Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara
Music theory, September 2010
"Bridging the Gap": Frank Zappa and the Confluence
of Art and Pop
Dr. Pieter van den Toorn (chair), Dr. Patricia Hall,
Dr. David Paul
( research blog: http://researchblog.andremount.net/ )
M.A. University of California, Santa Barbara
Music theory, June 2007
B.A. Boston University
Magna Cum Laude
Music and art history, May 2004
State University of New York at Potsdam
The Crane School of Music
2011-present
Assistant Professor of Music Theory:
Music Theory III
Aural Skills III
Theory and Analysis of 20th-Century Music
Full Sail University
Music Production Program
2011
Associate Course Director:
Music Theory - Helped develop curriculum and supplementary materials for online music theory courses as part of an integrated music production program.
Conservatory of Vocal/Instrumental Arts
Percussion Program
2010
Volunteer Music Coach:
Percussion - Taught percussion classes to urban youth at a K-8 charter school; led sectional rehearsals; assisted full-time faculty with day to day teaching responsibilities; helped prepare students for concerts and solo/ensemble competitions.
University of California at Santa Barbara
Department of Music
2005-2008
Teaching Associate / Instructor of Record:
Fundamentals of Music - Large lecture course introducing non-majors of varying backgrounds to rudimentary concepts of music theory.
Teaching assistant:
Advanced Tonal Analysis - Upper Division; critical study of analytical methodology for Late Romantic song; guest lectured and led review sessions.
Twentieth Century Analysis - Upper Division; survey of post-tonal techniques and theoretical models; guest lectured and met with students one-on-one.
Tonal Analysis - Upper Division; formal/structural analysis of Western music; guest lectured, graded coursework ,and led review sessions.
Music Theory - Intensive introduction to classical theory for music majors; led weekly discussion sections.
Fundamentals of Music - Single-term introduction to the principles of music notation and theory for lower-level undergraduates.
Music Appreciation - Survey course satisfying required divisional requirements for all underclassmen; led three thirty-student discussion sections weekly and graded assignments and exams.
Reader:
Music and Politics - Upper Division; multidisciplinary approach to the intersection of artistic and socio-political spheres; guest lectured, graded papers and kept records of lecture materials.
Other teaching interests:
Popular music
Jazz history
Applied instruction in percussion
Online Music Theory Program, UC Santa Barbara, 2009 to 2010
Popular Music in Society
Music Theory as Historical Concept
Experimentalism in 20th-Century Art Music
Jazz History
"Frank Zappa" / "Silence in Music"
The Encyclopedia of American Music and Culture, ABC-CLIO, (forthcoming)
"Testing Art with a Live Studio Audience: John Cage at an Intersection of Popular Television and the Avant Garde"
Music and the Moving Image, Fall 2011, (forthcoming)
Online Music Theory Program, UC Santa Barbara, 2009 to 2010
Produced an extensive, interactive e-learning program for the University of California. Composed text, exercises, and exams for a full range of lessons covering basic interval progressions through advanced chromatic harmony.
Full text available at this address:
http://www.andremount.net/Online-Remedial-Music-Theory-Program/
Graduate Division Dissertation Fellowship, UC Santa Barbara, 2010
Roger Chapman Prize in Music Theory, UC Santa Barbara, 2007
Awarded annually to the writer of the best music theory paper.
Departmental Grant, UC Santa Barbara, 2007
Graduate Committee Grant, UC Santa Barbara, 2006
Dean's Fellowship, UC Santa Barbara, 2004
Awarded to promising students from the entire incoming graduate student body.
"Happenings, Freak Outs, and Radical Reflexivity: Avant-Garde and Countercultural Overlap in 1960s Los Angeles"
American Musicological Society
San Franciso, November 2011
"Ugly Notes vs. Jazz-Rock Grooves: Frank Zappa's 'Approximate' as a Site of Art/Pop Conflict"
Music Theory Forum
UC Santa Barbara, January 2011
"Laughter Over Tears: John Cage, Experimental Art Music, and Popular Television"
Music and the Moving Image conference
New York University, New York, May 2010
Society for American Music
Cincinnati, March 2011
"Temporality, Intentionality, and Authenticity in Frank Zappa's Xenochronous Works"
International Association for the Study of Popular
Music, US Chapter
Loyola University, New Orleans, April, 2010
"Does Serious Music Belong in Pop? Borrowings from Stravinsky in the Music of Frank Zappa"
Northern California Chapter of the American Musicological Society, Stanford University, Palo Alto, February 2010
West Coast Conference of Music Theory and Analysis, University of Washington, Eugene, March 2010
"Aunt Jemima, Uncle Remus, The Kingfish, and Frank Zappa: A Linguistic and Musical Inquiry into Matters of Race in the Music of Frank Zappa"
Music and Politics Conference, UC, Santa Barbara, April 2008
Don Wright Faculty of Music Graduate Student Symposium, University of Western Ontario, London, May 2008
Academic Conference Organizer, UCSB, 2007
Planned and executed a successful academic conference on the topic of recorded sound: "'On the Record' - An Interdisciplinary Symposium." Responsibilities included allocating funds out of a limited budget, designing conference websites, distributing advertising materials, and coordinating scholars, sponsors, and attendees within university facilities.
Conference Website Designer, UCSB, 2008
Designed website for a graduate student conference at UCSB: "'Music and Politics': An Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference."
Research Assistant, Dr. Patricia Hall, 2009-2010
Assisted in preparation of an upcoming publication for the Oxford University Press by Dr. Patricia Hall: A View of Berg's Wozzeck Through the Autograph Sources.
Research Blog (ongoing)
Designed and maintained an online research blog aimed
at developing and promoting online research
collaboration.
( http://researchblog.andremount.net/
)
UCSB Schenkerian Analysis Club (co-founder)
Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Music (conference organizer and member)
American Musicological Society
Society for American Music
Society for Music Theory
International Association for the Study of Popular Music