Curriculum vitae

Curriculum vitae - PDF (updated April 2010)

Dissertation-related materials

• Harmony and harmonic progression in Ligeti's Passacaglia ungherese
  This is a draft of what will likely be the second chapter of my dissertation. Presented to the Yale University Department of Music dissertation colloquium on 27 January 2010.
• Dissertation prospectus: Composing at 'Umpteen Seconds to Midnight': György Ligeti, His Late Works, and Their Reception - 15 May 2008
  quotation from Le grand macabre, scene 3; Piet, responding to Nekrotzar's inquiry as to the time. Nekrotzar is to 'smite the world to pieces' at midnight.

Theoretical and analytical papers

• Overtones, Intervals, and Generative Transformations in György Ligeti's Hamburg Concerto
• 'A Delicate Balance': Music Theory, New Musicology, and the Analysis of Sound in Radiohead's 'Like Spinning Plates'
• A Transformational Approach to Collection and Mode in the Music of Béla Bartók

Music theory projects

• Archives from Am Steg and Sound and Mind
  a former online resource for composers and music theorists and a blog-based website on music cognition and related topics