Frank Samarotto
Associate Professor of Music (Music Theory)
Contact Information:
fsamarot
[at]
indiana [dot] edu
(fsamarot@indiana.edu)
Simon Center, M325F
Department
Education
- Ph.D., The City University of New York, 1999
- B.A., Queen's College-CUNY, 1979
Biography
Frank Samarotto is a former faculty member of the City University of New York and University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. His invited papers on issues of temporality, text expression, and motivic coherence have been presented at regional, national, and international conferences, including conferences in Rotterdam, London, Cambridge, and Tallinn, Estonia. He has served as a visiting scholar at Emory University, the Penn State School of Music, Bowling Green State University, and Notre Dame.
Professor Samarotto has publications in Schenkerian collections and international congress reports. He is the former editor of Theory and Practice and an editorial board member of The Journal of Schenkerian Studies. His research interests include aspects of Schenkerian theory and its application to rhythm and temporality in music. He is currently working on a book on Schenkerian theory and analysis.