Professor Ian Quinn has degrees from Columbia University (B.A., 1993) and the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester (M.A., 1998; Ph.D., 2004). Before joining the Yale faculty, he taught at the University of Chicago and the University of Oregon. In 2008-09 he will be a Residential Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford. A musician who has recorded works by Steve Reich with Alarm Will Sound (Canteloupe) and Ossia (Nonesuch), Quinn's interests extend also to modern and avant-garde music. Related projects include a study of the development since the late 1970s of Steve Reich's harmonic language, and an essay on Ligeti's early and late music that uses the evolution of a particular musical idée fixe as a springboard for a discussion of the composer's idiosyncratic thoughts on form.
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