Dr. Caleb Mutch

Hauptforschungsgebiete
- 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
Ausbildung
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 |
Werdegang
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 |
Publikationen
Peer-Reviewed Articles
“How the Triad Took (a) Root,” Forthcoming, Journal of Music Theory (Spring 2022).
“‘Something Else is Possible’: Transcultural Collaboration as Anti-Apartheid Activism in the Music of Juluka,” Accepted, Popular Music. doi:10.1017/S026114302100043X 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
Auszeichnungen & Stipendien
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, |