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Rebecca Leydon

  • Professor of Music Theory

Areas of Study

Education

  • PhD, McGill University, 1996
  • MA, Eastman School of Music, 1991
  • BM, University Toronto, 1988

Fall 2026

Music Theory II 鈥 MUTH 132

Musical Grooves 鈥 MUTH 360

  • Leydon, R. (2018). Review: Yayoi Uno Everett, Reconfiguring Myth and Narrative in Contemporary Opera in JAMS 71/1 (April 2018)
  • Leydon, R. (2016). 鈥淪celsi鈥檚 Pfhat: Apparitions of a Monumental Past.鈥
  • Leydon, R. (2013). 鈥淒ebussy Redux,鈥 Music Theory Online Volume 19/2 (June 2013)
  • Leydon, R. (2012). 鈥淐lean as a Whistle: Timbral Trajectories and the Modern Musical Sublime,鈥 Music Theory Online Volume 18/2.
  • Leydon, R. (2012). 鈥淣arrativity, Descriptivity, and Secondary Parameters: Ecstasy Enacted in Salvatore Sciarrino鈥檚 Infinito Nero,鈥 in Michael Klein and Nicholas Reyland, eds, Narrative and Music Since 1900. Indiana University Press.
  • Leydon, R. (2010). 鈥淩ecombinant Style Topics: Musical Form and the Logic of Sampling,鈥 Sounding Out Pop: Analytical Essays in Popular Music. Mark Spicer and John Covach, eds. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
  • Leydon, R. (2005). 鈥淭he Sounds of Early Cinema.鈥 Book review in Journal of the American Musicological Society 58/1.
  • Leydon, R. (2004). 鈥淔orbidden Planet: Effects and Affects in the Electro Avant-garde,鈥 in Off the Planet: Music, Sound, and Science Fiction Cinema, Philip Hayward, ed. London, Bloomington: John Libbey, Indiana University Press.
  • Leydon, R. (2004). 鈥淗ooked on Aetherophonics: The Day the Earth Stood Still,鈥 in Off the Planet: Music, Sound, and Science Fiction Cinema, P. Hayward, ed. London, Bloomington: John Libbey, Indiana University Press.
  • Leydon, R. (2002). 鈥溾楥es nymphes, je les veux perp茅tuer:鈥 The Post-war Pastoral in Spaceage Bachelor-Pad Music,鈥 in Popular Music 22/2: 159-172.
  • Leydon, R. (2002). 鈥淭owards a Typology of Minimalist Tropes,鈥 Music Theory Online 8.4.
  • Leydon, R. (2002). 鈥淭he Soft-Focus Sound,鈥 in Perspectives of New Music. 39/2: 96-107.
  • Leydon, R., K. K盲rki, H. Terho, eds. (2002). Looking Back, Looking Ahead: Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music. Turku, Finland: IASPM-Norden.
  • Leydon, R. (2001). 鈥淒ebussy鈥檚 Late Style and the Devices of the Early Silent Cinema,鈥 in Music Theory Spectrum, 23/2: 217-241.
  • Leydon, R. (2000). 鈥淯topias of the Tropics: Les Baxter and Yma Sumac,鈥 in Widening the Horizons: Exoticism in Post-War popular Music, Phil Hayward, ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press: 45-71.
  • Leydon, R. (1996). 鈥淣arrative Strategies in Debussy鈥檚 Late Style,鈥 PhD Dissertation, McGill University. UMI Dissertations.

Musical semiotics, 20th century music, music and visual culture, musical form, popular music, film music, and avant-garde practices.