Sam Bivens is a Ph.D. candidate in Music Theory at the Eastman School of Music, where he received his MA in Music Theory Pedagogy in 2013. Sam's dissertation addresses new approaches to form in Wagner's Die Walküre, the only Ring drama without its own dedicated analytic study. In 2016 Sam received the prestigious Presser Graduate Music Award, allowing him to spend three months in Bayreuth studying in the Wagner archives and attending his first live Ring performance at the Bayreuther Festspiele. (He loudly and proudly booed Castorf.) Other research interests include music theory pedagogy and the role of free/open-source software in our field. A dedicated pedagogue, Sam was awarded Eastman's Outstanding Teaching Assistant Prize for the 2011–2012 school year.
Contact : sambivens@gmail.com
Séance - Reconsidering Later Romanticism 12.C.2 : Time–Pitch Isomorphisms in Die Walküre
