Curriculum Vitae Allyn D. Reilly Professor Emeritus of Music Theory Ohio University School of Music Robert Glidden Hall 440 Ohio University Athens, OH 45701-2979 (740) 593-4244 Education: Ph. D. in Music Theory, Northwestern University, 1980. Dissertation: Georg Andreas Sorge s Vorgemach der musikalischen Composition: A Translation and Commentary. M. Mus. in Saxophone Performance, Northwestern University, 1970. B. Mus. in Saxophone Performance, Millikin University, 1968. Academic Positions: Retired from full-time teaching, June 2012. Will continue to teach part time until Spring 2016. Interim Director, School of Music, Ohio University, 2006-2007. Professor, Music Theory, and Chair, Academic Studies Area, School of Music, Ohio University, 1997-present. Associate Professor of Music Theory and Saxophone, School of Music, Ohio University, 1986-1997. Assistant Professor of Music Theory and Saxophone, School of Music, Ohio University, 1976-1985. Visiting Assistant Professor of Music, School of Music, Ohio University, 1975-76. Assistant Professor of Music (part time), National College of Education, Wilmette, Illinois, 1973-74. Assistant Professor of Music (part time), Kendall College, Evanston, Illinois, 1972-73.
Allyn Reilly vita--p. 2 Assistant Professor of Music (part time), Wright Junior College of the Chicago City Colleges, 1972-1975. Administrative Duties: -Interim Director, School of Music, 2006-2007. Administer a School of Music of approximately 280 students (undergraduate and graduate), 35 full-time faculty, 8 part-time faculty, and 6 staff. The School of Music has a total budget of $3.2 million, including salaries, per year and is accredited by NASM. -Chair, Academic Studies Area (Music theory, composition, and history), 1998-2010. Duties included: projection of teaching assignments and course offerings; course and curriculum development; advising; and establishment of goals and competencies in multiple-section undergraduate theory courses, including computer-assisted instruction competencies in aural skills courses. Other Teaching Positions: Assistant Program Director, Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, summers 1997-2000. Instructor of Saxophone and Music Theory, Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, summers 1994-1996. Courses taught at Ohio University: Quarter Courses: MUS 101-103 Freshman Music Theory sequence MUS 104-106 Freshman Aural Skills sequence MUS 197T Honors Tutorial in Music I MUS 201-203 Sophomore Music Theory sequence MUS 204-206 Sophomore Aural Skills sequence MUS 206 (old course number) Form & Analysis MUS 254B/554B Woodwind Ensemble (Saxophone chamber ensembles) MUS 304 Instrumentation MUS 352 Saxophone (undergraduate) MUS 402A/502A Styles I MUS 402A/502A Styles I (Medieval/Renaissance) MUS 402B/502B Styles II (19 th Century) MUS 402C/.502C Styles III (20 th Century) MUS 403A/503A Counterpoint I (16 th Century) MUS 403B/503B Counterpoint II (18 th Century) MUS 403C/503C Counterpoint III (18 th Century) MUS 414 Senior Project, Music Theory MUS 418A/B Senior Thesis, Music Theory (replacing the above) MUS 501A Graduate Theory Review I MUS 501B Graduate Theory Review II MUS 504A Analytical Techniques of Tonal Music I MUS 504B Analytical Techniques of Tonal Music II (Schenker) MUS 502C Atonal Analysis
