Ph.D. Yale University

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University at Buffalo
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Biography

Visiting Professor of Music Theory at University of California-Santa Barbara (9/03-12/03)
Associate Professor of Music Theory at Buffalo since 1989.

On-going research involves the music of Arnold Schoenberg, neo-classicism, dodecaphony, twentieth-century theory and pedagogy, and the music of Chopin.

Is currently completing Stravinsky's Neoclassical Works: Strategies of Imitation and Transformation and is working as well on a book-length study of Chopin's Preludes.

Received the Deems Taylor Award (ASCAP) in 1980 for her articles on Schoenberg.

Editor of Journal of Music Theory from 1981 to 1987.

Has served as Vice-President and Executive Board member for the Society for Music Theory, and as Council member and AMS 50 Fellowship Committee member for the American Musicological Society.

Has received fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, Luce Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies.

Received her Ph.D. from Yale University, where she served on the faculty from 1977 to 1987 and was Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Music.

Luce Visiting Professor at Columbia University from 1987 to 1989.

Her book, Schoenberg's 12-Tone Harmony, was published by UMI Research Press.

Her articles on music theory have appeared in almost all of the major professional journals, as well as in important collections.

Click here for a list of Professor Hyde's publications.