Email: ss10953@hunter.cuny.edu
Office: 520C Hunter North
Phone: 212-772-4243
Fall 2022 Advising Hours: Tuesdays, 1:30-2:30PM
Stephen Spencer is a composer and theorist whose work deals with the analysis and visualization of musical timbre. His research combines insights from auditory perception and computational acoustics to explore a wide range of repertoire, including rock and pop music, film music, and post-tonal music of the twentieth and twenty-first century. His work on the orchestration theory of American film composer Arthur Lange will be published in the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Orchestration Studies, and his collaboration with Mark Spicer—on 10cc’s “I’m Not in Love” (1975)—will be published in the forthcoming volume, Analyzing Recorded Music: Collected Perspectives (Routledge). His dissertation proposes a novel approach to the analysis of timbre in modernist and contemporary music and is supported by both a SSHRC Doctoral Student Award and a CUNY Art–Science Connect Research Fellowship. As a teacher, Stephen is dedicated to promoting musical creativity in students of all skill levels and backgrounds, and is committed to developing a wide-ranging musicianship curriculum that includes and extends the Western classical canon.
