Society for Music Research
Dorian Mueller
Music Theory
Dissertation: “Reconstructing the Edges and Surfaces of Musical Experience through Musical Spatial Frames: An Approach to Analysis through a Narrative Space Model of Musical Perception” (2023)
Dorian Mueller’s research interests include music and narrative, film music theory, 19th-century music, form, and musical phenomenology and aesthetics. Her dissertation explores musical experience through the constructs of narrative space and place, introducing a theory of the musical spatial frame as a new perspective/approach to musical analysis. Dorian has presented her work at conferences in both the U.S. and abroad, including at SMT, Music and the Moving Image, and at the International Conference on Music Theory and Analysis in Belgrade, Serbia. Dorian holds an M.A. in Music Theory from Penn State University and a B.A. in Mathematics from Rutgers University. In her free time, she enjoys walking, hiking, swimming, traveling, practicing piano and violin, baking, drinking lots of coffee, and hanging out with her two cats, Luna and Squeaky.
Posts
- Dorian Mueller defends dissertation – July 28, 2023
- SMR at SMT 2020 – November 23, 2020
- Dorian Mueller (virtually) presents at MaMI – May 31, 2020
- Dorian Mueller presents at Music and Spatiality conference in Belgrade – October 15, 2019
- SMR Welcome BBQ – September 18, 2019
- Dorian Mueller presents at Western University Graduate Symposium – September 12, 2019