Associate Professor of Music, University of North Texas

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STEPHEN SLOTTOW

Associate Professor of Music, University of North Texas

2500 North Locust Street

Denton, TX 76209

(940) 382-9150 (home)

(940) 369-7215 (work)

(940) 783-6944 (cell)

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EDUCATION

Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York

Ph.D. in Music Theory, June 6, 2001

Dissertation: “A Vast Simplicity: Pitch Organization in the Music of Carl Ruggles”

Advisor: Joseph Straus

Second reader: Philip Lambert

Other major professors: Carl Schachter, Charles Burkhart

Queens College, City University of New York

M.A. in Music Theory, February, 1998

Cleveland State University

B. Music History, 1989

Senior project: “Cape Breton Fiddling and its Scottish Antecedents”

EMPLOYMENT

9/2008-presentAssociate professorUniversity of North TexasDenton, TX

9/2002-8/2008Assistant professorUniversity of North TexasDenton, TX

9/2001-5/2002LecturerUniversity of North TexasDenton, TX

9/1998-6/2001Adjunct professorHofstra University Hempstead, NY

9/1997-5/1998Adjunct professorTemple UniversityPhiladelphia, PA

9/1993-5/1997Adjunct professorQueens College, CUNYFlushing, NY

1993-2000EditorRILM Abstracts of New York, NY

Music Literature

9/1992-5/1993Adjunct professorCity College, CUNYNew York, NY

1980-90Fiddler Hotfoot QuintetCleveland, OH

1975-1980Fiddler, banjo playerFalls City RamblersLouisville, KY

1970-74Fiddler, banjo playerSwamp Root String BandRochester, NY

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Graduate Courses

University of North Texas (2001-present)

MUTH 5382Graduate Aural Skills

MUTH 5470Advanced Schenkerian Analysis

MUTH 5400Invertible Counterpoint and Fugue

MUTH 5370 Analytical Techniques III (20th-c.)

MUGC 5950Thesis

MUTH 6680Music Theory Proseminar. “Schenkerian Rhythm: Chordal Reduction, Hypermeter, Phrase Rhythm, & Durational Reduction”

MUTH 6680Music Theory Proseminar. “How to Write an Analytical Paper (plus Considerations on how to Navigate the Music Theory Profession)”

MUTH 6900Independent Study: The Sonatas of Scarlatti (a Schenkerian approach)

Esther Boyer College of Music, Temple University (1997-98)

Music Studies 508 Schenkerian Analysis

Music Studies 508 Atonal Analysis Seminar: Ives, Ruggles, and Seeger

Undergraduate Courses

University of North Texas (2001-present)

MUTH 3410 16th-c. Counterpoint

MUTH 3420 18th-c. Counterpoint

MUTH 3510Form and Analysis

MUTH 4370Introduction to Schenkerian Analysis

MUTH 4520Post-Tonal Analysis

MUTH 1400Theory I

MUTH 1500Theory II

MUTH 2400Theory III

MUTH 2500Theory IV

MUTH 1410Aural Skills I

MUTH 1510Aural Skills II

MUTH 2410Aural Skills III

MUTH 2510Aural Skills IV

MUTH 3550Aural Skills V

MUTH 4920Senior Colloquium

Hofstra University (1998-2001)

Music 1Music Theory for Non-Music Majors

Music 61 Sight Singing and Ear Training I

Music 62 Sight Singing and Ear Training II

Music 63 Sight Singing and Ear Training III

Music 64 Sight Singing and Ear Training IV

Music 69Rudiments and Two-Part Species Counterpoint

Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens College (1993-97)

Music 173Harmony, Counterpoint, and Keyboard Skills I

Music 174Harmony, Counterpoint, and Keyboard Skills II

Music 171Sight Singing and Ear Training I

Music 73Theory Fundamentals

Music 71Remedial Sight Singing and Ear Training

City College (1992-93)

MUS 15200Music in Elementary School (nonmajors)

PUBLICATIONS

Books

The Americanization of Zen Chanting. Pendragon Press. Contract signed 11/21/14. In progress.

A Vast Simplicity: The Music of Carl Ruggles. Pendragon Press. July, 2009.

Articles

"To Be or Not to Be: Sequences in Schenkerian Analysis" Gamut (online journal of the Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic). Accepted; publication expectedFall, 2017.

"An Interview with Edward Laufer," in Explorations in Schenkerian Analysis: Essays in Honor of Edward Laufer, ed. David Beach and Suyin Mak. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2016: 328-48.

