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Department of Music


Degree Programs: Full-Time: M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.; M.A., D.M.A

Chair: Joseph Dubiel, Ph.D.
621 Dodge
Tel: 212.854.3825


Dissertation Sponsors

Susan Boynton:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Brandeis, 1997
Interests: Gregorian chant, liturgy, medieval drama, manuscript studies.
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
David E. Cohen:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Brandeis, 1993
Interests: History of music theory, tonal and pre-tonal music.
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Sebastian Currier:
Associate Professor, Juilliard, 1992
Interests: Composition, Music Theory
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Joseph Dubiel:
Professor, Ph.D., Princeton, 1980
Interests: Composition; music theory
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Aaron Fox:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Texas (Austin), 1995
Interests: Ethnomusicology, linguistic and social anthropology; American popular music and working-class culture
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Walter Frisch:
Professor, Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 1981
Interests: 19th- and 20th-century music; analysis; Brahms; Schoenberg
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Bradford Garton:
Professor, Ph.D., Princeton, 1989
Interests: Computer music; composition
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Giuseppe Gerbino:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Duke, 2001
Interests: Italian madrigal; early opera; 17 century theory of counterpoint; sociology of music
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Ellen Gray:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Duke, 2005
Interests: Ethnomusicology, culture anthropology, gender performance, urban cultural studies, Portugal Europe
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Karen Henson:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Oxford, 2000
Interests: French opera and musical culture
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Ellie Hisama:
Professor, Ph.D., CUNY, 1996
Interests: Music theory, 20th & 21st century music, American music, popular music, feminist studies
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Fred Lerdahl:
Professor, M.F.A., Princeton, 1967
Interests: Composition; music theory; generative systems; music cognition
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Fabien Levy:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 2004
Interests: Composition
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
George Lewis:
Professor, B.A., Yale, 1974
Interests: Jazz performance, improvisation and history; computer music
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Tristan Murail:
Professor
Interests: Composition; computer music; psychoacoustics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Elaine Sisman:
Professor, Ph.D., Princeton, 1978
Interests: 18th- and 19th-century music; Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven; aesthetics; history of theory
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
John F. Szwed:
Professor (Anthropology, Sociology), Ph.D., Ohio State, 1965
Interests: Ethnomusicology, jazz studies, African-American studies, folklore
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Christopher Washburne:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1999
Interests: Jazz performance; Latin-American musical traditions
Approved Dissertation Sponsor




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