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John Muniz

Associate Professor, Music

Music Bldg, Room 122
520-626-1255

PhD, Yale University, 2015

MM (Composition), Boston University, 2009

BA with Highest Honors, The College of William & Mary, 2007

John Muniz joined the theory faculty in 2015. His work explores topics such as enharmonicism, transformational theory, rhythm/meter from a Hastyan perspective, and the intersection between music theory and analytic philosophy. He has presented at regional conferences, SMT, and international conferences in the UK, Poland, and Canada. He is an active composer whose works are regularly performed in Tucson and abroad.

More information and selected publications are available on his personal website, https://johnmuniz.weebly.com/

Publications:

"Convention and Creativity in Extreme Metal Breakdowns." Forthcoming in The Routledge Handbook of Metal Music Composition (2024/25).

"Rhythmic Processes in Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire." Music Analysis 40/i (2021): 3–39.

"A Tendency-Transformational Model of Enharmonic Modulations and Related Phenomena." Music Theory Spectrum 41/1 (Spring 2019): 1–20.

"What's Notation Got to Do with It? Enharmonic Modulations Reconsidered." Indiana Theory Review 35/2 (Fall 2018): 117–160.

"Transformation at the Margins of Tonality: Scriabin's Piano Sonata, Op. 64." Music Theory and Analysis 5/1 (April 2018): 1–28.

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I started me getting into art actually through skateboarding, I grew up skateboarding when I was in high school so thats what sparked it. I wanted to get a camera to document my life and experiences with skateboarding so I bought a film camera and here I am two years later in art school. For me some of my favorite subjects to take photos of are skateboarding, concerts, portraits, and landscapes. Since I got here I have found a very accepting community within the art school and love being in the darkroom and a part of the the photo program community. But as I continue here at the university I hope to grow and expand my skills.

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