Dr. Caleb Mutch
Main Research Area
- Mathematics in Pre-modern music theory
- The medieval reception of pseudo-Aristotle’s Problems
- Developments in pedagogy and media in the early modern period
- The evolution of the idea of the chordal root
- Formal function in baroque music
Vita
Education
| 2015 | Ph.D. in Music Theory, Columbia University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, New York, N.Y., USA Dissertation: “Studies in the History of the Cadence” |
| 2011 | M.Phil., Columbia University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, New York, N.Y., USA |
| 2010 | M.A., Columbia University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, New York, N.Y., USA |
| 2008 | B.Mus. in Music Scholarship, Minor in Latin, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada |
Career
| 2019–2020 | Visiting Assistant Professor, Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind., USA |
| 2017–2019 | Post-Doctoral Resident Scholar, Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind., USA |
| 2015–2017 | Core Lecturer in the Humanities, Columbia University, New York, N.Y., USA |
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
“‘Something Else is Possible’: Transcultural Collaboration as Anti-Apartheid Activism in the Music of Juluka,” Accepted, Popular Music
“How the Triad Took (a) Root,” Forthcoming, Journal of Music Theory (Spring 2022).
“Canons and Contestable Cadences in Brahms’s Op. 118 No. 4.” Music Theory & Analysis 8.1 (2021), 143-151. Link
“Pedagogy and Authority in Sixteenth-Century German Music Theory Textbooks.” Theoria 26 (2020) Link
“Mathematical Approaches to Defining the Semitone in Antiquity.” Journal of Mathematics and Music (2021). https://doi.org/10.1080/17459737.2020.1753122
“The Triad in Dispute: Genre and Audience in the Writings of Johannes Lippius.” Music Theory Spectrum (2020). https://doi.org/10.1093/mts/mtaa008
“The Formal Function of Fortspinnung.” Theory & Practice 43 (2018): 1–32
“Blainville’s New Mode, or How the Plagal Cadence Became ‘Plagal.’” Eighteenth-Century Music 12, no. 1 (March 2015): 69–90
Awards & Grants
Stipendien und Preise
| 2017 | Full funding to attend summer workshop on digital critical editions, Digital Latin Library, University of Oklahoma, |
| 2013, 2015 | H.S. Gerstle Travel Fund, Columbia University |
| 2014 | Directors’ Scholarship Fund, Rare Book School |
| 2012–2013 | Dissertation Fellow in Music, Columbia University |
| 2008–2012 | Faculty Fellow in Music |
| 2007, 2008 | University of British Columbia Medal (in Music) |
| 2006 | Prize for Musicology, University of British Columbia, 2006 |
| 2005, 2006 | Harry and Marjorie Anne Slim Memorial Scholarship in Music, University of British Columbia |
| 2005 | Wallace Berry Memorial Prize in Music Theory, University of British Columbia, |