibility in Schönberg's Op. 30/2," Journal of the Arnold Schoenberg Institute, vol. 7 (forthcoming).
• Matthew Shaftel, "Sonata Form, Dramatic Subtext, and Musical Irony in the Trio from Le Nozze di Figaro" in Keys to the Drama: Nine Perspectives on Sonata Forms, Gordon Sly, ed. (London: Ashgate Press, forthcoming).
• Matthew Shaftel, "Comprehensibility, Variation, and the String Quartet Tradition: The Second Movement of Arnold Schoenberg's Third Quartet, Op. 30" in Intimate Voices: Aspects of Construction and Character in the Twentieth-Century String Quartet, Evan Jones, ed. (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, forthcoming).

Major Composition Performances and Recordings

• Clifton Callender, Point and Line to Plane, to be recorded by Jeffrey Jacob and released by Capstone Records.
• Clifton Callender, Metamorphoses for cello and computer-assisted delay (2007), performed by Evan Jones at the Sixteenth Annual Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival (Gainesville, FL, 2007) the Electronic Music Midwest Festival (Kansas City, KS, 2007), and the SCI Region VI Conference (Huntsville, TX, 2008).
• Clifton Callender, Patty, My Dear, recorded by Jeri-Mae Astolfi as part of the SCI Performer's Series #2 and released by Capstone Records, 2006.
• Ladislav Kubík, Chamber Music III, Col Legno Contemporary, 2006. [This CD includes four of Kubík's compositions: Portrait (2005) for piano and percussion; Songs of Zhivago (2002-05) for tenor and piano; Trio for Clarinet, Cello, and Piano "Metamorphoses" (2003); and Sonata for Trombone and Piano (2004).]
• Mark Wingate, Sombras for piano and digital delay to be included on Americans in Rome: Music by Fellows of the American Academy in Rome, Vol. I-IV, a CD project of premiere recordings currently in production for Bridge Records and performed by pianist Donald Berman.
• Mark Wingate, new joint commission with Christopher Theofanidis to be premiered by the Austin Symphony Orchestra in September 2008.

Conference Presentations and Invited Lectures

• Michael Buchler, "Are There Any Bad (or Good) Transformational Analyses?" Society for Music Theory annual meeting (Indianapolis, IN), November 2010.
• Michael Buchler and Alan Theisen, "Elliott Carter and the Sorcerer’s Stone: All-Interval Tetrachords as Musical Building Blocks," Society for Music Theory annual meeting (Montreal, Canada), October 2009.
• Michael Buchler, "Dramatic Oppositions and their Musical Voices in Guys and Dolls." Guest lecture at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, February 2008.
• Michael Buchler, "Personal and Tonal Transformations in Frank Loesser's 'My Time of Day.'" Society for Music Theory annual meeting (Baltimore, MD), November 2007.
• Michael Buchler, "The Sonic Illusion of Metrical Consistency in Recent Minimalist Composition." Ninth International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (Bologna, Italy), August 2006.
• Michael Buchler, "Modulation as a Dramatic Agent in Frank Loesser's Broadway Songs." Society for American Music annual meeting (Chicago, IL), March 2006.
• Clifton Callender, "Geometrical Chord Spaces" and "Generalized Set Theory," co-authored with Ian Quinn and Dmitri Tymoczko and presented as part of the special session "An Introduction to Geometrical Music Theory." Society of Music Theory annual meeting (Baltimore, MD), November 2007.
• Clifton Callender and Nancy Rogers, "More than Parsimonious Voice Leading: A Perceptual Study of Trichordal Distance." Society for Music Theory annual meeting (Los Angeles, CA), November 2006.
• Jane Piper Clendinning and Elizabeth A. Clendinning, "Music and Reincarnation:  A Balinese Cremation Ceremony.” Society for Ethnomusicology National Conference, Los Angeles, CA, November 2010.
• Jane Piper Clendinning, Wayne Vitale, and Elizabeth A. Clendinning, “Creating Ombak:  The Tuning of a Balinese Gamelan Gong Kebyar.” Society for Ethnomusicology National Conference, Middletown, CT, October 2008.
• Jane Piper Clendinning, “Making the Most of Them: AP Music Theory Students and the College Music Theory Sequence: Multiple Choice Examples.” College Music Society National Conference, Atlanta, GA, September 2008.
• Evan Jones, "Metric Disability in Robert J. Frank’s My Viola Don't Swing." College Music Society annual meeting (Minneapolis, MN), September 2010.
• Evan Jones, "The 'Content and Flavor' of Philip Glass's Harmonic Cycles." Society for Music Theory annual meeting (Montreal, Canada), October 2009.
• Evan Jones, "The Transformational Analysis of Vocal Music by Orlando di Lasso and Hugo Wolf." Emory University, February 2008.
• Evan Jones, "Two Facets of Eighteenth-Century Performance Practice: A Dialogue Between Melodic and Harmonic Dynamic Prescriptions in Quantz's Versuch." Performance Practice: Issues and Approaches (Rhodes College, Memphis, TN), March 2007.
• Evan Jones, "An Experiential Account of Musical Form in Xenakis's String Quartets." University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, February 2007.
• Joseph Kraus, "Sibelius's 'Internal Voices': Structure and Process in the Quartet in D Minor ("Voces intimae"), Op. 56." Hochschule für Musik (Freiburg, Germany), May 2007.
• Joseph Kraus, "The Anatomy of a Controversy: Brahms's C Minor Quartet, Notions of Unity, and Modes of Analysis." Brahms Symposium (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), April 2007.
• Nancy Rogers and Clifton Callender, "Judgments of Distance Between Trichords." Ninth International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (Bologna, Italy), August 2006.
• Nancy Rogers, "Interpreting and Harmonizing Melodies: Some Formulas for Success." AP Annual Conference sponsored by The College Board (Orlando, FL), July 2006.
• Nancy Rogers, "Hearing an Old Story in a New Way: An Analysis of Loewe's 'Erlkönig.'" Dublin International Conference on Music Analysis (Dublin, Ireland), June 2005.
• Nancy Rogers, "Verbal Labels Affect Memory for Musical Timbre." Second Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology (Montreal, Quebec), March 2005.
• Matthew Shaftel, "Form, Sign, and Singing: Integrating Sign Systems into a new Approach to Opera." American Semiotics Society 32nd annual meeting (New Orleans, LA), October 2007.
• Matthew Shaftel, "Semiotics, Pragmatics, and Iconology: An Interdisciplinary Model for the Investigation of Opera." Society for Music Theory annual meeting (Los Angeles, CA), November 2006.
• Matthew Shaftel, "Singing Through the Filter of Memory: Ives' Hymn Quotations." College Music Society annual meeting (San Antonio, TX), September 2006.

