Andrew Mead (composer)

Andrew Washburn Mead is an American composer , musicologist and educator .

Mead studied at Yale University and Princeton University and taught music theory for thirty years at the School of Music, Theater & Dance at the University of Michigan , where he headed the Music Theory Department from 1995 to 2004, and is Professor of Music Theory at Jacobs School of Music from Indiana University . When Princeton University Press , his book An Introduction to the Music of Milton Babbitt , and he was co-editor of the same publishing house published Collected Essays of Milton Babbitt . He has also published articles on Babbitt, Elliott Carter , Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern , on the theory of twelve-tone music and on rhythm in music in journals such as Music Theory Spectrum , Perspectives of New Music , The Journal of Music Theory and Theory and Practice . The Society of Music Theory honored him with the Young Scholar Publications Award .

As a composer, Mead received a Goddard-Lieberson Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters . His compositional work includes a concerto for alto saxophone and eleven musicians, a trio for violin, horn and piano, Variation Fantasy (commissioned for guitarist Todd Seelye ), Scena for solo oboe (recorded by Harry Sargous ), saxophone quartets for the PRISM group and the Larry Teal Saxophone Quartet , pieces for saxophonists Timothy McAllister and Brian Sacawa , a song cycle composed for Jennifer Goltz and Brave New Works based on texts by Amy Clampitt .

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SURNAME	Mead, Andrew
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Washburn Mead, Andrew (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American composer, musicologist and educator
DATE OF BIRTH	20th century