The Oxford Handbook of Critical Concepts in Music Theory
Edited by Alexander Rehding and Steven Rings
Author Information
Alexander Rehding teaches music theory at Harvard University. He specializes in the music of the nineteenth century, history of music theory, and media theory. His publications include Hugo Riemann and the Birth of Modern Musical Thought (2003), Music and Monumentality (2009), and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (2017). He is editor-in-chief of the Oxford Handbooks Online in Music and series editor for a six-volume Cultural History of Music.
Steven Rings teaches music theory at the University of Chicago. His research ranges from transformational theory to studies of the popular singing voice. His book Tonality and Transformation received the Emerging Scholar Award from the Society for Music Theory, and his article "A Foreign Sound to Your Ear: Bob Dylan Performs 'It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding),' 1964-2009" received the Outstanding Publication Award from the SMT's Popular Music Interest Group. He is Series Editor of Oxford Studies in Music Theory.
Contributors:
David Blake is an Independent scholar in Potsdam, NY.
Suzannah Clark is Morton B. Knafel Professor of Music at Harvard University.
Richard Cohn is Battell Professor of Music Theory at Yale University.
Anne Danielsen is Professor in Popular Music Studies in the Department of Musicology at University of Oslo.
Jonathan De Souza is Assistant Professor of Music at Western University.
Matthew Gelbart is Associate Professor of Music in the Department of Art History and Music at Fordham University.
Robert O. Gjerdingen is Emeritus Professor of Music at The School of Music of Northwestern University.
Daniel Grimley is Professor of Music in the Faculty of Music at University of Oxford.
Stephan Hammel is Assistant Professor of Musicology at University of California, Irvine.
Daniel Harrison is Allen Forte Professor of Music Theory in the Department of Music at Yale University.
Vijay Iyer is Franklin D. and Florence Rosenblatt Professor of the Arts in the Department of Music and the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard University.
Henry Klumpenhouwer is a Professor of Music Theory in the Department of Theory at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester.
Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis is Professor of Music at Princeton University.
Susan McClary is Fynette H. Culas Professor of Music at Case Western Reserve University.
Mitch Ohriner is Assistant Professor of Music Theory at Lamont School of Music, University of Denver.
Bryan Parkhurst is Assistant Professor of Music Theory and Aural Skills at Oberlin College.
Ian Quinn is Professor of Music at Yale University.
Alexander Rehding is Fanny Peabody Professor of Music at Harvard University.
Steven Rings is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Chicago.
Martin Scherzinger is Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at the Steinhardt School, New York University.
Janet Schmalfeldt is Professor Emerita of Music at Tufts University.
Guilherme Schmidt Câmara is Doctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Musicology at University of Oslo.
Michael Tenzer is Professor of Ethnomusicology at the School of Music of The University of British Columbia.
David Trippett is Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge.
Naomi Waltham-Smith is Associate Professor at the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies at University of Warwick.