"The Sequences in Mozart's Piano Sonata, K. 280/I: Types, Functions, and Dispositions." Res Musica 7 (2015), 128-42.

“Von einem Künstler: Shapes in the Clouds."Res Musica/3 (2011): 123-33

Book review: Michiel Schuijer, Analyzing Atonal Music: Pitch-Class Set Theory and Its Contexts (Rochester, University of Rochester Press, 2008). Theoria, Vol. 17 (2010): 143-52.

“Schenkerian Pedagogy in the Oster and Salzer Teaching Lines: An Oral History Approach.” Essays from the Fourth International Schenker Symposium, ed. Allan Cadwallader. Hildesheim/Zürich/New York: Georg Olms, 2008: 259-78.

"Carl Ruggles and Charles Seeger: Strict vs. Free Imitation in Ruggles’s Canons.”Music Theory Spectrum. Vl. 30/2 (Fall, 2008): 283-303.

“Ornamentation in the Fiddling of Eileen Ivers.” Journal of the Society for American Music, Vl. 1/ 4 (November 2007): 485-510.

“Forks in the Road: Teaching Scarlatti’s Sonata in C Major (K.159, Longo 104).” Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy, Vl. 21 (2007): 71-99.

"Fortspinnung and Polyphonic Melody in Ernst Kurth: A View through Schenkerian-Colored Lenses." A Composition as a Problem V. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Music Theory, Tallinn, September 29-30, 2006: 187-202.

“Analytic Process in Schenkerian Pedagogy: An Introspective Exercise.” Journal of Schenkerian Studies, Vol. I, Fall, 2005: 44-65.

“Carl Ruggles’s Cadential Complex.” Intégral, Vol. 16/17 (2002/2003): 103-138.

“Wayward Compositional Procedure in the Music of Carl Ruggles.” Institute of Studies in American Music Newsletter (ISAM), Fall, 2003: 6-7, 15.

"Sources of Coherence in Carl Ruggles's Lilacs." A Composition as a Problem IV. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Music Theory, Tallinn, April 3-5, 2003: 46-60.

"Fifths and Semitones: A Ruggles Compositional Model and its Unfoldings.” Theory and Practice, Vol. 26 (2000): 87-103; awarded the Emerging Scholar Award (Music Theory Society of New York State).

PAPERS READ

“François Couperin’s La Flore (5th ordre): Motivic Replilcation, Approach to III, and Analytic Methodology,” Euromac 9: 9th European Music Analysis Conference, July 1, 2017

"The Sequences in Mozart's Piano Sonata, K. 280/I: Types, Functions, and Dispositions," Seventh International Conference on Music Theory, Estonian Academy of Music and Theater, Tallinn, January 9, 2014. Also read at Laudate Eum: Recital and Symposium in Honor of Professor Graham Phipps, University of North Texas, March 29, 2014

"To Be or Not to Be: Sequences in Schenkerian Analysis," Fifth International Schenker Symposium, Mannes College, The New School for Music, March 16, 2013

"American Transformations of Zen Buddhist Chanting," lecture, College of Music, University of North Texas, October 24, 2012.

"The American Migration and Transformation of Zen Buddhist Chanting," invited lecture, Butler School of Music, University of Texas (Austin), October 1, 2012.

"Theories and Fantasies: Shapes in the Clouds," Texas Society of Music Theory, 33rd Annual Conference, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, February 18, 2011.

“Von einem Künstler: Shapes in the Clouds, " Sixth International Conference on Music Theory, Estonian Academy of Music and Theater, Tallinn, October 14-16, 2010.

"Charles Ruggles's Canons and their Relation to Charles Seeger's Dissonant Counterpoint," Society for Music Theory Annual Meeting, Baltimore, November 15-18, 2007; also at West Coast Conference of Music Theory and Analysis, Vancouver, April 23, 2006.

“Atonal Voice Exchange in the works of Charles Ives, Ruth Crawford Seeger, and Carl Ruggles,” Eighteenth International Congress of the International Musicological Society, Zurich, July, 2007. Based on my 2002 presentation “Voice Exchange in Ruggles.”

"Fortspinnung and Polyphonic Melody in Ernst Kurth: A View through Schenkerian-Colored Lenses." Fifth International Conference on Music Theory, Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, Tallinn, September 29-30, 2006. Participation by invitation only.

