Megan Kaes Long

Associate Professor of Music Theory Megan Kaes Long published an article, "Hexachordal Solmization and Syllable-Invariant Counterpoint in the Vocal Music of William Byrd" in Music Theory Spectrum. The article explores how the principles of solmization shaped Byrd's contrapuntal decisions and tonal strategies.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.