Daniel Shanahan
shanahan.37@osu.edu
Education
PhD in Music Theory (University of Dublin, Trinity College)
BMus in Jazz Composition (Berklee College of Music)
Research Interests
Expectation, closure, rhythm, probability, harmonic attraction, analysis of late-Romantic and early 20th-century music, jazz analysis, and the history of music theory.
Publications
‘Probability and Debussy’s Préludes: The Nature of Expectancy in “Bruyeres”’ in Musiktheorie als interdisziplinares Fach (Music Theory and Interdiciplinarity, 8th Congress of the Gesellschaft fur Musiktheorie Graz 2008) Christian Utz (ed.), (Saar- brucken (Germany), PFAU-Verlag, 2010), pp.613-628.
‘Quantifying Musical Expectation: Reviews of Music and Probability by David Temperley, and Sweet Anticipation: Music and the Psychology of Expectation by David Huron,’ Theory and Practice Vol. 34 (February, 2010), pp.173-188. (Review Article)
Reviews
Review of Music, Language and the Brain by Aniruddh D. Patel, Music Theory Online Volume 15.5 (October, 2009)
Review of Debussy and the Fractal by Linda Cummins, Journal for the Society for Musicology in Ireland Vol. 4 (2008/9), pp.19-22.
Selected Presentations
‘Probability and Debussy’s Preludes: The Nature of Expectancy in Bruyeres’ VIII Gesellschaft fur Musiktheorie, University of Music and Dramatic Arts, Graz, Austria. (October, 2008)
‘Melodic Probability in Debussy’s String Quartet: The Use of Hidden Markov Models in Music Analysis,’ Cardiff University Music Analysis Conference, Cardiff, Wales. (September, 2008)
‘Debussy’s Monochromatic Landscape: Melodic Process and Fluctuations in Form in Pour Les Huit Doigts’ Royal Musical Association Annual Conference, University of Aberdeen, Scotland. (July, 2008)
‘Melodic Expectation and Static Temporality: An Investigation into the Implicative Consequences of Inert Structures in Music,’ Gesellschaft fur Musik and Asthetik/Sixth European Music Analysis Conference, University of Freiburg, Germany. (October, 2007)
Deconstructive Elements in Debussy’s Compositional Style, Conference of the Society for Musicology in Ireland, Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland. (May, 2007)
‘Structuralist Approaches to Debussy’s Music’ Conference of the Society for Musicology in Ireland, University of Limerick, Ireland. (May, 2006)
Invited Talks
Pre-concert talk for the National Symphony Orchestra’s performance of Tchaikovsky’s 5th Symphony, National Concert Hall, Presented by Ridio Teilifis Eireann (RTE`) (April 9, 2010)
Pre-concert talk for the National Symphony Orchestra’s performance of Tchaikovsky’s Manfred Symphony, National Concert Hall, Presented by Radio Teilifis Eireann (RTE`). (February 19, 2010)
