Megan Kaes Long
(she/her/hers)
- Associate Professor of Music Theory
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Megan Kaes Long Publishes Article in "Music Theory Online"
September 29, 2022
Associate Professor of Music Theory Megan Kaes Long published an article, "Reassessing the Plagal Cadence in Byrd and Morley," in the most recent issue of Music Theory Online. The article unpacks the obscure history of the plagal cadence by looking at representative examples from Byrd's compositions and Morley's theory treatise.
Megan Kaes Long participates in visiting scholar program at the Jacobs School of Music at IU Bloomington
October 6, 2021
Associate Professor of Music Theory Megan Kaes Long participated in the Robert Samels Visiting Scholar Program at the Jacobs School of Music at IU Bloomington in September. As part of the Five Friends Master Class series, Long delivered two lectures, led a workshop for graduate students, and met with students and faculty during her three-day residency.
Megan Kaes Long publishes article in Journal for Music Theory
January 6, 2021
Associate Professor of Music Theory Megan Kaes Long published an article, “What do Signatures Signify? The Curious Case of Seventeenth-Century English Key,” in the most recent issue of the Journal for Music Theory. The article traces how key signatures transformed from a feature of notation to an aspect of music theory in seventeenth-century England.
Megan Kaes Long Publishes Monograph
June 8, 2020
Associate Professor of Music Theory Megan Kaes Long published a monograph, Hearing Homophony: Tonal Expectation at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century (Oxford University Press). The book, which appears on the series Oxford Studies in Music Theory, explores how the regular rhythms and text setting of sixteenth-century popular song provoked encouraged a kind of listening that we now think of as tonal.
Megan Kaes Long Awarded Fellowship
April 10, 2020
Associate Professor of Music Theory Megan Kaes Long was awarded an American Council Of Learned Societies Fellowship for the 2020–2021 academic year to support her research on tonal structure in the music of William Byrd.
Megan Long Gives Invited Talk
February 25, 2020
Associate Professor of Music Theory Megan Long gave an invited talk titled "What Do Signature Signify: The Curious Case of Seventeenth-Century English Key" on February 21, 2020 at the University of Chicago.
Megan Long Leads Workshop
April 10, 2019
Assistant Professor of Music Theory Megan Long led the graduate student workshop at the Annual Meeting of the Music Theory Society of New York State on April 5, 2019.
Megan Long Gives Invited Talk
February 11, 2019
Assistant Professor of Music Theory Megan Long gave an invited talk called "What Do Signatures Signify? The Curious Case of 17th-Century English Key" at the University of Toronto on January 31, 2019.
Megan Kaes Long Organizes Conference
June 19, 2018
In her capacity as chair of the early music analysis interest group of the Society for Music Theory, Assistant Professor of Music Theory Megan Kaes Long organized a conference that took place at the beginning of June at Brandeis University. The conference celebrated the twentieth anniversary of the important volume Tonal Structures in Early Music, edited by Cristle Collins Judd, and it featured fifteen papers as well as a roundtable discussion among five authors from the Tonal Structures volume.
Megan Kaes Long Publishes
June 7, 2018
Megan Kaes Long, assistant professor of music theory, published "Cadential Syntax and Tonal Expectation in Late Sixteenth-Century Homophony" in the May 2018 issue of Music Theory Spectrum.
Megan Kaes Long Publishes Essay
January 26, 2018
Megan Kaes Long, assistant professor of music theory, published an essay about her research on the blog, Women in Music Theory. In it, Long describes the intersection between her experience as a singer, her time spent studying sixteenth-century sources, and her scholarly work.
Megan Kaes Long Receives NEH Summer Stipend
April 26, 2016
Assistant Professor of Music Theory Megan Kaes Long has received a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend fellowship to support work on her monograph, Hearing Homophony: Characteristic Tonalities at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century. This summer she will travel to the British Library in London, the Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg, and the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., to view sixteenth- and seventeenth-century music prints.
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Megan Kaes Long Earns Excellence in Teaching Honors
May 17, 2023
Six Faculty Receive 2021-2022 Excellence in Teaching Honors
March 14, 2023
Oberlin Conservatory Implements Innovative Approach to Music Theory Teaching
December 20, 2021