Research Interests

• 16th-century polyphony
• plainchant
• Navajo music
• systematic musicology
• music cognition

Selected Writing

"Notation and Rhythm in the Medicean Gradual" in Performance Practice:  Issues and Approaches, ed. Timothy Watkins.  Ann Arbor:  Steglein, 2009.


Prosody and Rhythm in the Post-Tridentine Reform of Plainchant

• Ph.D. dissertation, The Ohio State University, 2004.
• Download full text here.

David Huron and Joshua Veltman. "A Cognitive Approach to Medieval Mode: Evidence for an Historical Antecedent to the Major/Minor System." Empirical Musicology Review 1/1 (2006): 33-55.

• Go to EMR website to download article.

"Syllable Placement and Metrical Hierarchy in Sixteenth-Century Motets." Computing in Musicology 14 (2006): 73-89.

• Preprint (pdf).

"Textual and Melodic Accent in Gregorian Chant."

• Presented at the Words and Music Conference at University of Missouri, Columbia, March 14-15, 2003.
• Full text (pdf). Figures (pdf, ~1.4 MB).
• Published version forthcoming: preprint (pdf, ~1 MB)

"Mensural Rhythm, Syllable Placement, and Metrical Hierarchy in Sixteenth-Century Polyphony."

• Presented at the American Musicological Society Annual Meeting, October 31, 2002.
• Full text and handout (pdf).

"Nightway Yeibichai Songs and the Navajo Worldview"

• Candidacy exam essay, Nov. 2001.
• Full text.

"The Significance of Music Perception and Cognition for Historical Musicology"

• Candidacy exam essay, Nov. 2001.
• Full text.

"From Chant to Clausula to Motet: GO"

• Candidacy exam essay, Oct. 2001.
• Full text (pdf).
• Figure 1 ("The GO Family Tree", pdf).
• Examples 1-13, 18b (pdf, ~3.8MB).

Textual Accent and Mensural Rhythm in Sixteenth-Century Settings of the "Pater noster"

• Master's thesis: The Ohio State University, 2001.
• Full text.

"Recent Developments in Textual Scholarship and Their Application to Music"

• Seminar paper, March 2001.
• Full text (pdf).

Review of: Jean-Jacques Nattiez, Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music (1990).

• Seminar paper, 1999.
• Full text: pdf or html.

"Strategies for Hearing the First Movement of J. S. Bach's Fifth Brandenburg Concerto"

• Seminar paper, July 1999.
• Full text: pdf or html.

"The Instrumental Evolution of Stravinsky's Les Noces"

• Seminar paper, 1998.
• Full text (pdf).

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