I am very happy to announce that I have been appointed as Assistant Professor of Musicianship Studies at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA. This Fall I will be joining a music faculty at Mary Pappert School of Music where I will be teaching a forward-looking music theory curriculum that integrates harmony, counterpoint, form, and analysis [...]

There have been many ways of measuring and classifying consonant and dissonant intervals throughout music history. From Pythagoras to the nineteenth century, music theorists have claimed perfect-ratio intervals accountable for the foundations of Western harmonic language. With the birth of psychoacoustics and cognitive neuroscience, some new and intriguing perspectives have been enthralling physicists, music theorists, [...]

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