Nicole Biamonte
Assistant Professor
Music Theory
Phone: (319) 335-1646
Office: 1018 VMB
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 in 2006. Her secondary area of research is vernacular music theory, and a book review of Allan Moore’s Analyzing Popular Music is forthcoming from the Journal of Musicological Research.

She has presented papers at the Society for Music Theory/American Musicological Society, Dublin International Conference for Music Analysis, International Conference for Music Since 1900, Canadian University Music Society, International Association for Popular Music Analysis, and Music Theory Midwest, on topics including modality in Beethoven’s folksong settings, Beethoven’s and Haydn’s duplicate folksong settings, augmented-sixth chords versus tritone substitutes, melodic and harmonic modality in the music of Rush, and Jimi Hendrix’s versions of the “Star-Spangled Banner.”

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Last updated 28-aug-07