Scott Murphy Associate Professor of Music Theory
Scott Murphy has taught a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses in music theory and film music history at the University of Kansas since 2001. He holds a PhD in Music Theory from the Eastman
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School of Music of the University of Rochester, where he also taught courses in music theory and film music composition, and MM degrees in both Musicology and Music Composition and BM degrees in both Music Theory and Music Composition from the University of Kansas. He has won two teaching awards from the University of Rochester and three teaching awards from KU, including the 2009 Byron Shutz Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Although he has published articles on a variety of topics, including new approaches to works by Ives, Bartok, and Penderecki, much of his research concentrates on film music analysis and new conceptions of meter. His article "On Metre in the Rondo of Brahms's Op. 25" in Music Analysis won the 2009 Emerging Scholar Award from the Society for Music Theory. His articles also appear or are forthcoming in Journal of Music Theory, Perspectives of New Music, Music Theory Online, twentieth-century music, Newsletter of the American Brahms Society, and in the books Terror Tracks: Music, Sound and Horror Cinema and Fantasy, Cinema, Music, and Sound. He currently serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Film Music and Integral, and previously served on the editorial board of Music Theory Online.
His previous professional pursuits include serving as organist and director of music at churches in Lawrence and Rochester, performing background piano music in local restaurants, and writing music for local film and television productions. He is married to Joy Kimball Murphy, MD, and has two young children Ian and Claire.
