Julian L. Hook
Associate Professor of Music (Music Theory)
Contact Information:
juhook
[at]
indiana [dot] edu
(juhook@indiana.edu)
Simon Center, M225H
Department
Education
- Ph.D. in Music Theory, Indiana University, 2002
- Ph.D. in Mathematical Logic, Princeton University, 1983
- M.M. in Piano Performance, Indiana University, 1997
- M.Arch. in Architecture, University of Illinois, 1989
Biography
Julian ("Jay") Hook is associate professor of music theory at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he has taught since 2003. His research involves transformational theory and other mathematical approaches to the study of musical structure.
He has presented papers at conferences of the Society for Music Theory, the American Mathematical Society, the Society for Mathematics and Computation in Music, and other organizations.
His article "Uniform Triadic Transformations," published in the Journal of Music Theory, won the Society for Music Theory's Emerging Scholar Award in 2005. Other recent publications include a "Perspective" on mathematical music theory in the journal Science; a survey of applications of group theory in music, published by Princeton University Press in a collection of mathematics essays; an article on the foundations of transformation theory, published in Music Theory Spectrum; a study of the mathematical basis of key signatures and enharmonic equivalence, published in the Journal of Mathematics and Music; the article "Signature Transformations" in the book Music Theory and Mathematics: Chords, Collections, and Transformations, published by the University of Rochester Press; a review article on the new edition of David Lewin's Generalized Musical Intervals and Transformations, published in Intégral; a tutorial on combinatorics and enumeration in music theory, published in Music Theory Online; and an article on the 12-tone music of Webern, co-authored with Jack Douthett and published in Perspectives of New Music.
Dr. Hook holds advanced degrees in mathematics, architecture, and piano performance as well as music theory. He has taught mathematics at Florida International University in Miami and music theory at Penn State University. He has also has worked as an architect and structural engineer in Chicago and has performed chamber music on several occasions with members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
As a graduate student at Indiana University, he won a piano concerto competition and received an award for outstanding teaching. He is reviews editor of the Journal of Mathematics and Music, is serving a term (2009-11) as president of Music Theory Midwest, and is the winner of a sabbatical fellowship from the American Philosophical Society for 2010-11.