Jan Miyake ’96

(she/her/hers)

  • Associate Professor of Music Theory
  • Division Director, Music Theory

Areas of Study

Education

  • BMus in viola performance, Oberlin Conservatory of Music, 1996
  • BA in mathematics, Oberlin College, 1996
  • MA, Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens College, 1999
  • PhD in music theory, Graduate Center, CUNY, 2004

Biography

Jan Miyake has taught music theory at Oberlin since 2002. She has presented her work at numerous regional, national, and international conferences.

Miyake is elected treasurer of the Society for Music Theory (2015-19) and has served on the Program Committee for the 2012 Society for Music Theory Meeting (New Orleans) as well as the editorial boards of Music Theory Online (2012-15) and Music Theory Pedagogy Online (2012-present).

She blogs about teaching on the site musictheory.net, where she reflects on experiments in her teaching as a way to make more transparent the messy work of writing good lesson plans.

Her work is published in Engaging Students: Essays in Music Pedagogy, Brahms & The Shaping of Time, Journal of Schenkerian Studies, Theory and Practice, Music Theory Online, and Essays from the Fourth International Schenker Symposium.

Miyake’s current research explores issues of sonata form in late 18th- and early 19th-century works of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven.

Notes

Jan Miyake Presents at International Research Workshop

July 8, 2019

Associate Professor of Music Theory Jan Miyake presented a talk "Syntax and Form in Haydn’s Symphonic Last Movements" at the international research workshop Corpus Research as a Means of Unlocking Musical Grammar.

Jan Miyake Presents Guest Lecture

March 13, 2019

Associate Professor of Music Theory Jan Miyake presented "Thematic Saturation and Haydn's Compositional Style" as a guest lecturer on February 28 at Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory of Music.

News

New Series Explores The Framing of Race

November 5, 2015

Students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to identify and/or develop courses, speakers, creative work, workshops, performances, and other events that address The Framing of Race, the 2016 theme of the new Think/Create/Engage series.

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