Principal Investigator
Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis
Students
Nastassja
Riley has a BM in flute performance from the University of Arkansas and
is currently completing her MM. She conducts the North Arkansas
Community Flute Choir and teaches at the Suzuki School. She is
interested in expressive performance and the ways that musical
structure engenders expectations not only in listeners (a topic that
has received much attention) but also in performers (a topic that
remains under-studied). Nastassja plans to explore these questions in
graduate school at Florida State University, where she will enroll in
the Fall with a Music Theory Assistantship.
David
Sears graduated summa cum laude from the University of Arkansas with a
degree in English and is currently completing his BA in music. He was
awarded a SURF grant for his project "Processing Surprise in Tonal
Melodies," and will present his work at
Confounding Expectations,
a conference at the University of Calgary. He's interested in the
cognitive implications of considering music as narrative, and has
served as a research assistant in the
Language Processing Lab.
David is also interested in timbre in popular music, word and music
studies, and critical theory. Next fall, he will start a Ph.D. in music
at McGill University in Montreal as a Tomlinson Fellow.
Lab Alumni
- Lance Owen graduated from the University of Arkansas in
2006 with
a BA in music. He continued his studies at Cambridge University as a
Gates Cambridge Scholar. His projects include studies on film music,
periodization in music history, and Gustav Holst. He is
currently
Assistant Director of Post-Graduate Fellowships at the University of
Arkansas.
- Alexander Hunt graduated summa cum laude from the
University of Arkansas in 2006 with a BA in French
and European Studies and a BM in piano performance. He traveled
extensively on a NSEP David L. Boren Scholarship and a Fulbright Study
Abroad Award, and is fluent in French, Italian, and Russian.
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