Matthew L. C. Boyle
Music Theorist

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Curriculum Vitae

A detailed version of my curriculum vitae can be found here.

Employment History


Oregon State University (since 2024)
University of Alabama
Indiana University

Education


Indiana University, Jacobs School of Music
2018. Ph.D., Music Theory
Dissertation: “Musical Pleasure in Rossinian Opera”
Research Director: Roman Ivanovitch
Minors in Musicology & Germanic Studies
Oral qualifying examination passed with special commendation

2011. M.M., Music Theory

University of Georgia
2009. B.M., Music Theory, summa cum laude with Honors
German Minor

Publications


2025. “Reading Mozart’s Rondòs” in Analyzing Mozart’s Operas, edited by Nathan Martin and Lauri Suurpää (Leuven, Belgium: Peeters Publishers). (in pressaccepted May 2020)

2025. “A Lazzarone Figaro? Musical Neapolitanisms in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia.” Intégral 38. (https://theory.esm.rochester.edu/integral/38-2025/boyle/)

2025. “Rossinian Reiz: Strategic Musical Irritation and the Capturing of Attention.” Music Theory Spectrum 47/2. (https://doi.org/10.1093/mts/mtae028)

2024. “A Thread of Recitative Ruffs: Schemas and Schenker’s Analysis of ‘Erbarm es Gott’” Music Theory Online 30/2. [with Paul Sherrill] (https://doi.org/10.30535/mto.30.2.1)

2024. “The Serenade Topic, the Serenade Construction, and the Creation of Amorous Sweetness in ottocento Opera.” Journal of Music Theory 68/1. (https://doi.org/10.1215/00222909-10974683)

2023. Review of Journeys Through Galant Expositions by L. Poundie Burstein (Oxford University Press, 2020). Indiana Theory Review vol. 38: 119-131. (https://doi.org/10.2979/itr.2023.a892241)

2017. “Johann Georg Sulzer’s ‘Recitativ’ and North German Musical Aesthetics: Context, Translation, Commentary.” Music Theory Online 23/2. (https://doi.org/10.30535/mto.23.2.1)

2015. “Galant Recitative Schemas.” Journal of Music Theory 59/1: 1–62. [co-authored with Paul Sherrill] (https://doi.org/10.1215/00222909-2863382)