Degrees: PHD, 2003, CUNY Gr Sch & Univ Cnt; MA, 1997, Univ Ottawa; BA, 1995, Ohio State Univ

Bio:

EDUCATION

PhD, Graduate Center, City University of New York (2003)

MA, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (1997)

BA, The Ohio State University (1995)

PRIOR TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Oberlin Conservatory of Music (2003–2008)                                                         
Assistant Professor                                                                                                     

Hofstra University (2001–2003)
Adjunct Instructor

Queens College, City University of New York (1999–2002)                                   
Graduate Teaching Fellow                                                                                               

Mannes College of Music, Preparatory Division (1998–2001)                             
Adjunct Instructor                                                                                                              

University of Ottawa (1995–1997)              
Adjunct Instructor

PUBLICATIONS

Stoecker, Philip and Deborah Rifkin, “A Revised Taxonomy for Music Learning,” Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy (refereed; in press, 2011)

Stoecker, Philip and Brian Alegant, “Upon Further Reflection: Teaching Inversion through Jean Papineau-Couture’s Nuit,” Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy (refereed; in press, 2011)

 “Review of Miguel Francolí’s Understanding Post-Tonal Music and Anthology of Post-Tonal Music” Theory and Practice 35 (2010): 191–205 (refereed)

 “ ‘Composing with Symmetry’: George Perle’s First Bagatelle for Solo Piano,” Theory and Practice 33 (2008): 159–170 (refereed)

 “Without a Safety (k)-Net,” Music Theory Online 13, no. 3 (2007) (refereed)

 “Klumpenhouwer Networks, Trichords, and Axial Isography,” Music Theory Spectrum 24, no. 2 (2002): 231–245 (refereed)

PRESENTATIONS

“Upon Further Reflection: Teaching Inversion through Jean Papineau-Couture’s Nuit”
  12th International Conference of the Dutch-Flemish Society for Music Theory (Amsterdam, Netherlands; March 12–14, 2010)

“Aligned Cycles in Thomas Adès’s Piano Quintet, op. 20”                                                     
  Society for Music Theory annual meeting (Montreal, Quebec; November 1, 2009)
  Music Theory Society of New York State annual meeting (Hempstead, NY; April 4, 2009)
  New England Conference of Music Theorists annual meeting (Yale Univ.; April 24, 2009)

“A New Taxonomy for Learning in the Music Classroom”
  International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning
(Bloomington, IN; October 22–25, 2009)

“The Post-Tonal Quick Switch in the Aural-Skills Classroom”
  The Musical Ear Conference (Bloomington, IN; September 26, 2009)

“Without a Safety (k)-Net”                                                  
  Mathematics and Computation in Music (Berlin, Germany; May 18–20, 2007)                                          

“Symmetry in the First Bagatelle for Solo Piano”
  Celebration of the Music of George Perle (Eastman School of Music; November 28, 2005)                          

“Symmetry in Webern’s Fifth Bagatelle, op. 9”
  Dublin International Conference on Music Analysis (Dublin, Ireland; June 23–25, 2005)                          

“Cyclic Wedges and Convergence Points”   
  Society for Music Theory annual meeting (Seattle, WA; November 12, 2004)                                   
  South Central Society for Music Theory annual meeting (Tuscaloosa, AL; February 21, 2003)         
  Music Theory Midwest annual meeting (Bloomington, Indiana; May 16, 2003)                            

“Symmetrical Complexities in George Perle’s Modal Suite”
  Music Theory Midwest annual meeting (Minneapolis, MN; May 17–18, 2002)                           
  New England Conference of Music Theorists annual meeting (Boston, MA; March 15–16, 2002)          

“Inversional Symmetry and the Index-Zone”
  Music Theory Midwest annual meeting (Cincinnati, OH; April 20–21, 2001)                                      

“Axial Isography as an Extension of Klumpenhouwer Networks”
  Music Theory Society of New York State annual meeting (New York, NY; April 9, 2000)                           
  Music Theory Midwest annual meeting (Indianapolis, IN; May 14–15, 1999)

INVITED LECTURES and COMMITTEES

“Using Powerpoint to Teach High School Music Theory and Aural Skills”
  Invited presentation for the 2010 CMENC Conference (Hofstra University; March 19–20, 2010)

Invited lecture on Klumpenhouwer Networks for Joseph Straus’s Music Space Course         
  Graduate Center, CUNY (March 31, 2009)                                                                                                  

Lecture Demonstration for an Aural Skills Roundtable Discussion
  Music Theory Midwest annual meeting (Oberlin, OH; May 21–22, 2005)                                                 

“Symmetrical Strategies in Jean Papineau-Couture’s Nuit”
  Invited lecture given at the University of Ottawa (Ottawa, Ontario; January 28, 2005)                              

AWARDS

Best Instructor Professor Props (2008)
  Oberlin College Conservatory (throughout college and conservatory)

Barry S. Brook Dissertation Award in Music (2004)
  CUNY Graduate Center

Best Student Paper (2003)
  “Cyclic Wedges and Convergence Points”
  South Central Society for Music Theory (University of Alabama)

Graduate Teaching Fellowship (1999–2002)
  Queens College, City University of New York

RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Music Theory Society of New York State (MTSNYS)

• Secretary (2010–2013)
• Board Member (2009–2010)
• Co-Chair of Local Arrangements (2009)

Intégral (annual journal by the graduate theory students in music theory at the Eastman School of Music)

• Member of the Editorial Board (2007–current)

Theory and Practice (annually published journal of the Music Theory Society of the New York State)        

• Co-editor with Jonathan Dunsby (2009, vol. 34)
• Co-editor with Dave Headlam to publish a festschrift for George Perle (2008, vol. 33)
• Editor (2004–2007, vols. 30–32)

Music Theory Spectrum

• External Reviewer (2009)

Journal of Music Theory

• External Reviewer (2009)

Oxford University Press

• External Reviewer (2009 and 2004)

Music Theory Midwest          

• Chair, Program Committee (2008)
• Member of the Arthur J. Komar Student Award Committee (2005 and 2006)

South Central Society for Music Theory

• Member of the Program Committee (2004)

Graduate Students in Music

• Director (1999–2002)
• Organized an international conference for graduate students in music. This symposium is held annually in New York City and is run and organized entirely by the graduate students in the music department at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.