Allyn Reilly vita--p. 3 MUS 505 Theory Pedagogy I MUS 506 Theory Pedagogy II MUS 543E Saxophone (graduate)mus 557B Woodwind Solo Repertoire MUS 558B WW Pedagogy MUS 569C/D/E Analytical Techniques I-III MUS 590 Graduate Assistants Seminar T-3 480K Meaning in Music (Tier III General Education Course) MUS 610 Theory Seminar MUS 695 Thesis Semester Courses: MUS 2020 Theory IV MUS 4071 Counterpoint II MUS 5071 Counterpoint II MUS 4902 Special Topics in Post-Tonal Analysis MUS 5902 Special Topics in Post-Tonal Analysis MUS 5020 Introduction to Schenkerian Analysis Other teaching-related activity: Advising of undergraduate composition and theory majors. Advising of University College undergraduates (since 1986). Advising of graduate and undergraduate saxophone performance majors. Administration and preparation of Freshman Theory Placement Exam. Administration and preparation of Graduate Theory Entrance Exam. Continuing education undertaken to enhance teaching effectiveness: Faculty Fellowship, Spring 2000, visiting several music theory programs around the Midwest. Attended College Music Society workshop in Teaching Aural Skills, Missoula Montana, June 1992. Attended workshop in Computer-Assisted Instruction in Music, Gary Wittlich and John Schaffer, directors, Indiana University School of Music, June 1986. Continued study with Frederick L. Hemke, saxophonist, summer 1982. Significant Committee and Administrative Assignments at Ohio University: University Committees: Coordinator, Quarters to Semesters transition for the School of Music, 2009-2012, and member, University Q2S Steering Committee. Guided the conversion of all courses in the School of Music, and all degree programs, in the transition from Quarters to Semesters. General Education Learning Outcomes Assessment Committee, 06-present. Vision Ohio Undergraduate Goals Implementation team, 05-present.
Allyn Reilly vita--p. 4 Faculty Senate, one three-year term 97-00; another three-year term 01-04, reelected 04-, term expires 07. Educational Policy and Student Affairs Committee, 01-09 (Chair, 2007-2009). Committee dealt with General Education; in the current Tier II revision I helped propose the discrete Fine Arts category in General Education. From 2007 the committee was active in preparing the entire university curriculum and all educational policies for the transition to semesters. University Curriculum Council, 01-present. Ad Hoc General Education Assessment Committee, 01-04. College of Fine Arts Committees: Curriculum Committee, 05-06. Dean s Advisory Committee, 04-06. School of Music Committees: School of Music Curriculum Committee, member from 1975 to present with a brief hiatus in the late 1980 s. Was chair, 1981-83. Chair, 2005-6. School of Music P & T Committee, 1998-2001. Chair, 1999-2000. Chair, Ad Hoc Core Curriculum Revision Committee, 1996. Member, Graduate Committee, 1994 - present. Member, School of Music Advisory Committee, 1986-1993, 1998-present.. Promotion and Tenure Committee, 1988-90. Chair, 1989-90. Many ad hoc search committees over the years. Beta Phi chapter, Pi Kappa Lambda. President, Secretary/Treasurer over several years. Administrative Assignments: Interim Director, School of Music, 2006- Chair, Academic Studies Area, 1984-87, 1998-present. Division Head, Music Theory, 1988-present. Editor, School of Music Alumni Journal Music at Ohio, 1995-1997. Grants and Awards: Ohio University 1804 Grant, with Professor Elizabeth Sayrs for the development and implementation of a web-based system of remediation in Freshman Theory for all incoming music majors, August 2006. College of Fine Arts Creative Activity/Research Awards for performances by the Athenian Saxophone Quartet at the Ohio Music Educators Conference, Cincinnati, OH, February, 1999.
