Nicole Biamonte
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Music Theory (Yale University)
M.Phil., Music Theory (Yale University)
B.F.A., Piano (State University of New York at Purchase)
Dr. Biamonteâs primary research area concerns the theory and analysis of popular music, with a focus on rhythmic and metric functions in rock music. She is also interested in form and harmony in popular music, music theory pedagogy, and musical historicism in the nineteenth century, which was the topic of her dissertation, âThe Modes in the Music of Beethoven, Schumann, and Brahms: Historical Context and Musical Function.â
Nicole Biamonte has studied music theory, piano, and choral conducting. Before coming to ±«ÓăֱȄ, she taught at Yale University, Skidmore College, the University of Texas at San Antonio, and the University of Iowa. She has presented papers at numerous regional, national and international conferences, including keynote addresses at the Music Theory Society of New York State (2013), University of Ottawa Graduate Student Music Conference (2014), New England Conference of Music Theorists (2017), and a joint meeting of the Gesellschaft fĂŒr Musiktheorie and the Gesellschaft fĂŒr Popularmusikforschung (2017). She will also present keynote addresses at the Texas Society for Music Theory (2019) and the Indiana University Annual Symposium for Research in Music. She has led workshops at Music Theory Midwest (2014), the UniversitĂ€t Mozarteum in Salzburg (2017), the Society for Music Analysis in the UK (2018), and the Society for Music Theory (2018). She has served as chair of the music theory area and of the SMT Popular Music Interest Group. She recently completed a 3-year term as editor of Music Theory Online. She currently serves on the editorial board of Indiana Theory Review and is an international advisory editor for the journal Popular Music.
Rhythm and Meter in Popular Music
Rhythm and Meter
Popular Music Analysis
The Music of the Beatles
Music Theory Pedagogy
Tonal Counterpoint 1 and 2
Form in Popular Music
Basic Materials of Western Music
Undergraduate Core Theory
(some available for download at )
âRhythmic and Metric Theorisation in Rock Music,â in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Rock Music Research, ed. Allan F. Moore, Routledge (forthcoming 2019)
âRhythmic Functions in Pop-Rock Music,â in The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis, ed. Smith, Scotto, and Brackett (Routledge, 2018)
âPop/Rock Tonalities,â in Tonality Since 1950, ed. Wörner, Scheideler, and Rupprecht, Franz Steiner Verlag (2017)
Conference report on âA Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Beatlesâ Sgt. Pepperâs Lonely Hearts Club Band,â Univ. of Michigan, June 2017, Music Theory Online 23.2 (2017)
âOnline Music Theory in Music Theory Online,â Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft fĂŒr Musiktheorie 13/2 (2016)
âLes fonctions modales dans le rock et la musique metal,â Lâanalyse musicale aujourdâhui, ed. Mondher Ayari, Jean-Michel Bardez, and Xavier Hascher (UniversitĂ© de Strasbourg, 2015)
âFormal Functions of Metric Dissonance in Rock Music,â Music Theory Online 20.2 (2014)
Review of Jeremy Day-OâConnell, Pentatonicism from the Eighteenth Century to Debussy,
Theory and Practice 37/38 (2013)
âVariations on a Scheme: Bachâs âCrucifixusâ and Chopinâs and Scriabinâs E-Minor Preludes,â
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âIntroduction,â special issue on Form in Rock Music, Music Theory Online 17.3 (2011)
Review of David Damschroder, Listening to Harmony, Nineteenth-Century Music Review 8/2 (2011)
âMusical Otherness in Rush,â in Rush and Philosophy, ed. Durrell Bowman (Open Court Press, 2011)
âTriadic Modal and Pentatonic Patterns in Rock Music,â Music Theory Spectrum 32/2 (2010), repr. Ashgate Library of Essays on Popular Music: Rock, ed. Mark Spicer (2011)
Editor, Pop-Culture Pedagogy in the Music Classroom: Teaching Tools from American Idol to YouTube (Scarecrow Press, 2010); author, introduction and chapter on âMusical Representation in the Video Games Guitar Hero and Rock Bandâ
âAugmented-Sixth Chords vs. Tritone Substitutes,â Music Theory Online 14.2 (2008)
Review of Allan Moore, ed., Analyzing Popular Music, Journal of Musicological Research 26/4 (2007)
âModality in Beethovenâs Folksong Settings,â Beethoven Forum 13/1 (2006)