Teaching

Courses Taught

(graduate courses in blue)

University of San Francisco (as adjunct lecturer)

  • Applied Piano (MUS 114).
  • Chromatic Harmony (MUS 398).
  • Diatonic Harmony and Composition (MUS 250).

University of Michigan (as graduate student instructor)

  • Aural Skills for Musical Theater Majors I and II [primary instructor] (TH 135a/235a).
  • Freshman Aural Skills I and II [primary instructor] (TH 149/150).
  • Freshman Written Theory I and II [instructor of record] (TH 135/236).
  • Graduate Theory Review [instructor of record] (TH 334).
  • Theory at the Keyboard I and II [primary instructor] (TH 211/212).

University of Massachusetts at Amherst

  • Basic Formal Analysis I/II (Sophomore Theory) (MUS 212/13).
  • Fundamentals of Music Theory (MUS 110).
  • Graduate Theory Review (MUS 493B).
  • Motivic Analysis (MUS 691M).
  • Post-Tonal Theory (MUS 591S).

University of Oklahoma

  • Advanced Harmonic Analysis (MUTH 5970).
  • Advanced Schenkerian Theory (MUTH 5970).
  • Analysis of Tonal Music (MUTH 5883).
  • Aural Skills II (MUTH 1622).
  • Aural Skills IV (MUTH 2622).
  • Beethoven’s 32 Piano Sonatas (MUTH 5970).
  • Beethoven’s “Eroica” Symphony (MUTH 5970, co-taught with Prof. Sanna Pederson).
  • Counterpoint (MUTH 3763).
  • Cyclical Form (MUTH 5970).
  • Forms and Analysis (MUTH 3783).
  • Introduction to Schenkerian Analysis (MUTH 5813).
  • Musical Meaning (MUTH 5970).
  • Performance and Analysis (MUTH 5970).
  • Philosophy of Interpretation (MUTH 5970).
  • Practicum in Post-Tonal Theory (MUTH 5813).
  • Practicum in Tonal Theory (MUTH 5812).
  • Readings in Recent Tonal Theory (MUTH 5970).
  • Structures II (Freshman Theory, second semester) (MUTH 1522).
  • Structures IV (Sophomore Theory, second semester) (MUTH 2622).
  • Teaching Music Theory in the Twenty-First Century (MUTH 5970).
  • Thematic Analysis (MUTH 5970).
  • Tonal/Post-Tonal Connections (MUTH 5970).
  • Variation Form and Technique (MUTH 5970).