“Schenkerian Pedagogy in the Oster and Salzer Teaching Lines: An Oral History Approach.” Fourth International Schenker Symposium, Mannes College of Music, New York, March 17, 2006

“Forks in the Road: Teaching Scarlatti’s Sonata in C Major (K.159, Longo 104).” Society for Music Theory National Convention, Seattle, November 11, 2004; also at Texas Society for Music Theory annual conference, Fort Worth, February 21, 2003

"Sources of Coherence in Carl Ruggles's Lilacs." Fourth International Conference on Music Theory, Estonian Academy of Music, Tallinn, April 5, 2003

“‘It’s Against Nature’: Cadential Straight Lines in the Music of Carl Ruggles.” Music Now series, University of North Texas, Denton, March 10, 2002

"Thoughts on Schenkerian Analytic Process." THE Lecture Series, Division of Music History, Theory, and Ethnomusicology, University of North Texas, Denton, March 5, 2002

“Voice Exchange in Ruggles.” South Central Society for Music Theory annual meeting, Baton Rouge, February 22-23, 2002

"Fifths and Semitones: A Ruggles Compositional Model and its Unfoldings.” Music Theory Society of New York State annual meeting, New York University, April 9, 2000; also at the Georgia Association of Music Theorists, Georgia State University, April 24, 1999; and at South Central Society for Music Theory annual meeting, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, March 13, 1999

“‘It’s Against Nature’: Straight Lines, Sequences, and Whole Tone Collections in the Music of Carl Ruggles.” Society for Music Theory National Convention, Phoenix, Arizona, November 2,

1997; also at New England Conference of Music Theorists, Yale University, New Haven, April 6, 1997

“Modeling Pitch Relations in the Music of Carl Ruggles: Voice-Leading Implications.” Music Theory Society of New York State, New York City, October 10, 1993

“Some Aspects of Traditional Cape Breton Fiddling.” Sonneck Society, Toronto, April 22, 1990 and Society for Ethnomusicology, Niagara Chapter, Cleveland, April 28, 1989

CITATIONS

Carl Schachter, The Art of Tonal Analysis: Twelve Lessons in Schenkerian Theory, ed. Joseph N. Straus (Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2016), 54.

Drew Massey, "Imaging the Infinite in Carl Ruggles's Evocations," Music and Letters, Volume 92, Number 4 (November 2011): 586.

Stephen C. Brown, “Dual Interval Space in Twentieth-Century Music,” Music Theory Spectrum 25/1 (Spring 2003): 38.

Thomas Herlin, The Carl Ruggles Page.

Joseph N. Straus, Twelve-Tone Music in America. Cambridge University Press, 2009: 248, 293; and “Uniformity, Balance, and Smoothness in Atonal Voice Leading.” Music Theory Spectrum 25/2 (Fall 2003): 332.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

External Referee or Reviewer for Journal Submissions or Book Proposals

Music and Letters, "Timelessness in Carl Ruggles's Evocations," July, 2010

Oxford University Press, proposal by Steven Laitz, Graduate Review of Tonal Theory: A Recasting of Common-Practice Harmony, Form, and Counterpoint, February, 2008

American Music, blind review of "When Men and Mountains Meet: Ruggles, Whitman, and Their Landscapes,” October, 2008

Prentice-Hall, review of Stefan Kostka, Materials and Techniques of Twentieth-Century Music, 3rd. ed,” December, 2008

External Evaluator in Applications for Tenure and Promotion

Michael Berry, Texas Tech University, tenure and promotion to Associate Professor, August, 2010

Timothy Cutler, Austin College, tenure and promotion to Associate Professor, August, 2005

Membership in Professional Organizations

Society for Music Theory

Texas Society for Music Theory

Offices and Committee Assignments in Professional Organizations

Session chair, Schenker session, Texas Society for Music Theory annual meeting, February 26 (Belton, TX)

Program Committee, Texas Society for Music Theory, 2014-15

CV Review Session team member, Committee for Professional Development, Society for Music Theory Annual Meeting (Milwaukee), November 7, 2014.

