Matthew Arndt
Visiting Assistant Professor
Music Theory
Phone: (319) 353-2181
Office: 2777 UCC
matthew-arndt@uiowa.edu

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Matthew Arndt

Matthew Arndt, Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the University of Iowa, holds a Ph.D. in Music Theory from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, an M.M. in Composition from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and a B.A. in Composition with honors from Lewis & Clark College. He has also held full-time teaching positions at Lawrence University and Mercer University.

Dr. Arndt’s research lies in the history of music theory, music theory pedagogy, and their intersection. His doctoral dissertation traces common threads in the thought of Heinrich Schenker and Arnold Schoenberg from a theoretical, analytical, and critical standpoint. Forthcoming articles will address Schenker’s and Schoenberg’s similar metaphorical conceptions of the tone in their Harmonielehren; current pedagogy of modes; Schenker’s concept of interruption and its motivation and consequences; Schoenberg’s interlinked concepts of artistic integrity, the evolution of music, the evolution of the human spirit, and developing variation; Schoenberg’s song “Ich darf nicht dankend,” Op. 14, No. 1; and Schoenberg’s Six Little Piano Pieces, Op. 19. Dr. Arndt has presented papers at regional conferences on Schoenberg’s Six Little Piano Pieces and Phrygian polyphony.

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