This page gives some information about the academic work done during my career, especially during the few years immediately after completing the Ph.D. This degree was chosen because of an interest in balancing the emphasis upon composition (while working on the B.M. and M.M.) with an emphasis upon scholarship and research in the field of music theory.

The major works cited are the Ph.D. dissertation itself, the chapter about music theory in the Athlone History book about British music, and the extended article about British theory in the German encyclopedia. Of secondary interest are the articles on music theory for the pre-college student. The other writings are mainly book reviews written for The American Music Teacher.

One project that consumed a bit of time and generated considerable interest at the time (early 1980s) is the book about ear-training techniques. Written in outline style, the book is an exposition of the techniques that I used over a number of years in teaching sight-singing and dicatation (referred to by more than one student as "fright singing and fear training"). (The fact that some of the students who preferred this title are many of the students along the way who could not hear the proverbial train wreck probably is a mere coincidence, having no basis in fact whatever....hmmmm.) This book, however, was never completed, yielding at some point to more pressing demands for limited time available for such pursuits. It is not beyond the realm of possibility that the book may yet someday be finished. In fact, if former students who read these words (and remember the portions of the book shared with them) should indicate an interest in my continuing work on the book, it could very well have a strong influence upon my resuming work on the project....

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