Assistant Professor

Music Theory

Boyd Pomeroy holds degrees from the University of Edinburgh, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and Cornell University, where he earned his Ph. D. for a dissertation on chromaticism and form in Debussy's orchestral music (2000). Before coming to the UA in Fall 2008, he taught at Georgia State University (2001-8). Music theory is actually his second career, following a first one as an orchestral bass player in Israel, the USA, and Great Britain (1981-92).
His research is concerned with Schenkerian and formal perspectives on 18th- and 19th-century sonata form, including studies of the music of Schubert, Brahms, Bruckner and other composers. He has also worked extensively on the music of Debussy. He has presented his work at the national meetings of the Society for Music Theory (including every year from 2004 to 2008), the Dublin International Conference on Music Analysis (2005), the Fourth International Schenker Symposium (New York, 2006), and numerous presentations at regional music theory conferences. His publications have appeared in Music Theory Spectrum, the Journal of Schenkerian Studies, Music and Letters, and the collections The Cambridge Companion to Debussy, Schenker Studies 5 (forthcoming), and Brahms und Bruckner im Spiegel der Musiktheorie (forthcoming).
In his first year at UA he has coordinated freshman theory and taught graduate courses on Analysis of 18th-Century Music and Advanced Schenkerian Theory. His graduate offerings in 2009-10 will include seminars in Analysis of Brahms's Chamber Music, History of Theory II (18th-20th centuries), and Readings in Music Theory.

e-mail: pomeroy@email.arizona.edu
office: 520.621.2254

Music Bldg, Room 224