Faculty & Staff

Christopher Doll
Chancellor's Scholar; Associate Professor, Music Theory
Music
Degrees & Accomplishments
PhD with Distinction in Music, Columbia University
MM in Composition, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music
BA in Music, Case Western Reserve University
Biography

At Rutgers since 2007, Christopher Doll teaches graduate and undergraduate classes in music theory, analysis, composition, and the history of popular music. His scholarly interests include tonality, intertextuality, pedagogy, and forensic musicology, on which he has spoken at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, the Experience Music Project, and various universities here and abroad. He is the author of the monograph _Hearing Harmony: Toward a Tonal Theory for the Rock Era_ (University of Michigan Press), and his recent articles and reviews appear in Music Theory Online, SMT-Pod, _Die Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie Proceedings, Music and Science, The Routledge Companion to Music Theory Pedagogy, The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis, BACH, and SMT-V_.