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Autumn term 2007
Music 15100: Harmony and Voice Leading I
Music 27501/31801: The Analysis of Song

Winter term 2008
Music 25700/31900: Introduction to Cognitive Musicology

Spring term 2008
Seminar: Music and Emotion

“Musical Gesture and Musical Grammar: A Cognitive Approach,” in New Perspectives on Music and Gesture, ed. Anthony Gritten and Elaine King (Ashgate Publishing Ltd) [in preparation].

“Music, Language, and Multimodal Metaphor,” in Multimodal Metaphor, eds. Charles Forceville and Eduardo Urios-Aparisi. (Berlin: Mouton-de Gruyter, 2007) [in press].

“Dance Topoi, Sonic Analogues, and Musical Grammar: Communicating with Music in the Eighteenth Century,” to appear in Communication in Eighteenth Century Music, ed. Danuta Mirka (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) [in press].

“Cognitive Science, Music Theory, and Music Analysis,” in Musiktheorie im Kontext: V. Kongress der Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie, ed. Reinhard Bahr and Jan Philipp Sprick [in press].

“Metaphor and Music,” in The Cambridge Handbook on Metaphor, ed. Ray Gibbs, Jr. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) [in press].

“The Cognitive Tango: Music, Mind and Brain,” in The Artful Mind: Cognitive Science and the Riddle of Human Creativity, ed. Mark Turner (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006).

“Aspects of Meaning Construction in Music: Toward a Grammar of Music,” Almen Semiotik 17 [in press].

“Music Theory, Multimedia, and the Construction of Meaning” (invited review of Nicholas Cook’s Analysing Musical Multimedia), Intégral 16/17 (2002/2003) [published summer 2005]: 251-268.

“Modelling the Groove: Conceptual Structure and Popular Music,” the Journal of the Royal Musical Association 129/2 (December 2004): 272-297.

Review of Taylor Aitken Greer, A Question of Balance: Charles Seeger’s Philosophy of Music, Music Theory Spectrum, 26/2 (Fall 2004): 305-313.

Conceptualizing Music: Cognitive Structure, Theory, and Analysis, AMS Studies in Music (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002). Conceptualizing Music was winner of the Society for Music Theory's 2004 Wallace Berry Award.

“Des Herzraums Abschied: Mark Johnson's Theory of Embodied Knowledge and Music Theory,” Theory and Practice 22-23 (1997-98; published Autumn 2000): 1-16.

“The Blossoms of 'Trockne Blumen': Music and Text in the Early Nineteenth Century,” Music Analysis, 18/3 (October 1999): 307-345.

“Musical Coherence, Motive, and Categorization,” Music Perception 17/1 (Fall 1999): 5-42.

“Seeger's Unitary Field Theory Reconsidered,” in Understanding Charles Seeger, Pioneer in American Musicology, edited by Bell Yung and Helen Rees (University of Illinois Press, 1999), 130-149.

“Metaphor and Music Theory: Reflections from Cognitive Science,” in Music Theory Online 4/1 (January 1998).
Table of contents for Music Theory Online 4/1.

“Conceptual Models and Cross-Domain Mapping: New Perspectives on Theories of Music and Hierarchy,” the Journal of Music Theory 41/2 (Fall 1997): 193-225.

“Musical Concepts and Categories,” Music Theory Online 1/4 (July 1995).

“Cooperative Learning in the Music Theory Classroom,” with Dr. Charles K. Long; the Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy 8 (1994): 135-157.

Review-article on Eugene Narmour’s The Analysis and Cognition of Basic Melodic Structures for the Journal of Music Theory 37/1 (Spring 1993): 177-206.

I also have experience as a practical musician. In a recent concert, I performed works by Heitor Villa-Lobos, Domenico Scarlatti, Fernando Sor, Augustin Barrios, and Leo Brouwer. The guitar I’m shown with in the pictures on this page was built in 1983 by Steve Kakos.

Although most of my energies are directed toward classical guitar, I've explored somewhat lighter fare as a member of the South Side Swedes, led by John Berquist.

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