Stephen
Brown, Music Theory (Coordinator)
Assistant Professor
Office: Bldg.
37, Room 227
Phone: (928)
523-1781
Email: Stephen.Brown@nau.edu
Stephen Brown earned his B.A. in Music and History from Harvard in 1991 and his Ph.D. in Music Theory from Yale in 1999. Before coming to NAU, he taught at the University of Connecticut (Assistant Professor, 2000-2001) and the Oberlin Conservatory (Assistant Professor 2001-2007; promoted to Associate Professor with tenure 2007). Professor Brown has done research in post-tonal theory and analysis, transformational theory, and the music of Shostakovich. He has given papers at the New Conference of Music Theorists (1997, 1998, 2001), the West Coast Conference of Music Theory and Analysis (1998), Music Theory Midwest (2003), the Society for Music Theory (1998 and 2004), and the Third Buffalo Symposium on Neo-Riemannian Theory (2002), among other venues. His article “Dual Interval Space in Twentieth-Century Music” appears in Music Theory Spectrum 25/1 (Spring 2003). “Tracing the Origins of Shostakovich’s Musical Motto” is scheduled to appear in Intégral 20 (Fall 2007); and “Ic1/Ic5 Interaction in the Music of Shostakovich” is forthcoming from Music Analysis.