Sam Bivens, Ph.D.

Associate Dean of the Conservatory
Music Theory Faculty
Cleveland Institute of Music
sam.bivens@cim.edu | Curriculum Vitæ

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2022. "Teaching Narrative with Coleridge-Taylor's Ballade," Theorizing African-American Music, 18 June: Paper | Presentation

2021. "A Corpus Approach to Mode in Vicentino's Chromatic Madrigals," GMTH Jahreskongress, 2 October: Paper | Presentation

2020. "Synthesizing the Tonal and Rhetorical Dramas of Franz Clement's D-minor Violin Concerto," Poster co-authored with Tim Cutler, SMT, 7 November: Paper | Summary | Presentation

2018. "Form and Forms in Wagner's Die Walküre," Ph.D. dissertation, Eastman School of Music: Download

2017. "Time–Pitch Isomorphisms in Die Walküre," EuroMAC, 1 July: Paper | Paper (A4) | Handout | Presentation

2016. "Wagner's Manifold Sentences," MTMW, 7 May: Please see Chapter 3 of the dissertation (2018) for the complete version of this research.

2016. "Tonality and Temporality in the Todesverkündigung," MTSNYS, 2 April: Paper | Handout | Large-Print Handout | Presentation

2015. "Tonality and Temporality in the Todesverkündigung," GMTH Jahreskongress, 3 October: Please see the MTSNYS 2016 paper for an updated version of this research and Chapter 4 of the dissertation (2018) for the complete version.

Warren Darcy's Guides to the Themes of Der Ring des Nibelungen: Current Draft

Roger Scruton's Guides to the Themes of Tristan und Isolde: Current Draft