Emily Snyder Laugesen

Brief vita

Education

Ph.D. in Music Theory, Columbia University, New York, 2003.

M.A. in Music Theory, Washington University in St. Louis, 1992.

B.A. in Comparative Literature and Italian, Washington University in St. Louis, 1989.

Employment

Music Lecturer, Washington University in St. Louis, 1998-2000. Graduate and undergraduate courses in music theory.

Editor-in-chief and Managing Editor, Current Musicology, Columbia University 1995-1997.

Music Humanities Instructor, Columbia University, 1994-95.

Fellowships

Whiting Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 1997-98

President's Fellowship, Columbia University, 1992-97

Mellon Foundation Summer Research Fellowship, Columbia University, 1995

Nussbaum Fellowship, Washington University, 1990-92

Papers and Invited Lectures

"Beyond Onomatopoeia" invited lecture for the Eastman School of Music Berio Festival, April 2003.
"Luciano Berio's Thema (Omaggio a Joyce)" presented to the Words and Music Conference, University of Missouri at Columbia, March 2003.
"Text Presence in Morton Feldman's Three Voices and Luciano Berio's Thema (Omaggio a Joyce)" presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Theory, Columbus, OH, October 2002.
"Text-music in Berio's Thema (Omaggio a Joyce) and Stockhausen's Stimmung." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Theory, Baton Rouge, LA, November 1996.

Community Involvement

Founder and Chair, Green UUs, 2006. Environmental action group of the Unitarian-Universalist Church, Urbana, IL.

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