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 primary research area is the theory and analysis of vernacular musics.  Her publications in this area include the articles “Augmented-Sixth Chords vs. Tritone Substitutes” (Music Theory Online 14.2, 2008) and “Triadic Modal and Pentatonic Patterns in Rock Music” (Music Theory Spectrum 32/2, 2010), as well as an edited collection, Pop-Culture Tools for the Music Classroom, forthcoming from Scarecrow Press in fall 2010.  Her dissertation examined 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).

She has presented papers at numerous regional, national and international conferences, and was a fellow of the 2008 Mannes Institute for Advanced Studies in Music Theory, on jazz and popular 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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