Chris Gainey - musician

This page features a list of Chris' theory projects along with details about where this research has been presented and/or published. If you would like more information about any of this work, please email Chris at [email protected].

Hearing Timbre-harmony in Spectral Music (PhD diss. University of British Columbia 2019)

• UBC library open collections

"Between Reality and Imagination: Listening to Claude Vivier's Lonely Child"

• Presentations
• 2016 Rocky Mountain Society for Music Theory
• 2016 New England Conference of Music Theorists
• 2016 West Coast Conference of Music Theory and Analysis

"Shadow Puppets: Analytical Quandaries of Spectral Piano Music"

• Presentations
• 2015 AMS/SMT National Conference: Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group

"Prestimagination: Interactions between Performance, Compositional Design, and Aesthetic Priority in Kaija Saariaho's Sept Papillons"

• Presentations
• 2015 New England Conference of Music Theorists
• 2015 Music Theory Southeast
• 2015 "Fostering New Music and its Audiences" The Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition 30th Anniversary Conference
• 2014 AMS/SMT National Conference: Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group

"Three Approaches to Modularity in Contemporary Music"

• Publication
• Perspectives of New Music 55/2 (2017): 133-166
• Presentations
• 2014 Music Theory MidWest
• 2014 New England Conference of Music Theorists
• 2014 West Coast Conference of Music Theory and Analysis

"Modular Variation and Metrical Process in Two Works by David Lang"

• Presentations
• 2014 Canadian University Music Society
• 2014 Pacific Northwest Music Graduate Student Conference

"Historical Foundations for the Development of Spectral Music"

• Publication
• Proceedings of the 2011 University of Central Missouri New Music Festival
• Presentations
• 2011 SCI Region VI Conference

Turning Sound into Music: Attitudes of Spectralism (PhD diss., University of Iowa, 2009)

• Available through ProQuest