Professor Matthew Shlomowitz

Professor Matthew Shlomowitz

Professor of Composition

Research interests

  • Performance lectures
  • Polytonality 
  • Instrumental music with recorded sound

More research

Accepting applications from PhD students.

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Research

Research interests

  • Performance lectures
  • Polytonality 
  • Instrumental music with recorded sound
  • Short form composition
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Current research

I am currently working on a series of pieces called "Explorations in Polytonality and Other Musical Wonders". Each of the volumes that I have made so far features a suite of short pieces. Each piece investigates a technical approach within music composition (e.g., polytonality, metric modulations); historical textures (e.g., organum, heterophony); and historical forms (e.g. rondo, round). The project investigates new potentialities for these techniques, textures, and forms, with particular focus on approaches out of circulation within contemporary music making.