Department of Music Lecture: Ben Duane

Ben Duane - Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Columbia University

"Agency, Interaction, and Information Content in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century String Quartet Expositions"

Ben Duane is a Mellon Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow in Music at Columbia University. He completed his Ph.D. in Music Theory and Cognition at Northwestern University in 2012, before which he earned an M.A. in music theory from the University of Minnesota and a B.M. in tuba performance from Augsburg College. His doctoral dissertation, advised by Robert O. Gjerdingen, was entitled "Texture in First Movement Expositions of Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century String Quartet Expositions." In addition to the structure and perception of musical texture, his research involves music cognition more generally, computational modeling, and intersections between music and information theory. Part of his dissertation research appeared last spring in the Journal of Music Theory. He has also given recent presentations at regional, national, and international meetings of the Society for Music Theory, the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, and the International Computer Music Association.

Free and open to the public.