EVAN
JONES, Associate Professor of Music Theory,
holds the Ph.D. in music theory and the
D.M.A. in cello performance from the Eastman
School of Music. Dr. Jones supervises sophomore
aural skills and teaches modal counterpoint,
form and analysis, 20th-century styles,
music since 1945, post-tonal aural skills,
and readings in music theory. While at Eastman
he coordinated and instructed a wide variety
of music theory and aural skills courses;
he also taught music theory at the University
of Rochester and taught cello at Colgate
University. Dr. Jones is a past winner of
a Sproull Fellowship from the University
of Rochester and a Doctoral Fellowship from
the Social Sciences and Humanities Research
Council of Canada; he was co-recipient of
the inaugural Alfred Mann Dissertation Prize
from the Eastman School and also won teaching
prizes from both Eastman and the University
of Rochester.
Dr.
Jones has presented his research at numerous
regional and national conferences, and has
performed in Weill Recital Hall and Merkin
Hall, among other venues. From 1997-99 Dr.
Jones served as co-editor of Intégral,
a peer-reviewed journal of music theory.
His dissertation and related papers focus
on issues of voice leading in diatonic space;
other research interests include the music
of Iannis Xenakis, early 20th-century rhythm,
and the interaction of analysis and performance.
His articles have appeared in Perspectives
of New Music, Computer Music Journal,
and Mapping in the Age of Digital Media.
He is currently editing a forthcoming volume
of essays on 20th-century string quartets
and (with co-author Matthew
Shaftel) completing an anthology of
tonal music for sight singing and ear training
to be published by Prentice Hall. |