Dr. Caleb Mutch
Main Research Area
- History of Music Theory
- Digital Humanities
- Musical Form
- Analysis of Global Pop Music
- Media Studies
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
“Re-quantifying W. C. Printz’s Concept of Quantitas Intrinseca.” Music Theory and Analysis, forthcoming.
“From Juluka to Savuka: Johnny Clegg’s Changing Compositional Practices.” In Michael Drewett and Lucilla Spini, eds., There’s a Song to be Sung: Critical Reflections on the Music and Influence of Johnny Clegg, forthcoming, Wits University Press.
“An Emendation to Pseudo-Aristotle, Problemata 19.4.” Classical Quarterly, forthcoming.
“How the Triad Took (a) Root.” Journal of Music Theory 66, no. 1 (2022): 43–62
“‘Something Else is Possible’: Transcultural Collaboration as Anti-Apartheid Activism in the Music of Juluka.” Popular Music 40, no. 3–4 (2021): 450–69 Link
“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
| 2024 | David Kraehenbuehl Prize (awarded biennially to the best article published in the Journal of Music Theory by a scholar in early career who is untenured at time of submission) |
| 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, |