Allyn Reilly vita--p. 5 College of Fine Arts Creative Activity/Research Awards for performances by the Athenian Saxophone Quartet at the North American Saxophone Alliance national conference, Evanston, IL, March 1998 College of Fine Arts Creative Activity/Research Award for the performance of works by Ohio University composers Mark Phillips and Andre Gribou at the North American Saxophone Alliance national conference, Gainesville, Florida, March 1996. College of Fine Arts Creative Activity/Research Award for series of exchange recitals at Ball State and West Virginia Universities, winter-spring 1990. College of Fine Arts Creative Activity/Research Award for performance of James Chaudoir's Sonatine and Mark Phillips' Night Vision at the North American Saxophone Alliance Region V Conference, Youngstown, OH, May 1989. College of Fine Arts Creative Activity/Research Award for travel to Japan for participation in the 9th World Saxophone Congress and recital in Kasugai, summer 1988. Ohio University 1804 Fund Grant, with Bert Damron, for purchase of equipment and software for the establishment of a Computer Assisted Instructional Lab in the School of Music, 1984. College of Fine Arts Creative Activity/Research Award for performance of the Rivier Concerto for Saxophone, Trumpet, and Piano (with Ernest Bastin and Nancy Zipay) at the North American Saxophone Alliance Convention, Fairfax VA, January 1989. Ohio University Resarch Committee grant research in the area of 18th century German music theory, 1980. University College Experimental Education Fund Grant, with Leslie Kleen and Richard Post, for Computer Assisted Instruction in music in the Learning Resources Center, Alden Library, 1979. Publications: Composition, Two Pieces for Tenor Saxophone and Piano (San Antonio: Southern Music Company, 1973). Modulation and Key Relationships in Eighteenth-Century German Theory, In Theory Only 8/4 and 5 (January 1985).
Allyn Reilly vita--p. 6 Improving Saxophone Intonation, The Instrumentalist 39/3 (October, 1984). Papers Presented at National or Regional Conferences: Perspectives on the Relationship of Theory and Performance: Jindrich Feld s Sonata for Soprano Saxophone and Piano--a Lecture-Performance, at the national North American Saxophone Alliance conference, Morgantown, WV, May, 1994. "Ohjectives and Strategies for the Teaching of Music Theory in the Independent Studio," at the 1991 MTNA National Convention, Miami, Florida, April, 1991. An Interdisciplinary Course in Music and Philosophy at the Senior Undergraduate Level, presented at the 29th Annual Meeting of the College Music Society, Miami, Florida, October 1986. Modulation and Key Relationships in 18th Century German Theory, at the Spring meeting of the Allegheny Chapter of the American Musicological Society, Pittsburgh, PA, April 1983. Performances, 1980-present: Saxophone Quartet: tenor saxophone in the Athenian Saxophone Quartet. Performances at: NASA Region 5 Conference, Dayton OH, February 2001. OMEA Conference, Cincinnati, OH, February 1999. NASA Conference, Evanston, IL, March 1998. Women in Music Conference, Athens, OH, October 1997. Tenor saxophonist, Blue Lake Festival Band, Midwest Band/Orchestra Clinic, Chicago, IL, December 1998. Orchestral Saxophone, performance of Villa Lobos Uirapura, November 1997. Ingolf Dahl Concerto for Saxophone and Wind Ensemble, with the Ohio University Symphonic Band, John Climer conducting, Athens, OH, May 1996. Televised performance of Desenclos Quatour, as part of Huntington WV Public Television series The Instrumentalists. Aired during the summer of 1995 throughout West Virginia. Mark Phillips Night Vision and Andre Gribou s Four Etudes for Alto Saxophone and Dancer (with Lisa Moulton, dancer), at the national meeting of the North American Saxophone Alliance, Gainesville, Florida, March 1996.
Allyn Reilly vita--p. 7 Orchestral saxophone, performance of Hary Janos, Ohio Valley Symphony, March 25. Stephen Suber's Angels and David Heinick s Bare Minimums, Society of Composers, Inc. conference, Ohio University, October 1995. Saxophone quartet: soprano saxophone in Carlton Mays' Faust and Richard Brooks' Four-Play, Society of Composers, Inc. conference, Ohio University, October 1995. Soprano saxophone, C & O Saxophone quartet: performance of the Desenclos Quatour at Marshall University, April 1994 Soloist/Clinician, Delaware-Hayes High School, May 1994; performance of Grundman Concertante. Orchestral saxophone, performance of Bernstein s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, Ohio Valley Symphony, May 1994. With the Michiana Brass, performance of Fisher Tull's Concerto da camera for alto saxophone and brass quintet, Athens, OH, May 1993. Recital and Masterclass, Frostburg State College Department of Music, Frostburg, Maryland, March 1993. Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA; performed Mark Phillips' Night Vision at the Society of Composers, Inc., Region III Conference, September 1992. Smoot Theatre, Parkersburg, WV; performed Glenn Smith's Mood Music on a recital with Craig Young, saxophone, June 1992. Recital and Masterclass: Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL December, 1991. Saxophone quartet: Marshall University, November, 1991. Chaudoir Sonatine, Capital University, Society of Composers regional conference, February, 1990. Phillips Sonic Landscapes, Central Michigan University, North American Saxophone Alliance Region V Conference, March, 1990. Solo Recital and Masterclass, Ball State University, March 1990.