Session Chair, "Sonata Design Reconsidered,"Seventh International Conference on Music Theory, Estonian Academy of Music and Theater, Tallinn, January 8, 2013

Local Arrangements Committee, Chair, Texas Society for Music Theory, 2013 (work began in Summer-Fall 2012)

Session Chair, "Brahms Studies," Texas Society for Music Theory 34th Annual Conference,

March 2, 2012, Fort Worth

Program Committee, Texas Society for Music Theory, 2009-10,

Program Committee, Texas Society for Music Theory,2007-08

Local Arrangements Committee, Texas Society for Music Theory, 2005-06,

with responsibility for bringing in Charles Burkhart (Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY) as keynote speaker; and Frank Samarotto (Indiana University) and Gary Karpinski (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) as guest speakers

Program Committee, Texas Society for Music Theory, 2003-04

Additional Responsibilities and Other Activities

Co-Director of the Center for Schenkerian Studies, Fall, 2002-present

Faculty Advisor for the Journal of Schenkerian Studies, 2003-present

Organization of residencies, lectures, and bequests (selected list)

Organized visit of David Smyth (Edward and Catherine Galante Professor and

Coordinator of Music Theory, Lousiana State University), October 19, 2010

Organized residency of Charles Burkhart (Professor Emeritus, Queens College and

the Graduate Center, CUNY), October 25-30, 2009

Organized residency of Carl Schachter, (Professor of Music Theory Emeritus, Queens

College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York; Faculty, Techniques

of Music, Mannes College of Music; Graduate Faculty, Julliard School), UNT, April 12-14,

2010

Organized residency of Poundie Burstein (Professor of Music Theory at Hunter College

and the Graduate Center, City University of New York), March 11-13, 2009

Organized residency of Mark Spicer (Associate Professor of Music Theory, Hunter

College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York), UNT, April 20-22,

2009

Organized residency of Joseph N. Straus (Professor of Music Theory, Graduate Center,

City University of New York), UNT, January 22-26, 2007

Co-organized (with Professor Timothy Jackson) Symposium on 20th-Century Modernism

in Music, UNT, January 26, 2007

Organized lectures by Timothy Cutler (Associate Professor of Music, Austin College),

UNT, November 15, 2006

Organized UNT residency of Charles Burkhart (Professor Emeritus, Queens College and

the Graduate Center, CUNY) and Marian Burkhart (writer), UNT, February 20-24,

2006

Co-organized (with Timothy Jackson) residency of Allen Forte (Professor Emeritus, Yale) and Madeleine Forte (pianist), UNT, February 7-10, 2005

Arranged bequest of Charles Burkhart’s manuscripts, sketches, analytical graphs, and

music theory books to the College of Music, UNT

Arranged gift of manuscripts, compositions, and analyses of Hubert Kessler (Professor of Music University of Illinois) in the possession of Wolfgang Haken to the College of Music, UNT

Facilitated (with Timothy Jackson) gift of manuscripts and analyses of Saul Novack (Professor of Music, Queens College) from Mrs. Phyllis Novack

Thesis Advisor

Alyssa Burscough, MM thesis (two-paper option): on G major fugue from J.S. Bach Well-

Tempered Clavier I. In progress.

William Waldroup, Ph. D. dissertation Debussy’s early songs. In progress.

Bryan Stevens, MM thesis: "Formal Organization in Ground-Bass Compositions." Graduated

August 2015

Rachel Paul, MM thesis (two-paper option): "‘Toward eternity’: A spatio-perceptual reading

of Aaron Copland’s Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson."Graduated May 2014

William Waldroup, MM thesis: "Jacques Ibert: An Analytical Study of Three Movements

from Histoires." Graduated August 2012.

Carlos Gaviria, MM thesis: “Alberto Ginastera and the

Guitar Chord: An Analytical Study." Graduated August 2010

David Huff, MM thesis: “Methods of Atonal Voice-Leading

Analysis: A Critical Evaluation Based on Analyses of Alban Berg’s Four Songs Op. 2."

Graduated October 2010

Heejung Kang, piano, related field professor, DMA thesis: “Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a

Theme by Paganini, Op.43; Analysis and Discourse.” Graduated 2004

Thesis/Dissertation Committee Memberships

Ben Graf, Ph. D. dissertation, committee member

Chia-Ying Wu, Ph.D. dissertation, committee member

Jason Patterson, Ph.D. dissertation, committee member

Colin Davis, Ph.D. dissertation, committee member

Ryan Taycher, MM thesis, committee member

Rene Perez, Ph.D. dissertation, committee member

Michael Schnitzius, MM. thesis, committee member

Greg Dixon, DMA thesis, composition, committee member and related field professor

Tish Davenport, MM thesis, theory, 2nd reader

Jason Patterson, MM thesis, theory, 2nd reader

Jeff Ensign, MM thesis, theory, 2nd reader

Chia-Ying Wu, MM thesis, theory, 2nd reader; dissertation, reader

JongKyun Kim, MM thesis, theory, 2nd reader

Colin Davis, MM thesis, theory, 2nd reader

Chien-Wen Chen, DMA, composition, related field professor

Greg Dewhirst, DMA thesis, saxaphone, related field professor

Christie Armandez, MM thesis, theory, 2nd reader

William Pavlak, MM thesis, theory, committee member

Jennifer Sadoff, PhD dissertation, theory, 2nd reader

Jon Anderson, DMA thesis, composition, committee member and related field professor,

