![]() TTO has collaborated with an impressive array of artists and institutions: comic book artist P. Their projects combine powerful visual images and texts drawn from comic books, photographs, and film with newly composed music or new arrangements of existing music. The group brings together a group of distinguished faculty, friends, and alumnae of the Eastman School of Music. Brown founded TableTopOpera, a chamber ensemble that specializes in multi-media projects. Brown’s work has been featured in interviews with BBC Radio 3, WXXI, and the Boston Globe. He served as editor for the journal Theory and Practice from 2012 until 2015. Emil Homerin (Indiana, forthcoming), and over fifty articles/reviews in such periodicals as the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Music Theory Spectrum, Cool and Strange Music! and Science. The Impact of His Music on Popular Culture (Indiana, 2012), Heinrich Schenker’s Conception of Harmony with Robert Wason (Rochester, 2020), and Ariane & Bluebeard: From Fairy Tale to Comic Book Opera with Th. ![]() He has also authored or co-authored five books ( Debussy’s ‘Ibéria’: Studies in Genesis and Structure (Oxford, 2003), Explaining Tonality: Schenkerian Theory and Beyond (Rochester, 2005), Debussy Redux. ![]() dissertations his students have not only won numerous accolades (e.g., Presser, Fulbright, and Chateaubriand awards), but they have also become tenured faculty members at major music departments, such as New York University, the University of Minnesota, the University of Arizona, the University of Western Ontario, and the Eastman School of Music. Since then, he has also served as a faculty member at the Mannes Institute for Advanced Studies in Music Theory (2002), as a Visiting Professor at the University of Texas at Austin (2003), the University at Buffalo (spring 2019) and received the first Provost’s Interschool Interdisciplinary Award from the University of Rochester in 2007. Brown accepted a position in musicology at the Eastman School of Music in 1986.Īfter teaching at Louisiana State University for a few years, Professor Brown returned to Eastman in 1997. Before he completed his dissertation, he was elected to the Society of Fellows, Harvard University (1983-1986) and it was there that his professional interests really took shape. Brown graduated with a First and came to Cornell to begin a Ph. After winning a scholarship to the Preparatory Division of the Royal College of Music in London (1968-1975), he studied as an undergraduate at King’s College, London, where his interest in music theory was developed under the guidance of Arnold Whittall. Brown was born in London and studied violin with Montagu Cleeve, legendary string teacher and expert on super heavy artillery. Professor Matthew Brown has taught at the Eastman School of Music off and on since 1986 during that time, he worked in the departments of musicology and music theory.
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