Nicole Biamonte
Assistant Professor
Music Theory
Phone: (319) 335-1646
Office: 2773 UCC
nicole-biamonte@uiowa.edu

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Nicole Biamonte

Nicole Biamonte, assistant professor of Music Theory at The University of Iowa, holds a Ph.D. and M.Phil. in Music Theory from Yale University and a B.F.A. in Piano from the State University of New York at Purchase. She has also held full-time teaching positions at the University of Texas at San Antonio, Skidmore College, and Yale University.

Dr. Biamonte’s dissertation examined the historical context and musical function of the modes in the music of Beethoven, Schumann, and Brahms, and an article drawn from this research, “Modality in Beethoven’s Folksong Settings,” was published in Beethoven Forum 13/1 (2006). Her secondary area of research is vernacular music theory: her book review of Allan Moore’s Analyzing Popular Music was published in the Journal of Musicological Research 26/4 (2007), and her article “Augmented-Sixth Chords vs. Tritone Substitutes” appeared in Music Theory Online 14/2 (2008). She was a fellow of the 2008 Mannes Institute for Advanced Studies in Music Theory, on jazz and popular music.

She has presented papers at numerous regional, national and international conferences, on topics including Bach’s ‘Crucifixus’ as a compositional model for Chopin’s Prelude in E minor, Op. 28 No. 4; Beethoven’s and Haydn’s folksong settings; augmented-sixth chords versus tritone substitutes; tonal spaces in the music of Rush; Jimi Hendrix’s “Star-Spangled Banner”; and pentatonic and modal systems in rock music. She currently serves on the editorial board of Music Theory Online, and as chair of the SMT Popular Music Interest Group.

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