John Snyder
Associate Professor of Music Theory

e-mail: JLSnyder@uh.edu
office: MSM 150
office phone: (713)743-3143
address: 120 School of Music Bldg, UH, Houston, TX 77204-4017
visit also: Course Information (http://www.hfac.uh.edu/music/snyder/Courses.htm)

Publications: A book: Theinred of Dover’s De legitimis ordinibus pentachordorum et tetrachordorum: A Critical Texand and Translation, with an Introduction, Annotations, and Indices (Ottawa, Institute of Medaeval Music, 2006). Articles on musical analysis and the history of music theory, including "Reason and Original Thinking in English Intellectual Circles: Aristotle, Adelard and Auctoritas in Theinred of Dover's Musical Theory of Species," is forthcoming in Teaching and Learning in Northern Europe 1000-1200 (ed. Sally Vaughn and Jay Rubenstein; Brepols, expected 2003); "Theinred of Dover on Consonance: A Chapter in the History of Harmony" (Music Theory Spectrum 5 [1983]), "A Road Not Taken: Theinred of Dover's Theory of Species" ( Journal of the Royal Musical Association 115/2 [1990]); "Entropy as a Measure of Musical Style: The Influence of a priori Assumptions" ( Music Theory Spectrum 12/1 [1990]); "Schenker and the First Movement of Mozart's Sonata, K. 545: An Uninterrupted Sonata-Form Movement?" ( Theory and Practice 16 [1991]). An entry on Theinred of Dover appeared in The Revised New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2001); with a companion entry in The New Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004). A critical edition of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Symphonic Variations on an African Air, op. 63, is forthcoming (A-R Editions, expected spring 2007).

Papers Read: Papers presented at regional, national and international professional society meetings and symposia include: "Non-Diatonic Tones in Plainsong: Theinred of Dover versus Guido d'Arezzo" (Strasbourg, International Musicological Society, 1982); "The Date of Theinred of Dover's De legitimis ordinibus pentachordorum et tetrachordorum : A Review of the Evidence" (Philadelphia: American Musicological Society, 1984); "The Structure of Scriabin's Atonality: The Ninth Piano Sonata" (London, Ontario: Music Theory Canada, 1988); "Schenker, Schoenberg, Brahms: Organic Unity in Theory and Practice" (Ottawa: Austria 996-1996: Music in a Changing Society , 1996); " Diabolus in musica : Structure and Tonality in the Wolf's Glen" (Waco: Texas Society for Music Theory, and Toronto, Society for Music Theory, 2000); "Aristotle, Auctoritas, and Theinred of Dover's Theory of Species: An English Contribution to the Twelfth-Century Renaissance" (San Antonio: Texas Medieval Association, 2001); “Cadences, Phrases, Periods, and Undergraduate Angst: Some Observations and Suggestions” (Tallahassee: Florida Theory Society, and San Antonio: Texas Society for Music Theory, 2004).

Professional Activity: Editorial Advisory Board, Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum (1991-present); Editorial Board, Music Theory Online (2001-2003); President, Texas Society for Music Theory (1994-97). Fellow, Mannes Institute for Advanced Studies in Music Theory (Institute in Historical Theory, June 2001).