Dmitri Tymoczko Professor of Music
“Music is a logical deduction from absurd premises.”
Dmitri Tymoczko (b. 1969, Cambridge, Massachusetts) is a composer and music theorist who teaches at Princeton University. ?His book A Geometry of Music (Oxford) has been described as “a tour de force” (The Times Literary Supplement), a “monumental achievement” (Music Theory Online), and, potentially, a modern analogue to Schoenberg’s Harmonielehre (The Musical Times). ?His two CDs, Beat Therapy (“far reaching yet utterly entertaining,” Newmusicbox) and Crackpot Hymnal (“ebullient … polystylistic … kinetic … vividly orchestrated and vibrantly paced,” Sequenza21), are available from Bridge Records. ?A third CD, Rube Goldberg Variations, will appear in 2017. ?The author of the first music-theory article ever published by Science magazine, he has received a Rhodes scholarship, a Guggenheim fellowship, and additional prizes from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Tanglewood, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and others. ?His music, which often draws on jazz and rock, has been performed and commissioned by groups including the Amernet Quartet, the Atlantic Brass Quintet, the Brentano Quartet, the Corigliano Quartet, Flexible Music, Gallicantus, the Gregg Smith Singers, the Illinois Modern Ensemble, Janus Trio, the Kitchener/Waterloo symphony, Network for New Music, Newspeak, Pacifica Quartet, Synergy Vocal Ensemble, Third Coast Percussion Quartet, and Ursula Oppens.
Courses
Fall 2022
MUS 531: CompositionMUS 310: Advanced Workshop in Musical Composition
MUS 326: Composing Like Beethoven
Spring 2022
MUS 532: CompositionFall 2021
MUS 531: CompositionSpring 2021
MUS 532: CompositionMUS 545: Contexts of Composition: Process and Intuition
MUS 319: Composition and Improvisation
MUS 510: Extramural Research Internship
Fall 2020
MUS 531: CompositionMUS 306: Understanding Tonality
Spring 2020
MUS 510: Extramural Research InternshipMUS 527: Seminar in Musicology
MUS 532: Composition
MUS 330: Advanced Concepts in Rhythm
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