Rowland Moseley

Rowland Moseley designs and teaches all upper-level courses in music theory, with elements of ear training, keyboard harmony, analytical writing, and orchestration, and he regularly collaborates with visiting professional musicians to perform student compositions and arrangements. Since 2018, he has also taught at Juilliard Pre-College. Rowland was born in the U.K., studied violin, piano, organ, and composition, and earned two degrees at the University of Cambridge before moving to the U.S.A. for graduate studies in music theory at Harvard University. His professors in graduate school included Kofi Agawu, Suzannah Clark, David Clampitt, Richard Cohn, Christopher Hasty, James Hepokoski, Fred Lerdahl, and Alexander Rehding. After receiving his Ph.D. in 2014 as an advisee of Christopher Hasty and with a dissertation on the gigues of J. S. Bach, he taught a variety of courses in music analysis, counterpoint, ear training, and music theory at Columbia University, New York University, Harvard, and (as a visiting lecturer in 2014 and 2015) Dartmouth. His writing has been published in Music Analysis and Music Theory Online, and he has presented research papers at the annual meeting of the Society for Music Theory, the European Music Analysis Conference, the annual conference of the Society for Music Analysis (U.K.), the Music Theory Society of New York State, the New England Conference of Music Theorists, Music Theory Midwest, and elsewhere. His research interests are centered on phrase rhythm, hypermeter, and polyphonic schemas in eighteenth-century music, with the intent of describing how big-picture rhythmic experiences unfold and deriving the tonal patterns that drive them. His approach includes making performable contrapuntal reductions and comparing performance choices around tempo and articulation. He is also interested in uncovering echoes between multiple compositions or theoretical texts that tell us how composers thought about their work and their place in music history; such projects have addressed Brahms, Rameau, and Coleridge-Taylor. Outside of professional teaching and research, Rowland plays the piano, composes, and enjoys attending many and varied live concerts.