Ellen Bakulina College of Music, University of North Texas 416 Bryan Street, apt. 7 415 Avenue C, Denton, TX, 76201 Denton, TX, 76201 Ellen.Bakulina@unt.edu 347-527-3785 EDUCATION PhD in Music Theory 2015 CUNY Graduate Center, New York Dissertation: The Problem of Tonal Disunity in Sergei Rachmaninoff s All Night Vigil. Dissertation adviser: William Rothstein Additional studies with: Joseph Straus, Richard Kramer, Poundie Burstein, Philip Ewell MA in Music Theory 2010 Thesis: Polyphony as a Loosening Technique in Mozart s Haydn quartets Thesis adviser: William Caplin; additional studies with: Peter Schubert, Jonathan Wild Bachelor of Music in Music Theory 2007 Graduate diploma in Music Theory (program) 2004 Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Moscow, Russia Honors Diploma in Music Theory, Music History, and Pedagogy 2003 Academic Music College of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Russia PUBLICATIONS Canons as Hypermetrical Transitions in Mozart 2017 Forthcoming in Music Theory Online. (41 paragraphs) Tonality and Mutability in Rachmaninoff s All-Night Vigil, Movement 12 Spring 2015 Journal of Music Theory 59/1 (2015): 63 97. The Concept of Mutability in Russian Theory Fall 2014 Music Theory Online 20.3.5 (2014). (22 paragraphs) http://www.mtosmt.org/issues/mto.14.20.3/mto.14.20.3.bakulina.html The Loosening Role of Polyphony: Fall 2012 Texture and Formal Functions in Mozart s Haydn Quartets. Intersections, the Canadian Journal of Music 32/2 (2012): 7 42. Studying Music in Moscow: on Music Education in Russia. Winter 2008 The Phonograph, published by the Music Undergraduate Students Association, McGill University, 6/3
ARTICLES IN PROGRESS Proto-harmony in Rachmaninoff s sacred music Submitted to Music Theory and Analysis, August 2017 Cadences and the fundamental line in Russian scared music In preparation TEACHING EXPERIENCE Assistant Professor of Music Theory 2016 to present University of North Texas, College of Music - Courses taught: Graduate Theory Review; Eighteenth-Century Counterpoint; Meter in Tonal Music, a graduate seminar - Currently teaching: Introduction to form (undergraduate); Music Theory Pedagogy (graduate); Graduate Theory Review; an independent study with an undergraduate theory student - Develop all teaching materials, as well as (to a certain extent) the conceptual framework - Oversee the work of a grader - Additional instructional activity: instruction in Schenkerian theory as an affiliated consultant at the Center for Schenkerian Studies - Currently serve on several dissertation and thesis committees - Gave three guest lectures at various UNT music courses: a) Current Trends in Schenkerian Analysis, in Prof. Heidlberger s class Analytical Systems II, Spring 2017 b) Rachmaninoff s Sacred Music, in Prof. Geoffroy-Schwinden s class Choral Literature, Spring 2017 c) Introduction to Caplin s Form-Functional Theory, in Prof. Inman s class Analytical Techniques II, Spring 2017 Lecturer and Coordinator of Musicianship Program 2015 to 2016 Yale University, Department of Music - Built a curriculum for the elementary musicianship sequence (includes dictation, sight singing, and keyboard proficiency) - Coordinated the work of teaching assistants - Provided syllabi, homework assignment schedule, and study materials for all sections - Ensured consistency of approach across all levels and sections - Administered placement tests and final examinations - Taught one section of each level of musicianship - Taught a course in tonal harmony and form, and coordinate the work of a teaching assistant
Instructor of music theory and ear training 2011 to 2015 CUNY Brooklyn College, New York Courses taught: - Introduction to Schenkerian Analysis, a graduate seminar - Complete undergraduate Music Theory sequence: Theory 1 (Eighteenth-Century Harmony), Theory 2 (Nineteenth-Century Harmony) and Theory 3 (Modern and Contemporary Music) - Ear Training 1, 2, and 3 (from basic level to nineteenth-century music) - Music Appreciation for non-music majors Designed syllabi; planned learning schedule for the entire semester; conducted classes; designed assignments; planned, administered, and graded exams; held weekly office hour; prepared term grade reports Writing Tutor 2014 to 2015 CUNY Medgar Evers College, New York - Assisted in writing-intensive courses - Provided help to individual students with essay structure, argumentation skills development, and/or English language - Gave writing workshops Research Assistant 2010 to 2011 CUNY Graduate Center, New York - Organized professional events at the Department of Music - Prepared copies of required readings for graduate seminars; worked with online databases - Compiled an index for a scholarly book Research Assistant 2008 to 2009 - Helped to compile bibliographies; prepared photocopies Teaching Assistant, Music Theory 2007 to 2010 - Modal Counterpoint - Elementary Harmony - Tonal Harmony and Voice Leading - Classical Form - Introduction to Ear Training