Other Professional Activities

• Michael Buchler, Society for Music Theory Program Committee: member, 2012; chair, 2013.
• Michael Buchler, Music Theory Southeast local arrangements chair for 2011 conference.
• Michael Buchler, Society for Music Theory Executive Board member, 2005-2008.
• Jane Piper Clendinning, Vice President of the Society for Music Theory, 2007-2009.
• Jane Piper Clendinning, College-Board Certified AP Music Theory Consultant and Facilitator for AP Summer Institutes and Workshops, 2009-present.
• Jane Piper Clendinning, Member of the Committee for the Status of Women (CSW) of the Society for Music Theory, 2011-2013.
• Jane Piper Clendinning, Member of the Diversity Committee of the Society for Music Theory, 2005-2007.
• Jane Piper Clendinning, Associate Editor and Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Twentieth-Century Music, Cambridge University Press, 2004-2011. Co-issue editor for Volume 2/2 (Fall 2006).
• Jane Piper Clendinning, Chair, Test Development Committee for the College Board Music Theory Advanced Placement (AP) Tests, Summer 2002-Summer 2006.
• Evan Jones, Society for Music Theory Executive Board member, 2010-12
• Evan Jones, Chair of the Society for Music Theory's Ad-hoc Committee on Demographics, 2009-10
• Evan Jones, Editorial board member, Intégral, 2007-present
• Evan Jones, Mannes Institute for Advanced Studies in Music Theory (New Haven, CT), June 2006
• Joseph Kraus, Editor of the Society for Music Theory Newsletter.
• Joseph Kraus, Chair of the AP Music Theory Exam Development Committee.
• Nancy Rogers, Member of the Society for Music Theory's Professional Development Committee, 2011-2014; Chair, 2012-2014.
• Nancy Rogers, Reviewer for the Educational Policy Improvement Center, 2009-2011.
• Nancy Rogers, President of Music Theory Southeast, 2008-2010.
• Nancy Rogers, Secretary of the Society for Music Theory, 2004-2008.
• Nancy Rogers, Mannes Institute for Advanced Studies in Music Theory (New York, NY), June 2009.
• Nancy Rogers, Member of the College Music Society's Advisory Committee for Music Theory, 2008-2010.
• Nancy Rogers, Mannes Institute for Advanced Studies in Music Theory (New Haven, CT), June 2006.
• Matthew Shaftel, Treasurer of Music Theory Southeast
• Matthew Shaftel, Editor of Music Theory Online, an official publication of the Society for Music Theory.
• Matthew Shaftel, Chair of the College Music Society's Advisory Committee for Music Theory.