Allyn Reilly vita--p. 8 Solo Recital and Masterclass, West Virginia University, April 1990. Phillips Sonic Landscapes performed at the OMTA annual convention, Athens, OH, June, 1990. Performance of James Chaudoir Sonatine, Madison, Wisconsin, Art Center, June 25, 1989. This performance was broadcast over Wisconsin Public Radio on July 9, 1989. Mark Phillips Night Vision and James Chaudoir Sonatine, North American Saxophone Alliance Region V Conference, Youngstown State University, Y oungstown, OH, May, 1989. Grundman Concertante with the Athens High School Band, Dan Davis, conducting, Stone Mountain High School, Stone Mountain, Georgia, March, 1989. Grundman Concertante with the Athens High School Band, Athens, February 1989. Rivier Concerto for Saxophone, Trumpet, and Piano, with Ernest Bastin and Nancy Zipay, given at North American Saxophone Alliance Convention at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, January, 1989. Burton Beerman Passages, Ohio University New Music Ensemble concert, November,1988. Premiere performances of Mark Phillips Night Visions for soprano saxophone and tape, and James Chaudoir s Sonatine for alto saxophone and piano given at the 9th World Saxophone Congress, Kawasaki, Japan, August 1988. Solo Recital, co-sponsored by Chubu University and the International Welfare Association, given in Kasugai, Japan in August 1988. James Chaudoir s Dialectics for solo alto saxophone, at the Dana New Music Festival II, Youngstown State University, April 1986. Edmund Soule s Scherzo for alto saxophone and piano, as part of a recital of Mr. Soule s music presented at the Annual Meeting of the Music Teachers National Association, Portland, Oregon, April 1986. James Chaudoir s Dialectics premiered at the Region 5 Meeting of the North American Saxophone Alliance, Ball State University, March 1986.
Allyn Reilly vita--p. 9 Ibert Concertino da camera with an Ohio University faculty ensemble conducted by Joseph Henry. Concert performance followed by live radio broadcast, April 1982. Lynden DeYoung s Transformation for alto saxophone and piano (first performance), at Region V meeting of the North American Saxophone Alliance, University of Wisconsin/Madison, April 1980. Professional Organizations and Offices: Editor, The Saxophone Symposium, 1994-1996. The Saxophone Symposium is the quarterly journal of the North American Saxophone Alliance, and is the only refereed journal devoted to the saxophone. Director of Scholarly Publications, North American Saxophone Alliance, 1992-1994. Supervised the publication and distribution of David Maslanka s Sonata for alto saxophone and piano, and Leon Kochnitsky s Sax and His Saxophone. Program Chair in Theory and Composition for the MTNA National Conventions, 1985-1989. Memberships: Society for Music Theory Music Theory Midwest College Music Society Pi Kappa Lambda
References: Dr. Meryl E. Mantione Director, School of Music Ball State University Muncie, IN 47306 (765) 285-5402 Professor Gail Berenson Professor of Piano, President-Elect, MTNA School of Music Ohio University Athens, OH 45701-2979 (740) 593-1625 Dr. Mark Phillips Professor of Composition School of Music Ohio University Athens, OH 45701-2979 (740) 593-1629 Dr. W. Edwin Bingham Professor of Saxophone and Jazz Studies Department of Music Marshall University Huntington, WV 25755 (304) 696-2452 Professor Richard Wetzel Chair, Graduate Studies School of Music Athens, OH 45701-2979 (740) 593-1652