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Jenine Brown
Special Lecturer, Music
Introduction to Music, Technology and Music
Contact
brown211@oakland.edu
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Jenine L. Brown is a Ph.D. candidate in music theory at the Eastman School of Music. Her dissertation investigates the perception of twelve-tone melodies. Brown has presented her findings at the conference meetings of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition and the Musical Ear Conference, amongst others. Her research has won a Graduate Student Award from the Society for Music Perception and Cognition in both 2009 and 2011. In addition to the cognition of twelve-tone music, Brown has interests in music theory pedagogy, Orthodox Christian music, and music technology.
As an educator, Brown has taught at the Eastman School of Music as a graduate student, where she won the Graduate Student Teaching Award for Outstanding Classroom Teaching in 2006. Brown has also served on the music faculty at Ithaca College (2007-9), and joined the music departments of Oakland University and Madonna University in 2011. Brown also serves as a Reader for the AP Music Theory exam, and enjoys preparing high school students for this exam through the Music Preparatory Division at Oakland University.
Brown is involved in a variety of professional activities. She currently serves as the Graduate Student Representative for the Professional Development Committee of the Society of Music Theory. She also served as Co-Editor of the music theory journal Intégral from 2007-10, and she was instrumental in adding the journal’s archives to the JSTOR collection. From 2006-8, Brown worked on the administrative board of Ossia, a new music ensemble at the Eastman School of Music.
Brown holds a BM in music theory (with honors) and a BA in economics (with distinction) from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, as well as a MA in music theory from the Eastman School of Music.