Hsiao-Lan Wang, DMA thesis, composition, committee member

Honors

Emerging Scholar Award (2000)

Given by the Music Theory Society of New York State

Graduate Teaching Fellowship (1993-97)

Graduate Center, City University of New York. A competitive fellowship awarded on a limited basis to ABDs for a three-year period (extended to a fourth year). Each Fellow is selected by the faculty of the college in which he or she teaches.

University Fellowship (1992-93)

Cleveland State University

UNIVERSITY COMMITTEES

Faculty Review, Tenure, and Promotion Procedures Workgroup (Spring 2014)

Faculty Senator (Fall 2008, Fall 2014-present)

Mentoring Committee (Fall, 2003-Spring, 2008)

Committee for Ethnic Diversity (Spring, 2002-Spring 2007)

COLLEGE OF MUSIC COMMITTEES

Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (2002-Spring 2007)

DIVISION OF MUSIC HISTORY, THEORY, AND ETHNOMUSICOLOGY COMMITTEES AND TASKS

Music Theory Search Committee (2013-14)

Lecture Series Committee (Member, Spring 2006 to Spring 2008; Chair, Fall 2008-present)

The Lecture Series Committee has brought in guest speakers of the highest quality and

reputation, such as Charles Burkhart, Carl Schachter, Bruno Nettl, Poundie Burstein, Edward Laufer, and Allen Forte

Music Theory Search Committee (2010-11)

Reappointment, Promotion, and Tenure Committee (2010)

Graduate Academic Degrees Committee (2003-2005; Fall 2007-Spring 2010; Fall 2014-present)

Publicity Committee (Fall 2008-Spring 2012)

Revised Division guidelines for undergraduate senior projects (Spring 2007)

Music Theory Search Committee (Spring 2006)

Music History Search Committee (Spring 2006)

Task force for Division Mission Statement (Spring 2004)

THEORY AREA TASKS

Helped to move the administration of the music theory doctoral examinations from the Division to the Area, and have since participated in their creation and evaluation (Fall 2008 -present)

Helped research and promote a non-thesis Master's Degree option for the Area.

Worked on and administered the Theory Proficiency Examination (Spring 2008-present)

Observed and made recommendations regarding Michael Lively’s teaching of MUTH 3420 (18th-c. counterpoint), Fall 2008

GRANTS

2010, UNT Research and Creativity Enhancement (RCE) Award for "The Americanization of Zen Chanting." $9,490.

2008, UNT Small Grant: towards copyright permissions for my article "Carl Ruggles and Charles Seeger: Strict vs. Free Imitation in Ruggles’s Canons.”Music Theory Spectrum:

$150

2007. UNT Small Grant: towards copyright permissions for my book A Vast Simplicity:The

Music of Carl Ruggles. $750

2005. UNT Small Grant: for copies of archival materials from the Carl Ruggles, Charles Ives,

and John Kirkpatrick papers at Yale Music Library. $300

2005. UNT Faculty Research Grant: “Schenkerian Pedagogy in the Oster and Salzer Teaching Lines: Interview Transcription and Follow-up.” $2000

2004. UNT Faculty Research Grant: “Carl Ruggles, Charles Seeger, and Dissonant Counterpoint.” (further research on the musical and personal connections between Ruggles, John Kirkpatrick, and Charles Ives). $5000

2003. UNT Junior Faculty Summer Research Fellowship: “Carl Ruggles, Charles Seeger, and Dissonant Counterpoint.” $5000.

2003. UNT Faculty Research Grant: “Schenkerian Pedagogy in the Oster and Salzer Teaching Lines.” $3000.

PERFORMANCE EXPERIENCE

Fiddler (bluegrass, old-time, swing), 1973-1990

The Hotfoot Quintet/Cleveland, Ohio/1980-90

Album: Barbecue on Broadway

The Falls City Ramblers/Louisville, Kentucky/1975-1980

Fiddler/banjo player

The Swamp Root String Band/Rochester, New York/1970-74

The New Bethel Tabernacle Drive-In Church/Urbana, Illinois/1966-69

Harpsichordist (University solo appearances and chamber ensembles), 1985-89

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