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Ryan Jones

portrait Ryan JonesAfter MSU: PhD student in Music Theory, Eastman School of Music

Years in the MSU theory Master’s program: 2020-2022

Before MSU: BM in Composition, Michigan State University

Conference Presentations:

“Musical Forces and Metaphors: Embodied Hermeneutics in Julia Wolfe’s Big Beautiful Dark and Scary”

  • Music Theory Society of New York State (Ithaca, NY, 2024)

“Topical Necker Cubes in Post-Tonal Music: Ambiguous Topics in George Crumb’s ‘Amazing Grace!’”

  • Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic (Newport News, VA, 2024)

“Part Writing Doesn’t Need to be Overwhelming: A Part-Writing Pedagogy Informed by Cognitive Load Theory”

  • Pedagogy into Practice (East Lansing, MI, 2022)

“Textural Layers and Hypermeter in the Music of Woody Guthrie”

  • SMT National Meeting (New Orleans, LA, 2022)
  • Music Theory Midwest (Lawrence, KS, 2022)

“Performed Timbre as Narrative: The Corporeal and Transcendent in Olivier Messiaen’s ‘Louange à l’Éternité de Jésus’”

  • CUNY Graduate Students in Music Conference (virtual, 2022)
  • IU Symposium of Research in Music (Bloomington, IN, 2022)

“Topics in Makrokosmos I: Forgotten Signifiers in the Music of George Crumb”

  • Florida State University Music Theory Forum (virtual, 2021)

Workshop Participation:

“Analyzing Hip-Hop through the Music of Daniel Dumile,” with Kyle Adams,  SMT National Meeting (New Orleans, LA, 2022)

“Doing Meaningful Musicology with Canonic Opera,” with Catherine Coppola, IU Symposium of Research in Music (Bloomington, IN, 2022)