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• Assistant Professor of Music, Jacobs School of Music

Education:

• Ph.D. , City University of New York, 2006
• M.M. , Mannes College of Music, 1999
• B.M. , Mannes College of Music, 1997

Background:

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Kyle Adams holds bachelor's and master's degrees in piano performance from the Mannes College of Music, where he won first prize in the Mannes College Concerto Competition. He earned his Ph.D. in music theory from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Adams has taught courses in music theory, aural skills, score reading, and keyboard harmony at Queens College and Hunter College in the CUNY system, and both the College and Extension Divisions at Mannes. He has presented papers at the Music Theory Society of New York State and the Florida State Music Theory Forum, and at conferences in Germany and Belgium.

His primary research involves music theory of the Renaissance and early Baroque, chromaticism in the music of the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. Adams is also interested in the music of Brahms, the relationship between Schenkerian analysis and performance, and the analysis of popular music.

At IU, he teaches courses in areas such as the history of music theory, sixteenth- and eighteenth-century counterpoint, and advanced musical skills.