Simon Music Center, M225J
Education
- Ph.D., Columbia University, 2017
- M.Phil., Columbia University, 2014
- M.A., University of Washington, 2011
- B.A., University of Washington, 2008
Orit Hilewicz is assistant professor of music in music theory at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.
Before arriving at Jacobs, she was assistant professor of music theory at the Eastman School of Music and had taught at the music departments of Columbia University and the New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.
Hilewicz’s research explores intertextuality, metaphor, and agency in Western music of the long twentieth century, music and sound in films and multimedia, and analytical approaches to musical temporality.
Her current article projects examine issues of agency, repetition, and memory in the music of Caroline Shaw and Morton Feldman, and Luciano Berio’s compositional aesthetics. Her book-in-progress, tentatively titled Visual Arts in Musical Structures, offers an analytical study of visual arts and architectural aesthetics in the works of Morton Feldman, Stacy Garrop, Charlotte Bray, and Luciano Berio.
Hilewicz has presented her work in national and international conferences including the Society for Music Theory, American Musicological Society, International Musicological Society, and International Society for the Study of Time, where her paper was awarded the Founder’s Prize for New Scholars.
She has served as coeditor of Theory and Practice and assistant editor of Perspectives of New Music, and she currently serves on the editorial boards of the Music Theory Spectrum and Perspectives of New Music.
Selected Publications
“Anxiety and The Real Thing: Queer Ekphrasis, Acoustic Palimpsest, and Autistic Listening.” Kunsttexte 4 (2022): https://doi.org/10.48633/ksttx.2022.4.91645
“Schoenberg’s Cinematographic Blueprint: A Programmatic Analysis of Begleitungsmusik zu einer Lichtspielscen (1929–1930),” Music Theory Online 27/1 (2021): https://mtosmt.org/issues/mto.21.27.1/mto.21.27.1.hilewicz.html
“A Film Scene for Arnold Schoenberg’s Begleitungsmusik zu einer Lichtspielscene (1929–1930),” SMT-V 7/2 (2021). Coauthored with artist and filmmaker Stephen Sewell: http://www.smt-v.org/archives/volume7.html#a-film-scene-for-schoenbergs-begleitungsmusik-zu-einer-lichtspielscene
“On the Swerve and the Flow in Thomas Adès’s Polaris, op. 29,” Perspectives of New Music 57/1–2 (2019).
“Reciprocal Interpretations of Music and Painting: Representation Types in Schuller, Tan, and Davies after Paul Klee,” Music Theory Online 24/3 (2018): http://mtosmt.org/issues/mto.18.24.3/mto.18.24.3.hilewicz.html