| Office: | Moody Music 252A |
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| Phone: | (205) 348-1481 |
| Email: | trobinson@music.ua.edu |
Thomas Robinson
Assistant Professor of Music Theory
Assistant Director of Graduate Studies
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Ph.D., City University of New York
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M.M., University of New Mexico
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B.M., University of Miami
Dr. Robinson is a music theorist specializing in 20th-century music, set theory, and popular music. He is contributing a chapter to The Cambridge Companion to Arvo Pärt (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming) and has presented papers at international, national, and regional conferences on topics such as Z-related multisets, the music of Arvo Pärt, and melody in popular music. His Ph.D. dissertation, “Pitch-Class Multisets,” recently was nominated for the Barry S. Brook Dissertation Award. Previous teaching positions were held at Queens College (CUNY) and at the University of New Mexico.
At the School of Music, Dr. Robinson teaches Music Theory I, Form and Analysis, and Analysis of 20th-Century Music. He also supervises the freshman-level Musicianship labs and serves as advisor to all students in the Master of Music programs.