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Music Theory Office
Simon 225H
Shauna Peatross, Admin. Asst.
Hours: 8-12, 1-5
mustheor @ indiana.edu
812-855-5716

Gretchen Horlacher

Associate Professor and Chair of Music Theory

ghorlach @ indiana.edu

Indiana University Jacobs School of Music
1201 East Third Street
Bloomington, Indiana 47405-7006

Office: Simon 225A
Phone: (812) 855-3691
Fax:: (812) 855-4936

Ph.D. (Yale University). Dr. Horlacher has taught at the University of California-Riverside and at UC-Santa Barbara, and became chair of the Music Theory Department in 2008. She has published articles and reviews in Music Theory Spectrum, the Journal of Music Theory, Intégral, Music Theory Online, and the Mitteilungen der Paul Sacher Stiftung, and is currently finishing a monograph for Oxford University Press entitled “Building Blocks:  Repetition and Continuity in Stravinsky’s Music.” She has a special interest in the study of rhythm and meter. Her recent work deals with music of Stravinsky and Reich and she has had a research fellowship from the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel, Switzerland to study Stravinsky's manuscripts. She has served as Secretary for the Society for Music Theory, as well as the chair of its Program Committee. She is also a pianist, having studied with Malcolm Bilson, and received the prix d'excellence from the École de Musique in Fontainebleau.

 

 



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