Gretchen Horlacher
Associate Professor of Music (Music Theory); Chair, Department of Music Theory
Contact Information:
ghorlach
[at]
indiana [dot] edu
(ghorlach@indiana.edu)
Simon Center, M225A
Department
Education
- Ph.D., Yale University, 1990
- M.P.H., Yale University, 1987
- B.A., Cornell University, 1984
Biography
Dr. Gretchen Horlacher has taught at the University of California-Riverside and at UC-Santa Barbara, and became chair of the Music Theory Department in 2008.
She has published articles and reviews in Music Theory Spectrum, the Journal of Music Theory, Intégral, Music Theory Online, and the Mitteilungen der Paul Sacher Stiftung, and is currently finishing a monograph for Oxford University Press entitled "Building Blocks: Repetition and Continuity in Stravinsky's Music."
She has a special interest in the study of rhythm and meter. Her recent work deals with music of Stravinsky and Reich and she has had a research fellowship from the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel, Switzerland to study Stravinsky's manuscripts.
She has served as Secretary for the Society for Music Theory, as well as the chair of its Program Committee.
She is also a pianist, having studied with Malcolm Bilson, and received the prix d'excellence from the École de Musique in Fontainebleau.