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Linear-Analytical Elements in Leo Mazel s Work: Accepted for November 2017 Revisiting Chopin s Fantasy op. 49 Society for Music Theory, Arlington, Virginia Exploring Linear-Analytical Techniques in the June 2017 Writings of Leo Mazel EuroMAC (European Conference on Music Analysis), Strasbourg, France Schenker, Mazel, and Chopin: February and March 2017 Elements of Linear Analysis in the Work of Leo Mazel Texas Society for Music Theory, Houston, TX Music Theory of the Mid-Atlantic, Washington, DC Non-monotonality and Proto-Harmony in Rachmaninoff November 2016 Society for Music Theory annual meeting, Vancouver, BC Hypermetrical Shifts and Middleground Harmonic Levels in Mozart June 2016 MusCan, Calgary, AL Canons as Hypermetrical Transitions in Mozart February and April 2016 TSMT, Belton, TX and MTSMA, University of Pennsylvania Yuri Kholopov and the States of Tonality November 2015 Invited talk at the Russian Music Theory interest group Society for Music Theory annual meeting, St. Louis, MO Proto-harmony, Component Keys, and the Problem of Tonal Centricity June 2015 The Annual Conference of the Canadian University Music Society (MUSCAN), Ottawa Tonal Pairing and the New Russian Choral School September 2014 EuroMAC VIII, Leuven, Belgium Tonal Duality in Nineteenth-Century Russian Church Music June 2014 International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music, University of Toronto Tonality and Mutability in Rachmaninoff s All-Night Vigil, Movement 12 April 2014 MTSNYS, New York University The Concept of Mutability in Russian Theory November 2013 Society of Music Theory annual meeting, Charlotte, NC Meter and Imitative Texture in Mozart s String Quartet K. 499 February 2011 Music Graduate Student Conference, Harvard University
Polyphony and Formal Functions in the Haydn Quartets of Mozart May 2010 Music Graduate Student Conference, University of Calgary Monteverdi s Fifth Book of Madrigals: The Border of Modality and Tonality 2007 Music Undergraduate Students Association "Undergraduate Lecture Series" OTHER RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS Conference panel: Analytical Approaches to Rachmaninoff planned for 2018 Currently in the process of organization for SMT Tonal pairing in Rachmaninoff s solo songs June 2017 Guest lecture in Prof. Klorman s class Nineteenth-Century Harmonic techniques A Workshop on Russian Oktoechos April 2016 Yale Department of Music Sergei Rachmaninoff s All-Night Vigil, op. 37: a Centenary Celebration Feb. 2015 CUNY Graduate Center Music Forum (lecture-recital) Editing of the abstracts of the Russian theory session 2015 Society for Music Theory annual meeting, St. Louis, MO Russian Textbooks of Music Theory: a Bibliography. 2014 Compiled for the Russian Music Theory interest group, Society for Music theory https://societymusictheory.org/files/russian_theory_textbooks_biblio.pdf Participated as an assistant analyst in the music analysis produced for 2010 Dmitri Tymoczko s Local Harmonic Grammar in Western Classical Music http://dmitri.mycpanel.princeton.edu/mozart.pdf OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Founding member of the Russian Music Theory interest group 2013 Society for Music Theory to present - Serve on the program committee of the group - Actively participate in the ongoing intellectual exchange between the North-American and Russian music theory communities - Help with translations, edit abstracts Member of the Performance and Analysis interest group September 2017 Society for Music Theory Served as a conference session chair February 2017 TSMT, Houston, TX
Served twice as an anonymous peer reviewer April 2016, September 2017 Music Theory Online Member of the program committee 2013 to 2015 GSIM (Graduate Students in Music) conference CUNY Graduate Center Music Theory instructor and interim department chair 2003 to 2004 Children s School of Music no. 100, Moscow, Russia ESL teaching assistant (volunteer) Summer of 2009, 2010, 2011 Express English School, Montreal SERVICE TO THE COLLEGE OF MUSIC, UNT 2016 to present - Currently serve on the lecture series committee, MHTE division. - Organizer of conference paper previews, October 2016 and February 2017 - Leader of the Undergraduate Theory Club (starting September 2017) - Organizer of the faculty writing group at the MHTE division (started February 2017) - Participated in a faculty panel for GAMuT (March 2017) - Affiliated consultant at the Center for Schenkerian Studies - Member of the editorial board for the Journal of Schenkerian Studies - Involved in the recruitment of graduate theory students GRANTS AND AWARDS - Enhanced Chancellor s Fellowship, CUNY 2010 to 2015 - SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities 2011 to 2014 Research Council of Canada) Doctoral Fellowship - Graduate Teaching Award, McGill 2009 - Schulich Scholarship, McGill 2008 - Sara Berlind Memorial Scholarship, McGill 2007 and 2008 PERFORMANCE EXPERIENCE Piano: Eight years of professional training Experience in solo performance, as well as collaborative performance with the following instruments: flute (2012), oboe (2003 4), and bassoon (2002 3), and solo voice (2003 2007) Choir accompanist at Martin Luther German Church, Vancouver Canada (2004) Choral singing: Chorus of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity, Brooklyn, NY, 2010 2014
Chorus of the Festival de Lanaudière, Québec, Canada (summer 2009, 10, 11, and 13) Orpheus Singer, Montreal, under Peter Schubert, 2009 Chorus of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra (MSO), under Kent Nagano 2005 2009 Choeur St. Laurent, Montreal, under Iwan Edwards and Michael Zaugg, 2005 2010 Choral conducting: Student chorus, CUNY Graduate Center, 2011 and 2012. Russian Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity, Brooklyn, NY, 2014 15 (occasionally) OTHER SKILLS Languages: English, French, German; native Russian Experience in ethnomusicological field work Experience in translating and editing work Experience in library work